Many of you are waking up this morning with a sense of unease and fear. After all, today is that dreaded unlucky Friday the Thirteenth—with a Hollywood horror movie premiering to boot!
However fear not friend, because today is the most joyous of days. Today is better than any holiday, birthday, or liberation day combined.
Today is the start of the baseball season.
Happy-Pitchers-and-Catchers-Report-Day!
Yes, for teams like the Chicago Cubs, today signals the start of spring training, even if it’s really just a glorified arrival and physical-taking day. Still, what can be better than knowing your favorite team is slowly starting to assemble in Arizona for a little under two months of preparation and work for the long beautiful grind that is Major League Baseball?
The Chicago Tribune’s Paul Sullivan reported yesterday that manager Lou Pinella had arrived a day early to settle in, and he was joined by a handful of pitchers and catchers on Thursday as well.
Antoher reason why today is above all other days? Today, you can honestly think to yourself that your team will be playing still in eight months—that’s October for all of you out there that came to Columbia so you wouldn’t have to do math.
You can sit back, and dream of the what-ifs and what-have-you’s, about browning leaves and cold breath while under the lights of a grand stadium—that is unless you are a White Sox fan, and Tribune and most other media outlet experts pick you to finish dead-last…again.
But I digress.
Today is a day for celebration, not agitation. A day to toast, not roast. And above all, today is a day to smile.
Yes, smile.
Baseball is back—and it will be at least two months before the ever-present pains of the season return and leave you gasping for air.
And do wish your neighbor of very merry merry happy-pitchers-and-catchers-report-day.
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