Play ball! (2022)

Hey, guys. We made it. Baseball is starting tomorrow.

No more half-caring about the NCAA Tournament or hockey or whatever they do where the grass isn't green and the sun isn't shining.

Baseball may not be what it was when I was a youngster, but it's still baseball and it's still great for ignoring all the other stuff that's going on, sports-wise or otherwise.

This is why we celebrate tomorrow as if it's a national holiday, because it should be one. And I should automatically get it off, instead of cursing myself for forgetting to request time off again.

In keeping with wonderful yearly rejoicings, there are many traditions that go with Opening Day. This is one:

 

 

The last time the BRAVES won the World Series, cards looked like this:

 

 

 

The last time the DODGERS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

 

The last time the NATIONALS won the World Series cards looked like this:

 

The last time the RED SOX won the World Series, cards looked like this:

 

The last time the ASTROS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

The last time the CUBS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

The last time the ROYALS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

The last time the GIANTS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

 

The last time the CARDINALS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

The last time the YANKEES won the World Series, cards looked like this:

The last time the PHILLIES won the World Series, cards looked like this:

The last time the WHITE SOX won the World Series, cards looked like this:

The last time the MARLINS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

The last time the ANGELS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

The last time the DIAMONDBACKS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

The last time the BLUE JAYS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

 

The last time the TWINS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

 

The last time the REDS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

 

The last time the ATHLETICS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

 

The last time the METS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

 

 

 

The last time the TIGERS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

 

The last time the ORIOLES won the World Series, cards looked like this:

 

The last time the PIRATES won the World Series, cards looked like this:

 

The last time the GUARDIANS won the World Series, cards looked like this:

The last time the BREWERS, MARINERS, PADRES, RANGERS, RAYS, ROCKIES won the World Series, cards looked like this:

Interesting that the team with the newest name has the oldest card represented.

 

My hope, as in ever year, is that the Dodgers win the World Series this year. If that's not possible, I'll take one of those teams that hasn't won a World Series since the early 1990s or before.

That's probably not going to happen for most of the teams in that group, but maybe the Tigers? Or even from the never-won column, the Brewers or even the Rays?

So, happy Opening Day!

I'll be working, but there's a vacation coming soon and you better believe I'll be saying, "there's a baseball game on," to drown out all that other nonsense.