{"id":23302,"date":"2014-02-27T06:16:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T11:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=23302"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:16:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T11:16:27","slug":"the-silly-opening-day-as-a-holiday-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2014\/02\/the-silly-opening-day-as-a-holiday-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The silly Opening Day needs to be a holiday thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since &#8220;well, pitchers and catchers reported, everybody said they are in the best shape of their life, now what?&#8221; part of spring training is here finding something to talk about other than the next five weeks of exhibition baseball is happening. The latest, driven as a marketing and advertising ploy by a large macrobrewer of bland beer<sup>1<\/sup>, is to name Opening Day a holiday. <em>The Post<\/em> covered it in today&#8217;s edition (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/opening-day-day-does-the-return-of-baseball-deserve-its-own-holiday\/2014\/02\/25\/df32d562-9e5f-11e3-b8d8-94577ff66b28_story.html\">Opening Day Day: Does the return of baseball deserve its own holiday?<\/a>) and there is apparently a White House petition asking the president to making Opening Day a holiday. It&#8217;s all nonsense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening Day is already a holiday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t need the sign off of the chief executive and certainly not from a legacy beer desperate to stay relevant in the face of superior local and regional competition. For believers, Opening Day is a holiday whether others recognize it or not. If we need anybody&#8217;s sanction, it&#8217;s the person who approves our vacation or the computer that sells us our tickets<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s stop worrying about petitions and beer companies &#8212; we already know the score. If we&#8217;re going to focus any energy on this, let it be on making sure Washington hosts the true Opening Day annually.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>A brewery that likely harbors Pete Kozma sympathies, no less<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>I can&#8217;t do things like buy new tickets (or stream, this could be a problem) at my new job, so I don&#8217;t have tickets to the home opener. Help a blogger out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since &#8220;well, pitchers and catchers reported, everybody said they are in the best shape of their life, now what?&#8221; part of spring training is here finding something to talk about other than the next five weeks of exhibition baseball is happening. 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