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EDGY - Do They Reprint this Every Year?

MFS62 Apr 02 2006 11:57 AM

"Sure, opening day is baseball's bandwagon. Pundits and politicians and every prose poet on the continent jumps on board for a few days. But they're gone soon, off in search of some other windy event worthy of their attention. Then, once more, all those long, slow months of baseball are left to us. And our time can begin again." - Tom Boswell from "Why Time Begins On Opening Day" Well, they should. C'mon everyone. Wax poetic. What does opening day mean to you? Later

Frayed Knot Apr 02 2006 12:12 PM

In our sun-down perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing "base" a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close[d] rooms ... The game of ball is glorious. -- Walt Whitman, 1846

Edgy DC Apr 02 2006 12:36 PM

Myrtilla, ere the season starts, Or e'er the primal ball be thrown If you would win this callous heart's Affection for your very own, This counsel, blooming, fresh and frondent- Accept it from your correspondent. Back in the days of Old Cap Anse, 'Twas reckoned cute to spoof a dame, And famed was her incognitance About the so-called national game; And comment feminine was silly. That was before your day, Myrtilly. For, now, Myrtilly, I admit Your knowledge far transcends mine own; You know an error from a hit- A quaver from a semitone; You never say, "How small the bat is!" You never have to ask who that is. Nay, Myrt, too well you like the game; You are too true a devotee; My Blue-Print is the kind of dame Whose love is less for ball than me; And so, my Myrt, that is the reason I think I'll go alone this season "To Myrtilla, on Opening Day" by Franklin P. Adams Published: In Other Words (Doubleday [of course] 1912)

Zvon Apr 02 2006 06:56 PM

Opening day is Rebirth. Rejuvination. Reincarnation. Resurection. We are born again.........

A Boy Named Seo Apr 02 2006 09:19 PM

Grander than Secretary's Day, Arbor Day Or any of the heavy-hitting still-have-to-go-to-work holidays Opening Day has always been a beacon for the year's false hopes That fake, uplifting feeling we're all supposed to get at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day? Well this is my New Year's Day. Pedro's toe's a little wonky Billy Wagner's 34 and has finger stiffness on his pitching hand Carlos Delgado has elbow tendinitis Zammy's strained hammy Jae Seo's a Dodger Tom Glavine's 40 Julio Franco's almost 50 and I don't give a shit. It's Opening Day (today is, I'm a closet Indians fan) hope doth spring eternal in my little world and the blue and orange-colored glasses are on. And bunting. Opening Day bunting is not for losers. Go Mets. Edited to give it a joelmon flow.