Because the MLB season begins in Japan, this post begins in Japanese.
MLBシーズンが日本で始まるため、この投稿は日本語で始まります。
アメリカ合衆国には二つの季節があります：野球のシーズンと残りの一年です。野球は信仰のゲームであり、ファンはシーズンを通じてお気に入りのチームの成功を祈ります。ゲーム中に起こりうる出来事は、創世記の書に言及しています—「ビッグイニングで」。2025年のシーズンは、東部標準時の3月18日火曜日午前6時10分に、ロサンゼルス・ドジャースが東京ドームでシカゴ・カブスと対戦して開始されます。オープニングデーは、宗教的でありながら愛国的なアメリカの祝日です。認めましょう、神でさえ野球ファンです。私を信じていませんか？これが証拠です。野球シーズンが始まると、日が長くなり、気温が上がり、花が咲き、木々が緑になります。それが私たちの創造主からのメッセージでなければ、何がそうだと言えるでしょう。神自身が映画「オー・ゴッド」で言ったことを思い出してください。”私は奇跡を行いません。奇跡はあまりにも派手で、自然のバランスを乱します。ああ、時々手を動かすために、まあ。私が最後に行った奇跡は1969年のメッツです。その前は、紅海まで遡る必要があると思います
The United States has two seasons: baseball season and the rest of the year. Baseball is a game of faith; fans pray for the success of their favorite team throughout the season. Events that may occur in a game allude to the Book of Genesis—” In the Big Inning.”
The 2025 season will kick off at 6:10 AM on Tuesday, March 18, Eastern Standard Time, with the Los Angeles Dodgers facing the Chicago Cubs at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.
Opening day is both a religious and patriotic American holiday. Let’s face it, even G-d is a baseball fan. You don’t believe me? Here’s the proof. When the baseball season begins, the days get longer, the temperature warms, flowers bloom, and trees turn green. If that is not a message from our maker, I don’t know what is.
Remember what G-d himself said in the movie, “Oh God!?”
I don’t do miracles. They are too flashy. They upset the natural balance. Oh, maybe now and then, just to keep my hand in. The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
Baseball is America’s game. It is the sport that most closely reflects the American Dream. It’s about how freedom gives every American the opportunity for prosperity and success, no matter where they started.
We dream that our family and children will be better off than we were if they work hard. That is also the dream of baseball, especially on opening day. What the team did last year gets thrown out, and players who work hard can go from bust to boom.
Brooklyn Dodgers FINALLY Win World Series
Even though “dem Bums” left Brooklyn in 1957, 65 years ago, many fans who grew up saying, “Wait till next year,” still have voodoo dolls representing former Dodger owner Walter O’Malley because he moved the team to Los Angeles. They also hate Robert Moses, the former racist planning Commission who fought against the team when they wanted to build a new stadium in Brooklyn; He wanted them to move to Flushing, which eventually became the home of the Mets.
Teams can go from lousy one year and make the World Series the next. Heck. Like the 1969 NY Mets, teams can go from awful to World Champions in the same season. But that takes some extra help from above. In 1969, Chicago was leading the division. But a black cat appeared out of nowhere and walked across the Cubs’ dugout during a Shea Stadium game where the Mets played. The next day, the Mets were in first. If that wasn’t done by a higher power, I don’t know what is.
Opening Day is the most optimistic of days because every team is tied for first place before the first pitch is thrown. And we believe that every untested rookie has the opportunity to be a Hall-Of-Famer or, at the very least, better than the veterans who were on the team before them. Or that lousy player can miraculously go on a hitting streak, then return to being a bum.
It’s a game most of us played growing up. Sure, we also played basketball and football. But basketball is a game for very tall people, and most NFL players seem seven feet tall, four hundred pounds, and could crush a car with one hand. If we found ourselves in the middle of an NFL game, most of us would receive major (if not fatal) injuries. Baseball players seem like “regular guys.” While watching an MLB game, many fans believe they could play professionally given a few months to train.
This is a sport of individuality. Football and basketball have individual stars, but those stars depend more on team play. An excellent quarterback performance can be ruined by a lousy offensive line, a lousy defense, or because he plays for the NY Jets. But a great hitter on a tear can carry a team for weeks, and so can a great pitcher or two.
A hot batter’s effect on the rest of their team is more significant than in other sports. Sometimes, a lousy player goes on a tear and carries their team on his back. But at other times, a great player has a bad year. The worst thing is when a superstar is playing when he should have retired. This happened with the man who I believe was the greatest player ever, Willie Mays.
Pitchers can carry your favorite team, too.
In 1968, the St. Louis Cardinals won the National League Pennant, riding on the back of superstar pitcher Bob Gibson. Gibson set an MLB record with a 1.12 ERA and had a 22-9 record.
Baseball is a game of patience and balance. Taking the first pitch, don’t be too aggressive at the plate and swing at bad pitches, a pitcher setting up a hitter, corner infielders playing closer to the line, the catcher framing the pitch, etc., more than on any other sport, this is a thinking person’s game.
In 1776, Thomas Jefferson described opening day as a time when all teams were created equal. They are endowed by their general manager with life in the big leagues, the liberty to make good plays, and the pursuit of the happiness of winning the World Series.
Opening day of the greatest sport ever created by man is a great American holiday despite the fact that it’s not yet recognized as a federal holiday—banks should be closed, mail should be stopped, and people should have days off to go to the stadium of their choice or watch it on TV.
Remember during the season, when your team has a home game, get to the stadium early, have a beer, a hot dog, a box of Cracker Jacks, and something special after the seventh-inning stretch. May your prayers result in a great MLB season and that your team does well (but not as well as my NY Mets).
