Your Opening Day 2013 Post

Every year it seems the excitement for this day grows more intense.

With tomorrow comes new dreams, new hopes, new expectations. Not just in baseball, but in life. The seasons have changed and with them you’re older, wiser, and you know that you’ve got to take an extra minute to enjoy the great things that life has to offer. If you’re a baseball fan that’s made a little easier just by sitting through nine innings and enjoying the game’s many nuances that go unnoticed in every day life.

We say it every year, but starting tomorrow you could see anything. We could see the most memorable season in baseball’s history in 2013.

Is this the year that Bryce Harper goes 50/50? Do the Cincinnati Reds find a way to bring a title home to America’s greatest baseball city? Do the Houston Astros find a way to shock the world? How many new pitchers will grow to win 20? What new stars will emerge from out of nowhere to hit .320? We’ll meet Jackie Bradley Jr. and Wil Myers for the first time, along with a host of other youngsters welcomed into the baseball fraternity.

There are storylines all over the place about this great game, unfolding day after day for seven months of enjoyment for all of us.

The spring will quickly fade into summer and the seasons will change, and soon we’ll be doing this exercise all over again. Baseball will still be there for us, going on; happening. No clock involved. When we’re at the park, time will stand still for just a few hours after walking through the turnstiles before we have to walk opposite way out of those same entry points and return to reality.

It’s not Heaven…. but it’s damn close.

This is the greatest sport on earth. Binding generations of grandfathers, and fathers, and sons alike. Other sports might have more appeal on television or be better for shock-jock radio hosts to talk about. But there’s only one game this American and this pure.

So go ahead and dream a little bit. This is a new season that could allow us to see any possibility your mind can dream. That’s the great thing about baseball. And you’re only a wake-up away from seeing a no-hitter or the beginning of a 12-game winning streak you’ll remember forever with this great game.

In the words of the great Joe D. in regards to tomorrow:

"There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best- Joe" #MLB #OpeningDay Can't wait for tmrw! #Nats

— Bryce Harper (@Bharper3407) April 1, 2013

It’s going to be a great season and a great Opening Day. Soak it in and enjoy it everyone. It’s finally here.