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The good time is approaching,
The season is at hand.
When the merry click of the two-base lick
Will be heard throughout the land.
The frost still lingers on the earth, and
Budless are the trees.
But the merry ring of the voice of spring
Is borne upon the breeze.
-- Ode to Opening Day, "The Sporting News", 1886
"Imagine, a perfect, cloudless day, the sun is warm, welcoming. And on the horizon they appear. Like knights of yore, armed with bats of ash and hickory. Their name, the Capital Congressmen, their purpose, to make you, dear America, revel in the joys of sport and sunshine. If only for an afternoon."
-- John Henry Eden, President of the United States of America, President of Your Heart
I read/heard these and it made me think about when I still cared about baseball. About how this should be the most exciting time of the year. And I'm totally disinterested. Thanks steroids. I don't know that I'm even personally against the use of performance enhancing substances, but the end result, this giant spectre that looms over the entire sport, has pretty much killed it off for me. Also, I doubt I could remember how to fill out a scorecard properly, and I mean pitch-by-pitch, I used to have my shit down.
The season is at hand.
When the merry click of the two-base lick
Will be heard throughout the land.
The frost still lingers on the earth, and
Budless are the trees.
But the merry ring of the voice of spring
Is borne upon the breeze.
-- Ode to Opening Day, "The Sporting News", 1886
"Imagine, a perfect, cloudless day, the sun is warm, welcoming. And on the horizon they appear. Like knights of yore, armed with bats of ash and hickory. Their name, the Capital Congressmen, their purpose, to make you, dear America, revel in the joys of sport and sunshine. If only for an afternoon."
-- John Henry Eden, President of the United States of America, President of Your Heart
I read/heard these and it made me think about when I still cared about baseball. About how this should be the most exciting time of the year. And I'm totally disinterested. Thanks steroids. I don't know that I'm even personally against the use of performance enhancing substances, but the end result, this giant spectre that looms over the entire sport, has pretty much killed it off for me. Also, I doubt I could remember how to fill out a scorecard properly, and I mean pitch-by-pitch, I used to have my shit down.