TORONTO — This is a day to let the prose run purple, especially this day, especially in this sporting year. This is Opening Day, see, and it really doesn’t matter where you intend on spending this secular holy day of obligation — living room, saloon, ballpark, work cubicle — it will feed you and fulfill you, nurture you and nourish you.
Baseball is back, and those three words have never felt more wonderful to say. So say them again, slowly this time:
Baseball …
Is …
Back …
“I think it’s a day to be celebrated and appreciated,” Aaron Boone said, on the eve of his debut as the 26th manager in the history of the Yankees.