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| I can't say this enough: these are NOT Jeff Mathis Storm Trooper clones at Angels camp. |
I'm new to the Northeast, and new to the suffering that most people have to deal with during this thing called "winter". Before I moved up here, I lived in a place called "Arizona", where winter is an abstract concept sort of like Narnia, and baseball stadiums are about as regular as Home Depots. I didn't know it then, but Arizona is a fantasy land. Now that I live in New York, I have to learn to tolerate the prolonged destitution born of snow, wind, and Sportscenter highlights of the Conneticut Women's basketball team. I need something to break the metaphorical and literal 3 inch sheet of ice that's been covering my life since January, something to give me hope that the good God above hasn't damned us all to burn in the ironically freezing fire of a Northern winter.
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| I'm really glad a photographer was present to capture this moment with Roy Halladay. |
That glimmer of hope is Pitchers & Catchers reporting to Spring Training. Never have I been so childishly giddy at seeing Jose Molina in a squatting position. Here's what we get when in Late February
1. Video of professional athletes running at a pace fast enough to get their heart rates somewhere between a light flutter and a heavy patter. This is called 'conditioning' in baseball.
2. Bartolo Colon showing off his brand new 40 lbs. of 'Dominican Chorizo Muscle'.
3. Long toss. Lots, and lots of long toss.
4. Proof that the sun still exists and hope that winter will end.
God bless you, Pitchers & Catchers. You're our harbingers of Spring and reason to turn off Women's College Basketball.
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| Catcher and Logician Carlos Ruiz ponders the Grandfather Paradox |
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| "I swear, it was pointy like this" |
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| Roy Halladay defuses an awkward moment when asked if he'd poison Clif Lee's Big League Chew if it meant winning the Cy Young. |
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| Mike Cervenak likes what he sees. |
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