I can finally say those words: "baseball is back." After many cold and uninteresting months the world's best sport is back-in-town (or wherever your team decides to take refuge from mother nature). Pretty soon the snow will melt, the mitts will come off the shelves and fingers will once-again grace those wonderful red seams.
Spring Training has begun with teams holding practices for players and invitees in the sunny states of Florida and Arizona. Mets pitchers and catchers will be officially required to report on February 15th but most of them are already there. As for the position players--who aren't required to report until the 20th--many players including Josh Satin, Ike Davis and David Wright have already arrived. Though there are still 2 1/2 months until the season will really begin, the fact that there are baseballs being thrown by professional players wearing professional team gear has got me excited.
I believe that die-hard baseball fans experience their own form of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Web MD describes the disorder as "a type of depression that affects a person at the same time each year. If you get depressed in the winter but feel much better in spring and summer, you may have SAD." First of all, it sounds like the acronym for this disorder was created by a five-year-old, but second, I think we baseball fans can learn something here.
I think that a particular "strand" of SAD exists out there and it should be called "BSAD" or "Baseball Seasonal Affective Disorder". Regardless of treatment options, (suggestions: Mets Classics re-runs on SNY or lashing out at other fans on Twitter) the struggle is real but it will soon be gone. Have faith, fans--baseball is back!
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