Opening day, Baby! Put me in coach, I'm ready to play!

[Brother Buzz]

I thought it opened Friday, then I noticed my Giants were playing the Yankees. I'm watching my beloved Giants losing to the Yankees.

Life is grand!

[nitpicked]

1. No joy in DC either

Atlanta is beating them.

[MontanaMama]

2. Happy Opening Day!!

My Cubbies are currently ahead of the the Brewers. Here's to a wonderful 2023 season! Even with the new rules

Go Cubs Go!!!

[nycbos]

3. Love that song

Here is one of my favorites

Willie, Mickey, and the Duke

[Brother Buzz]

4. Terry Cashman actually played pro baseball...

Unfortunately he never made it to the 'Big Show'. He was a pitcher.

As crazy as it sounds, I'm reading Cashman wrote, like, seventy songs about baseball!

Both Cashman and Fogerty's songs have been 'Inducted' into Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame, along with John Fogerty's baseball bat guitar (he had more than one made)

[nycbos]

8. Wow I didn't now Cashman played

Now though the version he did for the Simpsons is more well know than the original.

[Brother Buzz]

11. I totally missed it, but it's right in Matt Groening's glorious irreverent wheelhouse

I'm guessing Cashman was honored, and had a blast doing it.

Thanks

The lyrics are so tight, I suspect the writers helped, but Terry's soft distinctive voice drove it out of the park

Well, Mr. Burns had done it,
The Power Plant had won it,
With Roger Clemens clucking all the while,
Mike Scioscia's tragic illness made us smile,
While Wade Boggs lay unconscious on the bar-room tile.

We're talkin' softball,
From Maine to San Diego,
Talkin' softball,
Mattingly and Canseco,
Ken Griffey's grotesquely swollen jaw,
Steve Sax and his run-in with the law,
We're talkin' Homer,
Ozzie and the Straw.

We're talkin' softball,
From Maine to San Diego,
Talkin' softball,
Mattingly and Canseco,
Ken Griffey's grotesquely swollen jaw,
Steve Sax and his run-in with the law,
We're talkin' Homer,
Ozzie and the Straw.

[nycbos]

12. I SAY ENGLAND'S GREATEST PRIME MINISTER WAS LORD PALMERSTON

[Brother Buzz]

13. England's greatest Prime Minister was George Santos

[Auggie]

5. You're ready, Giants aren't ...

and Judge hit a home run his first at-bat.

[Brother Buzz]

7. That traitor Native Californian who sold out for the dough, Judge?

Damn, he's good. So is his agent.

[nycbos]

9. I think the Giants offered more money.

Remember, he was drafted by the Yankees and he came up through their minor league system.

[Auggie]

10. He has hitters to protect him in New York too

[Croney]

6. We're at Fenway, where the Red Sox are...in uniform.

[DeeDeeNY]

14. There is nothing like Opening Day

And today it coincided with Indictment news! What a great day!