4-5 Cubs (Rusch) v. Reds (Arroyo) 11:35 CT ESPN

[YearofDaCubs]

I hate off days! :evil:

Me too.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Game isn't until tomorrow, and the game thread is already on its 2nd page. I LOVE BASEBALL!

[C.C.]

Predictions for tomorrow...

 

Rusch goes 6 innings give up 4 runs.

Murton goes 2-4 with a double.

Cedeno goes yard!

Pierre gets his first SB tomorrow as a Cub.

Ram goes yard.

 

Cubs win this game 7-4

[Derwood]

I hate off days! :evil:

Me too.

 

and another off day Thursday! Brilliant schedule makers! Surely the Cubs are gassed after playing one game in a row! They surely won't need those off days in August!

[Blueheart05]

I hate off days! :evil:

Me too.

 

and another off day Thursday! Brilliant schedule makers! Surely the Cubs are gassed after playing one game in a row! They surely won't need those off days in August!

 

I hate the early days off too but to be fair to the schedule makers, an off-day following Opening Day is to accommodate inclimate weather that might PPD the game and make playing on the "off day" a necessity. I think playing Cincy is also important in the equation. They have the oldest franchise so MLB seems to make sure they have no problems with getting in the first game (without a need for a double header).

[soccer10k]

Game isn't until tomorrow, and the game thread is already on its 2nd page. I LOVE BASEBALL!

 

I loved the fact that the thread for the opening day game was already at 15 pages before the game even started.

[C.C.]

Game isn't until tomorrow, and the game thread is already on its 2nd page. I LOVE BASEBALL!

 

I loved the fact that the thread for the opening day game was already at 15 pages before the game even started.

 

Pretty obvious we were all missing baseball. I was looking at the cubs.com game thread and they had over 1400 posts yesterday. Cubs fans are amazing!

[A New Era]

Game isn't until tomorrow, and the game thread is already on its 2nd page. I LOVE BASEBALL!

 

I loved the fact that the thread for the opening day game was already at 15 pages before the game even started.

 

Pretty obvious we were all missing baseball. I was looking at the cubs.com game thread and they had over 1400 posts yesterday. Cubs fans are amazing!

 

That's because that thread was started in january or even last year. You notice the first post line-up included. .

 

Pierre, Furcal, Dlee, Aram, Giles? That was a pretty optimistic prediction of the off season. LOL.

[badger1679666666]

Game isn't until tomorrow, and the game thread is already on its 2nd page. I LOVE BASEBALL!

 

I loved the fact that the thread for the opening day game was already at 15 pages before the game even started.

 

Pretty obvious we were all missing baseball. I was looking at the cubs.com game thread and they had over 1400 posts yesterday. Cubs fans are amazing!

 

That's because that thread was started in january or even last year. You notice the first post line-up included. .

 

Pierre, Furcal, Dlee, Aram, Giles? That was a pretty optimistic prediction of the off season. LOL.

 

That would have been a HELL of a first 5. Crap that would have been a hell of a lineup:

 

Pierre, CF

Furcal, SS

Dlee, 1B

Aram, 3B

Giles, RF

Barrett, C

Walker, 2B

Murton, LF

 

:shock:

[Omar]

Is there really a need for an off-day after the first game? I'd much rather have one in the long run where there's 10 straight games road/home.

[CP_414]

Is there really a need for an off-day after the first game? I'd much rather have one in the long run where there's 10 straight games road/home.

 

It's not for the players. It's for all the cities like Cincy where the fans only care on Opening Day and if it rains out they can play the next day and all those fans can still use their tickets for "Opening Day." I hate it too, but I would do the same thing if I was in their place.

[goonys evil twin]

Is there really a need for an off-day after the first game? I'd much rather have one in the long run where there's 10 straight games road/home.

 

It's not for the players. It's for all the cities like Cincy where the fans only care on Opening Day and if it rains out they can play the next day and all those fans can still use their tickets for "Opening Day." I hate it too, but I would do the same thing if I was in their place.

