Wine is never cliche

Time to announce your presence with authority, Antoinette.

Well it's April...a good time for new champions, new seasons and new wines. Tonight we will crown a new National Champion for men's college basketball ⛹️‍♂️and last night we finally got a new and different women's National Champion⛹️‍♀️... sorry Connecticut it was just the luck of the Irish.🍀 By Sunday we will green jacket a new Master's champion at Augusta🏌️‍♂️, and who knows it might be a Cinderella story👑!  Save some champagne to celebrate🍾! But of course the big thing is we have a new season of America's pastimes underway... baseball⚾️ and a new vintage of wine growing🍇.  It's no coincidence that spring, baseball and wine come together... hope springs eternal in April, when every team is still in the pennant race and every grape dreams of a 90 pt rating at seasons end. Walt Whitman once said, "I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game🇺🇸. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us." Well it may have distracted Americans from the Civil War, but it doesn't fix any losses. If you want something fixed you have 2 choices... duct tape or wine🍷. But it's April, be optimistic! Easter has passed, and our spirits are resurrected, so it's time to turn to the church of baseball like Annie Savoy and remember what Crash Davis said, "it's all about the sweet spot"😉🥂🌋.  Though newness abounds, tradition, history and vintage cliches remain. Baseball and viticulture seasons line up exactly so if you're going to make it through the season you're going to have to learn your cliches. Now get out pen and paper📝 and pour yourself a big merlot because it's time  to brush up on our clichés which not surprisingly are shared by both ballplayers and vintners.  You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. They are what gets you through the ups and downs of a season... they don't fix anything🛠, but they buy you time. Now write these down: We gotta take it one day at a time. We're just happy to be here. Hope we can help the team. We just want to give it our best shot, and the good Lord willing, things will work out. We left it all on the field and always gave110%. We're taking it to the next level. It’s not over til the fat lady sings.There’s no tomorrow. Everybody’s on the same page. It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. See? Hard to tell if I'm talking baseball or wine growing. But what's really important is how you play the game. A good friend of mine used to say, 'This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.' Think about that for a while." I think in Durham they'd call this a lot of Bull. It might still be a little cold out for those night games, but it's not too Cold to Play...just get home safe!
Home, home, where I wanted to go
Home, home, where I wanted to go
Home, home, where I wanted to go (You are)
Home, home, where I wanted to go (You are)