that I find baseball even more boring than cricket but hope you have a good season. I've just rashly signed up to be on a softball team for work so may find my interest being kindled after all.

The Yankees are not evil...they just nurture young talent to ensure they always have a good team...

May the best team win and roll on next Saturday when the Yankees go to the second best team in the American League East and pound them (probably not).

I love baseball too. I got into it during an October holiday to the States as the World Series was on. I'm a Giants fan so I've been looking smug all winter. Bring it on!

with the game since 1998 but it's been an even longer time since my team won the damn thing.
Yes, that's right, I'm a Cubs fan.
In fact just this morning I thought to myself how great it would be to see the Cubs win the World Series and I don't think any sport's fan would begrudge us that.

It won't be this year though I don't think. 102 years and counting.

Just booked for our not-quite-annual pilgrimage to Tropicana Field to see the Rays during our Florida hols. Tickets cheap as chips, loads of stuff for the kids to do, they love it. I'm excited already.

Opening day is always a huge holiday here in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Reds were the world's first professional baseball team, and in honor of that we get to start the season with a home game every year. Yesterday I watched off and on from my office while the opening day parade went by (two and one half hours long!). The city was swamped with people all day long.

The game started off rough, with the first two batters for the visiting Milwaukee Brewers hitting home runs. The Reds were behind most of the game, but rallied in the ninth inning and won 7-6 on a walk off home run. Great start for the team that won the National League Central Division last year!

We have a game like baseball in England. It's called rounders and it's a girls game.

My first MLB visit was to petco park in San Diego. I was on holiday, knew very little about the game but came away a convert. Loved the game and the west coast atmosphere.

The following year, also on holiday I went to Yankee Stadium and Fenway park the following week.

I plumped for the Yankees and have been following them ever since.

Before anyone accuses me of being a glory hunter, let it be known that in the UK I support Dagenham & Redbridge FC. I deserve it!

I started watching it a few years ago (the last game of the 2008 World Series) and have been hooked ever since. I was stranded in Boston during last year's ashpocalypse, so I took the opportunity to catch a game at Fenway. Freezing cold, but a great atmosphere. I was in New York the year before during the World Series, and tried to get tickets - I was quoted $500. My wife vetoed that idea.

For various boring reasons I'm an Astros fan and we had a cracking opening day scare at the Phillies, leading 4-0 going into the 8th only to blow it Stro-Style in the bottom of the 9th. Bottom five yet again, methinks.

I watch via subscription on mlb.com these days, and I love it more and more. The best thing about baseball is that, like cricket, the more you know, the more interesting it is to watch...

The Yankees opening game summed up one of the many reasons I love Baseball: Curtis Granderson made three outstanding plays in the game, and after each one he celebrated MLB-style - no histrionics, no grandstanding, just an understated Of-Course-I-Can-Do-Things-Ordinary-Mortals-Can't shrug and on with the game. http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=13348137

Can I recommend ESPN's Baseball Today podcast? Half and hour or so of quality Baseball chat every morning - although I still miss Pete Pascarelli. http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/archive?id=2386164

followed by a couple of cold ones.
I can smell them now!!