OT - MLB is back!
Opening Night tonight and Opening Day tomorrow.
I love the game and have several favorites I follow throughout the season. I love the slowness of the game and yet there is so much speed in each individual play.
Are you watching tonight? Cubs don't have their bleachers in place due to construction. Plus, it's cold on the lake tonight! Cardinals are in town, so it should be electric.
Are you taking a sick day tomorrow to get to the game?
Living in Kansas City and seeing how the town came alive with the Royals run (with a .169 series hitter on deck have to send the runner rounding third home even on the short fly ball) I want this just one time for the Cubs. If the Cubs were to make a World Series the television ratings would be perhaps best ever for baseball.
Definitely watching at least some tonight... Maybe it's just because I've recently renewed my love for baseball, but I am so excited for this season. That most certainly felt like the longest offseason ever. Anyways the Tigers look solid this season, minus the bullpen, and overall, I think it should be a seriously fun season.
and they played like cow manure. i realize that they could've had the best record and still tanked in the season, but could one of our many baseball geniuses (not sarcastic) give some reasons to hope that the tigers aren't destined for a 75 win season? please.
Miguel and Victor didn't play much. Price and Sanchez pitched like shit, which won't keep up. I think the Tigers will have a very mediocre pitching staff, but their lineup looks like one of the best in baseball, if not the best. They should definitely contend for the division title and quite possibly the AL pennant, as there really aren't any great teams in the AL this year.
and i do hope i am a pessimist in all of this. i just think losing fister last year and scherzer this past off-season (though i totally get the economics behind that decision) just doesn't bode well for us. verlander hasn't been anything other than a decent, servicable starter the last couple of years, far from his super star past, and now he's hurt. v-mart is a star but rehabing. miggy is a stud, but is on the downhill side of his career too. good defense will certainly help, but arms and bats are the more important components and i just don't get the mojo for the tigers.
Can't wait for the Red Sox game tomorrow, skipping class to watch. This season can't be any worse than last year, right?
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Two worst words in the English language: baseball season.
Speaking as a non-baseball fan, it's actually a relief. I don't miss a UM football or basketball game, so it's kinda nice to have those time slots opened up for a few months!
I just be sitting here waiting for Harbaugh to tweet something until fall camp. Bowl season, signing day, spring practice, spring game and then N O T H I N G until August. It's terrible.
Baseball season equates to warm weather. There is a lot to like in that alone.
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Thanks to you and football heaven for reminding me why I would never live in the midwest.
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As you said, outdoor activities are limited to one season where you live. I like being outside year round, grilling on Super Bowl Sunday, never driving in snow etc.
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Don't know where you live, but I love MIchigan's 90 days of highs between 70 and 85. Rarely aboe 90. In fact, I can't imagine a better place for Summer than Ann Arbor (minus a beach, of course). The weather is simply perfect.
Yes, I know there are some rare locations that don't have seasons and don't have excruciating hot summers. They are, though, rare. Nothing is perfect and we can't all live in San Diego.
I lived in SD, we can't all live there. If you can afford to choose where you work, it's beautiful.
Nothing beats the Michigan fall tho. All 2 weeks of it.
...that's the problem. For fucks sake why do they play everyday? Why does the season take 7 months? We bemoan any team in any other sport that is .500 and reaches the playoffs but in baseball that is to be expected. If our 1st string QB only completed 3 out of 10 passes we would all be jumping off the damn ledge but in baseball that guy is considered a saint.
It's harder to make the playoffs in baseball than any other league, so I dunno what you're talking about. Also trying to hit a 95 mph fastball is A BIT more difficult than throwing a football.
or Japan. I actually thought those games didn't count - just an extended Spring Training.
Cincinnati used to own the first game/first pitch for a number of seasons. I'm glad that is over.
one of the nice things about summer is the ballgame every day. Oh, and golf, too. I can hardly wait.
End of NCAA basketball....Champions League (European football aka soccer) final, especially since Chelski has wrapped up the EPL = dead season for me.
Baseball season is too long, with too much to do when the weather is nice to care very much about it.
I'm a Detroit fan in Maryland, so I really do not care about the Orioles, Nationals, except when the Tigers wander into town
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Yeah that's one of the more baffling trades. Braves must've really wanted to get rid of Upton's contract
Still though, didn't look like much of a haul for the best closer in baseball. I mean Cameron Maybin? I didn't know that guy was still playing.
Like all flame throwing relievers, his career will not be long.
Our office is in the Galleria and we have a good view of the new stadium and all the road work needed to get in & out for games.
The new stadium location should be good for me and my family as we live a little north of it. I hope to catch more games with the family - I don't go downtown with them. We've gone to a few Rome Braves games and saw Chipper there during his last year.