It’s not quite time to break out the shorts and flip-flops, but that’s how I always feel on baseball’s opening day.
This is a day for optimism, even for Pirates fans. This is a day for anticipation, of hot nights at the ballpark or sitting on the porch with a beer and a grilled hot dog, listening to the Indians on the radio. This is a day to dream of summer and everything that comes with it, whether it’s related to baseball or not.
And yeah — this is a day for baseball, too.
It doesn’t matter that we could still see a little snow here before the weather breaks for good.
It doesn’t matter that the Pirates — a team I’d really like to do well — are probably going to be done by the All-Star break.
It doesn’t matter that nearly everyone is saying the Tigers are going to win the AL Central.
It doesn’t matter that the Indians are tied 7-7 with the White Sox as they head into the home half of the eighth inning.
It doesn’t even matter that Jacobs Field is now named for an insurance company.
In fact, there much that seemed to matter when I heard Tom Hamilton say “We’re underway at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario” this afternoon while I was driving to work.
Enjoy your summer, everyone.
UPDATE, a short while later: Tribe wins, 10-8. And how about those nifty new uniforms?
Uncle Crappy 
UC – please don’t cast a scornful eye towards the following – I’m excited for this year to get both of my girls to a Saturday afternoon game to Yankee Stadium for its last year before the new, ‘Yankee Stadium’ is open for business
– come on – it’s only 12.6 miles from my home – they’re our ‘home town’ team around here –
Anyway – I hope to catch a game or two in the stadium, a couple more on TV – and who knows – next September – we’ll be chatting about playoff runs – the Tribe and NYY.
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I wouldn’t begrudge that trip, especially given that it involves your girls and their last chance to see the real Yankee Stadium.
And we can talk about the rest of that stuff this fall…
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