MLB: 2014 Regular Season Thread

8-10

It begins imminently! Very strange hearing the Australian national anthem being sung before a game. But when's the last time a game was played at a more convenient time in Ireland than in the States!

Play ball!

Itssoeasy

8-10 wrote: »

It begins imminently! Very strange hearing the Australian national anthem being sung before a game. But when's the last time a game was played at a more convenient time in Ireland than in the States!

Play ball!

I know I'm sitting here and thinking I could get used to this.

jack presley

Yeah, a great way to start a Saturday. The game itself wasn't great but it was great to have real games back.

smackbunnybaby

Rangers news:

:-)

Soto out 10-12 weeks.
Profar probably similar.
Darvish touch and go for opening day.

jack presley

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Rangers news:

:-)

Soto out 10-12 weeks.
Profar probably similar.
Darvish touch and go for opening day.

Are there more injuries this season compared to other years or are they just happening to higher profile players or getting reported more? Every team seems to have a load of players out but I can't remember is this season any different to others.

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

jack presley wrote: »

Are there more injuries this season compared to other years or are they just happening to higher profile players or getting reported more? Every team seems to have a load of players out but I can't remember is this season any different to others.

Probably about the same amount of injuries it just has happened to higher profile players.

Benimar

Tanner Scheppers named the Rangers Opening Day starter, his first start EVER!

jack presley

Benimar wrote: »

Tanner Scheppers named the Rangers Opening Day starter, his first start EVER!

So no pressure then?

jack presley

Opening day payrolls. Dodgers overtake the Yankees for the number one spot. The usual suspects after that.

1. LA Dodgers $235,295,219
2. NY Yankees $203,812,506
3. Philadelphia Phillies $180,052,723
4. Boston Red Sox $162,817,411
5. Detroit Tigers $162,228,527
6. LA Angels $155,692,000
7. San Francisco Giants $154,185,878
8. Texas Rangers $136,036,172
9. Washington Nationals $134,704,437
10. Toronto Blue Jays $132,628,700
11. Arizona Diamondbacks $112,688,666
12. Cincinnati Reds $112,390,772
13. St. Louis Cardinals $111,020,360
14. Atlanta Braves $110,897,341
15. Baltimore Orioles $107,406,623
16. Milwaukee Brewers $103,844,806
17. Colorado Rockies $95,832,071
18. Seattle Mariners $92,081,943
19. Kansas City Royals $92,034,345
20. Chicago White Sox $91,159,254
21. San Diego Padres $90,094,196
22. NY Mets $89,051,758
23. Chicago Cubs $89,007,857
24. Minnesota Twins $85,776,500
25. Oakland A's $83,401,400
26. Cleveland Indians $82,534,800
27. Pittsburgh Pirates $78,111,667
28. Tampa Bay Rays $77,062,891
29. Miami Marlins $47,565,400
30. Houston Astros $44,544,174

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

jack presley wrote: »

Opening day payrolls. Dodgers overtake the Yankees for the number one spot. The usual suspects after that.

1. LA Dodgers $235,295,219
2. NY Yankees $203,812,506
3. Philadelphia Phillies $180,052,723
4. Boston Red Sox $162,817,411
5. Detroit Tigers $162,228,527
6. LA Angels $155,692,000
7. San Francisco Giants $154,185,878
8. Texas Rangers $136,036,172
9. Washington Nationals $134,704,437
10. Toronto Blue Jays $132,628,700
11. Arizona Diamondbacks $112,688,666
12. Cincinnati Reds $112,390,772
13. St. Louis Cardinals $111,020,360
14. Atlanta Braves $110,897,341
15. Baltimore Orioles $107,406,623
16. Milwaukee Brewers $103,844,806
17. Colorado Rockies $95,832,071
18. Seattle Mariners $92,081,943
19. Kansas City Royals $92,034,345
20. Chicago White Sox $91,159,254
21. San Diego Padres $90,094,196
22. NY Mets $89,051,758
23. Chicago Cubs $89,007,857
24. Minnesota Twins $85,776,500
25. Oakland A's $83,401,400
26. Cleveland Indians $82,534,800
27. Pittsburgh Pirates $78,111,667
28. Tampa Bay Rays $77,062,891
29. Miami Marlins $47,565,400
30. Houston Astros $44,544,174

When you look at that its unbelievable that A's , Indians, Pirates and Rays can compete. Its just amazing. Boggles the mind really.

Question lads any of you got links to spring training games today?

rockonollie

50 degrees with rain and 40mph gusts today, snow saturday into sunday.......70 degrees and sunny for opening day on monday.

As bitchy as she's been this winter, even mother nature can't resist opening day in Cincinnati

8-10

Just bought my first ticket of the season. Yankees v Red Sox at Yankee Stadium 2 weeks from today (my first time there)

Will likely go to the day game on the Saturday too. Looking forward to parading my 2013 World Series Champions shirt

jack presley

Monday's games on ESPN:

6pm - Pirates v Cubs
9pm - Cardinals v Reds
12am - Marlins v Rockies
3am - Angels v Mariners

Royals v Tigers is the free game on MLB.TV at 6pm

rockonollie

Reds are going to be suffering jet-lag on Opening day.....the broke camp on Thursday, flew to Florida to play their AA affiliate lastnight, which was rained out.....flew to Kentucky this morning to play their AAA affiliate (which is likely to be rained out also)....will fly to Cincinnati tonight.

