Opening day?

So without any prior warning, they went ahead and played a real baseball game (counts in the standings and everything) this morning in Japan. The Mighty Mighty Red Sox beat the A's in ten innings. Man, this snuck up on me. I've been following spring training but I didn't realize they were starting actual games yet. (This just shows how my ESPN viewing has dropped. Not sure if I blame wife, baby or crappy product.)
But did that really make today Opening Day? This guy says no and I think I agree with him.

Depending on your tastes, Opening Day is up there with or demonstrably better than (the correct answer) Super Bowl Sunday, the first day of the NCAA Tournament and other great one-day spectacles of sport. More than the World Series, more than the All-Star Game, it's Opening Day — almost everyone's team in action, hopes undimmed for all — that is baseball at its inclusive best. However, when baseball deigns to kick off the season on the other side of the world, at a time when most Americans are in full snooze, and days before the rest of the teams open their seasons, it diminishes the event. So Opening Day is really Sorta-Kinda Opening Day.

Who cares? Well, I do. Opening Day is more than just the beginning of the rest of the year, it's also the floating anniversary of our proposal date (story here). Frankly, it wasn't on a Tuesday. It was before the Sunday Night game and that's where it's going to stay regardless of what the baseball powers say. So there!
We're almost there, hon. Just a few more days.