Opening Day!

Okay, technically there have already been a couple games played in Japan, and last night’s Atlanta/Washington game was the first official game here at home, but today is the REAL official real genuine opening day of baseball. I managed to accrue nine points from last night’s game, which now puts my total number of points at negative four. Yeah! Only four more points and I’ll break even! And I’m anticipating at LEAST four points by the end of the day today… (I’m purposely being conservative, because I’m afraid if I say “a lot more than four points,” Sabathia will break his arm, the entire Yankee lineup will be afflicted with bird flu, and the rest of my players will quit baseball to pursue their dreams of opening frozen yogurt shops and espresso cafes…) So hopefully I’ll have positive points in a few hours, and begin my long and arduous climb from tenth place…

Well, I started typing this earlier this morning, so I now know that the Yankee game has been postponed due to rain in the northeast. Grrrrrr… I’ve waited all winter for the first Yankee game of the season, and now it’s been rained out. Sigh… And this is, by the way, the final season of baseball at Yankee Stadium. Next year they’ll have a brand new stadium, and “The House That Ruth Built” will be used for who-knows-what. (I really hope they use it for SOMEthing – they wouldn’t tear it down, would they? Tearing it down would go against all laws of nature…)

Eric and I are using this extra time before the first Yankee game to really work on our Yankee voodoo – we’ve been managing pretty well the last few years, but something’s always been missing. I mean, sure, it’s obviously been because of our help that the Yankees have consistently made the playoffs… but the voodoo is juuuuuuust missing the mark. We’ve devised a new system this year, and I’m really excited about it – I think we may have found the perfect voodoo ritual to add to our already-effective arsenal. I of course can not disclose our methods (as we can’t have any Boston fans stealing our voodoo), but I will say it involves a very catchy song, a totally misspelled word, and an old car. We are SO going to the World Series this year!! :)

Well, I suppose I’ll go check on my fantasy players… very tentatively, just in case they’ve all run off to their espresso cafes…