 

The off day after opening day doesn't bother me much. My problem is with the off day after the 2nd game. That's just dumb.

 

I liked the Sports Guy's idea of having opening day for everybody be Sunday afternoon. You can have an opening night game on ESPN still. There's nothing going on between Final 4 Saturday and Championship Monday. More people could avoid conflicts with work to attend games. More people could catch the games on TV. You could also schedule the occasional 4 game series that first week, which would help deal with some of the odd quirks with the varied divisions.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Let's hope the wind is blowing in from left at about 75mph or Rusch is gonna get bombed.

 

They're expecting winds from about 10-15 mph blowing out to LF or left center field, with game time temps in the low 50s.

[Mark Priors Calves]

Is there really a need for an off-day after the first game? I'd much rather have one in the long run where there's 10 straight games road/home.

 

It's not for the players. It's for all the cities like Cincy where the fans only care on Opening Day and if it rains out they can play the next day and all those fans can still use their tickets for "Opening Day." I hate it too, but I would do the same thing if I was in their place.

 

I liked the Sports Guy's idea of having opening day for everybody be Sunday afternoon. You can have an opening night game on ESPN still. There's nothing going on between Final 4 Saturday and Championship Monday. More people could avoid conflicts with work to attend games. More people could catch the games on TV. You could also schedule the occasional 4 game series that first week, which would help deal with some of the odd quirks with the varied divisions.

I read that today too, and I completely agree. I don't know of any reason why MLB couldn't start everything on Sunday instead of Monday. It would incread the convience for millions of fans. Then again, we are talking about MLB and this plan makes too much sense for them to implement it.

[Derwood]

But starting on Monday is TRADITION :roll:

[Blueheart05]

FYI, this game will be on Comcast Sportsnet for Chicago people (ESPN will have a black out).

[stitchface]

Is there really a need for an off-day after the first game? I'd much rather have one in the long run where there's 10 straight games road/home.

 

It's not for the players. It's for all the cities like Cincy where the fans only care on Opening Day and if it rains out they can play the next day and all those fans can still use their tickets for "Opening Day." I hate it too, but I would do the same thing if I was in their place.

 

The off day after opening day doesn't bother me much. My problem is with the off day after the 2nd game. That's just dumb.

 

I liked the Sports Guy's idea of having opening day for everybody be Sunday afternoon. You can have an opening night game on ESPN still. There's nothing going on between Final 4 Saturday and Championship Monday. More people could avoid conflicts with work to attend games. More people could catch the games on TV. You could also schedule the occasional 4 game series that first week, which would help deal with some of the odd quirks with the varied divisions.

 

but you lose the weekday sell-out.

[erik316wttn]

I'm gonna miss the game. Stupid job.

 

Hate world, kill everyone.

 

Or not.

 

Anyway, I'd watch out for Dunn. He'll want to make up for his misadventures in LF yesterday.

[Butterscup1679666578]

This game falls almost perfectly in between my two classes tomorrow. Excellent.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

This game falls almost perfectly in between my two classes tomorrow. Excellent.

 

11:00 and a 1:00, boo. At least I'll have gameday for the 1:00.

[Coach C]

Well, I'll be able to see a bit of it during my lunch break. Unfortunately, I won't get to see the end of it, so more than likely, I'll be relying on you fellas on FlashChat to give some PBP if possible.

[stitchface]

1130? Holy crap, I'm not sure I can get out of bed in time!

[mhuber92211]

1130? Holy crap, I'm not sure I can get out of bed in time!

 

Try 9:30 am west coast time when you get off that morning at 4am!

[stitchface]

its 10:30 here so I was really only kidding since I don't work nights! I may have to stay home tomorrow though.

[Andy]

Days like this I regret scheduling classes from 11-3 on MWF. Especially when I have Tuesdays and Thursdays set up perfectly for Cubs viewing and they naturally have those days off 4 times this month.