I know I was kind of incommunicado from when pitchers and catchers reported until the first games of spring training, but let’s be honest, without Manny claiming that his 8th grandmother was sick it was a dull two weeks of workouts. Looking back at the workouts all we learned was that JD’s back hurts (shocker), everybody is in the best shape of their life (except JD), Papi doesn’t like steroids, A-R*D took steroids and perhaps the most surprising thing to come out of Spring Training, Tito got a hole in one.

I’m not going to focus on either of those last two things because this is a Red Sox Baseball blog, not a MFY Golf blog. That said, if I may channel my inner Nelson from the Simpsons for a moment: haw-haw. The most important thing is that the grass is green down in Fort Myers, the players are ready, and the only people happier than all of us fans for today are the BC baseball players who will get destroyed by a major league squad and like it. So take your jerseys and hats out of the closet people, we’ve got some games to watch!