“It’s like walking across the desert step by step and today we finally got to the oasis.”

To borrow a metaphor from Rick Peterson, the Mets’ pitching coach.

The Mets are playing a pre-season game against the Michigan Wolverines and the game is being streamed by Michigan. Sweet. I feel like I’m in heaven.

Especially since we got a wet, heavy snow yesterday which froze overnight. There’s a glacier in the backyard right now. The weather is forecast to warm up tomorrow, so we’ll be dealing with bailing snowmelt in the usual attempt to keep water from getting into the backporch. It’s Man vs. Nature here when the poorly-drained backyard gets saturated.

But the Mets are playing spring season games and all is right with the world.