These next few days are very, very, very special. They are the days when the college basketball season overlaps the Major League Baseball season. It’s a beautiful thing. But I digress.

This post is a belated response to Donna’s post a few weeks ago in which she bemoaned the local fascination with “weenie college basketball” and trumpeted the glories of spring training. Now, I love baseball, and I’ve been to spring training, which is basically a bunch of really big guys having a long, slow, extremely expensive picnic. To call college basketball “weenie” at all is bad enough, but to call it weenie in comparison to spring training, well, that deserves a firm rebuttal. So, in rebuttal, I give you…

Sports According to Donna

“Weenie” college basketball:

Manly spring training:

Nuff said.