Showing posts with label baseball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baseball. Show all posts

Monday, April 02, 2007

Prepare for Glory

Today is the most important day of the year: Opening Day.

And if you have to ask "Opening day of what?", then you and I clearly don't have much in common.

Of course, I mean it's time to get ready for another season of that most perfect of sports: baseball.

And yes baseball is still the perfect game despite all the problems associated with it: steroids, interleague play and wild card teams.

As Bill Veeck once said, "Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world.
If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off."

Anyway, in honour of opening day, here is my list of top five baseball movies:

And of course, what opening day would be complete without one of the greatest comedy routines of all time.