W00t! Baseball on the teevee!

[Oeditpus Rex]

Bay Bridge Series game one — Giants and A's at AT&T Park.

The rain let up just in time.

BASEBALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[deadparrot]

1. Three more days.

:woohoo:

:bounce: :party: :toast: :D

I'm skipping class. Opening day comes only once a year.

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. You gonna skip on the 10th, too?

For the Cardinals' home opener?

Tell 'em I'm pissed they released Jeff Nelson. :grr:

[deadparrot]

4. I know...

Lots of us Cards fans aren't too happy about that. :scared:

Skipping on the tenth is a big possibility, too. I haven't skipped this class at all this semester, so barring a test or something, it's definitely tempting.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. I knew Nelson when he pitched A-ball

in 1987. He and Colette got married on the field before a game. I was the wedding photographer.

[reyd reid reed]

3. Opening Day oughta be declared a national holiday

Hell, there's a holiday for damn near everything else...I want Opening Day.

Why do I always have to think of these things? Why don't they just listen to me...it'd save everyone so much trouble...sheeeeeesh.

[deadparrot]

5. I know; shouldn't it?

I know that in grade school and high school, no one did any work on opening day anyway. The teachers just turned on the game and let us watch.

[reyd reid reed]

7. I know I ain't doing shit on Monday

I'm cleaning house on Sunday afternoon...even if I have to wrap the kids in Glad-wrap and stack 'em like firewood to keep it that way. I'm running my errands tomorrow morning. Anything else can wait until Tuesday.

Friday's locked up, too. Home opener.

Against the Cards.

:hi:

[deadparrot]

11. It'll be a good game.

:D

May the best team win. :headbang:

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. We got to watch the '67 Series at school

That was sixth grade. I don't remember watching any of the '65 or '66 Series in school, but I know I saw a lot of 'em, so I guess I musta been sick, huh?

[reyd reid reed]

10. It's that pesky bug that always seems to hit around

that time of year.

Seems to last about a week, give or take.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Used to last a week

Then in the late '60s the virus mutated into a more powerful form that lasted about two weeks. And in the '90s it mutated again, and now it's about three.

Oddly, no one at CDC seems very concerned.

[reyd reid reed]

14. And this surprises you, darlin'?

The CDC's in Atlanta.

Braves are in Atlanta.

They've usually all got it, too. Or are hoping to get it.

They're too sick to be concerned.

[JackBeck]

9. I've been watching Pre Season salivating for this Monday!

:toast:

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Remember when the season opened in Cincinnati

and that was the only game on Monday, honoring Cincinnati as the birthplace of professional baseball? Everybody else started on Tuesday.

I liked that tradition.

[reyd reid reed]

15. Cubs are playing the Reds

In Cincinnati on Monday. It's not the only game, though. And this year, it's not even the early game...a 12:05 start (mountain time).

[SeattleGirl]

16. Monday is Opening Day for the Mariners, and I'll be there!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. I want PHOTOS!

Not of the game, either. Show us the SG's enjoying America's greatest sports tradition. :patriot:

[SeattleGirl]

20. Dude!

:patriot:

[reyd reid reed]

18. I'd do almost anything

To get my hands on Wrigley home opener tickets...probably all but impossible to get.

One day though...one day.

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Hell, I'd kill to see *any* game at Wrigley

Opening Day, June, September... I don't care. I just wanna be in that yard before I die.

In the bleachers. :bounce:

[SeattleGirl]

21. Wrigley is one ballpark I really want to go to a game at.

Hey, idea for a DU road trip: a ballpark tour! :bounce:

[reyd reid reed]

22. Cheap seats?

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. Best seats in the house

The bleachers are where the real fans sit. :bounce:

[Arkham House]

23. As a Red Sox fan...

...2004 was enough. Really--if they never win another Series in my lifetime, I'll be content now...especially that incredible Yankee LCS...just wish my Mom and Dad could have seen it...I'm a third-generation--at least--Sox fan...my great-uncle used to tell me stories of the 1912 World Series, when Tris Speaker beat Mathewson and McGraw's Giants...and stories of a young pitcher named babe Ruth...
To be honest, I'd really like to see teams like the Pirates, Royals, Brewers, and Tigers--the also-rans--start their climbs to the top...and I think at least the Brewers and Royals will start this year... Also: if Bonds is even 75% of his real self, the Giants win the NL West...but I don't think he will be...:-(...

[reyd reid reed]

25. He won't be.

The only reason he's playing at all, I think (and this is just my opinion), is to pass Babe Ruth. He's what...six or seven away? And once he's done that, I suspect he's gonna retire. Even if it's mid-season.