St. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- It does not matter your age.
You can be seven or 27, 37 or 70: opening day is like no other game of the season, save for September and post-season play.
Opening day is the reason a hitter drove through the snow to an indoor facility and stayed for extra rounds in the batting cage.
Opening day is a time when every pitcher has yet to give up a homer ... never mind a bloop single.
It is a time for fresh beginnings.
No one has gone 162-0 ... but you never know, as a player told me years ago.