Pitarresi: Baseball here a little too early

The major leaguers have reported for spring training.

 

I am not excited.

 

Spring training? Already? What? Okay, ballplayers have six weeks down in Florida and out in Arizona to get ready for the season. Good for them. I like baseball a lot, but I’m not even thinking about it right now. We have seven weeks of college basketball left, and endless weeks of professional basketball and hockey.

 

Heck, I was caught by surprise when I realized that Colgate and Syracuse had already started their lacrosse seasons the other day. When I was in college, the season started about the first of April and you played 12 or so games in six weeks. Of course, back then there was no artificial turf. There would be two feet of snow on the fields, making it impossible to play. You’d have to wait for rains of late March and early April so you could play in two inches of mud instead. That was possible.

 

Anyway, I won’t pay much attention to spring training. It doesn’t interest me unless someone of note gets hurt and screws up some team’s season. Other than that, there is too much else to hold my attention.