March 29, 2018. Opening Day for the Texas Rangers 2018 season. This was my first experience with the sacred spring day which notes winter has subsided and finally, “it’s baseball time in Texas.”
I have many memories from this experience: The roar from the crowd going absolutely ballistic when Adrian Beltre was introduced. The lack of John Fogerty being played over the loudspeakers (my opening day stereotype was crushed). And an inebriated Astros fan going off on a Rangers fan for rooting for a team that declined to switch homes series in 2017.
Ah, baseball.
One of my more vivid memories from last year’s Opening Day was not in the stadium at all, but on the way to the first base gate.