I'm not sure if anyone's noticed, but Monday is going to be a little different this year. Not in a good way, either. For the first time in as long as I can remember, Opening Day and the NCAA championship game aren't falling on the same day. Yes, the unquestioned best sports day of the year is no more. Awful.

Next year's Final Four is scheduled for April 4-6, so we're going to run into the situation again. What Bud Selig needs to do is put whatever he's working on and remedy this situation. (Though I suppose this is what you get when you start the MLB season on March 31.) 

By the way, I'm headed up to Detroit for tonight's Sweet 16 games and to hopefully watch my man Bo Ryan do the Soulja Boy all over Davidson's Stephen Curry and then Bill Self and the Jayhawks. Photos to come on The Dagger.

Around the baseball blogosphere ... 

• Forget Casey At The Bat ... Here's the best baseball poem of all time, courtesy of Bobby DeNiro. [Diamond Hoggers]

• You just knew this was coming: Junior takes apart Furman Bisher's codgerish article about playing baseball in Japan. [Fire Joe Morgan]

• Milwaukee's famous sausages ... on a ski hill! [Home Run Derby]

• Food at the new Nationals Park is expensive. [Capitol Punishment]

• The Rays are playing their final spring training games at historic Al Lang Field. [DRaysBay]

• How do you prevent your daughter from being a Cardinals fan when she lives in St. Louis? Make her watch this season, for starters. [Bugs & Cranks]

• Is this really John Mayer doing play-by-play for one of the Red Sox-A's games? [Red Sox Monster]

• Don't forget: Bill James will be on 60 Minutes this Sunday. [Biz of Baseball]