Why why why whyyyyyyyyyyyy, Rafer Weigel? Why?

The Miami Herald’s Manny Navarro took a ride up to Dunedin and snapped a pic of a banner hanging from the ballpark’s facade. I’m not here to tell anyone how to spend their time - I’m reposting Spring Training twitpics after all - but that’s what he did.

What’s Steve Gilbert’s threshold for sharing a twitpic? Honest question. Because I’ll tell you what it’s not. It’s not “my followers will be able to take away even one single thing from my Tweeting this.”

Had a bunch of people pass along this Anthony Andro mess and it’s just so brazen that if I didn’t know any better I’d think he was trying to score an entry on this here web site. And if you don’t think this happens, believe me, it does.

My suspicions of the Texas Rangers writer’s intentions aside, it’s almost unthinkable that a professional would share this with his audience. It’s Craig Gentry, barely visible through the dozens of layers of netting and fencing. It’s not Stan Musial reincarnate.

With the advent of the camera phone, come February and March, the enterprising beat writer can now depict the enthusiasm so many of us share for a new baseball season; what it signifies, a fresh start, warm weather, all that good stuff. Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe had a nice pic of shiny white baseballs ready to be used this morning at the Boston Red Sox complex. Nice touch.

And then there’s this picture from Mark Gonzalez, White Sox reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Sun’s not up yet, depressing landscape in the background, power lines stretching across. It’s like the final minutes of his peyote come-down.

MLB Network Radio host Rich Herrera (@RBIrich SWHDT?) was fired up today. Spring Training, guys! Pitchers and catchers! It’s here. So he did what any baseball-loving Floridian with a camera phone and a soul would do. He got to taking pictures of inanimate things peripherally related to Spring Training baseball.

Extra props for (1) the economical “u in lieu of you” shorthand and typo in his tweets, and (2) putting his life in jeopardy to get a shot of that Blue Jays sign.

I was only going to update the @STTwitpics handle occasionally in 2013. I wasn’t going to do the Tumblr this season. But then Gordon Edes took a picture of Dan Roche and Nick Cafardo, and now we’re off to the races again.

Aaron Boone tosses his hat in the ring with a picture so thoroughly uninteresting, it boggles the mind. Boone’s on a bus, I guess, touring Cactus League parks for ESPN? And so he wants to include a little of it in the picture? From there, what does this picture tell us? They got a shitty parking spot? There is indeed a baseball park there? They arrived good and early?

Hate you so much, Aaron Boone.

A question like the following could be a useful litmus test when deciding whether or not to tweet that fresh new phone pic: “Is it conceivable that anyone anywhere could possibly find this interesting?” If the answer’s “no,” don’t hesitate to take a breather and sit out a round. Anyway, thanks Rhea Hughes.

The opportunity cost’s the thing here. “Oh, Cardinals legend and potential Hall of Famer Jim Edmonds is in Cardinals camp talking with the outfielders? Great! I’d love to see!”

And then, that.