I discovered baseball in 2013. And since then, the way I perceive calendar time has changed. Once up a time, I used to think of the year being divided into months. Or occasionally seasons. Now my year has two distinct chunks — Baseball Season and Not-Baseball Season.
There’s a strange nebulous netherworld between Baseball Season and Not-Baseball Season known as Spring Training. It’s the time during which fans start to transition from Baseball Season to Not-Baseball Season. In 2018, for this Giants fan, that means:
- Searching Amazon every day to see if they yet sell that memory-erasing device from Men In Black to excise last year’s season from my brain.
- Convincing myself that every good Giants performance in Spring Training is a sign of things to come, and every bad performance is simply part of the continuous improvement process that is Spring Training.
- Refusing to commit to any travel in October so I can be around for the post-season games that we’ll definitely be in this year.
- Dusting and polishing my Buster Posey Bobblehead collection (okay, I actually do this one all year round).
- Dusting, polishing and looking mournfully at my Matt Duffy bobblehead.
In between that, I’ll update this site with some quick educational pieces for newcomers to the world of non-expert baseball, and some predictions for the year to come.
Come back soon!
Did you know Spring Training has been around since the 1890s! Read about its history here.
The View From the High Seats 