Getting Through the Offseason
The baseball offseason can be hard for me. For seven months I am at numerous ball fields watching games, taking photographs, doing interviews, and just enjoying being outdoors. Then for five months I just sit looking out my window at the rain, wind and sometimes snow, trying to keep myself excited and moving forward.
The Hot Stove is one of the ways I am able to get through the offseason. I love to make my predictions as to where I think that players should go. I don’t have inside information or even take a lot of time to look at the needs of the different teams, I just put players in places I would enjoy.
There are a lot of times that I would look at some of my picks and would be willing to bet that I am right on with where a player should sign. Even when the player signs with another team I look back at my picks and wonder how that player and team couldn’t see just how perfect a fit they were. I saw it and they should see it.
I know that a lot of people get through the offseason by enjoying other sports through fantasy leagues, sports betting on legal USA sportsbook websites or just watching games. Whether it is NFL, NBA, March Madness or even NHL those sports and others offer a great distraction during the offseason.
As great as other sports are a big Hot Stove trade is more exciting for me. I can honestly talk for days about even just a potential trade. To hear names being thrown around makes my inner GM excited and eager for the baseball season to come.
As a Mariners fan since 1981 (year I was born), through the Golden Griffey years and now the two decades of playoff drought, the Hot Stove can sometimes be the only joy and excitement that I know I will feel for the year.
The Mariners won’t make the playoffs in 2019 and probably not 2020 as they have unofficially announced that they will be rebuilding, so I must enjoy the Hot Stove and all of the potential greatness that are acquired in trades. I’ll make it through the offseason and when baseball comes back I will be there, enjoying every moment.