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The healing power of baseball's preseason go much deeper than watching meaningless games.

Everybody involved breathes of infectious positivity, enthusiasm, and hope.

There's the snowbirds that escape their frosty prisons to catch a preview of summer that isn't being played in their cities.

The last place teams, with no chance of winning the World Series displaying the memory of a fish, excited about their prospects of a title.

Or the young minor leaguers, basking in the glory of batting behind legends like Sammy Sosa before they're demoted back to Single A, where they receive minimum wages for playing in Roswell.

And of course, the has-beens like Sosa believe they can turn back time and recapture their old form.

Just like the shirtless men that fill the outfield lawn with more cottage cheese than Meadow Gold.





bdevoe@davisclipper.com