One of the Best Days of the Year
April 3rd is easily the best day of 2006 thus far. It was opening day and yes it was amazing. Yeah I had class and missed a fairly sizable chunk of my beloved Red Sox game, but I got to Maxi's just in time to watch David Ortiz hit a Home Run down the Right Field line. If this is any indication of how this Red Sox season will turn out for me I am going to be a very very very happy man come October. The Red Sox ended up winning 7-3 and Curt Schilling pitched a solid game, his first since 2004. It must be nice for Schill to be healthy.
Another great thing about opening day, a point that was brought to me by Nick, this kid in my IH class, is that on opening day no matter what team you root for, there is always that shed of hope that this could be the year. Very deep Nick, very deep indeed, you know what the kid has a point. I know for the last few hours before the game every baseball fan asks themselves at least once, could this be the year? I know I have many times and it has come true only once, thanks 2004 World Champion Red Sox.
Opening Day also symbolizes that warmer days are on the way because the boys of summer are coming out of hibernation. I absolutely love baseball season, all summer you can sit in front of the TV on a given night at 7:05 and watch a game. I feel like its one of the few sports that despite the extremely large salaries and the ever present steroid controversy that still has childhood innocence. Watching the games brings me back to the days when I would sit at the kitchen table with my Dad and oil up my new glove, the one that replaced the glove I out grew the year before. And then that first game of catch in the backyard, imagining about what it would be like one day when I made it to the pros. I discovered early in my high school career that I wasn’t very good at baseball and those dreams fizzled out, but I still love the game and would drop almost anything to watch it.
In other sports topics, the end of the NCAA Men’s Tournament has come and gone. To say the least, it was a very unpredictable tournament, but the end of it was very anticlimactic. All in all I am disappointed with the outcome of the Florida Gators being National Champions in a blow out, a close game would have been nice. My final thought being the fan that threw the syringe at Barry Bonds in San Diego, that was priceless, but not in good taste. That situation could have escalated to a Detroit type brawl and no one wants that, unless Barry Bonds suffered a career ending injury. Though if the rumors about Bonds are true then he’d probably be up on his feet in a month or two thanks to another unhealthy dose of steroids. Until next time…
Another great thing about opening day, a point that was brought to me by Nick, this kid in my IH class, is that on opening day no matter what team you root for, there is always that shed of hope that this could be the year. Very deep Nick, very deep indeed, you know what the kid has a point. I know for the last few hours before the game every baseball fan asks themselves at least once, could this be the year? I know I have many times and it has come true only once, thanks 2004 World Champion Red Sox.
Opening Day also symbolizes that warmer days are on the way because the boys of summer are coming out of hibernation. I absolutely love baseball season, all summer you can sit in front of the TV on a given night at 7:05 and watch a game. I feel like its one of the few sports that despite the extremely large salaries and the ever present steroid controversy that still has childhood innocence. Watching the games brings me back to the days when I would sit at the kitchen table with my Dad and oil up my new glove, the one that replaced the glove I out grew the year before. And then that first game of catch in the backyard, imagining about what it would be like one day when I made it to the pros. I discovered early in my high school career that I wasn’t very good at baseball and those dreams fizzled out, but I still love the game and would drop almost anything to watch it.
In other sports topics, the end of the NCAA Men’s Tournament has come and gone. To say the least, it was a very unpredictable tournament, but the end of it was very anticlimactic. All in all I am disappointed with the outcome of the Florida Gators being National Champions in a blow out, a close game would have been nice. My final thought being the fan that threw the syringe at Barry Bonds in San Diego, that was priceless, but not in good taste. That situation could have escalated to a Detroit type brawl and no one wants that, unless Barry Bonds suffered a career ending injury. Though if the rumors about Bonds are true then he’d probably be up on his feet in a month or two thanks to another unhealthy dose of steroids. Until next time…
posted by Joe Hegarty at 12:15 PM
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