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OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Frayed Knot Apr 06 2022 04:40 PM

The Opening Day(s) [some of these games will be Friday including, due to weather, Yanx/Boston] starters for 2022. RED SOX Nathan Eovaldi YANX Gerritt Cole BREWERS Corbin Burnes CUBS Kyle Hendricks METS Tylor McGill NATIONALS Patrick Corbin GUARDIANS Shane Bieber ROYALS Zack Greinke MARINERS Robbie Ray TWINS Joe Ryan PIRATES JT Brubaker CARDINALS Adam Wainwright REDS Tyler Mahle BRAVES Max Fried ASTROS Framber Valdez ANGELS Shohei Ohtani PADRES Yu Darvish D'BACKS Madison Bumgarner WHITE SOX Lucas Giolito TIGERS Eduardo Rodriguez ATHLETICS Frankie Montas PHILLIES Aaron Nola ORIOLES John Means RAYS Shane McClanahan DODGERS Walker Buehler ROCKIES Kyle Freeland MARLINS Sandy Alcantara GIANTS Logan Webb RANGERS Jon Gray BLUE JAYS Jose Berrios

Frayed Knot Apr 07 2022 01:38 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

All those who had Andrew McCutcheon of the Brewers (I didn't know McC was ON the Brewers) scoring the first run of the season, step up and collect your winnings.

Edgy MD Apr 07 2022 02:06 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

I could be an old man yelling at a cloud or something, but that strikes me as a group seriously lacking in the name power one normally associates with opening day starters. Framber Valdez is a goodish pitcher who has yet to pitch anything approaching a full season. Joe Ryan, on the other hand, seems to have been artificially created in a lab to make me feel better about Trevor Megill. JT Brubaker lives down the street from me. He's nice and all and his kids seem happy, but he generally divides his time between working on his car and short-term prison sentences.

Frayed Knot Apr 07 2022 02:54 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

I can't find the page on MLB.com that I cribbed some of this stuff from, but the Pirates and Rangers, I think it was, are starting something like their 8th & 11th different OD starters in as many years. Take Me Out to the Ballgame at Wrigley today was led by Fergie Jenkins, Ryne Sandberg, Hawk Dawson, and Lee Arthur Smith up in the booth. As they said in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, 'Nice grouping'

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 07 2022 03:05 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

This is the Joe Ryan theme song [YOUTUBE]-0BATcreXp0[/YOUTUBE]

Edgy MD Apr 07 2022 03:40 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

That video made me need to pee.

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 07 2022 03:42 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Cubs win! Ian Happ, Mychael Givens, Seiya Suzuki, Jason Heyward, Kyle Hendricks and Nico Heorner sharing the Old Style points. They didn;t bring Gsellman with them.

Frayed Knot Apr 07 2022 07:45 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Braves down 3-1 to the Cincy Commies thru five

Frayed Knot Apr 07 2022 09:54 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Ohtani becomes the first player in MLB history to both throw, and see as a batter, the first pitch of his team's season.

Willets Point Apr 08 2022 11:17 AM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Three batters into the season and Gerrit Cole has allowed three baserunners, including a HR by Rafael Devers. 2-0 Red Sox, so far.

Willets Point Apr 08 2022 11:35 AM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Nate Eovaldi also gives up a longball in the first inning to Anthony Rizzo. Red Sox up 3-2 at the end of the first. Hope no one came for a pitching duel.

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 08 2022 02:21 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Boston-MFYs going to bottom 9 tied 4-4. Phils up big on A's early

Willets Point Apr 08 2022 02:44 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

I thought the extra inning ghost runner on 2nd was eliminated.

Frayed Knot Apr 08 2022 03:08 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 08 2022 03:10 PM

Willets Point wrote: I thought the extra inning ghost runner on 2nd was eliminated. It was revived at the last minute for this year only (or so they claim now) ... but for health and safety reasons only. Each team scored once in the 10th thanks to the 'Manfred Man', but the Sox fail to cash in in top 11 so they're officially in trouble here. Something named Kutter Crawford is on the bump for Boston tasked with keeping this one alive.

Frayed Knot Apr 08 2022 03:09 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

And two pitches and in the game is over as a 23 hopper sneaks up the middle.

MFS62 Apr 08 2022 03:41 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Frayed Knot wrote: And two pitches and in the game is over as a 23 hopper sneaks up the middle. So, they're still doing things that remind the fans of Derek Jeter? That kind of MFY hit should be named in his honor. Later

Frayed Knot Apr 08 2022 05:49 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

You need to let this go.

Frayed Knot Apr 09 2022 07:43 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Those weren't rings they handed out in Atlanta prior to tonight's game, those were bejeweled foot-stools.

Edgy MD Apr 09 2022 09:28 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

That's some kind of understated. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FP8ARMHWUAAI1Yb?format=jpg&name=large>

Willets Point Apr 09 2022 10:28 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Head Jeweler: "C'mon, we need to pack this thing with SYMBOLISM!"

Edgy MD Apr 09 2022 10:51 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

It ain't nothing 'til you see it on a hand. [fimg=600]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FP8RgB8WQAAJEzn?format=jpg&name=4096x4096[/fimg] That thing can be tracked from space.

Frayed Knot Apr 10 2022 04:42 AM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Willets Point wrote: Head Jeweler: "C'mon, we need to pack this thing with SYMBOLISM!" Reached a bit for some of that stuff, eh? Sydergaard LAA Debut: (W) 5.1 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 2 BB, 1 K

Frayed Knot Apr 10 2022 07:08 PM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Two hours in and the Yanx & Sawx are in the top of the 5th in a 3-3 game ... because of course they are.

Frayed Knot Apr 11 2022 10:58 AM Re: OD Starters / Opening Weekend (4/8-4/11) TWiB Notes

Perhaps not surprisingly, the Orioles finish the first weekend as MLB's only winless team, getting out-scored 15-4 in three game by Tampa, a fact which makes the Rays the only undefeated team thus far.