Opening Day: Where Did it Go?

I'd like to thank Major League Baseball for ruining my life for at least the next two weeks—depending what else happens, maybe more. Thanks to their "bright idea" to bring the league into the world's eye, I missed opening day—or Opening Series as they're calling it. What's even more, thanks to this "innovation", the opening day for the rest of the league will seem downplayed—not because it's not important, but because opening day already "technically" happened a week earlier.  At 6 a.m. Easter Standard time none the less. Was it nice ditching class halfway through Wednesday morning to check the boxscore of the game? Sure it was (even though I didn't start Rich Harden and he dominated for six innings), but it's not something I'd make a point of doing on a regular basis—unless the World Series ran really really late that is. What's the point of going to Japan anyways? Yes it's nice to get the exposure world-wide but Japan has Baseball—ask Ichiro or Hideo Nomo. I'm pretty sure they'd ... [link]