Baseball takes you to a place.
It’s a place only this game can take you, because this game does something to you, inside of you. It makes you feel, it makes you believe, it makes you young, it makes you you. These days we’re not supposed to go many places. But on Friday, baseball will take St. Louis to a place ... even if you can’t go to the place where baseball is in St. Louis.
Friday is opening day.
The Cardinals will play an actual game. It’s one of the most-anticipated season openers ever, in a season that almost didn’t happen, and a season that we desperately need, even if it’ll be the strangest season ever.