A baseball season is a marathon, you might have heard before. Like a marathon, there’s a lot of hoopla at the starting line. Opening Day is filled with fanfare: every stadium is sold out, there are flyovers and fireworks, and fans make sweeping judgments based on very little information. The excitement level is at a fever pitch.
But then the long, grueling race actually starts. And after a few weeks, the sport settles into my personal favorite frequency, taking its spot as the perfect background accompaniment to our daily spring and summer routines. No matter how reliable or hopeless your favorite team is, baseball is there every day for you to take in (or, if you’re so inclined, tune out).
