2021 MLB Regular Season thread

Tell the GM to get on it.

 

Wha wha whaaaaaa

 

This is what you would hear on the Great Voice of the Great Lakes when Ernie and Paul would hit the airwaves

 

That sounds like the music from "Movietone News" or those other newsreels you'd see when I was a kid.

 

In the 20th century, that style of music usually was associated with Paris changing ownership yet again.

 

I had hoped to Dodge all this, but here we go.

 

It says a lot about the Tigers over the last few years when all they've been able to pick up are Edsels.

 

So much for "Fullerton State" ...

Around the 3:50 mark.

Sandi Koto of the San Gabriel Valley Part 1

Inspirational if your daughter loves to play baseball.

 

It probably was picked by WJR because it was the right length for Paul Carey to tell us Tiger baseball is brought to you by your Metro Detroit Ford dealers, Stroh’s, Vernor’s, Better Made potato chips, etc.

 

Seems a good place for this to land.

 

I admired Posey sooooomuch I/we named our dog after him. However he recently came strongly out against the shift and I can’t disagree any more. Learn to adjust. Yeah sucks for you now but youngsters are learning now how to succeed against it. Did we outlaw the slider? Split? The rule is 9 defenders. Adjust.

 

A couple points, as one of the few White Sox fans remaining at SJ.com:

1. I've been alive just long enough to remember when Wrigley Field was a ghost town in the 1970s and early 1980s. Great neighborhood? Day baseball? Let's play two? They struggled to draw more than 20,000 to their games. Hiring Harry Carey at the same time many basic cable plans picked up WGN turned Wrigley Field into a tourist attraction (and the success of the 1984 team in the midst of all that certainly helped).

2. Rick Stain makes a good point about the Cubs/Cardinals rivalry being a bigger deal in "downstate" Illinois (anywhere outside the Chicago area). But when the White Sox won the World Series, I knew quite a few Cub fans around the country who held their nose and cheered for the Astros. It bothered the hell out of them that among two title-starved Chicago baseball teams, the White Sox won it all first.