SPRING TRAINING begins today!!! Tra-la, tra-la.

Do I care that there is snow on the ground this morning? No! Because pitchers and catchers report today!

Students, faculty and staff in an uproar over the pain of the Board of Visitors not renewing Gene Nichol's contract, and Gene resigning abruptly with an e-mail that poured gasoline on the fire? All of that pales in importance compared to the gatherings of men in spring training camps who make a baseball look like a BB when they throw it!

The fact that tonight will be the fifth consecutive evening I'll be out, working, and that my work load has been relentless for weeks and weeks? Who cares! I can get on line each morning to check the Phillies news each morning from the Inquirer and Daily News and pretend that I'm not exhausted!