 The Miami Herald is reporting On behalf of the Marlins, I would thank Tiger Woods for happening to have his much-awaited news conference Monday, with an added appreciative nod to Duke and Butler for playing their basketball game later that night. Those things served to perhaps lessen the attention being paid to what the Marlins were doing here, and that's probably a good thing.
Much about the launch of the Marlins' 18th franchise season was perfect. The weather was ideal, sunny with a cool edge. It was day baseball on real grass, the way it should be. The Mets' year-old stadium is inviting, with a red brick façade and arched entrances evoking nostalgic memories of old Ebbets Field.
Yes, and red, white and blue bunting riffled in the strong breeze because no sport puts the capital letters in Opening Day like baseball.
``You look forward to it like a birthday party when you were a kid,'' the great Joe DiMaggio used to say. ``You think something wonderful is going to happen.''
Then the game starts, and all the wonderful stuff is happening for the Mets in a 7-1 Marlins loss and, suddenly, Opening Day seems less the stuff of poetry and renewal and just, well, just a lousy, sloppy loss.
``Now we can't go undefeated,'' deadpanned Marlins manager Fred Gonzalez.
Sometimes you spend six months planning and preparing for the new season, and nothing aligns to prevent the giant thud with which it opens.
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