The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

[2muchcoffeeman]

Happy Opening Day, SJ. We made it through.

 

[User 149557]

I cannot believe its been 20 years since the Indians and Orioles started the season in this:

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Sitting in the dugout before one Opening Day in the '90s, that true blue Florida Man (in every sense of the term) Wade Boggs looked around and asked nobody in particular, "why do we spend six weeks in Florida working out and playing in 80-degree weather to come back here and play when it's 30?" No one answered Boggs. Nobody ever has answered that question.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

At least this season MLB showed the good sense to have Detroit and Tampa Bay open in Florida rather than in Detroit (where it was 22 degrees at 8 a.m.). I frequently believe — crossthread! — that MLB is rooting for global warming in order to have more Opening Day games in the northeast.

 

[User 149557]

I’m all for Cleveland never having a home opener on Opening Day. Dome it or West Coast. Every year.

I also had forgotten that as a kid you felt like the world depended on your team winning opening day. There was an off day likely scheduled the next day and those 48 hours felt like an eternity when you’re 10.

 

[UNCGrad]

Or when you're 47.

Go Cubs.

"Opening day - or Opening Day. Depending on how you feel about it."

I’m all for Cleveland never having a home opener on Opening Day. Dome it or West Coast. Every year.

I also had forgotten that as a kid you felt like the world depended on your team winning opening day. There was an off day likely scheduled the next day and those 48 hours felt like an eternity when you’re 10.

 

[User 149557]

Or when you're 47.

Go Cubs.

“You’ve got your title. CHILL.” - me bitterly to my wife every year since 2016

Don’t get married four weeks before your two desperate franchises square off in the greatest World Series ever played. We refused to talk to each other FOUR WEEKS INTO OUR MARRIAGE.

It was like living in a sitcom.

Then Trump got elected. I still blame the Cubs.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

On Opening Day the minor leagues are now unionized

Sources: Minor leaguers, MLB reach deal on CBA

Just saw this was in the old thread
Hope nobody minds if I just leave this here

 

[UNCGrad]

Completely fair. I only ever asked for one, and I'll always be grateful for 2016.

“You’ve got your title. CHILL.” - me bitterly to my wife every year since 2016

Don’t get married four weeks before your two desperate franchises square off in the greatest World Series ever played. We refused to talk to each other FOUR WEEKS INTO OUR MARRIAGE.

It was like living in a sitcom.

Then Trump got elected. I still blame the Cubs.

 

[maumann]

Hope your various teams have good seasons with exciting games and talented players. (I'm sorry about the A's, Rockies and Nationals.)

Tigers open at Tampa Bay and Houston, and proceed to play 47 of their first 50 games against teams who finished .500 or better in 2022. Even the schedule maker hates Detroit. It's gotten to the point where 63 wins is the goal, just to avoid another 100-loss season.

1984 is a very long time ago.

 

[Cosmo]

Cautiously optimistic about this Orioles team. Hoping to catch the end of the opener after work.

 

[Spartan Squad]

**** cancer part No. 10

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Hope your various teams have good seasons with exciting games and talented players. (I'm sorry about the A's, Rockies and Nationals.)

Tigers open at Tampa Bay and Houston, and proceed to play 47 of their first 50 games against teams who finished .500 or better in 2022. Even the schedule maker hates Detroit. It's gotten to the point where 63 wins is the goal, just to avoid another 100-loss season.

1984 is a very long time ago.

I am as disinterested in the Tigers after last season than I have been in a long time
Might go Sunday but might not because I am not a fan of the Trop

 

[Huggy]

Obviously a ton of optimism here in Toronto. I am off today so looking forward to this afternoon's opener in St. Louis and as noted upthread, dismayed tomorrow is an off day!

 

[Regan MacNeil]

I stopped living and dying with every Cubs pitch after 2016. My overall interest in MLB has similarly waned.

Then again, so has my overall interest (fanaticism level?) in every sport since I stopped working in sports in 2016.

 

[CD Boogie]

I haven't been this excited for a new baseball season since I was a kid. All the new rules are gonna have a dramatic impact and I'm here for it. LFG!

8 changes fans need to know for the '23 season

The one thing I hate about the beginning of the season is the built-in off day following Opening Day in cold weather climates. I know why they do it -- because of the threat of cancellation -- but it's such a comedown after the excitement of opening day. Like having your bye week in the NFL in week two.

 

[playthrough]

Been to two Cincinnati Reds Opening Days -- 1996 when John McSherry dropped dead, and 2019 one year before the world shut down. The fact that the Reds aren't the actual first game of the season still bothers me, and get off my lawn.

 

[CD Boogie]

Been to two Cincinnati Reds Opening Days -- 1996 when John McSherry dropped dead, and 2019 one year before the world shut down. The fact that the Reds aren't the actual first game of the season still bothers me, and get off my lawn.

Why did that get rid of that tradition?

 

[playthrough]

Why did that get rid of that tradition?

IIRC, ESPN had a night opener one year and with that the horse was out of the barn. The Reds will never open at night because of the Findlay Market Parade.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Local TV weatherman noted that the temperature at today's Sox opener at Fenway for the first pitch is expected to be 10 degrees colder than it was for the Winter Classic at Fenway in January.