Opening Day

I don’t leave many baseball games in the 7th inning, especially when the Orioles are ahead.

But it’s not often that I’ve volunteered to give the prayer to open the session.

This is what I wrote and said:

“Wait ‘til next year,” they used to say at Ebbets Field, until the Brooklyn Dodgers finally won their first and only World Series in 1955 – after 71 years without a championship.

How does that compare to 11 consecutive losing seasons?

And the start of a season where the Orioles’ most highly regarded player has yet to make it to the Show and is beginning the season in the minor leagues?

This year, Passover begins two nights after Opening Day.

“Next year in Jerusalem!” Jews have said for millennia at the conclusion of the Seder.

Long before this season’s end, Oriole fans may have to settle for “Next year in October!”

And then I added:

But when you win on Opening Day, beating the Yankees, 10-5, there’s no one better to quote than Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks:

“Let’s play two!”