I’ve always loved opening day for the pageantry and optimism around the league. For decades, the very first game of Opening Day was given to the oldest team in the majors, the Cincinnati Reds. ESPN started opening seasons with a Sunday Night game or teams would travel to Japan just before the rest of the league started up, to make sure they had adequate jet lag before the season grind would begin and it just wasn’t marketable for a noontime game in Cincinnati to take the bill