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Every Day is Opening Day

April 6, 2012 | 0 Comments

By Eno Sarris

Baseball is doing a strange thing this year. Today marks what might be called the fourth Opening Day across the sport.

There were those two games in Japan between the Athletics and the Mariners. But they were played at about three in the morning here in California, so even many hard-core fans missed them. Then there was that game between the Cardinals and the Marlins in Miami on Wednesday. It was the only game in baseball that day, and it was a one-off — both teams left town for different cities the next day. Thursday brought day openers for another 13 teams.

So Friday will be Opening Day 4.0 — for every non-Marlin or Cardinal fan with a day job, it will probably the first time they get to see their favorite team play baseball this season. It’s really stretching this thing out, and some don’t like it.

You know what though? It doesn’t really matter much.

If you’re only about Major League Baseball, then you got, at most, three chances to see baseball before your team began to play. Call it the appetizer that whet your hunger.

If you love baseball in general, then you could have been watching college ball since February. Or Dominican Winter League ball before that. Or Arizona Fall League play in November.

In fact, there’s probably only about a four-week stretch in the dead of winter when you can’t find baseball somewhere if you really try. And we all need at least a little time to recharge before doing it all over again, so let’s not destroy that month off just yet.

Because, if the pattern holds, you’re just about a month away from an Opening Day… somewhere.

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