Opening Day: Please, Royals, don't suck this April

Royals Authority has posted blogger and regular people predictions for the upcoming season. Here a few Big Donkey predictions they didn't publish:

Royals officially adopt "Let's Groove" by Earth, Wind and Fire as the anthem played upon the conclusion of games at The K; Joey Gathright spends as much time in CF as David Dejesus; Alberto Callaspo spends more time at second than Grudz; TPJ is one of the worst regulars in baseball; Tomko and Guillen are the guys Royals fans most like to hate in 08.

Our prediction for today? Rain.

There are two reasons why the Royals might have a better shot at the division than you think: Todd Jones and Joe Borowski.

In the minor leagues, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Springfield Cardinals split an epic two-game series this weekend in Springfield.

Does anyone else see the renovations at The K as a metaphor for the season? Things aren't finished yet, but they are starting to look bigger and better.

At Big Donkeys, we don't like to take pleasure in someone else's suffering, unless it benefits the Royals. That's why we were so happy to see Curtis Granderson go on the DL. For the Tigers to tank, we think some combination of Granderson-Cabrerra-Magglio is going to have to spend significant time on the disabled list.

We'll be back with thoughts later today or early tomorrow, after the Royals play this big game up in Canada.

(Yes, we know Detroit isn't in Canada. It was supposed to be a funny.)

Speaking of Canada, there's this Opening Day omen from Gordon Lightfoot (actually this has nothing to do with Opening Day or April, but it's VERY important):

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the ruins of her ice water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.

And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early.