Thursday; April 1
Well, it is finally here. Opening Day, 2021. I have to admit that I was growing kind of disillusioned with Major League Baseball the last several years, then we had the debacle of 2020 – a sixty game season that started sometime in the summer and had all kinds of odd new rules. I guess you have to be glad for the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers, but everybody else is probably eager to forget MLB 2020. And that is exactly what we get to do today! No, we aren’t back to the good of days of baseball, but we are a lot closer than what we were this time last year. The boys of summer are playing in front of live people in the early days of April. Maybe that is the aroma of freshly mown grass I smell and the warmth of brilliant sunshine I feel! Every once in a while, I need a reality check and today is a good one for me. I can fuss and pout about the decline of my favorite pastime or I seek to find the good in what is still the best game in town. Yes, certain aspects of the game