Opening Day was held in six cities across the country last night, including in Los Angeles, where the world champion San Francisco Giants — behind noted stoner Timmy Lincecum — fell to Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers, 2-1.
Tonight an additional nine cities host home openers, including St. Petersburg, where Tropicana Field will be the site for the 2010 American League champion Tampa Bay Rays to host the Buck Showalter-improving Baltimore Orioles, and where politics will blend with sports as Governor Rick Scott will throw out the first ball of the season. Several bloggers and activist groups are rallying around booing the chief executive of Florida for the couple of minutes he'll be out on the mound shortly after 7 p.m. tonight, but what does he care? He's got three years and nine more months to effectively change the lives of every resident of this state. The critics? They've got each other, but nobody to help them out in Tallahassee for a long time.
In any event, the beginning of baseball season is when you get some of the most trite and absurd homilies to the joys of this classic American sport. Look, I've been a baseball fan for going on 40 years now, but the reason I'm singlehandedly turned on to this season is
