Maybe as a kid, my memories were different but I grew up believing we played and rooted for one sport at a time per season. We had baseball in the summer, football in the fall, basketball over the winter, and homework in the spring.
I never warmed to hockey basically because it seemed, in addition to being played for most of the year when 'the season' was concluded and the playoffs started, that almost everyone who had played during the interminably long regular season played all over again in the playoffs.
My childhood favorite sport, baseball, has apparently concluded that A Season That Never Ends is the best idea to help the sport retain fans and maintain relevance since the 'let's put a guy on second base to start the tenth inning if the game is tied after nine' suggestion. That's as may be though I think a home run derby or perhaps a spelling bee has a certain charm as well.
Anyway.
Opening Day when everyone's team starts out in first place and the start of the campaign when your hometown heroes would go undefeated (hey! you never know) was April 7. Today, six months to the day after that Opening First Pitch, the playoffs begin that will conclude, eventually (one hopes) with a World Series Championship. Assuming anyone still cares.
-bill kenny
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