Opening Day is here, and while it is not a picture perfect day — frankly, it looks ugly out right now from my window in Annapolis — baseball will hopefully be played today. I have been looking at the Weather.com website off and on throughout today, and while it is pounding here, let’s hope it passes through.
Today, our ace Jeremy Guthrie will counter against the large and rotund C.C. Sabathia at Camden Yards. We all know Guthrie has been beaten around on the mound; however, he says he’s healthy and ready to go. His performance during Grapefruit League action and the World Baseball Classic says otherwise, but we’ll take the Stanford grad at his word.
The offense will face C.C. Sabathia, who as we all know stormed through National League as a member of the Brewers in ’08 and was a large part of their playoff run. New York signed him for a ton of money and deliver them to the promised land — a World Series. I’m hoping today he won’t dominate, but more often than not, he always is competitive.
I’ll be tweetering from the game — yes, I have joined the revolution — so, look on the left hand side of the page to see updates and comments. I’ve never tried something like this — I have blogged from games before — therefore, it should be fun micro-blogging and being part of the rage these days.
The good thing is that Opening Day should feature at least half the fans in black and orange, or perhaps close to 60% in Oriole gear, so we will not be outnumbered like if the Evil Empire came to Oriole Park in the summer.
Joe Biden will apparently be throwing out the first pitch, and with a full house on hand — the game has been sold out for weeks now — it should be a interesting day in light of the weather.
There will no picture uploading from the game sadly. And yes, I’ll be curious to hear the reaction to Mark Teixiera.
