It was 60 degrees and sunny this afternoon at Alex Box Stadium, and it felt like baseball was on the horizon, because it is.
Three weeks, to be exact.
The 21-day wait to Opening Day will feel incomparable to the 345-day wait since the Tigers defeated South Alabama at home on March 11, a night that will be remembered for far more than the outcome the game.
Running out of the dugout for practice on a beautiful late-January day is something no one, players and coaches included, will ever take for granted because of that night, and the weeks that followed.