Is it just me, or does something feel different today?   The grass looks a little greener.  The air smells a little fresher.  The sun’s warm glow feels a little, um, glowier.

Yeah, before you go walking outside in a tank top, I didn’t mean it literally.  Only people from states where winter happens are crazy enough to not know that 35 degree weather can’t be nice.  Talk to the people of Arizona: they know.  (Though it may be the only thing they know.)

What I meant was that THE BASEBALL IS HERE.

Well, I guess it’s been here since yesterday, but not the New York kind.  And we need that kind to make it official. But, now, it’s official; Yankees pitchers and catchers report to Tampa this morning. (The Mets report to Port St. Lucie tomorrow.)
 

It makes reporting sound so much more fun than it probably is.

Let me take this opportunity to tell you about my exclusive one-day coverage at Port St. Lucie on February 26^th.  And by exclusive one-day coverage I basically mean that while I’m on a trip to Miami, I’m going to drive to Port St. Lucie to go see a baseball game. How is this coverage exclusive you ask?  It’s not.  I just think it lends it more gravitas if I say it is.  And because I know you, I know that your next question will be, “Why the Mets and not the Yankees?” Uh, why don’t you mapquest the drive from Miami to both Tampa and Port St. Lucie, and then try to answer your own question.

Anyone interested in daily coverage of what’s happening at the Mets camp should go to metsblog.com.  It won’t be exclusive coverage like mine.  But it has the benefit of lasting longer than a day.  And being quite excellent.

Oh, and did I mention that THE BASEBALL IS HERE?