Bryce Harper just made his Phillies spring training debut. I’ll spare you my personal feelings on the proceedings, but I’m sure that you can imagine that I feel quite strong right now. It feels like spring has finally sprung, I guess you could say.

This guy gets it:

Together, let us relive this little bit of Clearwater magic.

Brian Dawkins, for some reason which I’m completely fine with, kicked things off on the mic right before first pitch:

After a scoreless first inning from Jake Arrieta, Harper came to the plate in the bottom of the frame. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song? Didn’t see it coming, but I could have definitely predicted this standing ovation:

Harper swung through a 95 mph Matt Shoemaker fastball on the opening pitch and then saw four straight out of the strike zone. Get used to seeing a lot of this:

Followed by a lot of this:

Also good at baseball: Rhys Hoskins. March 28th can’t get here soon enough.