It's Truck Day

I have always loved Truck Day. It is much better than Groundhog Day in that Truck Day is a sure sign that Summer is on its way and Winter will soon be behind us. Every year Red Sox fans gather outside Fenway to watch a truck get loaded with gear and head down to Florida for the start of Spring Training. Why do so many fans come out on a cold February morning to watch a truck get loaded with boxes? Probably because we all know that the boxes are not just filled with wooden bats and new jerseys and other baseball equipment.

Inside those boxes are the promise of summer. A promise that soon our days will be filled with the smell of hot dogs being cooked on a grill and the sound of Don and the RemDawg filling the living room every night with their play by play.
Inside each box holds hope that this summer will be filled with memories spent with family watching the Red Sox, holding our breath with each pitch, and the hope that maybe our prayers this year will be answered once again.

Inside each box is the dreams of a new Red Sox fan possibly falling in love with our team this summer. The dream that perhaps one of the bats sitting in one of those boxes will hit a game winning home run some summer night, maybe even against the Yankees!

Pitchers and catchers report and 3 days and opening day is only 44 days away. It can't come soon enough.