I worry about my wife discovering what I was doing today...listening to the first Mariners exhibition game on the radio. Yes, baseball is building up to opening day--Seattle's first game is April 1st.
It's not that Gina doesn't love baseball. It's just that she feels it taking over my life every April, and continuing for seven months after that. She has a good cry, but then we have a festive opening day (or night) watching the initial game with fantastic hot dogs to match.
From November to March every year, if I start to tell her about a trade the Mariners made, she cups her hands over her ears and starts "la-la"-ing to make sure she doesn't hear me. Everything has its place, and baseball news in the offseason isn't her thing.
I'm not kidding about this, though: as the season moves on, she is more and more likely to drum up dinner plans with me and ask, "Hey, isn't there a game on tonight?"