Look: There’s nothing expressly wrong with Major League Baseball starting the domestic leg of its season with an Opening Night game, as it will Sunday night when the Dodgers visit the Padres at Petco Park. It’s an opportunity to cash in on a prime-time national TV showcase, and a way for all those who can’t miss work or school on Monday to enjoy the start of the baseball season regardless.

But in a sport so wrapped up in nostalgia, and in light of the burgeoning movement to make opening day a national holiday, it just doesn’t feel right. How can you make opening day a holiday when there are four opening days?

The baseball season started in Australia, with the Dodgers and Diamondbacks serving as ambassadors for the big-league game in Sydney. The series made the schedule a little awkward — there were two games in the books a week before the season starts in earnest — but it represents a reasonable effort to globalize the game. Fine. No problems there.

Now, thanks to “Opening Night,” the Dodgers will have played three regular season games before 27 teams have played even one. The first game played on opening day will be the fourth of the season. Oh, and then the Astros and Yankees don’t get started until Tuesday.

So of course the White House is going to punt the decision to make opening day a holiday. Obama’s a pretty busy guy, and it seems absurd to lean on him for practically a week’s worth of baseball-related holidays.

It’s silly. The opening series, again, makes sense. But outside of that, every team should open on the same day, with day games, and it should definitely be a holiday. Opening night takes the luster from opening day, and opening day is supposed to be the best day of the year.

Also, holding opening night on Sunday interferes with The Walking Dead, and watching baseball will prevent us from knowing whatever the heck goes on at Terminus. Ridiculous.