Tuesday, real honest-to-goodness Major League spring training games will happen. As in, like, MLB teams playing each other, not playing college teams or anything like that.
You, needless to say, are desperate to see some real MLB players playing baseball against other MLB players.
However, there are some things you need to know before you decide to turn on your TV and watch:
First off, it doesn’t matter. The score doesn’t matter. Who has the most wins doesn’t matter. The winning team of a Spring Training league doesn’t get a Golden Grapefruit or a Copper Cactus, and if they did, they’d probably keep it in a basement or use it as a paperweight. Oh, sure, it’s all good if you are watching a game and your team wins, so, go ahead, feel good. But it doesn’t matter, at all.
That said, it does matter for (some) of the players. So if there’s a player you really want to see crack the roster, go ahead and feel good for them when they hit a cool dinger or throw three scoreless innings.
It’s perfectly okay to just use it as background sound. Really, sometimes the best thing to do during Spring Training is to just have it on while you do something else. Tweet. Blog. Read a book. Whatever. Look up if something interesting happens or if they are talking to somebody you want to hear talk.
You might lose the feed for a little bit. During March, at times the Earth receives the sun’s rays at a weird angle that screws up the satellite feeds, causing the picture to go out for a few minutes. Without fail, at one point during Spring Training a broadcast will mention how this might happen.
You need to expect anything. Bees. Randy Johnson fastballs killing birds. Prospects simply being labeled “Minor League Guy”. Weird stuff happens in Spring Training.
And finally… it doesn’t matter. Wait…. I said that already. Whoops.
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LINKS!
Rob Neyer on “Phantom” Major Leaguers
Bob Nightengale on Tony Phillips and his infectious laugh
Craig Calcaterra on the Pros and Cons of possibly barring (or at least restricting) reporters from the clubhouse
David Cameron on how the next CBA fight won’t be as easy as past negotiations
SELF PROMOTION OF THE WEEK: “30 Teams, 30 Posts” is back
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Speaking of “30 Teams, 30 Posts”, next week I’m bringing an installment of that here to “Wisdom and Links”…so until then, this has been Dan Glickman!
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