Wow.

You know, yesterday I thought there were about five or six more days of January to get through, especially given how cold it got last night, but I woke up today and I turned the calendar page…and right now, I’m about to do it again.

This time I’ll go from 31 January to 1 February.

Sure, there’s a lot of winter left up in Syracuse, but, as I’d tell myself as a kid, by the time we get out of this month, people will be pitching and swinging again.

I have to say, it’s a slightly odd feeling, for a few reasons.

The first is that, even if the last month was kind of slow (until Tuesday), it was one heck of an offseason from a Yankees perspective: new manager, new coaching staff, A-Rod hoopla, getting Mo, Po and Andy to come back, the report-that-must-not-be-named, Santanamania…

Hard to believe it’s only been three months. Hard to believe it’s been as long as three months. I go back and forth.

It’s an odd feeling because October 2007 seems like it was such a long time ago, feels so far removed from now, but it’s really not.

On a more personal level, it’s an odd feeling because it means the blog’s closing in on a five month anniversary and (coincidentally?) 25.000 views. I can’t describe the feeling, knowing that something I started more or less on a whim has grown into something that was good enough to survive the off-season.

What’s more, I can’t describe the feeling this past week has given me–and the irony of it all is that I’m a journalism school reject. That’s life though, isn’t it?

So now there are just fourteen days to go, and indeed, there are a lot of people already down in Florida or Arizona, and the potential of Spring is soon to be at its most vibrant.

Whoever said February was a boring month is probably just a college football fan.