However, I have to disagree with Winter Meetings being the start of “next” Season. Important moves will be made there, but important moves are made all year round anyway. The biggest problem is it’s too early. It’s not even 2011…In fact the Sun will not even have started it’s path back to spring and summer glory. That has to happen for me to mentally turn the page on “last” season.

Truck Day is about logistics, and logistics aren’t all that interesting.

While this site is MLB Specific, many of us don’t live in ML markets so we go to college and minor league games. College Baseball starts on Feb 18th in 2011. So the tickets thing doesn’t work for me.

I have to go with Picthers & Catchers Reporting Day. There are baseball players actually throwing baseballs, and working out…outside. Some of them could get injured. Managers are giving lip service to the media that has pryed itself away from college basketball, and it’s Mid-Feburary so real spring isn’t that far off.

But since you don’t like that, I’ll offer another alternative. How about the day individual game tickets go on sale? Tickets on sale, you pop on the internet to find the only Yankees game with decent seats left is a random Tuesday in April against the Royals. Make the purchase anyway. Now “this season” has begun. You have tickets for “this season”. You are an active participant in “this season”. It’s not a passive activity for you like awards, free agent signings, flipping the calendar, spring training, etc.

What do you think?

Sorry Craig, but we are in a state of limbo, better known as “the off season”. There’s no other word to describe it other that or the sometimes used “poo poo time”.

We could start petitioning MLB to do something baseball related on January 1–some roster thing or free-agent deadline or something–or bloggers could start an “opening the new season” tradition and start listing rosters or making predictions, or rounding up what clubs still need to do. And since you bullied the sportswriters into picking King Felix as Cy Young winner, it should be easy to bully them into recognizing January 1 as the start of the new season.

We are still talking about awards for 2010, plus the World Series is sometimes (will be?) played in November. So it is confusing to say any day in November is next season.

I say no earlier than December 1st, but if you want to wait for the start of meetings, then fine.

I heard Papelbon was chanting this over and over again..

More to the point, the Winter Meetings seem to be a logical place to mark the turn.