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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:01 pm 
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i don't like this set up. this lone TB/NYY game feels strange. i know they do the sunday night thing now but monday still feels like the actual opening day.

Yeah, it's stupid that they watered it down. At least it's not as bad as having two teams start in Japan like a week early or whatever that stupid shit was.

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i don't like this set up. this lone TB/NYY game feels strange. i know they do the sunday night thing now but monday still feels like the actual opening day.


and the Reds at home should always be the first game of the season

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They pitch around him. Albert's eye is just so good. And they have Holliday and Ludwick behind him.

Don't forget about Rasmus. He is going to have a break out year.

I agree. He's a top 20 OF by the end of this year.


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...or opening day. Depending on how you feel about it.

I got a wire from Toots Shor in Anahiem before the game. It said, "Good luck, Jim. I hope you pitch often and win many games." Who says Toots never talks to has beens?

Actually, I don’t know Toots that well. I’ve been in his place a few times and once when I was going bad he told me my whole problem was that I was striding three inches too far and if I just shortened up on the stride by those three inches everything would be fine. I was so desperate I actually tried it. It didn’t help.

Everyone works out pregame nervousness in his own way. Tommy Davis was standing in the middle of the clubhouse taking a hitting stance with no bat in his hands, anticipating the pitching, striding into it, checking his swing, and then going back and doing it all over again. It reminded me of a guy going over his notes just before a final exam knowing all the time that it wasn’t going to do any good. If you don’t have it by now, Tommy, you’re never going to.

There was a lot of grousing about th uniforms. It isn’t only that they don’t fit (no baseball uniforms fit, possibly because you are carefully measured for them). Its thats they’re so gaudy. I guess thats because we’re the Pilots and we have to have captain’s uniforms. They have stripes on the sleeves, scrambled eggs on the peak of the cap, and blue socks with yellow stripes. Also, there are blue and yellow stripes down the sides of the pants. We look like goddam clowns. There only worse looking uniforms are the ones they wear in Vancouver.

Naturally, we won our first game. Beat the Angels 4-3. Mike Hegan hit the first home run for the Pilots and Joe Schultz, jumping up and down in the dugout, clapped his hands and actually yelled, "Hurray for our team."

When we came into the clubhouse, all of us yelling and screaming like a bunch of high school kids, Joe Schultz said, "Stomp on ’em. That-a-way to stomp on ’em. Kick ’em when they’re down. Shitfuck. Fuckshit. Now go out and pound the ol’ Budweiser and stomp ’em tommorow. Stomp ’em good."

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Frank Coztansa wrote:
...or opening day. Depending on how you feel about it.

I got a wire from Toots Shor in Anahiem before the game. It said, "Good luck, Jim. I hope you pitch often and win many games." Who says Toots never talks to has beens?

Actually, I don’t know Toots that well. I’ve been in his place a few times and once when I was going bad he told me my whole problem was that I was striding three inches too far and if I just shortened up on the stride by those three inches everything would be fine. I was so desperate I actually tried it. It didn’t help.

Everyone works out pregame nervousness in his own way. Tommy Davis was standing in the middle of the clubhouse taking a hitting stance with no bat in his hands, anticipating the pitching, striding into it, checking his swing, and then going back and doing it all over again. It reminded me of a guy going over his notes just before a final exam knowing all the time that it wasn’t going to do any good. If you don’t have it by now, Tommy, you’re never going to.

There was a lot of grousing about th uniforms. It isn’t only that they don’t fit (no baseball uniforms fit, possibly because you are carefully measured for them). Its thats they’re so gaudy. I guess thats because we’re the Pilots and we have to have captain’s uniforms. They have stripes on the sleeves, scrambled eggs on the peak of the cap, and blue socks with yellow stripes. Also, there are blue and yellow stripes down the sides of the pants. We look like goddam clowns. There only worse looking uniforms are the ones they wear in Vancouver.

Naturally, we won our first game. Beat the Angels 4-3. Mike Hegan hit the first home run for the Pilots and Joe Schultz, jumping up and down in the dugout, clapped his hands and actually yelled, "Hurray for our team."

When we came into the clubhouse, all of us yelling and screaming like a bunch of high school kids, Joe Schultz said, "Stomp on ’em. That-a-way to stomp on ’em. Kick ’em when they’re down. Shitfuck. Fuckshit. Now go out and pound the ol’ Budweiser and stomp ’em tommorow. Stomp ’em good."

Already we’re better than the Mets.

