Opening day is finally here (if your team played yesterday, you need to remember that baseball in March doesn’t count), and Esquire’s Chris Jones has a piece entitled How to Fall in Love with Baseball Again. He’s had his ups and downs with the game, including an apparently-hellish time covering the game for work:

I believe I could take the most rabid fan and put him in the middle of the Baltimore Orioles clubhouse circa 1999 — Cal Ripken, Jr., Will Clark, Albert Belle, Mike Mussina, Sidney Ponson, Scott Erickson, Brady Anderson — and he would grow to hate not only baseball, but life itself.

Nevertheless, Jones has come back around. Let’s hope baseball heeds his parting advice.

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