Here weeee go! Opening Day 2011!

"You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen."-Joe DiMaggio on Opening Day.

Well, it's finally here! The day all of us baseball fans look forward to all winter, Opening Day! It's amazing how, like Mr.DiMaggio says, no matter how many you go through, you always feel the adrenaline rush, every single year. It's proof that no matter how much the ticket prices increase, how much controversy players bring into the season, and no matter how many playoff chances the Chicago Cubs blow, baseball is still and always will be, "America's Pastime." 


It doesn't matter what the stats say about the team you love having no chance, little chance or all the chance in the world to win the World Series, we all go into Opening Day with the mind-set that "this is our year!" Now, being a New York Yankees fan, I know I go into each season looking for the next championship, especially with my favorite players getting closer to retirement each coming season, but today is the day when I can sit back, relax and watch my favorite players take the field to play a game that I learned to love before I even knew how to walk. 

To me, (and hopefully you, too!) baseball is the best sport in the World. It's a sport that brings families and people of all ages together, and hopefully for all of you, Opening Day restores the feeling you used to get as a kid watching baseball, before all the rivalries started. Just a simple, enjoyable adrenaline rush knowing that this is a brand new season and there's always a chance that "your" team will make it all the way this year!


So, cheers to each and every Major League Organization, thank you MLB for giving us all that feeling of pride and hope today. We will hopefully all watch with smiles on our faces, because hey, it's great if we win but if we lose, we've always got the excuse that this was only the first game of the season and we've got PLENTY more to win. ;)


Happy Opening day, everyone! GOOOOOO YANKEES!!!!