A related strategy of bifurcation governs the opener, "Roads Cross," and a later echo, "Cross Roads," with similarly beguiling results.
But at least the nice touches of baseball also show up early and often during these multiple opening days -- home openers, road openers, neutral-field openers.
Following a 6 2 opening road-trip, Calgary's home opener was scheduled for April 19.
It was only her features — about parades, a Red Sox home opener, a road race — that contained fabrications.
It is telling that while the first musical number in "Bounce" was "Bounce," the opener in "Road Show" is "Waste".
Love Comes Back Around pairs her fearless songwriting and strong, expressive voice with rootsy arrangements: there's growling guitar and a snakey beat on opener "Straight Road," subtle horns layered into the background on "Perfect Pardon" and the mournful interplay of piano and acoustic guitar on "Roll Over Me".
He will face three other teams with new head coaches, including Green Bay in the season opener on the road Sept. 3, New England twice and Miami twice.
"I don't think there's any need for us to have a name," Tavares said after practice at Nassau Coliseum in preparation for Thursday's road opener at Tampa Bay, which the Islanders lost, 4-1.
The Ravens suffered another loss of sorts when they were forced to play the season's traditional opener on the road because of a conflict with the Orioles in Baltimore.
The Yankees then had their stateside road opener in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, and yesterday they returned to the Bronx for their actual ratchet-up-the-decibels home opener, which, as Torre noted, "stands on its own".
