The lights are on, but nobody’s home (yet)

The lights have been on all day and all evening at the new spring-training complex, at the stadium and both of the lighted practice fields. This is the first time I have ever seen them on, so I’m sure they burning in, a standard procedure with new stadium lights. I’m sure to the people in the houses across the street from mine, the ones whose rear windows directly face the complex, it’s quite an annoyance, as those lights are really bright. From here, though, it’s just a comforting reminder that spring training is right around the corner. Dodgers pitchers and catchers report in 20 days. … By the way, there is a report on mlb.com that suggests things might be heating up between the Dodgers and Jon Garland. Last time I checked, the Dodgers hadn’t head from Randy Wolf’s people in several days, so the team might have run out of patience and decided to look elsewhere. More on this in the days to come, obviously.