3/30 Other Game Thread!

[The R-Train]

I know we did these last year, and I hope I'm not stepping on anybody's toes by doing it this year. I wanted to do it for the Red Sox/ A's games last week, but both times I set my alarm and both times I went back to sleep, so this is my first taste of real baseball for 2008!

 

Every year on Opening Day's Eve (maybe just Opening Night? Nah, that's what ESPN wants us to call it) one very special game gets to kick off the season! This year it's... well, it's the Braves and the Nats, but I'm sure we'll have fun anyways!

 

The Braves start the season with a stacked lineup that has many thinking they have a chance to contend with the Phils and Mets (and of those three, they'd be my choice, too), and the Nats start the season with a new hitter-friendly ballpark... and, well, uh, Manny Acta seems like a really smart guy, but that didn't help much last year.

 

Opening Day Night Game 7:00pm

Atlanta Braves vs. Washington Nationals

Tim Hudson (16-10, 3.33 in 2007) at Odalis Perez (8-11, 5.57 in 2007)

 

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/29/sports/29nationals.1.600.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, yeah, and this guy

http://www.funfacts.com.au/images/george-w-bush.jpg

throws out the first pitch.

 

*Sigh*

I love baseball.

[Derwood]

they got that new Nationals stadium built pretty quickly.

[Roast]

Is it me, or is that ballpark ridiculously ugly?

[Roast]

Also: you know you suck when your opening day pitcher had a 5 point era last year.

[JimSorgi]

Also: you know you suck when your opening day pitcher had a 5 point era last year.

What if like, they have four stud pitchers that just didn't want to pitch on opening day?

[JimSorgi]

Oh wait, you were talking about the Nationals. Nevermind

[Roast]

Also: you know you suck when your opening day pitcher had a 5 point era last year.

What if like, they have four stud pitchers that just didn't want to pitch on opening day?

Show me a team that has ever had that happen.

[Roast]

Oh wait, you were talking about the Nationals. Nevermind

:lol:

[UMFan83]

Is it me, or is that ballpark ridiculously ugly?

 

It's not ugly, its just got New Comiskey Park syndrome. Meaning, the retro ballpark design has lost its luster and originality.

[Terp]

Not going to watch as I'll be busy but I hope the Nationals win.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I'll probably watch it. I'm starved for some real baseball.

 

Plus I'm eager to see how some of the Braves do.

[Roast]

Not going to watch as I'll be busy but I hope the Nationals win.

Welcome to the Forum!

 

 

And I'm with vance - I'll watch because it's baseball.

[Terp]

Not going to watch as I'll be busy but I hope the Nationals win.

Welcome to the Forum!

 

 

And I'm with vance - I'll watch because it's baseball.

 

Thanks.

 

and to be honest, I had no clue Odalis Perez was still around. Shows how much I follow baseball.

[David]

Is it me, or is that ballpark ridiculously ugly?

 

It's not ugly, its just got New Comiskey Park syndrome. Meaning, the retro ballpark design has lost its luster and originality.

 

I wouldn't say that. The "good" retro parks like SF (whatever the hell they call it, is it SBC?), Jacobs, and Camden are still beautiful, but some of them (like GABP and this DC one) just look cheaply made and lame.

[Outshined_One]

I think their stadium will look significantly better once they complete the construction. Those cranes and unfinished buildings can be eyesores.

[Lockes Eye Scar]

It's a lot better than looking at RFK for 2 and a half hours

[The R-Train]

http://misterirrelevant.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/young2.jpg

 

Yes. That's a Halliburton brief case for Dmitri. Contents unknown.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Is it me, or is that ballpark ridiculously ugly?

 

It's not ugly, its just got New Comiskey Park syndrome. Meaning, the retro ballpark design has lost its luster and originality.

 

I wouldn't say that. The "good" retro parks like SF (whatever the hell they call it, is it SBC?), Jacobs, and Camden are still beautiful, but some of them (like GABP and this DC one) just look cheaply made and lame.

 

Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is one of my favorite of the retro parks.

[BCVM22]

There are Atlanta's new alternate road unis.

[Butterscup1679666578]

This singer is atrocious.

 

So are the Braves' uniforms

[Butterscup1679666578]

I wonder what the reaction to Bush is going to be...

 

Edit: Heh.

[UMFan83]

That was awesome. I was waiting for Bush to flick the crowd off. That would have been even better.

[B]

Classy fans there in Washington.

[inari]

Bush was flustered by the booing.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Washington strikes first blood.