MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

Especially when a pound of chicken costs $3 and a gallon of gas cost $4 or more in many places. Who has any money left for baseball games?

 

I’m guessing the weather might have been a bit nicer in Anaheim than it’s been in Chicago.

Tonight’s White Sox-Mariners game was played at times in a complete downpour, while a storm front raged through. Judging from what I saw on TV 1,900 miles away, maybe a couple thousand fans were there.

 

Brewers-Cubs at Wrigley was the first game of the MLB season … on the rescheduled 4/7 Opening Day.

Their original home opener was originally scheduled for Monday 4/4.

 

"Well you know, Suzyn, you just can never tell what will happen in baseball.:"

 

In terms of sports, I don’t know of anything that would make me more angry than being a Blue Jay or Yankee fan riding in my car and hearing that call. Bait and switch with your emotions.

 

A good six or eight feet from the wall when he caught it.

Is he in person?

 

yes he is on site

 

Near the end of his career Harry Caray had trouble tracking fly balls
More than once he called a ball foul before proclaiming: “Oh, the WIND blew that back in play for the out.”

 

Sterling has been making calls like that for a long time. Read that he watches the monitor and not the field. The camera work was very bad. On TV, I thought it was 15 rows deep.

But no, that can’t happen.

 

Ralph Kiner used to do the same exact thing.

Never forget in 1988 I was watching WWOR as the hated Mets played the Dodgers in LA and, to my delight, the Dodgers were rallying. Mike Marshall hit one down to right and Kiner bellowed, "Marshall hits a towering drive down the right field line and...that ball is....gone."

And then a second later, Darryl Strawberry caught it and jogged off the field.

Kiner said, "And that'll retire the Dodgers in the sixth. And now, a message from Manufacturer's Hanover."

As 12-year-old BYM2 wondered if he was suffering from dementia.