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Speaker 1: There are a few things left in the country that

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Speaker 1: arrived the same way every year, quietly, faithfully, like an

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Speaker 1: old friend who never needs to not Today it's baseball,

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Speaker 1: not just a game, but a ritual, a slow, deliberate

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Speaker 1: reminder that time doesn't rush. It unfolds long before the

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Speaker 1: lights come on, before the first pitch cracks the air.

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Speaker 1: There's a feeling, familiar hum, the grass cut just right,

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Speaker 1: the chalk lines drawn like they always have been. Generations before.

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Speaker 1: I sat in those same seats, felt the same hope,

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Speaker 1: argued the same calls, And every year we.

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Speaker 2: Come back back to a game that refuses to hurry.

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Speaker 2: In the world that sprints, baseball waits, it breathes, it

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Speaker 2: lingers just long enough for a father to explain a

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Speaker 2: double play to his son, for a kid to believe,

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Speaker 2: just from moment, that this could be the year, because

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Speaker 2: Opening Day doesn't belong to the standings.

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Speaker 1: It belongs to possibility. It belongs to the rookie no

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Speaker 1: one's heard of yet, the veteran with one more run

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Speaker 1: left in him, the fan who always says this is it,

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Speaker 1: this is our year, knowing full well that he said

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Speaker 1: it last year or too, and still they mean it.

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Speaker 1: That's the magic of Major League Baseball. Doesn't ask you

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Speaker 1: to forget, to ask you to believe again anyway. So

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Speaker 1: today we rise with the sun a little earlier. We

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Speaker 1: checked the lineup like it matters more than it should.

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Speaker 1: We set al in not for a moment, but for

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Speaker 1: a season, nine endings at a time, because baseball isn't

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Speaker 1: just played, it's remembered, it's handed down, it's felt, and

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Speaker 1: on a day like today, it begins again