A pitch for Opening Day
With all the tragic events going on in the world today, it would make a lot of sense for Americans to start celebrating Opening Day the way we used to.
It’d be a good excuse to turn off our TVs and smartphones and enjoy a relaxing afternoon at the baseball park – even if it’s a dome.
Grab a hot dog and a $12 beer and have some fun. Root for your favorite team. Yell at the umps – before they’re replaced by robots.
If you can’t attend in person, watch from your living room.
Either way, celebrating Opening Day for a few hours will help you forget the war in Ukraine, the murders in Chicago and the nonstop political stupidity coming out of Washington and the liberal media.
This year the National League will allow designated hitters for pitchers for the first time and “ghost runners” will be placed at second base in the 10th inning if games go into extra innings.
I don’t know what my father would think of using ghost runners, but baseball played an important part in his path to the White House.
He grew up a Chicago Cubs fan in Illinois and it was through his announcing of Cubs games on radio in the mid 1930s that he eventually found his way to Hollywood.
When my father announced the Cubs games for station WHO in Des Moines, Iowa, he actually re-created the action for radio listeners by reading a ticker tape wired to him from the ballfield.
Half a century later, if you were lucky enough to sit next to him at a state dinner in the White House and wanted to talk about politics, it would never happen.
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