"I live for this"

It's the catchphrase of Major League Baseball's new ad campaign (see Sep 18 post), spoken in the ads by some of the game's biggest names, but it's also a phrase that fans of the game could use as well, and it's never been truer than today. The first pitch of the Red Sox / Yankees game is still over eleven hours away, and I'm sat here in my office, an ocean away from where the action will be taking place, getting all excited about twenty grown men chasing a little white ball around a big field... Crazy, maybe, but I love it.

Programme for the rest of the day:
3pm - 6pm Try to get through the rest of the work-day without logging on to MLB.com, ESPN or SI.com every five minutes...
6pm - 8.30pm Baseball practice - two-and-a-half hours of twenty grown men chasing a little white ball around a big field...
9pm Dinner
10pm Bed, in order to get a little bit of sleep before the game
2am Get up, make a big pot of strong coffee and...Play ball!