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Baltimore always opened at home, and I pretty much always went.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regularguycolumn.com\/birds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"184\" \/>Over time, Opening Day and baseball in general have diminished in importance in my life. I still play in a fantasy baseball league, but enjoy the social aspect more than following the sport. It&#8217;s no surprise why I finish in the middle to bottom of the pack each year.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of things have influenced this change in my life over the past 10-15years. I still followed the Orioles closely in the late 1990s when they had some pretty good teams. I covered the team off and on for the paper in Hanover where I worked until 1998.<\/p>\n<p>But then we had a kid. And I started a day job which required a long commute. And Peter Angelos started running the Orioles with the same skill I ran my fantasy league team. There was a strike. Bud Selig took over the league. Soccer slowly crept into my life.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t walk away from baseball and move towards soccer as some sort of protest. I had followed MLS in the late 1990s, but not as crazily as I did in the beginning of the next decade. I found lots of ways to follow soccer on the Internet and met lots of great friends that way. Little by little, baseball receded into the background.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t care. I enjoyed seeing the Orioles gain some measure of success last year. I do try my best to put together a strong team in my fantasy league even if I don&#8217;t have the time or interest to obsess over potential players. The sport had too much of a hold on me in my youth for me to walk away completely.<\/p>\n<p>So Opening Day may not mean the same thing it did when I was 11, and I watched the Birds begin their march to the World Series with a 5-3 win over the White Sox. At least I think I went to that game. On Opening Day, facts don&#8217;t always matter because a new season is built for boasts and exaggerations. That&#8217;s why I have a some hope that the O&#8217;s will actually contend and I might threaten for my first fantasy league title in almost 20 years in this league.<\/p>\n<p>Play Ball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, I worshiped this day. 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