Bruce Bochy is still the Giants' manager [snicker]

WORST ANTHEM SINGER EVER

Rosanne Barr just PM'd you.

This is kindof a fake Opening Day but I still like it.

Also, I love Austin Kearns for a sleeper this season in fantasy baseball :)

SI

He;s to young to remember that

Got my powder blue Royals jersey on at work today. Meche should pitch a dandy and we'll be 1-0.

I'm a little worried about the offense on a cold day in Detroit. Meche could pitch a dandy and we'd still lose 2-0 to Verlander. That said, here's to a good start of the season.

SI

Great day to be a baseball fan boys. Hope springs... for everybody. Woot.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone. -A. Bartlett Giamatti

I am amazed at all these talking heads who are predicting the Braves to win the NL east.

They have 2 over 40 pitchers in there rotation, a suspect closer and an injury prone third baseman. Not much speed at the top and a lineup that strikes out way to much.

Outside of Tex and McCann they have offensive questions at every position and Mark Kotsay is their opening day center fielder. Am I missing something here?

Shane, anyone who brings up that quote gets a serious man-crush (or in your case, boy-crush) from me. :)

Did anyone else buy the MLB.com GameDay Audio or the video package? I bought the GameDay audio so I could listen to the afternoon games at work. Great deal at $15 for the whole season for all team radio broadcasts.

I had the video package a couple of years ago when I lived in Baltimore and wanted to watch the Royals. That was a pretty good deal for the price as well.

Great, great Opening Day at Nationals Park. First batter faced? Strikeout. First pitch faced? Single. Last pitch faced? Homerun over the left field wall by none other than Ryan Zimmerman, the face of the Nationals. GO NATS!

and.. damn was it cold.

I believe Comcast's package is free today...

The Extra Innings package is usually free for the whole first week on all providers unless things have changed this year.

I got the audio package as I did last year. I really enjoy listening to the homers do the games.

Damn this weather

Man, that's awfully fun to listen to on the radio. :)

Yanks home opener canceled

Miguel Cabrera hits his first bomb as a Tiger

BOOM!!!! Gordon hit's a 2 run homer to cut it to a 3-2 Detroit lead. Great game thus far.

Good they have day off in case of rain for many of the openers this year.

I plan on resubscribing to GameDay once I'm situated in Wisconsin. I can't get the Dodger games in Southern California, so right now there's no point. ;)

I don't know what to think of the Jays this year. I don't think they're very strong at any aspect.

Wow. Justin Verlander hit a wall. He was cruising along with a 1 hitter for a long time. 1 inning later, he's out of the game.

Edit: There goes the lead. 3-3 tie and Verlander gets a no-decision.

True. They're not out of the inning yet. 2 on, 2 out. Or does the loss go to the reliever and the runs go to Verlander?

Edit: Royals just took the lead. Obviously the run is Verlander's, but I'm guessing that the reliever gets the loss for actually giving up the hit that gave the Royals the lead.

I have XM so I don't need the audio, but I always get the premium video package so I can watch the Mets games.

Well worth the $20 a month or so. 2 features I like alot are the mosaic where you can watch 6 games and the fact you can watch archived games so if you are busy you can watch the game later that night as if you DVR'd it.

Great win for the Royals to start it off. That was a fun game to listen to. I agree that the Gameday Audio package is a great deal and I use it to help pass the time at work. Good to see Gordon start off well also.

I'm trying out the video package for the first time this season because the Mosaic sounded very cool to me, and the Player Tracker sounded awesome if it works well. Getting ready to fire it up now and see how it plays.

Nice come-back for the WhiteSox...

Sheets and Zambrano showed why they were opening day starters today.

David Wright baby!!!

yeah Kerry Wood

Bah, 0-1. Though I got to say, I like that D-backs team that we went up against. Bunch of young guys, though I don't think it's a good sign when Eric Byrnes is hitting in your 3-hole.

except for that HR he crushed.

Is the Mets/Marlins game being broadcast with a home video camera?

Geez, did Eric Gagne steal Prince Feilders jersey or did he lose 100 pounds since going to the Brewers?

yeah Eric Gagne

FUKUDOMEEEEEEEEEE

I hope you are just playing devils advocate, or do you really believe a 32 year old with a career .780 OPS is a good fit for 3rd? Am I really an idiot for saying that just because he hit a homerun in the opener?

I have no idea what his age has anything to do with it.

He hits for decent average, doesn't strike out a ton, has some pop and a ton of speed. They aren't a high powered offense anyway.

I don't see the issue with him hitting third, not every team has a David Wright to put in the 3 hole

Ok, you are right in the sense of 1 season age has nothing to do with it so I will rephrase:

do you really believe a player with a career .780 OPS is a good fit for 3rd?


point being, i said i like the team but don't know if it's a good sign that they have byrnes hitting 3rd. if this was the giants, it's fine. but the dbacks are contenders. all i'm saying is that's kind of a weak ass 3rd hitter.

yer like teh dumbest resident of cincinnati ever

lol

Fuck A Dome comes out with one of the greatest debuts in Cubs history...and they blow it and lose.

So Cub.

If the go-ahead run is charged to Verlander, so is the loss.

Well, unless they tie the game again and THEN lose it, which is apparently what happened.

He hit 3rd last year and the DBacks won the most games in the NL. Arizona is full of #2 and #5 hitters. Still, they get on base a lot and force most teams into the pen early. There's a lot to like, they just are young and don't want to put too much pressure on guys and stick with Byrnes.

Might have won the most games in the NL, but they also got OUTSCORED as a whole on the entire season. Just sayin'.

so what?

I would rather win ugly then lose pretty

Again, the point is that while they won a nice amount of games, we can't just pretend that their lineup was as equal the reason as the pitching staff.

These are obvious rebuttals, how are you not picking up on them

pitching wins. period. As long as they score timely runs thats all that matters. I just don't understand your argument. It's not like Juan Pierre hitting third.