Spring

Winter is over, and baseball is here. Tigers pitchers and catchers reported for Spring Training today in Lakeland, FL. The rest of the team will be there by Friday. I love this time of the baseball year, before things have really started, when anything is possible and every fan is convinced that this is the year his team will finally win the World Series (knock on wood -- now that baseball is back, so are the superstitions). The Tigers have a lot to look forward to in 2012, especially their impressive roster of new and returning players, and with a great 2011 season still fresh in my memory, I don't think my high hopes for the upcoming season are unfounded. Whatever happens, though, I'm just glad baseball is starting again, and that the part of my life that was put on hold in late October can start again, too. It's still cold here in Michigan, but the sun in out today, as if even the weather knows that baseball is finally back.