Opening Day Prediction from Stamford: Yanks Will Do Well

[Editor's Note: Here's the first installment of a new series here on Stamford Patch, where we'll give the mic to local kids interested in sports. Know a sports-minded youth who may want to participate? Email me at michaeld@patch.com.]

Hometown to MLB'er Bobby Valentine (in an area with plenty of baseball ties), Stamford boasts a rabid fan base for our national pastime that's generally split along these lines: Yankees, Mets and Red Sox.

The baseball season opened Sunday night in Texas and those three "local" teams are all set to square off around 1 p.m. today—the Yanks hosting Boston and the Mets at home against San Diego.

To mark the season's start, we drop in on two big Yankees fans. Kealan O'Meara and his sister, Leigh, are Greenwich natives who live here in Stamford and whose father, Paul O'Meara, became a New York Yankees fan after arriving in the United States with wife Cora from County Tipperary in the 1990s, because he saw Paul O'Neil was playing for the team (a fellow Irishman). During our interview, Kealan—whose uncle is Niall Lynch of LNP Construction and Fine Woodworking—said he's expecting big things from Yankees regulars Robinson Cano and Derek Jeter.