Yay, No Mo February!

I'm always in a great mood on March 1st. That is because the crappy month of February is over and done with for another 11 months!
Also, when March 1st hits I harken back to my high school baseball days for the Spring Valley Tigers (NY).
We always had our first practice on March 1st. Dave Sachs (JV coach) and Harry Steen (Varsity coach) had us run. And run. And run some more the first couple of days. We hardly even touched a baseball. Coach Sachs told me years later that part of the philosophy of that was to make kids cut themselves. If they weren't tough enough to survive the first couple of days of running then who needed them? I recall one kid, one year, on the first day, on about the fourth or fifth sprint, just kept going and never came back.
In college, I can't recall the date of the official start of spring practice. We would practice all winter anyway. But in high school it was always March 1st and on this day I still get the feelings of those long ago but not forgotten days at Spring Valley.