HERE WE GO! It is finally that time! You walk through the gates, and your eyes meet the diamond. The smell of hot dogs and fresh cut grass surround you. All over the place are fans sporting wahoo red, white and blue, giddy that after a long, almost-forever-feeling-offseason, we’ve made it to the new season. The seats you’ve called home for years wait for you, while new bars, food venues and attractions are waiting for their first impression.
The Jake is the place where summer starts, where families and friends can come together and see things they will never see again, and where baseball obsessed Tribe fans can let out a sigh of pride and relief that their lives of nine-innings and overpriced beer and nachos is back.
It’s been a quiet, but productive off season and an exciting spring training, but it’s time to expect what we’ve seen on paper to now become a reality. I’m excited and overflowing with optimism about this season, with right-handed bats, one of THE BEST pitching staffs in all of baseball, and a manager ready to take us to the promise land called “October baseball.”
Are you ready? Are you all in for 162 days of magical baseball? I hope so, because if you can’t last the regular season, how on earth will you survive the playoffs?
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