Opening Day

Opening Day is all about excitement and anticipation. Everyone involved feels this excitement and anticipation whether it's the players, the management, the fans, or even the bat boy. It's about a fresh start where any imaginable success is still possible. Opening day is the time when every team, and every teams fans think their team will be the one to win the world series. Opening day is baseball's New Year. It represents a fresh start for every team where they can throw all their past failures out the window. Here's a little video from ESPN that highlights that excitement of opening day

 

 

The Yankees had their opening day last Friday against the Rays in Tampa. But today is their home opener. The home opener is the first time that the fans get to see this years team. We get to see all the fresh faces of new acquisitions form the offseason. Although, this year there weren't many fresh faces except for Raul Ibanez (who is absolutely ancient at this point and a shell of the player he used to be),  the overrated acquisition of Michael Pineda who came into camp as a fat piece of shit and found himself on the DL to start the year, (please tell me again why we gave up our best prospect for this guy?) and the under the radar but in my opinion the best acquisition of the offseason Hiroki Kuroda. We also get to see how the returning players changed in the offseason such as the A-rod knee surgery (thanks Kobe) and the slimmed down Mark Teixeira.

Some changes in technology recently have made it even easier to follow your favorite teams. The internet and portable devices like IPhones and IPad make it possible to follow your team anywhere you are. MLB has an application on apple devices that let you follow gamecasts of the games and even watch live games (if you pay a little money). Even if you are not in front of a TV you can still follow your teams and get live updates in seconds. I think these creates more and more fans and can only be good for the sport. More people will have a rooting interest and follow baseball since games are now easier to follow and can be done on the go.

With all these changes sometimes it's easier to forget that the best part about opening day is the thing that never changes. And while it may sound a little corny, yes, the fans are the best part of Opening Day. After a long offseason of waiting and anticipation Yankees fans show up in full force to root for their team. Opening Day is one of the loudest days of the year because all of the the waiting and anticipation of the die hard fans shows itself with 50,000 screaming and yelling fans. That is my favorite part of Opening, the atmosphere. It doesn't get any better than this.

 Let's beat the Halos!