Opening Day

Most of you know how much I love St. Patrick's Day, I written endlessly about it. Christmas is up there too, other days each year that mean a lot would be, in no particular order, my birthday (not as much as the years pile up) my children's birthdays, 4th of July, but tomorrow is a day that I look forward to every year. Opening Day. The day when everyone's team is tied for first. The expression , "Hope springs eternal" had to be about baseball. Before cable TV you could not see any spring training games and opening day meant that even if it was cold and maybe snowing outside, the boys of summer would be on the field playing the game we all love. All ready I've seen, and been part of, that love/hate relationship between Red Sox fans and Yankee fans. Although this goes on all year, tomorrow starts up the really hard core action. Tomorrow is the day that we all think back to those days when we could run and play baseball. It seems that we become better ballplayers in our minds as we age. That seeing eye ground ball becomes a line drive as we reminisce. that bloop double all of a sudden smashes off the wall in the gap. So here are some things you will hear starting tomorrow.
Can of corn.
Texas leaguer.
Baltimore chop.
Round tripper.
What other place could you use these terms and just what do they mean? Yeah I can't wait for tomorrow. If you don't think tomorrow is a special day go back to my post on holidays. Opening day fits all the criteria for a Holiday. It has movies about it, Pride of the Yankees, Bull Durham, Angels in the Outfield, Fear Strikes Out, Babe Ruth (at least 4 different movies), Field of Dreams (men can cry during this movie), just to name a few. Opening day has songs about it, Take me out to the ballgame, Talking Baseball, Glory Days, Tessie. So you see baseball and opening day are special. Sleep well tonight for tomorrow a new season begins.