MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

[Starman]

Here we go: preseason openers through World Series.

Four Green Hat games Thursday including the Cubs/Sox playing a 7-inning doubleheader. Pretty much everybody else is off and running Friday.

 

[Starman]

Touted Tigers OF prospect Riley Greene goes opposite field for a second inning homer against the Phillies, joining Akil Baddoo in a back to back homer combo.

 

[Starman]

The closed captioning of the NBCSN broadcast of the Tigers-Pirates game just called Steve Blass "Steve Blast."

 

[maumann]

Touted Tigers OF prospect Riley Greene goes opposite field for a second inning homer against the Phillies, joining Akil Baddoo in a back to back homer combo.

Gwen wore her Tigers hat to the Valspar yesterday, and around a dozen people stopped us to talk about Greene and Torkelson. There's a positive buzz for now.

 

[UNCGrad]

Even as a lifelong Cubs fan, my favorite player as a kid was Donnie Baseball. By a lot.

I will weep watching this:

 

[goalmouth]

Per the thread title, dropped the YES network from my cable package so I can afford tickets for Macca and the rest of the Wheelchairs Assemble acts coming through this summer.

 

[Starman]

I've seen Paul five or six times, about the same as the Stones.
If Bruce and the ESB come out one last time, maybe I'll go. But no more 12-day, 8-show grand tours.

 

[Batman]

Even as a lifelong Cubs fan, my favorite player as a kid was Donnie Baseball. By a lot.

I will weep watching this:

The only Yankee that has his number retired who never won a World Series. But for Yankees fans who grew up in that era between the dynasties of the late 70s and late 90s, it's no stretch to say he's as beloved as Mantle or Dimaggio were to fans of their era.

And they showed a second of it in the trailer, but this will forever be Mattingly's greatest highlight IMO.

 

[mpcincal]

I'll always remember Tsuyoshi Shinjo as the next-to-last out in the Angels' World Series victory in 2002, but as the new manager of the Nippom Ham Fighters (Shohei Ohtani's former team), he's sure trying to get a lot of attention:

'Big Boss' era begins in appropriate fashion

 

[Starman]

We need a team called the Ham Fighters. Better than "Guardians."

 

[HanSenSE]

We need a team called the Ham Fighters. Better than "Guardians."

It's the Nippon Ham Fighters. Nippon Ham owns the team. Just like the Tokyo Giants' square name is the Yomiuri Giants.

I'll always remember Tsuyoshi Shinjo as the next-to-last out in the Angels' World Series victory in 2002, but as the new manager of the Nippom Ham Fighters (Shohei Ohtani's former team), he's sure trying to get a lot of attention:

'Big Boss' era begins in appropriate fashion

Translation: This will not end well.

 

[Starman]

I know, but we still need a team called the Ham Fighters.

 

[HanSenSE]

I know, but we still need a team called the Ham Fighters.

"How you going to pound that Budweiser tonight if you don't fight that ham today?" - Joe Schultz, misquoted.

 

[DanOregon]

I have to think the shrinking of the minors and their efforts to stall a player from gaining free agency as long as possible are two parts of the same piece. As college baseball has improved, with more top players going to college (just a third of first round picks were HS players), MLB teams are a) relying on their play in college to deliver a better prospect for potential MLB success with more data and less risk involved in drafting them, and b) they aren't paying for those years of development and c) they'll still stick a guy from college in the minors for two years meaning by the time they DO hit their FA year, they'll be 29 or so and the team probably enjoyed the bulk of their productivity under the team control.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Quite a weekend for this kid:

 

[DanOregon]

Is there any sport that Texas used to be good in that they still are good in?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[micropolitan guy]

WTF has happened to Cody Bellinger? I'm pretty concerned if I'm the Dodgers.

 

[MileHigh]

As there's a drive into deep left field

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

The long and winding road

That leads to the Astros and Dodgers in the WS