Jose Abreu discovered that home runs don't exist in ping pong

The offseason is long, isn’t it? For fans, we have to just sit and count the seconds until baseball begins again. But imagine how it is for baseball players who devote their lives to the game. Waiting has to be really tough, right? Knowing there’s green grass and sun and cheering crowds and home runs in their future, so close, but they can’t quite get there yet.

For Jose Abreu, Chicago White Sox first baseman and gifted hitter of prodigious home runs, this last stretch of the offseason must be really difficult. Spring training is so close, and his arms must be itching to throttle some baseballs right out of the park.

Judging by this video of Abreu at a White Sox ping pong gathering on Thursday night, he’s absolutely ready for the baseball season to start.

Unfortunately for Jose Abreu, home runs in ping pong aren’t really a thing. If anyone ever found that ball he hit (doubtful, since it looks like he hit it into the next area code), I’m guessing it’s totally flat now, or it has a massive dent in it.

Abreu wasn’t the only one playing ping pong. (Though from the pictures he might have been the only one wearing a kicky white hat.) A bunch of White Sox players were in town for Friday’s White Sox Fest, and they decided to get together the night before and have some fun.

And because whoever runs the White Sox Twitter account wants us all to be happy, they also included a short video clip of Todd Frazier doing a weird dance to celebrate his ping pong victory.

Dance on, Todd.

Spring training is just 17 days away, so soon there will be reasons to dance that aren’t ping pong related. Baseball can’t come back soon enough, but seeing players getting together and having fun is almost good enough. Almost.

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Liz Roscher is a writer for Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email her at lizroscher@yahoo.com or follow her on twitter! Follow @lizroscher