The talking heads are yammering on on ESPN2. But it doesn’t matter. Behind them is green grass, Yankee monuments, and the monumentally ear-splitting Yankee Stadium sound system.
It’s time for baseball to begin. After this off-season of bad journalism, political grandstanding, and general groupthink stupidity, at least we’ve got some games to take our mind off of the other issues.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that baseball is about the game, as crazy as that sounds. Balls, strikes, hits, and 27 outs per side.