Spring Training, I am waking up
Ahhhhh. Finally, after a long slumber, baseball is starting again.
Don't get me wrong. I love the NFL. I watch the games, follow the news, was happy with how the Jets ended up, was disappointed the Patriots didn't make the Super Bowl but didn't mind the Colts winning. I like football.
I have season tickets to BU hockey so I get my share of college hockey. I kind of follow NCAA basketball. I would rather watch Desperate Housewives than the NHL and the NBA scares me.
But major league baseball, oh baseball is my sport. I love the daily grind, the intense Boston scrutiny, the warm weather and open ball fields, the rules but no clock aspect, the ease in which I can listen to it on the radio, the lulls in conversation while TV announcers try to pace themselves, the crowds walking to a Sunday afternoon game. I love everything about it.
And with pitchers and catchers reporting, I kind of feel like I did when I was 21 during winter break from college after a very late night out. It's mid morning, I don't have to work for two days and no one is bugging me. I open my eyes, look at the clock, realize I am in my own room, get a grip on my day, and then go back to sleep.
I don't follow spring training really all that much. It means almost nothing to how the year will play out. But WEEI and The Globe are covering it and that means that warm weather and 7 games a week will start soon.
Good times.
PS. The Sox are spending money like a (insert racial comment) on the 15th. I love it. Now when they lose they can't scream about how the Yankees spend to win their championships. Which, by the way, the Yankees were in 60% of World Series in the last 10 years and won 40% of those. Not bad.