Every year at this time of year, when the ground is covered with snow and its cold as heck, I heave a sigh of relief that spring training has sprung so far to the south.
And I remember the late Bart Giamatti:
“[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.”
A. Bartlett Giamatti, Take Time For Paradise: Americans And Their Games
But for now, hope springs eternal. Go Jays!
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