They've done a couple of thousand extra miles travelling and played no baseball, instead of being back in Cincinnati relaxing ahead of monday's game.

jack presley

rockonollie wrote: »

Reds are going to be suffering jet-lag on Opening day.....the broke camp on Thursday, flew to Florida to play their AA affiliate lastnight, which was rained out.....flew to Kentucky this morning to play their AAA affiliate (which is likely to be rained out also)....will fly to Cincinnati tonight.

They've done a couple of thousand extra miles travelling and played no baseball, instead of being back in Cincinnati relaxing ahead of monday's game.

Getting the excuses in early Ollie?

Only joking, but if there is one bunch of athletes able to get off a plane and play a game in a different time zone, it's baseball players. At least they'll be practiced for when they finish a home stand during the season and have to hop on a plane and play in LA or san Francisco the next day. And they've all day tomorrow to rest and or even take BP at the stadium. They'll be fine come game time, don't worry about that.

jack presley

8-10 wrote: »

Just bought my first ticket of the season. Yankees v Red Sox at Yankee Stadium 2 weeks from today (my first time there)

Will likely go to the day game on the Saturday too. Looking forward to parading my 2013 World Series Champions shirt

Sounds good. Are you living over there or will you be just visiting?

8-10

jack presley wrote: »

Sounds good. Are you living over there or will you be just visiting?

Just over for a week on business and decided to stay on for the weekend. Just by chance that the night im free happens to have Yankees playing at home, and it's not just a random game, it's Boston!

rockonollie

Reds will place 7 players on the DL today to start the season.....3 non-roster players will make the team, and 1 rookie.....they only have 1 player likely to go on the 60 day DL, so they'reo cut 2 players from the 40 man roster......there's going to be a couple of good prospects on the waiver wire by this afternoon

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

rockonollie wrote: »

Reds will place 7 players on the DL today to start the season.....3 non-roster players will make the team, and 1 rookie.....they only have 1 player likely to go on the 60 day DL, so they'reo cut 2 players from the 40 man roster......there's going to be a couple of good prospects on the waiver wire by this afternoon

Thats a pretty serious injury problem!

JONJO THE MISER

Well ive booked my flights to Denver and Vegas.
Going to catch the Rockies vs San Diego on the 16, 17 and 18 and vs the Giants on the 20, 21 and 22.
Cant wait, any of ye guys been to coors field before?

8-10

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Well ive booked my flights to Denver and Vegas.
Going to catch the Rockies vs San Diego on the 16, 17 and 18 and vs the Giants on the 20, 21 and 22.
Cant wait, any of ye guys been to coors field before?

Never to a game but been outside the ballpark. Big fan of Denver (and Vegas but who isn't!), great city. That's great you'll get to 6 games! Nice work.

jack presley

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Well ive booked my flights to Denver and Vegas.
Going to catch the Rockies vs San Diego on the 16, 17 and 18 and vs the Giants on the 20, 21 and 22.
Cant wait, any of ye guys been to coors field before?

Going to multiple games in a home stand is great. You get to try different food, beers etc. and you'll discover new stuff or things to see as the week goes by. I hope you've got seats in different parts of the ground so you can vary it up a bit.

I know there are a million other things to do in Vegas much more exciting than watching baseball but if you're not all baseball-ed out by the time you get there and you need a break from losing money at the blackjack tables, the 51s have a couple of good MLB ready pitchers in Noah Syndegaard and Rafeal Montero so if they're at home and either of them are scheduled to pitch, it'd be nice to see them play and when they're in the majors and winning Cy Youngs (he says in hope!), you can say you saw them when they were in the minors. I still harp on about the time i saw Buster Posey in a Winter league game in 2008 (of course I didn't have a clue who he was at the time and only realised I had seen him play when I just happen dot look at the box score of the game I was at a few years later).

JONJO THE MISER

8-10 wrote: »

Never to a game but been outside the ballpark. Big fan of Denver (and Vegas but who isn't!), great city. That's great you'll get to 6 games! Nice work.

Yeah Denver looks like a lot of fun, booked a nice apartment on capitol hill on Airbandb for 2 weeks.
Looks likes there is lots to do and lots of pubs and good restaurants there.

JONJO THE MISER

jack presley wrote: »

Going to multiple games in a home stand is great. You get to try different food, beers etc. and you'll discover new stuff or things to see as the week goes by. I hope you've got seats in different parts of the ground so you can vary it up a bit.
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I have only booked the first day so far $39.
Im just going to go up to the gate every other day.
I think ill have a few beers in the pub before the game as there mostly on around 6pm plus not going to pay $12 for piss beer in the stadium.

