There is a glimmer of hope in the middle of this winterish hell (12 inches of snow predicted) - spring training games are on TV. This is a great way to kill a few hours. Besides your favorite players you get to see an expanded roster of guys wearing numbers in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Most of them are unfamiliar. The announcers are in spring training mode too. They are brushing up on their rap and never stop reminding us how warm it is there and how crappy it is back up north. I'm not sure if it's nice to see swaying palm trees on the screen only to see brown and yellow grass outside my window. We're weeks away from green ... I guess there's hope.
There is something decadent about watching a weekday spring training game on TV while the rest of the working world is toiling away. Baseball is in a league of its own.. Except for a few football exhibition games there is no other sport treated with such anticipation. The official season starts too early - March 30 or April 1. Commonly 30 to 40 degrees at a night game in the north. The sports sections of most local newspapers are already dominated by baseball news. There are endless subjects to cover - steroids, medical reports, new stadiums, the economy, salaries, trades and now and then the GAME --- amazing!!??
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