Opening Day!! Other Thread

[ELCABALLO45]

BASEBALL!

 

MLB decided to ruin what is usually a great day and split up opening day. So here is Opening Day 2011 (Pt.1)

 

Atlanta (Lowe) @ Washington (Hernandez) - 1:05pm ET 
Detroit (Verlander) @ NY Yankees(Sabathia) - 1:05pm ET - ESPN
Milwaukee (Gallardo) @ Cincinnati (Volquez) - 2:10pm ET 
LA Angles (Weaver) @ Kansas City (Hochevar) - 4:10pm ET
San Diego (Stauffer) @ St. Louis (Carpenter) - 4:15pm ET - ESPN
San Francisco (Lincecum) @ LA Dodgers (Kershaw) - 8:00pm ET - ESPN

[davearm2]

IIRC opening day has been split up for awhile now. For a long time the first game was always in Cincinnati, then recently ESPN came along and made the first game a Sunday Nighter.

 

What's great is that this year the Cubs don't have an off day after the opener. Win or lose, that day before game #2 was always a loooong one.

[ctcf]

What's great is that this year the Cubs don't have an off day after the opener. Win or lose, that day before game #2 was always a loooong one.

 

This

[MWV]

Cards fans will get their first look at the newly installed "giant Ford truck grill" over the left center field bleachers. It honks and flashes it's headlights when a cardinal hits a home run. Take that, Bernie Brewer.

[UMFan83]

Cards fans will get their first look at the newly installed "giant Ford truck grill" over the left center field bleachers. It honks and flashes it's headlights when a cardinal hits a home run. Take that, Bernie Brewer.

 

Soooo St. Louis

[Sammy Sofa]

What's great is that this year the Cubs don't have an off day after the opener. Win or lose, that day before game #2 was always a loooong one.

 

This

 

Oh yeah. Never does one day seem so damn long.

[UMFan83]

What's great is that this year the Cubs don't have an off day after the opener. Win or lose, that day before game #2 was always a loooong one.

 

This

 

Agreed. It's the worst thing ever. I think fans everywhere can agree with this.

[davearm2]

What's great is that this year the Cubs don't have an off day after the opener. Win or lose, that day before game #2 was always a loooong one.

 

This

 

Agreed. It's the worst thing ever. I think fans everywhere can agree with this.

The fans that paid a premium for opening day tickets might not agree, when the game has to be rescheduled due to weather.

 

That's the rationale for having that open date in the first place, so that they can just bring everyone back the next day if the weather doesn't cooperate.

[ELCABALLO45]

I don't know why, maybe it was the Packers Superbowl run but I have not been as excited as I have been in the past. Well that changed this morning. God I love baseball and this day.

 

Remember Direct TV has a free preview for EI.

[Sammy Sofa]

I don't know why, maybe it was the Packers Superbowl run but I have not been as excited as I have been in the past.

 

The inevitable realization that you're a Brewers fan? Yeah, that's gotta be tough.

[ELCABALLO45]

Man Chipper can hit. First game back since tearing his ACL last year and he rips a double.

[ELCABALLO45]

Heyward just homered in his first at bat again.

[cl smooth]

the female color commentator for yankees radio is god awful. AWFUL.

[ctcf]

What is this Badge business on Gameday and why am I fascinated by it?

[erik316wttn]

Heyward just homered in his first at bat again.

 

Has anyone ever done that in back to back seasons?

[Northside Blues]

Kaz Matsui did it THREE years in a row. They were also his first three years in the bigs.

 

2004 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL200404060.shtml

2005 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN200504040.shtml

2006 http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN200604200.shtml

 

The third year was actually an inside the parker.

[Cubswin11]

Teixeira just molested a baseball

[SouthSideRyan]

the female color commentator for yankees radio is god awful. AWFUL.

 

Look up some clips of her from when Clemens announced he was coming back and from when the Yankees got eliminated in the playoffs in his final year. Hilarious. Blows my mind how this woman ever got an on-air job.

[illiniguy]

Good start Edinson.

[ctcf]

Good start Edinson.

 

Wow. That's getting lit up right there.

[ELCABALLO45]

Pretty decent start

[Careless]

Cabrera was seriously puffing as he jogged home to score from second

[illiniguy]

Thom Brennamen talking about how Bettancourt is not that bad. Awesome.

[Cubswin11]

Leadoff Double for Stubbs in the bottom of the 1st, Dustbags has Phillips sac bunt him over to third. Genious Dusty, Genious.

[bukie]

That is definitely the best use of Brandon Phillips in the first inning with nobody out and a runner in scoring position of the first game of the year.