What was the score?

It's been one week since opening day, so I decided to poll the majority of my friends that I know love baseball and see how many knew the final score. Out of 34 people, only 3 knew the final score, 2 knew how each team's runs were scored and zero could remember how long each pitcher had gone in the game.

That means that one week after you boycott next year, you'll remember roughly the same about opening day as you do this year.

First Series

The first series of the 2010 opening weekend at Fenway is over. And guess what? All three games were sold out.

159 games remaining. 161 after opening day. This series didn't matter and opening day mattered less than the series. It's one game in a long season and after a week nobody remembers opening day anyway.

Boycott.

2011 Opening Day at Fenway needs to feature empty seats and warm beer in the concession stands. Baseball players are overpaid and everybody thinks so, yet we continue to pour our hard earned money into the spectacle first game of the year. It doesn't matter and when the real meat of the season comes in August and September, we can all be diehard fans once again. All I'm asking is for one game. One game in 2011 that will show the owners we care and don't support paying higher ballpark prices so players can be overpaid.

The Boston Red Sox's Payroll in 1994: $36 Thousand

The Boston Red Sox's Payroll in 2009: $121 Million

What I paid for Grandstand Seats in 1994: $17

What I paid for Grandstand Seats in 2009: $85

The look on Theo Epstein's face when Fenway is empty on opening day: Priceless

Three Reasons to Boycott Opening Day

1. How many people do you know make $400 thousand dollars a year? I don't know any. Legally speaking, 400 k is the least amount a baseball player can be paid, even if he sits the entire year out and doesn't play an inning.

2. Alex Rodriquez makes $500 times more than the average paramedic, teacher and cop. His contract is the example set forth for big name Red Sox players in the future, do you really want to support an industry that slaps the working class in the face?

3. Because we can! We control the industry because without fans, baseball fails; it's simple. Not many people want to spend $500 for four tickets and some hot dogs.

So don't. Let the only sounds on opening day in Fenway be the players making $400 thousand chewing gum.

According to a gallup poll conducted in 2003, 39% of sports fans believed baseball to be in a state of crisis. In a similar USA Today Poll in the same year, 33% of fans said they were following baseball less closely than they used to. In seven years since then, the only things to change are higher ticket prices, higher player salaries, higher merchandise prices and a diminished image due to the 'steroid era'. Colloquially referred to as our nation's greatest pastime, baseball's large markets are becoming status symbols for the affluent instead of reasonably priced entertainment.

These polls aren't startling. People don't like whats happening to baseball, that is they do not support paying $100 per ticket so Alex Rodriquez can cheat and still get paid millions. People have a problem with baseball, we know this, so why don't they do something about it? One person won't make a difference, it's time to organize and stand together.