Baseball: Opening Day Observations

[+ Lucky]

It takes two balls to hurt a Philly player! His own!

https://nypost.com/2020/08/21/phillies-pitcher-jose-alvarez-carted-off-after-line-drive-to-private-parts/

 

Video: https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/video/jose-alvarez-still-makes-incredible-play-after-scary-comebacker

[wklukas]

I have been trying to leave space for @wklukas to post in this thread, but since has yet to do so, may I take this moment to lament that the Mets-Yankees Subway Series this weekend is in jeopardy? Coronavirus has hit the Mets, and tonight's game has been postponed. Now I will have to spend more time here than watching the game.

 

No, I’m giving you wide berth here to do whatever your thing is....aside from tennis & horse racing, pro sports aren’t often my “thing” (college, oui / pro, nyet)

except my own baseball “claim to fame” — Oct 17, 1989....w/my Dad at the ‘stick for game #3.....perfect afternoon until the earthquake hit....no real panic but a lot of confusion.....no real easy way for us to get home to our city house (Pacific Heights) much less the country house in Marin....we get in the car & my Dad drives south to Monterey / Pebble Beach.....we play golf & chill for 3 days until some of the dust settles up north....

more baseball....over the years, lucky enough to have summertime biz trips into Chicago a few times when the Cubs have a home stand.....some nice afternoons at Wrigley taking some time out to smell the roses, errrrr the grass......

[MikeBiDude]

aside from tennis & horse racing

What? A fellow handicapping railbird on the forum?

[+ WilliamM]

What? A fellow handicapping railbird on the forum?

 

I will take both, although I have not bet for decades.

[+ Lucky]

No, I’m giving you wide berth here to do whatever your thing is....aside from tennis & horse racing, pro sports aren’t often my “thing” (college, oui / pro, nyet)

except my own baseball “claim to fame” — Oct 17, 1989....w/my Dad at the ‘stick for game #3.....perfect afternoon until the earthquake hit....no real panic but a lot of confusion.....no real easy way for us to get home to our city house (Pacific Heights) much less the country house in Marin....we get in the car & my Dad drives south to Monterey / Pebble Beach.....we play golf & chill for 3 days until some of the dust settles up north....

more baseball....over the years, lucky enough to have summertime biz trips into Chicago a few times when the Cubs have a home stand.....some nice afternoons at Wrigley taking some time out to smell the roses, errrrr the grass......

That story was worth waiting for!

[+ WilliamM]

On a covid season from hell for the St. Louis Cardinals, Thirty-nine year old Adam Wainwright pitched a complete game victory over the Cleveland Indians on his birthday.