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Opening Day 2022

                      Opening Day Baseball was the first love of my life. I can still remember the first time I laid eyes on the sport. Almost like love at first sight. It remains as one of my earliest memories, I walk into the living room of our old townhouse and I see my dad sitting down watching the television. I take a look at the television and see 9 men on a diamond shaped field and ask “What are you watching?”  “The Orioles,” he replied.  I don’t remember my response, I don’t remember if I watched but I know that from that moment on my youth revolved around Baseball. I had an old video that I would wear out that was the first game at Camden Yards, April 6, 1992. I would watch that video so many times I can still remember seeing Albert Belle playing for Cleveland on the tape and knowing that he was now on the Orioles. Almost as if this game was a prequel movie to the movie I would see every night watching t...