I've been reading the boards here and posting sparingly over the last month or so, but I can tell that posts are beginning to get a bit more testy and argumentative as opinions continue to spew up. To me it's just a sign that, well, we're in the off-season.
I was pleasantly surprised to arrive home today for Thanksgiving break to find the Arizona Fall League championship game on the MLB Network. Being that I live off campus at college and aren't availed of the bazillion channels that my parents' cable package has, I always feel spoiled when I get home (I don't know why HBO needs to have 14 channels, but I enjoy taking advantage of all of them). I watched Bryce Harper swing through a nasty 1-2 changeup in the 8th (his first appearance as a professional on national television) and happily saw some names that I recognized as opponents of mine in the past. I hope to scrounge through and find some more obscure games on TV in the next week or so, hopefully they'll broadcast some foreign winter league games for me to get my fix on (Cleveland Dad...anything out of Colombia?).
The weather is supposed to be nice here in the Northeast for the next few days so I'm hoping to be able to get some long toss in outdoors without having too much trouble convincing a friend to man up and catch. In the past I've resorted to estimating distance and long tossing into a fence to get my work in while at home, rain or shine (or often times, snow).
What are some other people doing to keep their baseball minds rolling? I tend to read this site more than post in the off-season, so that helps me get the fix. But being that high school and college baseball don't start for another several months, and MLB not until April, what do you do?!
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Hope he'll let me throw with him a little this week. Us dads need that more than he does at this point.