2021 MLB Regular Season thread

And if the umps had a collective conscience they wouldn't issue a gutless warning as they always do.
I can't understand how replay didn't overturn it.

 

Blue Jays hosting their first game in Dunedin and it's looking like a Coors Field game. It's 3-3 in the middle of the second, including a bomb from Vlad Jr.

 

What kind of dumbass scheduling is MLB doing, giving a Friday off?

 

Not reviewable, for some fucking reason.

 

Mets home opener, pretty much standard to have a makeup day in case it's rainout.

 

Watching the Jays-Angels game. Looks like they’ve done a fantastic job of sprucing up the little park in Dunedin.

 

Most -- but not all -- subjective things or issues of intent are not reviewable. They are able to get around this with the catcher-blocking-the-plate rule by wording the rule to prohibit standing on the third base side of home plate before possessing the ball. With this Mets-Marlins thing,

 

Not noted as yet in the conforto mets-Marlins thing - conforto was also hit by a similar pitch in the 5th inning (Detwiler pitching)

 

Then baseball replay, like every other sport, has become utterly useless.

 

Agreed.

But this is his 50th and final season.

Retiring Shannon to be saluted Thursday at Cardinals' home opener

 

MLB Investigating "Suspicious Baseballs" From Trevor Bauer's Latest Start

 

Rays home opener is today
Crowds of up to 7,000
Which is about what they got pre pandemic