Major League Baseball is a grind, no matter your relation to the sport.
It’s an everyday sport for six months out of the year, precluded by six weeks of Spring Training, and followed by six more weeks of playoffs for contending teams. The stretch from Spring Training through the end of the regular season is exhausting enough. It takes a special love of the game to stick with it daily for nine months out of the year.
This is my 16th season publishing daily articles on this site, covering the Pittsburgh Pirates and their minor league system.