Forget what the calendar tells you.
Summer starts today.
It's Opening Day for the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. And once we get some morning drizzle out of the way, temperatures are expected to break the 60-degree mark for first pitch at 3:05 p.m. Which will certainly be a welcome relief from what we endured this weekend, first a wet, snowy Saturday, followed by a brighter but not much warmer Sunday. Temperatures both days failed to get out of the 40s.
Yes, the yard work will have to wait one more week.
But my thirst for baseball does not. I had the radio out yesterday, listening to the first Sunday afternoon game from the safe - and warm - confines of the sun room.
After losing four straight, the Phils rallied and took two of three from the Mets. They sits at 2-4, and could easily be 4-2 if not for their suspect bullpen.
There will be a big-time Delco flavor to today's festivities. Matt Collins, a Briarcliffe kid who is battling leukemia, will join Jesse Hartnett, the East Lansdowne native and wounded Philadelphia police officer, in throwing out the first pitch.
You can get all those details here.
Bring on summer!
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