Amen. 

And schools should be let out to watch the World Series and we need a constitutional amendment that the Series must be all day games like when I was a kid and we watched it at school. 

Kids are playing ....SOCCER for goodness sakes - in America (ok in Italy they pretty much always did and living here I have to compromise on a few things, but baseball is catching on in Italy lately) - I mean they KICK A BALL INTO A NET ! what kind of game is that? It's just golf with a vertical hold and no club, and everything made bigger. That's no fun. And most games end zero-zero. 

So yes, Opening Day a national holiday ! 

If they just scheduled all teams to open on a Sunday afternoon, they'd come close enough.

White House and Congress aren't going to favor baseball over football.

The petition is now over 58,000, ahead of the schedule it needs to reach 100,000 by the deadline. 

Go to whitehouse.gov/petitions and then you have to scroll down past about 20 Nazi-oriented petitions and a few more reasonable ones clicking on the little arrow to see more petitions and it is on the third page. 

You need an email account and password to sign petitions on the site. 

And while I know not everyone here agrees, I also signed the petition to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 that is also up there, so that once people have the day off they can afford to go to the ballgame. 

just what we need, funding another paid day off for the millions of government workers, bankers, etc...