It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

With all due respect to any other time of the year often classified as wonderful, the first week of baseball is the most, most wonderful time of the year. Was anyone out there as thrilled about Opening Day as I was? It's such a relief to finally see baseball highlights on TV again. I went to sleep last night with visions of scrolling score updates dancing in my head. Two things made yesterday especially sweet.

1) The Royals beat the Detroit Tigers (arguably the best team on paper in the league, and easily the best team in the American League Central Division) on the road in extra innings. I found it a little hard to concentrate on work yesterday while listening to the game on the radio.

2) The last Opening Day game ever at Yankee Stadium was postponed due to rain. Seems that not even Mother Nature wants to see the Bronx Bombers leave that historic venue. What's so great about this? Well, close your eyes and imagine over 56,000 rabid Yankees fans sitting in the rain for a few hours, waiting to see this historic game. Then imagine seeing them all leave, disappointed. Pair of Opening Day Tickets $138, Parking $35, Raincoat, $8. Hotdog, Peanuts, and CrackerJacks, $12. Seeing 56,000 wet Yankees leaving the ballpark in the rain, Priceless.

Actually, I can't lie. It is sad to see Yankee Stadium go. In fact, I almost wrote about how I was going to actually pull for the Yankees this year. I was going to describe how I have been searching out all the information I can find on the storied franchise. I was going to announce that I even ordered a Yankees wool game cap, and that it arrived today in the mail, just in time for the first week of the season. And then I realized, you don't joke about something like that, even on April Fool's. Saying you're a Yankees fan when you're not is sick and wrong.