“An Opener is not like any other game. There’s that little extra excitement, a faster beating of the heart. … You know that when you win the first one, you can’t lose ’em all.” – Early Winn

This week marked Opening Day for major league baseball. It is our National Pastime’s unofficial holiday. And it is kind of exciting to be an Opening Day game. It’s a good excuse to sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” loud and proud, who doesn’t love a group sing along?!? And the smell the peanuts and cracker jacks somehow makes you happy and hungry. It’s a day where more students and office employees have ‘doctor appointments’ than any other day of the year. And hope reigns supreme for every team believing they have a chance this year to be great. Wouldn’t it be great if we all had a day like this in our personal life? The slate is clean, the errors of the past are gone and anything can happen. Opening day: a day for moving forward and leaving the past in the past.

If you can’t get excited about Baseball, watch some of these movies. I bet you will wanna go a game.

My faves – not in order Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, The Natural, A League of Their Own, The Pride of the Yankees, Bang the Drum Slowly and two funny and guilty pleasure baseball movies, Major League and The Bad News Bears.

And yes every sport has appropriate footwear these are my baseball shoes.

Keep swinging for the fences.

Laura