One day. That’s it. One more day until real Padres baseball is back, and I don’t care how many years I’ve been doing this, that feeling never gets old.

Elsewhere in baseball, the Yankees locked up Aaron Boone with a contract extension, keeping him in the dugout in the Bronx. Whatever you think of Boone, and a lot of Yankees fans have plenty of opinions, that’s the kind of stability move a big market team makes when they trust their guy to handle the pressure of that job year after year.

Alright, one more sleep. Let’s get to Opening Day.