Forget what the calendar tells you. Spring arrives today.
It has nothing to do with Punxsutawney Phil, nor the fact that our normally snow-addled local TV weather folks are talking about it being in the 60s later this week.
Love is in the air, and it has nothing to do with Valentine’s Day.
At approximately 8:30 a.m., the Four Aces will walk out onto the field at Bright House Field in Clearwater, and the most anticipated Phillies season in a lifetime will commence.
Think spring, that time when a young man’s fancy turns to baseball. And this year, with good reason.
The Phillies, who seemingly forever have entered each season with question marks where their starting pitchers were supposed to be, touting such unremarkable hurlers as Kevin Millwood, enter this year’s campaign with perhaps one of the most formidable rotations in baseball history.
Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels. And throw in Joe Blanton as your No. 5 starter just for kicks.
Never have the Phils had such a “call to arms” entering spring training.
Of course, a lot can happen between now and April 1, when they open the season at Citizens Bank Park.
For now, it is enough. It is spring. Baseball is back.
It has nothing to do with Punxsutawney Phil, nor the fact that our normally snow-addled local TV weather folks are talking about it being in the 60s later this week.
Love is in the air, and it has nothing to do with Valentine’s Day.
At approximately 8:30 a.m., the Four Aces will walk out onto the field at Bright House Field in Clearwater, and the most anticipated Phillies season in a lifetime will commence.
Think spring, that time when a young man’s fancy turns to baseball. And this year, with good reason.
The Phillies, who seemingly forever have entered each season with question marks where their starting pitchers were supposed to be, touting such unremarkable hurlers as Kevin Millwood, enter this year’s campaign with perhaps one of the most formidable rotations in baseball history.
Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels. And throw in Joe Blanton as your No. 5 starter just for kicks.
Never have the Phils had such a “call to arms” entering spring training.
Of course, a lot can happen between now and April 1, when they open the season at Citizens Bank Park.
For now, it is enough. It is spring. Baseball is back.
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