Baseball is Here

[MFS62]

Now that the position players have reported, the next milestone will be March 1.

No, not because it will be the first spring training game.

It will because that is when we will see a box score - to me it will be the sign that baseball has started.



What is yours?



Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Opening Day.

[ashie62]

Exhibition games.

[Fman99]

First televised ST game. Hearing GKR or some subset of them, calling a Mets game, live action on television.

[kcmets]

Schaeffer voting. I've devised a new personal approach for 2021.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Opening Day.

Same here. Excellent choice.

[G-Fafif]

It's all an appetizer until the first of (hopefully) 162 main courses. Appetizers are swell, mind you, but the meal begins Opening Day.

[Chad ochoseis]

=Fman99 post_id=56709 time=1614028934 user_id=86]
First televised ST game. Hearing GKR or some subset of them, calling a Mets game, live action on television.

[Fman99]

Looks like as per SNY's web site the first televised Grapefruit league game will be on Tuesday March 2nd at 1 PM. Mets vs. Astros. Replayed at 8 PM.

[Edgy MD]

I measure the arrival of baseball from the point of the first douchey Trevor Bauer tweet.

[Lefty Specialist]

=Fman99 post_id=56807 time=1614172221 user_id=86]
Looks like as per SNY's web site the first televised Grapefruit league game will be on Tuesday March 2nd at 1 PM. Mets vs. Astros. Replayed at 8 PM.

[Fman99]

Lefty Specialist wrote: =Fman99 post_id=56807 time=1614172221 user_id=86] Looks like as per SNY's web site the first televised Grapefruit league game will be on Tuesday March 2nd at 1 PM. Mets vs. Astros. Replayed at 8 PM.

Ah, the joys of working remotely. Don't have to wait for the replay.

[MFS62]

Another indication baseball is back.

Angel Hernandez is in mid-season form:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/mlb-spring-training-cardinals-jokes-umpire-angel-hernandez-midseason-form-missed-call-213743612.htmlhttps://www.yahoo.com/sports/mlb-spring-training-cardinals-jokes-umpire-angel-hernandez-midseason-form-missed-call-213743612.html



Later

[Edgy MD]

Please, let's not do blind links.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Please, let's not do blind links.

It was written by a Yahoo sports reporter, not a reprint from another source. Then they do reprint something, I would have labeled it such as "an AP story via Yahoo". This was their original story.



According to the St. Louis broadcasters, Angel blew a call in the very first inning.

St. Louis Cardinals Ángel Hernández was a trending topic on Twitter Sunday afternoon in a surefire sign that baseball is indeed back. The umpire is constantly under fire by fans and even players for bad calls. He is largely perceived as the worst umpire in all of baseball. To open the spring training slate, he was assigned the St. Louis Cardinals vs. Washington Nationals matchup in the Grapefruit League in Florida. And it appears the Cardinals announcers have been itching all offseason for a moment to deliver this joke: "And the 1-1 ... Ángel Hernández is in midseason form," Cardinals play-by-play announcer Dan McLaughlin joked on a ball call. "Let's not make this game too fast, Angel," his partner chimed in.

Later

[ashie62]

=kcmets post_id=56710 time=1614029065 user_id=53]
Schaeffer voting. I've devised a new personal approach for 2021.

[kcmets]

With single digit wind chills here, hearing GKR is heart warming exhibition or not.