Baseball Season is Almost Here

It is coming. The crack of the glove. The spitting of seeds. Pick your team now. It is coming. Broken bats and leather balls thrown faster than you drive on the freeway. Peanut shells cracking under foot. The smell of the grass, the taste of dirt. It is coming. Tears of joy and tears of defeat. The battle between thirty teams, thirty cities, for the taste of glory. Balls belted into the night. Sweat under the lights. It is coming. Baseball is coming. The most beautiful game that ever was. It is coming, it is thundering down the tracks, and it will be beautiful.

There is no better time of year than this. Like kids who can’t sleep at night because Christmas is tomorrow, baseball fans all across the land are waiting and waiting for those two perfect words to come ringing out of the umps mouth. Play ball! It is coming, and it will bring with it emotions and broken records and men who are playing in the sand box, displaying gorgeous harmony and ridiculous athletic gifts. Folks, it is almost here. The most beautiful fight, the most beautiful game, the most beautiful and breathtaking show under lights. Baseball is on its way.

Will the Mets be the team to beat in New York now that the lightning arm of Johan Santana is on the mound? Will the BoSox prove once again to be the best family in the Majors? Will A-Rod continue putting up ridiculous numbers and continue hitting the ball out of the Bronx? Who will be the rookie we all pull for and who will be the team that plays with such pure beauty and magic that we can’t help but watch, whether they’re our team or not? Will the Tigers be able to take the Tribe now that they’re packing even more heat? Who will step to the plate and walk away with the batting title? Who will step to the rubber and pitch his way to the Cy Young? Will we finally be able to play ball the way it was meant to be played, with no drugs and no juice, just pure passion and unadulterated talent?

This is our game, friends. This is the game that makes our eyes well up because we just can’t get enough. This is our game, and it is coming. Baseball is coming.