One more day

Until the most important of the year, which for so many of us is Opening Day, tomorrow is the most exciting day of the year for baseball fans: pitchers and catchers are due at spring training. In truth, most of them are already there, guys like Perez and Santana (who's been rehabbing his knee in Pt. St. Lucie for a while now) as are a lot of the position players (David Wright likes to get to spring training early, and given that he lives in New York, who could blame him?).

Never the less, there is a special magic to the day when pitchers and catchers are due, whether they've arrived earlier or not. It means winter is almost over, and it's less than two months until there's baseball again. Baseball fans are creatures both of habit and routine (how else can you like a game that goes on for 162 games?), and pitchers and catchers at camp is one of the special days in the yearly cycle.