The only day that matters is March 31st...

Opening day baby!!! But until then, if you are a true baseball fan, you are paying attention to the spring training games. You don't take all the wins and losses to heart, but you are definitely making notes. Watching how the daily players are making out. Seeing how they are doing compared to this time last year. In a normal spring training game, if they the core players bat around 2 times that is about right. More than that means they are really looking at something. The teams go really easy on their big starting pitchers. Gotta be careful with those arms until it's D day.

But you still check your phone, when's the game, what's the score. You're making sure your apps are up to date. MLB at bat 2011 baby!!! You are making sure that you are able to have access to all games in case it's a day game and you're going to be at work. If you have MLB at bat you can listen to the game on your phone, better than nothing! If you are in the car, you can listen to it on your phone through the radio! You will not miss a game! If you are somewhere where you can't listen or watch, you can watch the play by plays on your phone so that you can always know what's going on. Everyday you are online looking at the articles. How did this team do, how is this player doing, who's already on the DL, who is going to be off the DL? Who might be in the starting pitching rotation for which team? These are things everyone wants to know and pay attention to.

And during this spring training "season", everyone is watching all teams. You need to know what everyone is doing, what all teams are doing. Who is going to be the biggest threat. What team might trade what player, should your team change up who is playing where. And all of this wondering and sometimes "stress" all leads to excitement and a wonderful baseball season. A season that lasts almost all year. And you love every minute of it. Win or lose! You sit there and watch that game, clapping or screaming. There's always hope. You know what your team is capable of, and you are excited when they do great, or when they do a come from behind win or even more excited, a walk off win (go Yankees!). And you just know when they can't come back but you can still try to wish it out for them.  

Catch up on your sleep now. Those late night games when your team plays on the opposit coast can be a bitch. And getting up for work the next day is a little difficult but it has to be done! So here we go, let's get our gear out and rest our voices. Keep the reading going and get ready for some baseball. BATTER UP!