“Baseball’s Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs’ starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.” – Rob Sheffield
As far as pomp and pageantry is concerned, does anything rival MLB’s Opening Day? For statistics hounds and fantasy baseball players it’s downright frustrating to see a pitcher walk off the mound with an incalculable ERA because he couldn’t record an out, or to see a role player have a career day while everybody immediately jumps on the hype train.