Baseball's Back...All is Right

After an incredibly tough weekend for me personally it was nice to turn on my TV at 5PM here in the Valley of the Sun and see a familiar site...baseball. Not played on a diamond in Arizona or Florida, but in Philadelphia, starting the 2009 season.

One of the many reason's baseball is better that football is because spring is here and summer is on its way, football means snow and cold. Baseball is my life and I mean that. It is amazing how such a simple game can have such a meaning in somebody's life, but it does to me. There is no other place that I am happier than at a baseball field, I could sit there for days without a care in the world.

Opening Day to a baseball fan is the greatest day on the calender. It means hope, your team is still in first place. For my Brewers, since being born on their opening day in 1989, it normally took two more days to be eliminated, but not last year as CC Sabathia and Ryan Braun re-lit the fire under Brew Crew Nation and took them to the playoffs. But now CC is in pinstripes and a kid named Yo has the pressure to fill his shoes. Now its Pittsburgh that will be eliminated two days in...

I don't think there is a time in a long time, in which our country needs its pasttime more than it does right now. With the struggling economy, job loss and the other issues facing our nation, the people need something to get behind. The boys of summer will bring just that.

It hurt me to hear that upper deck seats at new Yankee Stadium are going for over $300. You took money from the people to build the $1.5 billion dollar stadium...now let them enjoy it. Who is going to pay $300 to watch from the nosebleeds when they barely can make ends meet at home right now. Shame on you Yankees...

Thank god other places aren't like that. Baseball should be affordable for the blue collar worker in the great cities across this nation to take their family to and enjoy summer in the USA. It all got under way on Sunday night in Philly where a young kid named Jordan Schaefer and a grizzled old veteran Derek Lowe showed Atlanta fans why they should have hope.

So from Wrigleyville to the Bay, from Brew City to LA, New York to Cincinnati and elsewhere across the USA, this is the day we've waited for since October...it is finally here and let's play ball.