Its that time of year again.
Starting tonight when the new Miami Marlins take on the defending World Champions, the St. Louis Cardinals, baseball is finally back in full swing.
Although many teams including my Toronto Blue Jays do not start their season until tomorrow, Opening Day still means a ton to baseball fans. Here are five of the reasons I think Opening Day is so important.
1. Every Team Is At Par For The Only Time of The Season
There is only one time during the entire baseball season where everyone is equal, everyone has the same record, everyone has the same chance to win the division. That time is Opening Day.
Every team has the chance to be undefeated or reversely not win a game. It obviously extremely improbable with a 162 game season, but on opening day it is still possible for the Blue Jays to go undefeated and the Yankees to lose all 162 games (I wish).
2. It Is Practically A National Holiday
For baseball fans, Opening Day is a de-facto holiday for us. We skip work, we skip class, or if that is impossible, we sneak in a device to listen to or watch the game (Thank You MLB.tv on an IPad). We don’t care if we get in trouble its Opening Day and it is time to have some fun.
3. Summer Has Officially Begun
Except for diamonds with a dome, baseball is played mostly in the Spring and Summer. Baseball fans call Spring and Summer ball season. Enough said.
4. March Madness is Over.
Finally everyone can stop complaining about screwing their bracket up and watching basketball like they actually care. Nobody likes basketball anyways (Well, except for looking at college cheerleaders).
5. Hot Dogs, Cracker Jack, and Beer are now considered acceptable for dinner.
People tend to think I am weird when I am picky when it comes to hot dogs. Being a baseball fan, my choice of hot dog along with an ice cold beer is key to my enjoyment of a game. During the baseball season it is considered a key stable to my survival because it is usually dinner at the ballpark.
These are just five of many reasons why Opening Day is so important to baseball fans. If you have any other things that make Opening Day so important, Drop Me A Line and I’ll post some of the other opinions.
Until next time.
F.F.
I’m thinking this needs to make a comeback. I would love to have Blue Jays food for Opening Day.
Ahhhhh…remember when the Toronto Blue Jays sold every product imaginable?
Did you ever have Blue Jays milk?
I’d love to see these in the grocery store today, but I think they might be a little stale by now.
For those female fans of the Blue Jays, or for a guy who wants to have his significant other a part of the Blue Jays fan base in a special way.
Mine. Mine. Also mine.
As a baseball and a food fan, this is absolutely amazing!
Weighing in at over a pound. This two foot twenty-six dollar monstrosity is turning heads this preseason. Cruz’s fat ass might steal several less bases this season as a result. Arlington is going to go nuts. This is a Moneyball size story in my book.
I hate the Rangers. But I might have to make a trip to a road game.
Angels should take notice.
This is what we want!
I guess this boy will not be making the big club come April…..
They know baseball a lot.
Over at Big League Stew, Drew gives us 10 things to be proud of as Blue Jays fans. Bonus points for the Base Wars reference!
This movie is pretty accurate when it comes to describing stuff that Canadian sports fans do not say.
What are some of the ones that they are missing?
FF
This is a good question, Do sports teams just basically use us for our money and don’t care about us at all? Drop me a line and I post what the other fans out there think.
I’ll have a blog post about this in the next few days.
Chip
Your Favorite Team Doesn’t Give a Damn About You
By Justin Halpern
In the last 20 years, I have only missed seven Chargers games. I watch them every Sunday, and if the game is blacked out locally, I crowd around the radio like it’s 1944 and I’m listening to FDR give a speech about the Nazis. Five years ago, when I was waiting tables and barely making rent, I spent three hundred and thirty dollars on an authentic LaDainian Tomlinson jersey. I did that partially because I needed to swap out my Steve Foley jersey after he was shot by the cops, but also because I wanted to show my support for the team I loved. And after this season there is a decent chance that the team I have spent thousands of hours — and way too many dollars — supporting will leave San Diego…..
Bought the game yesterday. It is super awesome! May have blow my shoulder out pitching though.
Not Cubs fan but this nearly made me cry.
Need to learn the MLB quick? This timeline does it pretty darn good.
Baseball Timeline :)
Talk about a variety of sports from a fans perspective. Chip is a current Baseball Canada National Umpire and University of Lethbridge student.
