The good thing about Opening Day is, at the end of the day it counts. It’s on record.
Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins
I love Opening Day. I think we all do, whether it’s the players, coaches or front office. It’s just a special day in our American culture. It’s weaved into the fabric of what we are, and I think it’s a great day.
Padres manager Bud Black
Every Opening Day, I have this tradition. I pray — hard. One prayer for each loss in the previous season. It usually takes all day. But I think it’s working.
Royals fan “Troy” in Liberty, Mo.
Opening Day is here, first with a pair of Boston-Oakland games in Japan, then with Ryan Zimmerman’s unbelievable walk-off homer to beat Atlanta in the first regular-season game at Nationals Park in Washington, and now with 14 Major League Baseball games today, including the last opener at Yankee Stadium.
There will be pageantry and patriotism galore, bunting on the walls, personal and municipal traditions to follow, and companies everywhere fielding calls from employees who can’t make it to work because of the dreaded Opening Day Sickness.
(Memo to employers: Just go with it. No offense, but this is more important.)
Got your MLB.TV subscription ready? Want to see them all on MLB.TV Premium with that exclusive MLB.com NexDef plugin for 1.2MB clarity viewing? Every one of these games is available to out-of-market MLB.TV subscribers, and here’s a closer look at all the pageantry and on-field excitement coming today:
Royals at Tigers, 1:05 p.m. ET
Kansas City sends Gil Meche to the hill against Justin Verlander. Conventional wisdom says the Tigers have the better odds of going farther in 2008 than the building Royals. But this is the era when conventional wisdom means absolutely nothing. Let the games begin and the colossal surprises begin.

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