James Taylor, nothing personal word of the day on March 1st, 2021. You've got a friend.

You've got to do is call and we've got spring training. Yes, we do. We've got spring training

games. A lot of tweets going out this weekend. There'll be no more Fridays without a game

until November, no more Sundays. I guess there's always games Friday and Sunday unless 10

games get rained out. It was a big deal. Spring training games started. People were ready

giving text alerts, strikeouts, walks, home runs, wins, losses. And it got me thinking

that I had to lead off the show with James Taylor because there's a view of spring that

seems to be out there that just isn't accurate. So you're nothing personal. We're going

to make it accurate. Now, one of the people who tweeted at me or just tweeted in general

about a spring training game, when I said, by the way, that's not accurate. Then it was

the response was I was being sarcastic. And I sort of believe me, maybe sarcastic,

but there's plenty of people who aren't. And I was one of them. I was one of the guys,

my first year in baseball at the tender young age of whatever I was 32 years old in February

of 2000. First spring training game, sitting there watching excited as can be, want to remember

the moment. Very badly want to win the game. What did I know? I knew I'd run a company.

I didn't really understand the rhythm of baseball. If you're not in the game, you can't

really understand. And it takes years and years to really figure out the rhythmic nature

of the game, the seasonal nature, the body clock nature, the way it impacts you in every

way, the way that every day becomes a little bit like round talk day. I would always tell

people, hey, you want to know where I am? I'm at the same damn place every day at 7 0 5

PM every day. I'm either at a game or watching a game every day, 7 0 5. I don't know where

I am easy. So the first day of spring training, first game, I want to tell you how it works.

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