Oh my, did I need Opening Day this year. Opening Day, of course, is the first day of the baseball season. For baseball fans, it is a time when hope comes alive again, after a long winter of waiting.

On Opening Day, every team starts with a clean slate, all the win/loss records are 0-0, and, as they say, "hope springs eternal." There is talk in every baseball town and among all baseball fans of how we really could win this year if only this or that goes right, if our players could live up to their real potential, if we could finally "gel" as a team, and if all the things we can't control could go well for us and not so well for the other teams. "Have you seen that new rookie?" And "that trade we just made could make all the difference now!" Everybody is a believer on opening day.