DHL Dan CLXVI - Springtime In Boston

The snow's all melted (!), the flowers are blooming and Shank writes what looks and feels like his annual springtime column:

This is the best time of the Boston sports year, and other thoughts

Picked-up pieces while reminding ourselves yet again that this truly is the greatest sports town in America …

▪ What was your preference this weekend? Celtics-Hawks in playoff Game 1 Saturday afternoon at the Garden? Sunday afternoon’s celebration of the Boston Strong 2013 World Series champs at Fenway? How about Boston sports’s Magic Monday?

On Monday morning, you can watch Babe Ruth/Shohei Ohtani pitch against the Sox at Fenway (where Babe actually pitched!). After the game, you can walk down to Kenmore Square and watch thousands of runners in the 127th Boston Marathon. Then, you can waltz through the Back Bay and finish your day on Causeway Street, watching the historic 2023 Bruins launch their playoff run against the Florida Panthers.

It’s the best time of our sports year. Let’s just hope the Sox don’t get eliminated before the Celtics or Bruins.

If that happens, we'll be reading three dozen columns on how bad the 2023 Red Sox are.