The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

Happy Opening Day, SJ. We made it through.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Or when you're 47.

Go Cubs.

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

 

“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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

Fuck cancer part No. 10