There is almost nothing like the start of the regular season for baseball fans.
Enthusiasm abounds. At the start of the season, every team is even (yes, the Yankees and Red Sox are always favored, but all teams begin together).
We, as fans, look forward to what could be—that our favorite players’ flaws will be corrected or improved this year (cough, cough, Mark Reynolds), that that once promising player will turn it around after looking terrible (Chris Young, Stephen Drew), that Kerry Wood will pitch a full (or even most of a) season, that the teams we hate are bad, that the touted phenom is exactly that, that this year will be the year that things are different.
For many fans, this enthusiasm is fool’s gold. It seems that every year there are teams like the Pir ...
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Article written by Jess Root
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