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Baseball Today: Wednesday, April 11

The sun is shining the morning after a 14-3 Opening Day victory . . .

IF ONLY THEY WERE ALL THIS EASY: Sean McAdam recounts an almost record-setting day at the ballpark. (projo.com) (The 14 runs were one short of the franchise record for most runs in a home opener -- 15, scored against the Yankees in 1973 -- but the 11-run margin of victory was the biggest ever for a home opener.) You can read more from Sean, Steven Krasner, Joe McDonald and Bill Reynolds right here, along with two photo galleries from Bob Breidenbach and Mary Murphy (including a particularly unflattering one of me calling in ProJo SportsTalk from a box seat on the third-base side before the gates opened yesterday morning). If you're into this sort of thing, you can follow the whole day as it unfolded -- in reverse chronlogical order -- from yesterday's entries on the Sox Blog. It was't a whole lot of fun for the Mariners, though (Seattle Times).

TODAY'S ANOTHER DAY: And what a day it promises to be: Daisuke Matsuzaka vs. Felix Hernandez (projo.com), with a dose of Dice-K vs. Ichiro thrown in for good measure (Seattle Times). We'll be talking about it at noon on SportsTalk, and the blog from the ballpark will crank up soon after 4, so come back for more.

LISTEN . . . DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET? DO YOU PROMISE NOT TO TELL? Mariners catcher Kenji Johjima demystifies the gyroball. (Seattle Times)

EVERY STORY STARTS SOMEWHERE: If you want to know the genesis -- or at least the first open signs -- of the Brendan Donnelly-Jose Guillen feud, click here. (espn.com)

DICE-K, SCHMICE-K: The Devil Rays are catching Aki Fever. (devilraysuniverse.blogspot.com)

(Devil Rays Universe???)

MAKING HIS MARK: After spending his first season in Baltimore pining away for the Red Sox, Kevin Millar is starting to embrace Oriole Nation. Both Mr. Irrelevant (journals.aol.com/dcsportsguy/mrirrelevant/) and Gheorghe: The Blog are impressed. (gheorghe77.blogspot.com)

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT: Dan Wheeler's debut as Astros closer could have gone a little smoother. (Houston Chronicle)

IF PAPELBON WEREN'T CLOSING, THIS WOULD BE STORY ONE IN BOSTON: Trade rumors are now swirling around the man Wheeler replaced, Brad Lidge. (Houston Chronicle baseball blog)

I STAND BY MY COMMENTS: Nothing like a 1-6 start is going to change Jimmy Rollins' mind that the Phillies are the class of the N.L. East. (New York Daily News)

LESSONS FROM A LANDFILL: Tim Marchman admits Shea Stadium is ugly, but, hey, so is life sometimes. What better place to learn that than at a ballpark? (New York Sun)

LIFE IMITATING ART: The Indians playing home games in Milwaukee? Well, the movie Major League, about the shocking resurrection of the team, was shot in Milwaukee's County Stadium, right? So, thanks to the snow in Ohio, they're back in Wisconsin, this time for real. (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) And 19,000 fans showed up to watch them beat the Angels last night. (mlb.com)

JOIN THE CLUB: Like most of us, Hank Aaron has very little use for Barry Bonds. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

ONWARD AND UPWARD: Bonds, meanwhile, has more than 755 home runs in his sights. He'd also like to get 3,000 hits, as a tribute to his godfather, Willie Mays. (San Francisco Chronicle)

WHY CAN'T WE GET GENERAL MANAGERS LIKE THAT??? Former Red Sox assistant GM Josh Byrnes is drawing praise for his work as GM of the Diamondbacks. (Arizona Republic)

SOMEBODY, PLEASE, ANYBODY! The Rockies can't find anyone to take Byung-Hyun Kim off their hands. (Denver Post)

DOWN ON THE FARM: PawSox shortstop Ed Rogers won a steak dinner by hitting a home run off the bull in Durham in the PawSox' 2-1 win over the Bulls. (projo.com)

-- ART MARTONE

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