Spring Training not nearly as exciting now as it was in February

I'm starting to feel like all the Spring Training story lines have played themselves out. We've seen enough games to know what to expect from the main players, we know what the pitching rotation is going to look like, we know that Mike Lowell is unlikely to be traded before the season starts, and we know that Dice-K is going to start the season in the minors.

The initial excitement of seeing the Red Sox on the field warming up has dissipated (did I really spend 3 hours watching live coverage of that on NESN?) and hearing the same analysis of how the Red Sox' season is going to go has definitely gotten old. Even the excitement of the games has worn off. I don't care who wins today's game against the Orioles. Because you know what - it doesn't matter.

My mother-in-law once said that it was a good thing that pregnancy is 9 months long because imagine your shock if you woke up one morning nine months pregnant without all the time leading up to it to get used to it. Maybe that's what Spring Training is like for us fans. Time to ease into the new season without the pressure of the games meaning anything. Time for us to say breezily after someone has a bad start "Oh, it's just Spring Training." Time for us to say if someone hasn't been getting any good hits "He's just warming up."

But 4 days from now, that's all going to change. Bring it on Yankees. We're ready.