It seems that every baseball "expert" spent the last six months writing the obituary for the homerun (and, by extention, offense) in baseball. Offense is dead? My ass!

Between last night and the games played so far today, all of these players have hit homeruns: Hank Blalock, Pat Burrell, Jeff Conine, Adam Dunn, Jonny Gomes, Vladimir Guerrero, Carlos Guillen, JJ Hardy, Scott Hatteberg, Ryan Howard, Kenji Johjima, Andruw Jones, Ryan Langerhans, Adam LaRoche, Carlos Lee, Travis Lee, Mike Lowell, Luis Matos, Melvin Mora, Matt Murton, David Ortiz, Eduardo Perez, Albert Pujols (2), Scott Rolen, Chris Shelton (2), Miguel Tejada, Jim Thome, and David Wright. That, my friends, is 30 homeruns, and there's still lots of baseball to be played yet today (including Marlins-Astros, Giants-Padres, and Yankees-A's). Sh'yeah, offense is dead, my ass.

UPDATE: In addition to the thirty listed above, later home run hitters included: Khalil Greene, Hideki Matsui, Roberto Petagine, Mike Piazza, Alex Rodriguez, and Frank Thomas. That brings the home run total between yesterday and today to 36. In addition, the teams combined in seven of the fourteen games to score double-digit runs, and six teams (White Sox, Cubs, Cardinals, Braves, Dodgers, and Yankees) scored ten or more on their own.

UPDATE (4/4): Updating this one more time, Tony Batista, Benji Molina, Alex Rios, and Shannon Stewart all homered in Tuesday's season opener between Minnesota and Toronto, bringing the total for all fifteen season-opening games to 40 home runs. Yep, the long ball is dead.

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