Opening Day, Not 2025
Season openers have been fun in the past
Congratulations Mark Shapiro. Coming into your tenth year with Toronto, you have had the opportunity to overhaul both the ball team and ballpark and you delivered the dreariest Opening Day game I can remember. People really want to keep going this direction, huh? Hopefully they give Alan Roden a piece of the right field warning track to commemorate his (good) debut.
There has been better starts of course and this week at JaysCentre, I looked back at three Opening Days from past years:
George Bell hit three home runs on Opening Day in 1988 but his performance is a very small piece of the story.
Tony Batista walked off the Royals in 2000 after a certain Manalyst came up big for Kansas City earlier in the inning.
The longest Opening Day in major league history in 2012 that had a little bit of everything; so much that SBNation dropped a Rewinder about the game a day before mine published meekly beside.
All I know is we certainly won’t be reminiscing about this game ever.