Play Ball!

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Baseball hasn't always been my favorite sport and it still is not. Yet there is something about the start of the baseball season and Opening Day that gets my all gitty inside. I am not sure where this love of baseball has come from. I have always liked the sport, thanks to Grandma Uzzell and her love of the NY Mets, but never has it been a love affair. After last season I have come to appreciate this American national past time. From the bitter Red Sox and Yanks rivalry, to the Dodgers and Angels in the freeway series, damn those Angels for winning World Series rings recently, or the Battle of Bay. I believe the Giant fans are a big reason why I have started to really love baseball with a true passion again. The Giants fan never gave up on their team and just had a certain swag about them and the city that makes you just want to watch sport continuously. Remember Opening Day is fresh start, a new beginning for every player and team. If you team struggled last season, just missed the playoffs, lost in the first two rounds, or World Series, this is the time where none of that matters. Every team gets to start a new striving to achieve what seems illusive, World Series Championship. So I look forward to the fresh start, the hungry seeking a title and the hunted protecting their title. The past two years I have fallen deeper in love with the sport of baseball, along with the teams and players. I am a Dodger fan, I bleed blue, but I do enjoy just watching any team play just because it is baseball.

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So on this Opening Day there are a slew of games on Major League Baseball Schedule. I plan on catching every game of the day. Two games are airing on ESPN3 and ESPN which I will watching via XBOX360, and the rest of the games I will be watching via MLB.TV on my PS3 and Apple TV devices respectively. (Make sure if you are using your PS3 to update to version 2.0 or if you are using your Apple TV update to iOS 4.3 in order to view the games)

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 This is quite a full line up of games and back to back, so pull up as many devices as you can and enjoy this lovely spring day. I plan on watching my Dodgers play host to my fiances World Series Champion Giants all while having some fun baseball food.

How do you plan on watching the first games of the season?