This blog is dedicated to Paul Napolitano who invited me to be his guest at the Yankee home opener this past Monday.

Like a little boy, Sunday night, I was all excited in anticipation, but Mother Nature conspired to frustrate me as there was an unusually heavy Spring snowstorm in the night.

When I awoke Monday I found that everything was blanketed with heavy snow. As no decision had been made by the Yankees at that time with respect to playing or calling the game, I left all bundled up for the city intending to meet Paul at the Stadium. However, during my commute I learned that the game had been postponed until Tuesday at 4 o'clock.

Monday night the situation got worse as the next day's forecast was a 90% likelihood of cold rain at the 4:00 start.

On Tuesday morning with this forecast hovering, Paul and I agreed not to go on a fool's errand (to the game) and sit in the cold rain and await the unlikely removal of the tarp from the field.

We agreed the Yankees should have played Monday after the snow stopped and the sun shone.

But a while later, I had a change of mind and texted Paul asking him "Want to go and have an adventure?"  I added that my blog would be about our experience and he quickly responded "LOL. Then we've got to go!"

Then, mid day, the rains came in sheets and Jo railed we were "Nuts!", but Paul checked in that he would pick me up and we would head to the Stadium until we heard whether the game was cancelled. He arrived and we were off on our adventure peering through the cold rain and beating windshield wipers (pictured).

Fast forward to the end and it was one of those rare happenings which one approaches with trepidation and ambivalence and, to use a baseball analogy, it ends up being a Home Run!

It was so right and so good and in all my many years of Yankee fandom, my first Home Opener win!

Thank you Paul, thank you weather gods and thank you triumphant adventurous Human spirit!