** Official Opening Night Atlanta-Philadelphia Thread **

[charlie and algernon]

Let's Play Ball!


Post your BOLD predictions for the season!

Mine: Ryan Howard makes a serious run at the single season HR record

[motely36]

1. 'bout time!

:bounce:

[charlie and algernon]

2. yup! THIS is the official start of Spring

:woohoo:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

3. Here and psyched!

Baseball's Back! :woohoo:

[motely36]

4. hey...you just reminded me

I have to go look for your LOLcat thread

:hi:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. Go Phillies!

Philly and Reading!! :)

[motely36]

11. I have opening night tix for Reading

Thursday night :woohoo:

[charlie and algernon]

12. nice!

I scored opening night Tix to the Bowie Baysox NEXT Thursday

[SalmonChantedEvening]

13. sweet!

[TZ]

6. Play ball!

I would like to say the Nats get to .500...flvegan to mock me in 3-2-1

[charlie and algernon]

7. 1st HR of the season from Brian McCann

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. Moon shot

Wow

[TZ]

9. I can hear the cursing from BeachBaby

From here...:hide:

[EastTennesseeDem]

10. By my avatar, you already know how biased I am, BUT

Adam Wainwright and Chris Carpenter will stay healthy for Saint Louis; Jason Motte will prove to be the closer they so desperately needed last year.

AL East: Rays
AL Central: Twins
AL West: Angels
AL Wild Card: Yankees
AL Cy Young: C.C. Sabathia (NYY)
AL MVP: Evan Longoria (TB)

NL East: Phillies
NL Central: Cardinals
NL West: Giants
NL Wild Card: Cubs
NL Cy Young: Tim Lincecum (SF)
NL MVP: Albert Pujols (STL)

World Series: Cardinals over Rays in seven B-)

[charlie and algernon]

14. Myers is throwing beachballs tonight

[flvegan]

15. It was a long, cold winter.

And now it's over.

[tekisui]

16. Can MLB games still not be streamed online?

[flvegan]

17. Only on mlb.tv. If you have cable, ESPN2 is carrying it.

I should say, that is unless ESPN2's site is streaming it, which last I checked, they don't.

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. When I move, I'm totally getting mlb.tv

It requires a minimum 350 kb connection, and out here in the burboonies the best I can do is about 300. x(

But, hell — $79.95 for every freakin' game? Kicks the royal ass of cable or satellite. :thumbsup:

[flvegan]

31. Don't tell, but I'm buying it for my mom.

I'd love to have it, but she'd love it more. Happy Easter, mum.

Next year, maybe I'll get it as well.

[mvd]

18. I hope the Phils avoid the slow start this year

Tonight's game isn't encouraging. Their pitching might have overperformed last year. But it's still 1 out of 162 games.

[charlie and algernon]

19. what the hell's up with the Philly fans?

TWO fan interference calls?!

[TK421]

20. Phillies are getting their asses kicked last time I checked in

4-0

[bigwillq]

21. I was just going to post the same thing.

:) In those exact same words.

[TK421]

23. Great minds think alike....all that.....

:thumbsup:

[rockymountaindem]

22. Red Sox start tomorrow!

And I will be stuck in class =(

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. An Opening Day without Cincinnati doesn't count

:P

[Reverend_Smitty]

27. So I guess "real" Opening Day doesn't begin until 1:10 tomorrow?

I can't believe that I actually rooted for the Braves tonight...Gah! I feel so dirty!

[LoveMyCali]

28. I feel your pain

but I considered rooting for the Braves the lesser of two evils. I still couldn't bring myself to cheer for Chipper Jones though, you have to draw the line somewhere.

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Eh, they kicked that tradition several years ago

ESPN wanted the opener on a Sunday night, and money trumps all. :eyes:

Dunno if you're old enough to remember, but it used to be that Cincinnati played the only Opening Day game, at home on a Monday, a tradition borne of their status as the first professional ball club. Everybody else started the next day while the Reds got that day off.

Trivia: Hank Aaron hit no. 714 on Opening Day, 1974 (my 18th birthday) in Cincinnati off Jack Billingham with his first swing of the season. They were off the next day and Aaron sat on the 6th, and was supposed to sit on the 7th so he could break Ruth's record at home, but Bowie Fuckface Kuhn told the Braves to play him on the 7th. (He went 0 for 2.)

[TZ]

33. That's what my stepmother in Cinci said today

She was ignoring today as the opener

[RT Atlanta]

25. Go Braves!

n/t

[charlie and algernon]

26. i guess the phillies are going 0-162 this year

[elleng]

32. Oh s***!

My son in law to be will be UNBEARABLE!