Opening Day in baseball eclipses opening day in any other sport. Sure, the fans of those other games games revel in the beginning of their seasons, and that's okay. To each their own. But their games don't hold a candle to our game.
The mystique of baseball is greater than the, well, I won't call what other sports have mystique. They have sheer brutality as in American football, and that is hardly a plus. Others may have speed, but that again is not the same as acumen, and acumen, true athletic ability, is what baseball has in abundance. The other big games simply don't have that.
Don't bother with complaints about baseball taking too long. Basketball is interminable particularly in its closing moments, and football has gotten that way too. All major sports other than soccer take 3-4 hours to play. Baseball is no slower, nor faster, than they are. Hell, I quit watching basketball years ago simply because the last 30 seconds take a half hour to play.
Baseball lets us enjoy the game. It is leisurely, even quaint perhaps, yet excitement still builds as we wait for the pitch or watch the action as men speed around the bases and fielders perform relays. And at least for today, my beloved Detroit Tigers are in first place.
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