Can you feel the difference?

Sure, the weather hasn’t exactly been ideal as we’d love to see, you know, 70 degrees.

But this spring is so vastly different from the Sports Shutdown of Spring 2020.

That’s both locally and nationally.

We’re into the second week of May, Memorial Day weekend is closing in, and there’s activity all over. There are games daily at Stellos Stadium, with six varsity lacrosse teams calling it home.

Holman Stadium is busy just about, on average, every other day, and the first night game was played there this past weekend with 11-1 Winnacunnet edging 4-7 Bishop Guertin. The place looks fantastic, as always.

We’re not kept in suspense about whether there will be a Nashua Silver Knights season or not. In fact, they’re cramming a lot of work into a short amount of time as they open up at Holman on May 27. Little earlier than July, right?

And out of town, just to the north, Manchester’s Delta Dental Stadium will be a big activity spot with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats having their home opener on Tuesday. The Eastern League has teams playing six game series in one spot, which is why the Cats were in Portland, Maine for a week playing the Sea Dogs.

In other words, it’s downright busy. Heck, even the Eagles of the International Soccer Club of Nashua are back, set to play their first home game in three seasons on Wednesday night at Rivier University’s Merrill Field. Yeah, yours truly had a brain cramp and had originally reported the home opener would be last Wednesday. With the weather, good thing it wasn’t.

See? So much going on, we can’t keep it all straight.

And speaking of Riv, they finally got into the act with their spring teams having short seasons, but seasons nonetheless. Men’s lacrosse and softball even had postseason games.

Golf courses were just being allowed to open about this time a year ago. This year, some have been humming along since mid to late March.

Last year the only thing we could latch on to was the NFL, with the draft being held as scheduled, and then we waited for the schedule to be announced. We lived for Patriots news and happenings.

We’ll get that schedule Wednesday night, and still be anxiously waiting for it, especially with the recent makeover the Patriots have had. But it won’t be our end all, be all. But close, as we wonder when Tom Brady and the Bucs will be making their visit to Gillette Stadium (please, not on Thanksgiving night, ok?).

It still doesn’t feel quite normal with the Celtics and Bruins ending their regular seasons this late, instead of perhaps going into the second round of the playoffs. But we’ll still get playoff games in spring – count on the Bruins going further than the Celtics, right?

The only thing that doesn’t seem right is the Red Sox are 22-13. What the heck?

But hey, it’s the spring of our content. Anything’s better than April and May of 2020.

Tom King can be reached at tking@nashuatelegraph.com, or on twitter @Telegraph _TomK.

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