We are days away from the start of spring training games, which means we are days away from a warm, comfortable feeling unlike perhaps any we have ever known.
When I was younger I pined for the start of spring training and the symbolic return of warm weather. It was still winter, but it was good enough. Then I got older and it stopped being good enough, but it was about more than sun and melting snow.
We learned about what matters and doesn’t matter, and we knew what was going to happen going into spring training before it ever happened.