PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT

For those of us here at TAMT, the greatest day of the year is upon us.  No, we are not talking about Friday the 13th.  And, if you think we're talking about Valentines Day then you are beyond our help and should navigate away from this page immediately.  This is Talking As Men Talk!  None of that nancyboy nonsense will be tolerated in these parts.  

The oh so special day to which we refer is SPRING TRAINING!  Pitchers and catchers have already reported.   

MLB.com put it best when it said:

"This is the moment we all have been waiting for through another inanimate and barren winter.  It feels so good when Major League Baseball returns that it actually is worth the pain of having it wrested from our tight grips in late autumn.  Were it a 12-month season, there would be no chance to miss it the way we have lately."  

And let's face it, we have had plenty of reasons to miss baseball this year.  The Super Bowl was a bust.  Sure, the game was exciting, but who cares about the Steelers and the Cardinals?  Steelers fans are some of the most annoying in sports and Cardinals fans . . . wait, did we just invent a word?  Is there such a thing as a Cardinals fan?  TAMT will check the dictionary and get back to you.  

Had it not been for a fun few weeks of NBA ball, TAMT does not know how we would have survived the winter.  How about Lebron dropping 52 on the Knicks just one night after Kobe dropped 61 on the downtrodden Knickerbockers?  TAMT was pleased.  

But, like the epiphany star that guided the three wise men (think they talked as men talk?) to Jesus, spring training served as the beacon guiding us through the dark months of winter.  And if you think its blasphemous to use Jesus as a metaphor for baseball, then you have a total lack of respect for baseball.  TAMT shakes its head and says, "shame on you."  

For our part, we cannot wait to hear the two greatest words in the English language.  

"Play Ball!"