The great part about this blog post is that Jose Canseco has already done all of the heavy lifting. When I sit down to write about the happenings of base and ball, I hope make a few comedy jokes that aren’t terrible and/or discuss a topic of interest with some semblance of reasonable intelligence. Mr. Canseco, his mere presence able to get us out of the blogging blocks rather rapidly, has gone above and beyond the expectations of his station by providing all the comedy and intrigue a baseball scribe could ask for, bless his heart. The trick is now not to mess it up, to let the ingredients shine on their own without a whole lot of tinkering and messing about. We want to heighten the content, without overpowering. When the ball is placed gently on a tee in front of a batter, a large swing and miss is all the more embarrassing. In this scenario yours truly is the batter, and the swinging is the writing and the ball is the blog post. Although Jose Canseco is a noted slugger of baseballs, so I could understand that it’s sort of a confusing metaphor. Oh god, it’s already happening.

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This is a picture of a sign about Spring Training / Brad Barr-US PRESSWIRE

The good news is that Spring Training is still fresh and the novelty remains strong. Some baseball is better than no baseball, after all. But I fear it won’t be long until we’re left wanting for something more. That’s where the new internet website Bad Spring Training Twitpics enters the conversation. If you’ve reached a point of oversaturation with the standard Spring Training fare, or would simply like to delay the inevitable for a while, Bad Spring Training Twitpics provides you the opportunity to take part in all the joyous wonders of Spring Training nonsense, without the unfortunate side affect of being driven moderately insane. The goal of the website is simple. In their words, the website is “A tribute to all those beat writers capturing horrible, blurry images of some of the most mundane sh** imaginable.” You see, many numbers of baseball writers converge on the popular locations of baseball Spring Training, and while they’re not getting quotes for another fluff piece about offseason conditioning habits, or asking a team manager about some feel-good too-old prospect nobody has ever heard of, they take bad cell phone pictures and post them to Twitter.

These pictures are something that if taken in small, singular doses, could prove just as annoying as all the other Spring Training inanity, but when compiled together all in one convenient and snark-filled location, these images enter a deeper level of pure ridiculousness and prove endlessly entertaining. Gaze longingly at the blurry visage of some hard-to-recognize relief pitcher. Examine what an empty baseball field looks like in February. Stare into the abyss of some barren desert landscape. The digital photographs and pithy captions speak for themselves, and I would urge you to visit the Bad Spring Training Twitpics website in-between your regularly scheduled and thorough Call to the Pen reading. We salute you, Bad Spring Training Twitpics, for making the hapless slog towards meaningful baseball a small sliver more entertaining and enjoyable, and for mocking others to humorous ends. You are an inspiration to smart-alecky baseball readers and writers everywhere.

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Kyle writes baseball nonsense at The Trance of Waiting. You can follow him on Twitter @AgainstKyle.