1,000 Words: The first day of spring

The ground hog gets far too much attention for predicting spring. It’s not even good at it.

This is better.

Today, the first baseball team — the Cleveland Indians — reported to spring training.

It’s spring, groundhog. Winter is over.

Cleveland Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco talks with minor league pitching coach Tony Arnold, right, at the Indians baseball spring training facility Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, in Goodyear, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

About the blogger

Bob Collins

bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.