It's Opening Day—or it was last week in Japan, or was yesterday, or it is on Friday or Saturday for some teams—but regardless, baseball season has finally begun. Kind of.

The Cardinals and the Marlins kicked off the 2012 season on this continent on Wednesday, ending months of hypothesizing about whether this year will be different from the last for teams that had less than ideal 2011s. Now, it's time to see, for real...

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