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Because it means the season has finally started? <i></i>

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Opening day is the start of the journey that we know is baseball season. Summer days with the radio going and your hometown announcer calling the shots. Its the end of winter and cold and shit, and the crack of the bat and the smell of cut grass....those lucky !#@$!@#$ who's parents would take them out of school to watch opening day...from the first rainy, cold games, to the sweltering, sunny mid-summer battles...its not just a start of a sports season, its the start of better days to come...<
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The spring training phenoms are looking like world beaters, everyone has the same chance of going to the World Series, boundless hope and optimism are in the air....Joe Rookie is going to win 20 games this year for sure, Steroid Mike is gonna blast 60 HR's, and small ball Billy's gonna bunt and steal his way way to 120 runs....<
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Opening day signifies the start of the season, and pretty much is a clean slate for every team. I actually love the hooplah surrounding it and the positive energy coming from even the worst teams.<
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Yeah I'm feelin a lot of hope and positivity with Wood and Prior on the DL. <i></i>

Jesse Orosco is throwing out the first pitch to Gary Carter for the 20 year anniversary of the '86 Mets. I cannot wait. Maybe Dr K and Strawman will blow some rails off home plate, too. <i></i>

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