Harbinger of Spring (and other good things to come)

Being a pathetic baseball fan (pathetic mostly because of being a die-hard Red Sox fan), I spend my late fall and winter (aka baseball offseason) following the Celtics and Duke basketball (who only play a few times a week and even fewer, respectively) and desperately checking MLBtraderumors.com for any updates on the baseball offseason (trades, free agent signings). Those, especially the big and exciting ones, usually happen in December or early January, so by this time of the year, after enduring 4 snow storms in 10 days, I'm growing more and more restless for baseball, which also means warm weather, heading over to the Nationals Park or Camden Yards to catch a game, and hanging out at a ballpark eating junk food and cheering on my teams/players. It also means another chapter in the Boston Red Sox baseball saga, for which I cannot wait. A few days ago the Boston Globe part of the website dedicated to the Red Sox news began to have more posts than in the past few weeks, which could only mean that Spring Training is almost here!!! Some of the Sox players are already in Ft. Myers beginning their preparations for the season (we even got a few pictures to prove it). I can almost smell spring and can't wait for the baseball season to start.