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This spring, in the context of the recent history of the M's franchise, it is great on a spectacular level, because for the first time in many years our preseason burst of confident enthusiasm as true believers actually resonates with the ring of truth.
Whether it takes another year or two to come to fruition or breaks out in 2012, there's nothing quite like the excitement of rooting for a team brimming with youthful talent, whose future tantalizes the imagination.
And we feel this way even BEFORE the first day of partly cloudy sunshine and 60-degree weather.
There will be some days ahead when veteran teams take advantage of our youth, but hopefully there's plenty of games coming when the kids stun the vets with "Take that...and THAT!"
Above all, we long for a return to the days when our team earned the grudging respect of it's peers.