I love being outside, but when ESPN showed Carl Pavano of the New York Yankees throwing the first pitch to Tampa Bay's Carl Crawford Monday afternoon, I was in front of my TV and glad to have the opportunity to be there.
I don't like baseball the way I like football or basketball or boxing, but there was a time I did and opening day reminds me why. If you've lived in a city with a Major League Baseball team, and that team opened the season at home on a sunny afternoon, you realize how many understanding bosses and slack employees your town has.
That Major League Baseball holds its first full day of games the same day NCAA men's basketball holds it's finale indicates there really is an order to the universe.
Every three years, a baseball team that wants a new stadium threatens to move to Charlotte. So if I like the sport, why am I always the one to write that we can't support a team?
I write it because we can't support a team. We'd fill the joint on opening day, though.
UNNNNNNNNNNNNN....WHEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW.....whatzat? Whatzat? Where am I?
Sorenson, my computer just beeped and woke me up. Thanks for curing my insomnia with your blog, though.
Posted by: Quippy Smith | April 02, 2007 at 06:15 PM
Tom--
Ah, there's nothing like the opening series of the new baseball season. Our Baltimore Orioles are picking up right where they left off at the end of last season: they just got swept in three games with your Minnesota Twins.
As for getting a big-league team started in North or South Carolina: why not Hickory, Statesville or Rock Hill as the new home of the Carolina Calibrators? They could build special "pit rows" in the infield between third base and home in case the Pirates or anybody else want to pull in for new some cleats on their way to the plate.
Posted by: David McKnight | April 05, 2007 at 02:19 PM
Tom,
I totally agree. The anticipation of spring and summer started to simmer when Pitchers and Catchers reported to spring training and was at a roiling boil by the time of Opening Day. Since moving from MPLS in '86, baseball doesn't hold the meaning it once did. Today, if I were to go to a game, with the losses of Bob Casey and Herb Carneal, I don't know if it would even feel like a Twins game.
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