I can enjoy March Madness as much as the next person, but Opening Day for MLB is the day that I look forward too starting the last day of the season. Not a baseball fan? Well these 10 reasons can convert anyone to baseball.
10. With baseball comes warm weather and sunshine.
As much as I love basketball, with basketball comes with cold weather and I just hate cold weather. Its just so...cold. Seeing how baseball is played outside, it has to be warm and warm weather makes everyone happy.
9. The aroma of old hot dogs, beer, and popcorn all throughout the stadium.
Lets face it, as much as people "hate" concession food, they don't really hate it. The small of hotdogs with relish and mustard is in the air and it doesn't go away even in the off season. All while smelling and thoroughly enjoying those wonderful hot dogs, game-watchers always run into those intoxicated ones and smell like beer cheering on their home team. The smell of fresh popcorn and all that fattening butter all the while hearing the guy in the crowd yelling, "POPCORN, POPCORN, GET YOUR POPCORN HERE". Its sweet, sweet music.
8. The smell of freshly cut grass and turned over dirt coming from the field.
You enter the stadium and your making your way to your seat right along the third baseline to cheer on your home team, hoping to get your baseball signed by one of the players. You can't help but lift your nose toward the sky and inhale the sweet, sweet smell of the freshly cut grass and the newly over turned dirt as the ground crew prepares the field for game time. The breeze carrying the smell of the season and you can't help but smile as memories come flooding back to you.
7. Nice, white, and clean bases that will give anyone with OCD the chills
As much as we want to keep those bases nice and shiny all season long, that just doesn't happen. Those are so white and clean of dirt, it will give anyone with OCD chills. Those bases will never be as clean and white as opening day of the best sport on earth.
6. The cha-ching of tickets and souvenirs.
We all go to baseball games to watch baseball, but the second best part of going to the games besides the food, are the souvenirs. T-shirts and baseballs and magnets and bobble-heads, and we can't forget the tiny baby bats. The most important of all souvenirs are the players jerseys so you can show your love for the home team. You can't forget the cha-ching of the register and the swift in-take of breath when you realize the price of all these and you have a slight heart attack.
5. The lovely players in those lovely baseball uniforms.
I mean there isn't really an explanation for this one. Girls, you know what I'm talking about.
4. Hearing the announcer lead the crowd in "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
As an inning comes to a close, to keep the crowd on their feet, the announcers lead the crowd in one of the most famous songs in the baseball universe, "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" No one can really understand what the announcer is saying, it all just sounds like mumbo-jumbo. But that doesn't stop the crowd from getting into the song and singing their lungs out.
3. The taste of the first box of Cracker Jacks of the season.
So crunchy and delicious, and lets face it, even the adults looked forward to the little surprise inside.
2. The sound of a 90-mile-an-hour ball hitting the bat.
Throwing an 90-mile-an-hour ball is pretty impressive, but being able to hit that ball is even more impressive. Just knowing that its gonna be a home-run just by the sound of the ball hitting the bat. That sound will echo in your mind for the rest of your life, the best sound in the world.
And last but not least...
1. The glory of the first pitch of the never ending season.
Now that's just love at first sight.
