Opening Daze

[DOUGHBOYS]

Sometimes my family and friends will trap me into a rant. They like to find entertainment in cheap places and my rants are just that. I was set up today. Twice, I was asked about how excited I was about the upcoming baseball season and wasn't it grand how baseball set up Opening Day this year.
As Popeye said, "I's had all I could stand and I can't stand no's more!!!"

What the Hell was MLB thinking with this quote unquote 'Opening Day'?
Was it in Japan?
Is it in Miami?
Is it in Cincinnati?

There is no sport that has the following of Opening Day like baseball does. They fill almost every stadium. During the year, except for a couple of venues, they hardly ever fill a Stadium.
They've screwed up the All-Star game, now they're screwing with Opening Day.
Sacred has left the building. They couldn't find a monetary figure for sacred, so sacred is out the door.
It's BS. No, not the cuss word, although it is, it's Bud Selig being Bud Selig.
Infamous for throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Starting the season and ending it earlier avoids cold weather.
Still, why can't we have an Opening Day?
Would it kill baseball to be happy with the ESPN Triple Header on Opening Day?
Do we really have to have yet another soft opening before the sparsely scheduled 'real' Opening Day on Thursday?

It was bad enough when they moved Opening Day off of the traditional Monday, now, baseball really doesn't have an opening day.
They have Opening Daze.
Cincinnati folks are wondering why baseball is being played three times before they even get to a real game.
It's blasphemy!
What should be one of the most fun days and most looked forward day has turned into just another day during the season.
Next year, we have the World Baseball Classic.
Classic, in that the only folks who really care about the tournament, for the most part, live on islands.
And Major League Baseball paid Selig millions upon millions of dollars for ideas like this.
Thanks Major League Baseball!
This Bud's on you!