Baseball will return, and now we know when. (USATSI)
Baseball will return, and now we know when. (USATSI)

On this remorselessly cold day, make this news your warmed hearth: Major League Baseball has released the 2015 spring training schedule. Come with me if you want to live.

The action gets started on March 1, when the Phillies take on something called the "Spartans." Whatever, it's baseball. Crack Internet research reveals that it's just 53 days until said baseball game takes place. In matters related, pitchers and catchers begin reporting in just 43 days. 

This is what my foulest desktop temp gauge looks like right now ... 

But I care not: For baseball is coming. Remain defiant, people.