Just Plain Stupid

From UPI: Budweiser wants the White House to take us all out to the ball game on Opening Day.
The St. Louis beer company's White House petition to have the first day of the season declared a national holiday reached the minimum threshold of 100,000 signatures required for a response from the administration on Friday, several days ahead of the 30-day deadline. "There's no denying the passion that baseball fans have for America's national pastime," said former St. Louis Cardinals shortstop and Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith, the campaign's spokesperson. "The more than 100,000 people who signed the petition are just a fraction of the 1.3 million who will attend Opening Day games this year. The day is already an unofficial holiday, but now it's time to make it official." While the White House has a self-imposed 60-day window to respond to any petitions that hit the 100,000 signature mark, Tom Kraus, the director Budweiser Brand Marketing at Anheuser-Busch InBev, said the conversation is already underway to get an answer before Opening Day arrives next Monday, March 31. "No doubt everybody would love to have a day off," Kraus said. "But the real goal is having the White House recognize this effort and proclaim it a national day of observance. That really just recognizes how powerful Opening Day itself is across the country. That's the ultimate win."
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/03/24/Baseball-Opening-Day-petition-hits-100K-signatures/3981395665127/#ixzz2wxHKG0Gm
Well, Opening Day is important to cities that have a major league baseball team.  But that is only 27 cities (3 cities have 2 teams) and not all teams have opening days on the same day.
And are we going have a national celebration for the opening kickoff for the NFL season.
Just a stupid idea.