Opening Day. I love all sports, but my favorite has to be baseball. I am probably one of the few people who don’t think the baseball season is too long- ask me the day after any of the 162 games of the Red Sox season and I will be able to tell you who won, who pitched, who scored the runs, and probably a few other random facts. I’m obsessed. I look forward to Opening Day all winter, and by an awesome twist of fate, Arizona was hosting one of the few Sunday Opening Day games (most teams started Monday). They were chosen because, along with Tampa Bay, it was their 20th season since joining the league. Their opponent was division rival San Francisco Giants with their ace Madison Bumgarner. We were not optimistic about the quality of team Arizona would field- they’d struggled in recent years- but the Giants were always good, right?
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Here it was. The games we’d really been waiting for. The College Basketball double header of all College Basketball double headers- the national semifinals. We’d spent Friday day and Saturday morning getting pumped for what we were about to see- Friday they do an open practice (more like a shootaround) for all 4 teams that we went to and Saturday morning we stopped by the Final Four convention center where they have tons of free giveaways, guest speakers, photo ops, and activities. All had been fun, but the time had come for the battle. We couldn’t wait! We were lucky enough on this trip to get not one but two baseball-basketball double headers. Both were pretty similar in that one game was great and engaging and the other was… not. But we still had fun at all of the games and we were lucky that the scheduling worked out and allowed us to do it twice. Since the spring training game was a bit of a yawn, that means the basketball game that night, between the Suns and the Clippers, was exceptionally enticing. I would say that it is probably one of my favorite NBA games we’ve been to, and it resulted in us going back on Sunday!
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