Opening Day 2009 is Here

It's finally here, Opening Day 2009. It's been a long, cold winter. We suffered a poor playoff performance by the Giants, and a miserable regular season by the Rangers.

But baseball is here. It officially started last night when Derek Lowe and the Atlanta Braves beat the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies 4-1.

But the season really doesn't start until today, when the New York Yankees take the field at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland.

We have a new stadium, new mega-stars, and an all new desire to bring home world championship number 27.

Now if only the weather will cooperate. The US Weather Service is calling for rain all morning in Baltimore, with the sun finally breaking through early in the afternoon. Hopefully the tarp will do it's job and the game will be able to kick off as scheduled (4:05 pm EDT).

The Yankees will be sending their newest prize, CC Sabathia, to the mound against right-hander Jeremy Guthrie. The lineup should be the one we've been seeing the last week of spring training.

SS Jeter
LF Damon
1B Teixeira
DH Matsui
C Posada
2B Cano
RF Nady
3B Ransom
CF Gardner

Orioles lineup

2B Roberts
CF Jones
RF Markakis
3B Mora
1B Huff
DH Wiggington
LF Scott
C Zaun
SS Izturis
By the way we were remiss in not congratulating Brett Gardner on winning the James P. Dawson Award for being the best rookie in camp. Then again, maybe we weren't remiss since most of the JPD winners never have illustrious careers (this was particularly true when we were growing up).

Vice-President Joe Biden will be in the house to throw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to today's game.