-Jim Bouton, Ball Four pp. 103-4
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Jordan Zimmerman working a perfecto through 6 for Detroit

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That didn't take long. Harper booed after his second K. Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love! :lol:

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Chris Sale got his ass kicked in in Seattle. 7 runs, two HR to the light hitting Tim Beckham. And the Seattle radio guys said that Sale's velocity wasn't even hitting 92.

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Chet Coppock's Fur Coat wrote:
Chris Sale got his ass kicked in in Seattle. 7 runs, two HR to the light hitting Tim Beckham. And the Seattle radio guys said that Sale's velocity wasn't even hitting 92.


Good. Hope he tears his elbow.

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Watching the Padres and Tatis looks like what I hoped Eloy would look like.

Confident at the plate and driving the ball.

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Looking forward to following the Joe Maddon led Angels this year and watching Mike Trout on a more regular basis. It's cool that Joe is is home. He said tonight "an Angels uniform is the most comfortable uniform I could possibly wear."


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Ron Wolfley wrote:
Looking forward to following the Joe Maddon led Angels this year and watching Mike Trout on a more regular basis. It's cool that Joe is is home. He said tonight "an Angels uniform is the most comfortable uniform I could possibly wear."

That's because he is not wearing pants.

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Frank Coztansa wrote:
...or opening day. Depending on how you feel about it.

I got a wire from Toots Shor in Anahiem before the game. It said, "Good luck, Jim. I hope you pitch often and win many games." Who says Toots never talks to has beens?

Actually, I don’t know Toots that well. I’ve been in his place a few times and once when I was going bad he told me my whole problem was that I was striding three inches too far and if I just shortened up on the stride by those three inches everything would be fine. I was so desperate I actually tried it. It didn’t help.

Everyone works out pregame nervousness in his own way. Tommy Davis was standing in the middle of the clubhouse taking a hitting stance with no bat in his hands, anticipating the pitching, striding into it, checking his swing, and then going back and doing it all over again. It reminded me of a guy going over his notes just before a final exam knowing all the time that it wasn’t going to do any good. If you don’t have it by now, Tommy, you’re never going to.

There was a lot of grousing about th uniforms. It isn’t only that they don’t fit (no baseball uniforms fit, possibly because you are carefully measured for them). Its thats they’re so gaudy. I guess thats because we’re the Pilots and we have to have captain’s uniforms. They have stripes on the sleeves, scrambled eggs on the peak of the cap, and blue socks with yellow stripes. Also, there are blue and yellow stripes down the sides of the pants. We look like goddam clowns. There only worse looking uniforms are the ones they wear in Vancouver.

Naturally, we won our first game. Beat the Angels 4-3. Mike Hegan hit the first home run for the Pilots and Joe Schultz, jumping up and down in the dugout, clapped his hands and actually yelled, "Hurray for our team."

When we came into the clubhouse, all of us yelling and screaming like a bunch of high school kids, Joe Schultz said, "Stomp on ’em. That-a-way to stomp on ’em. Kick ’em when they’re down. Shitfuck. Fuckshit. Now go out and pound the ol’ Budweiser and stomp ’em tommorow. Stomp ’em good."

Already we’re better than the Mets.

-Jim Bouton, Ball Four pp. 103-4
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Mets-Nationals game cancelled.

COVID.

Red Sox-Orioles game cancelled.

RAIN.

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Well, that didn't take long.


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Mets-Nationals game cancelled.

COVID.

Red Sox-Orioles game cancelled.

RAIN.

Boo this man!!!!

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Been saying for years to start the season at warm weather cities and teams with domed stadiums. at least for the first week.


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Right. It never rains in warm climates.


Mets Nats should play tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday. Get taxi squad players up ASAP. No reason to keep things stopped for more than 48 hours at this point with Covid.

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An especially nice Opening Day for Frankie Lindor!

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An especially nice Opening Day for Frankie Lindor!

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My joy in opening day is being severely hampered by the knowledge that there is going to be so many dead grandmas in Texas 2 weeks from now. PLAY BALL !!

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blizzard going on right now in Detroit. Miggy just homered in the snow.


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blizzard going on right now in Detroit. Miggy just homered in the snow.


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HawaiiYou wrote:
blizzard going on right now in Detroit. Miggy just homered in the snow.

I thought you didn't have a TV
Neither of you have brains.

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blizzard going on right now in Detroit. Miggy just homered in the snow.

I thought you didn't have a TV
Neither of you have brains.


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