Finally, the long, boring, drug-addled off-season is really, really over! Yeah, I know, the pitchers will go at most two innings. We’ll see faces and numbers that will disappear two or three weeks from now. And my player, Eric Byrnes, isn’t even starting today; he starts tomorrow. (That’s OK, I like Jeff Salazar, the D’Backs #4 outfielder). It’s just that baseball is finally warming up, as is the weather. It’s a warm, sunny day in Oakland–at least as sunny as yesterday’s heavy chemtrail spraying will let it be–and the air is full of fly balls and possibilities.

You may have heard or read some baseball fans, including me, celebrate the pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training; it’s even worse in Boston, where they observe in literal and figurative senses, Truck Day, the day when the trucks laden with equipment leave Beantown for Spring Training. But the first day of Cactus League takes everything up a notch. The opponents are actually from other teams; from now on, they’ll play nine innings (weather permitting), and if you’re lucky, you may catch a broadcast or two in the spring, more if your team is affiliated with a superstation or has its own network.

Before you know it, the games will count! I can’t wait. The Snakes have some unfinished business to take care of.

Go, Diamondbacks!

Play ball!

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