Opening YAY!

The baseballs back in our court...  Or back in the empty stadiums.  (excluding Canada)  The Major League Baseball season is finally underway after months of delay.  The crowds filing into the stadium, the fresh cut grass, clean lined field, smell of popcorn and hotdogs wafting through the hum of the pregame chatter, seeing your favorite player in person and realizing he's not as big as he seems on TV but is still happy to deny signing your self made clay statue of him.  Sadly, these are all things we wont get to be apart of this baseball season.  (We wonder why...?!)  We like to look at the runs side of the scoreboard and not the errors side so here are some positives that will come from this shortened season:  60 Games!  Nothing makes each game count more than cutting over 100 games from the schedule. Rule Changes!  When pandemics hit it makes you really focus on whats important instead of squabbling over minor issues.  The National League will be adopting the DH (only 46+ year after the American League).  Runner starting on 2nd base in extra innings.  If they couldnt get it figured out in 9 innings.... get this game over already.  No restrictions on position players pitching.  Great, (inserting eyeroll) because no team brings in their left fielder to hurl 78 mph fastballs unless their team is down by at least 12 runs.  Expanded Playoffs!  We're getting excited about the new playoff format.  8 teams from each league (16 total).  With more teams means more upsets means more excitement.  (Its the standard fun formula) This really changes the game.  There are teams that deserved to make the playoffs in past years that have missed because they were in a tough division.  We're sure their will also be teams that probably dont belong that pull off an upset!  (Not sorry Dodgers and Yankees)  Time to prove yourselves in October!  Let's Play Ball!