It's Opening Day!
Wake me when it's over.
Seriously, this has got to be one of the most overrated days in the sports calendar, right up there with the ESPYs and the Daytona 500.
After a month of games that don't count, we're now subjected to games that matter. And all this hoopla for 0.6% of the season to be complete? If nothing else, this just signals the time of the year that it's actually okay to talk about the Sawx and the Yanks (add your own PTI impression). The same old men write the same old lines about the beauty and timelessness of the game. Seriously, what other sport has men like George Will wax poetic about it?
Don't get me wrong, I dig a good game every now and then. One of my fondest memories was seeing the Green Monster in person a few years ago. But don't tell me to get excited about seeing Frank Thomas suck for a new team or seeing how the Mets can find a new way to come in 2nd place in the NL East.
If you don't mind, I've got some college basketball to watch.
Seriously, this has got to be one of the most overrated days in the sports calendar, right up there with the ESPYs and the Daytona 500.
After a month of games that don't count, we're now subjected to games that matter. And all this hoopla for 0.6% of the season to be complete? If nothing else, this just signals the time of the year that it's actually okay to talk about the Sawx and the Yanks (add your own PTI impression). The same old men write the same old lines about the beauty and timelessness of the game. Seriously, what other sport has men like George Will wax poetic about it?
Don't get me wrong, I dig a good game every now and then. One of my fondest memories was seeing the Green Monster in person a few years ago. But don't tell me to get excited about seeing Frank Thomas suck for a new team or seeing how the Mets can find a new way to come in 2nd place in the NL East.
If you don't mind, I've got some college basketball to watch.
posted by Greg at 10:34 PM
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