Red Mosquito

Go Opening Day.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Go Opening Day.

spike wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Go Opening Day.

Haven't been this jazzed for an opening day in a while. Excited for the season in general and more specifically, the Blue Jays. On paper, it seems like they have all the boxes ticked.

Go Cards!

Even though we're gonna suck ballz, let's go Red Sox!

St. Louis sure has a beautiful stadium to host Opening Day in.

so excited to leave LA after 12 years and not being able to watch dodger games and move to Seattle and not being able to watch the mariner games....go baseball

doug rr wrote:so excited to leave LA after 12 years and not being able to watch dodger games and move to Seattle and not being able to watch the mariner games....go baseball

I thought you’d sworn off watching baseball? What changed?

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:so excited to leave LA after 12 years and not being able to watch dodger games and move to Seattle and not being able to watch the mariner games....go baseball

I thought you’d sworn off watching baseball? What changed?

my interest went up now since games are 2.5 hours long

doug rr wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:so excited to leave LA after 12 years and not being able to watch dodger games and move to Seattle and not being able to watch the mariner games....go baseball

I thought you’d sworn off watching baseball? What changed?

my interest went up now since games are 2.5 hours long

A 2:21 game time was very welcome in the Chicago cold yesterday. I wasn’t sure I was going to make it around the fifth.

The M’s redeveloped this big bar / restaurant complex across the street from the stadium. Huge crowds last night obviously. There was a (long) main line to get in from the front. But on the side you could enter the parking lot through on open gate. We did that, and noticed a second entrance door right next to the one with the long line. I walked right in. Apparently the other guys I was with got stopped and were told “two hour wait” but pointed at me and said they’re with me. Walked right in, just as some people were getting up to go and gave is their barstools. And our bartender was fucking hot.

Oh and first pitch 7:10, game ended 9:26. Fuck yeah.

Cardinals / blue jays on Thursday was 3:38

So much for that pitch clock!

There were 34 hits combined so that had something to do with it.

Let’s determine the conditions under which the pitch clock should come off.

8th inning or later, less than 3 run difference in score.

I may actually be interested in baseball again if this pitch clock works!

Yeah 20 hits, 3 errors, 10 walks so far in the M’s game. This one will exceed 3 hours. I’m tired!

I think we’re still in spring training mode. Get a month or two into the season when they are more used to the pitch clock, and we’ll see it settle in nicely.

I do believe the pitch clock is worse for team on defense as if the opposing team knock out a few hits or walks in a row, the pitcher can’t slow down the game to “reset”.

blueviper wrote:I think we’re still in spring training mode. Get a month or two into the season when they are more used to the pitch clock, and we’ll see it settle in nicely.

I do believe the pitch clock is worse for team on defense as if the opposing team knock out a few hits or walks in a row, the pitcher can’t slow down the game to “reset”.

Yeah this happened in our game last night. It really spiraled quickly.

The day off after Opening Day is the absolute worst every year.

blueviper wrote:I think we’re still in spring training mode. Get a month or two into the season when they are more used to the pitch clock, and we’ll see it settle in nicely.

I do believe the pitch clock is worse for team on defense as if the opposing team knock out a few hits or walks in a row, the pitcher can’t slow down the game to “reset”.

Not being able to slow things down and kill time when a pitcher is struggling to allow the relievers to warm up is going to be a big factor. We're going to see a lot more big innings because of it I think.