This is a dark time of year for baseball, my friends, when the World Series is afar and we can legitimately say that spring training starts “next month,” but this cheat on relying on the pitchers and catchers report date simply means that we are comforting ourselves with the fact that somewhere out in the general area of sand, Tucker Barnhart and Sal Romano are playing catch. Which is an improvement over the no-baseball prison in which you and I are currently trapped.
The major problem, of course, is what we’re supposed to watch on television right now if the Reds aren’t appearing there.