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

CAN NOT WAIT!

Jack we're enemies for the day .. and series! :-)

rockonollie

Pre-dawn on Opening Day in Cincinnati........pure joy

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

rockonollie wrote: »

Pre-dawn on Opening Day in Cincinnati........pure joy

Brilliant picture!

rockonollie

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman wrote: »

Brilliant picture!

This is a special place.....in fact, Opening Day is officially a public holiday in the city of Cincinnati

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman

rockonollie wrote: »

This is a special place.....in fact, Opening Day is officially a public holiday in the city of Cincinnati

Are you confident today? Your guys have smacked Wainright around lst season I think you'll get your opening day win today.

On a side note, opening day is on the bucket list. Have never managed to make it to one yet!

rockonollie

The Reservoir Dubs Anchorman wrote: »

Are you confident today? Your guys have smacked Wainright around lst season I think you'll get your opening day win today.

On a side note, opening day is on the bucket list. Have never managed to make it to one yet!

I'm always confident.....they're good enough to beat any team out there.....especially if Cueto pitches like all-start Cueto and not that other head-case (7IP, 3H, 0R, 9K against the Angels on Opening day last year)

Reds seems to have a mental block when it comes to beating the Cardinals, they always find a way to lose, but as you said, Wainright was the exception to that last year.

Benimar

Really looking forward to handing the Champs their first defeat tonight

rockonollie

Gotta keep the photos coming.......it is my favourite day of the year.....I think mother nature agrees......Great American Ballpark had snow on the ground on Saturday

jack presley

Not very good planning by Mets 2B Daniel Murphy. His wife's gone into labour so he misses today's game. i don't know if she's gone early or what but if this is a routine pregnancy, did he not think the dates through 9.5 months ago? It's opening day!

rockonollie

jack presley wrote: »

Not very good planning by Mets 2B Daniel Murphy. His wife's gone into labour so he misses today's game. i don't know if she's gone early or what but if this is a routine pregnancy, did he not think the dates through 9.5 months ago? It's opening day!

that child will forever know that it was an uh-oh

8-10

Ouch. Bryce Harper hit hard in the head with a shin. Be a shame if he has to leave the game this early

Benimar

rockonollie wrote: »

Gotta keep the photos coming.......it is my favourite day of the year.....I think mother nature agrees......Great American Ballpark had snow on the ground on Saturday

Was watching Baseball Tonight earlier and they are broadcasting from Cincy. Looks absolutely fantastic.

rockonollie

Benimar wrote: »

Was watching Baseball Tonight earlier and they are broadcasting from Cincy. Looks absolutely fantastic.

As I said earlier.....opening day in Cincinnati is something special. School attendance is terrible, half of the city's residents miss work "sick", restaraunts give away free food, you walk into any store or business and every employee is in Reds gear.

No offense to any other baseball city......but Cincinnati is the home of opening day.

rockonollie

Great start to the year for the Brewers......Carlos Gomez singles to LF, advances to 2nd on the bobble by Upton.....then for some reason decides to go for 3rd when Upton already has the ball in his hand ready to throw.......thrown out at 3rd with about 15 feet to spare.

smackbunnybaby

Cubbies and Pittsburgh in an interesting stalemate so far.
Bottom of 8.

MilanPan!c

Sizemore is currently having his first major league at bat in years.

Absolutely amazing.

And he's got a base hit!

Woot!

rockonollie

Play under review in Milwaukee......sure to be overturned.....is that the first?

smackbunnybaby

Wellington Castillo gets one right in the .....
Game stopped so he could catch his breath

rockonollie

Just what the Reds need......1st batter of the season, hits a line drive off of Cueto's wrist

mikemac1

Live baseball

Tillman looking impressive for the Orioles

Edit: 30 seconds after I post Grady Sizemore gets a home run

MilanPan!c

mikemac1 wrote: »

Live baseball

Tillman looking impressive for the Orioles

Given up 6 hits including a homerun to Grady Sizemore, who's now 2 for 2.

And he's given up a hit to Papi which almost never happens.

Whoops, make that 7 hits now.

76 pitches to get 11 outs.

MoyVilla9

Opening Day, MLB.tv purchased. Let's go!

MilanPan!c

Pedroia almost hit one out on a 12 pitch at bat. Tillman is basically done. Ortiz almost hit one out as well.

Orioles bullpen now warming up.

96 pitches and we're still in the 5th.

And he's walked Napoli.

Here comes pitch 100.

jack presley

Typical Mets. Bullpen blows the lead twice and then collapses in the 10th.

jack presley

Looks like Jose Reyes hammie gone again.

MilanPan!c

Lester had a very easy 1,2,3.

Just hit 70 pitches.

GoldFour4

Found this about the place on twitter after a fan proposed at a game today in Chicago.

The Yankees will allow up to 10 proposals at one game, jesus it wouldn't exactly feel special would it!

http://www.swimmingly.com/relationships/proposals/heres-how-much-it-costs-to-propose-at-every-major-league-baseball-stadium/