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No more mystery teams. No more posting fees. No more free agents jetting into Miami for a tour of the gleaming new Ballpark That Ozzie Guillen Didn't Build But Will Definitely Tweet In.

No more surprise quizzes on the proper spelling of C-E-S-P-E-D-E-S. No more waking up in the middle of the night to ask your wife: "Is it true that Pat Burrell retired?"

In other words, that's all, folks. No more winter. Well, no more baseball winter, anyway. If you live in about 44 of our 50 favorite states, we can't help you drum the wind-chill factor out of your lives quite yet. But we CAN help you feel a whole lot warmer inside by uttering these two magic words:

Spring training.

Yep, it's here, all right. So before we all stampede through the gates of Salt River Fields, the Ballpark at Camelback Ranch and the exotic Cecil P. Englebert Complex, it's time once...

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