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Happy Opening Day!!! (Original Post) NightWatcher Mar 2018 OP
Will trump being throwing the opening ball at any game? CatMor Mar 2018 #1
trump + action verb? I don't think that's going to happen. NightWatcher Mar 2018 #3
But he could ride his golf cart to the pitchers mound. CatMor Mar 2018 #4
Yipeeee..love baseball. Go Diamondbacks! MLAA Mar 2018 #2
Marlins so far. Gave up 1st pitch HR, hit 3 batters, and walked 2. Down 3-0 mid 1st. NightWatcher Mar 2018 #5
That sounds like our starter today. CanSocDem Mar 2018 #6
Tie-tie in the third teach1st Mar 2018 #7
Ian Happ! murielm99 Mar 2018 #8
Oh, put me in coach, I'm ready to play today Brother Buzz Mar 2018 #9

NightWatcher

(39,358 posts)
5. Marlins so far. Gave up 1st pitch HR, hit 3 batters, and walked 2. Down 3-0 mid 1st.
Thu Mar 29, 2018, 12:06 PM
Mar 2018

I'd like to revise my prediction I made in the OP.

 

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)
6. That sounds like our starter today.
Thu Mar 29, 2018, 12:23 PM
Mar 2018


Hasn't begun yet, but he is the weakest link in the starting rotation. And he has to face the Yankees...

He has been known to accidentally touch a baseline walking to and from the dugout and promptly give up 3 or 4 runs. As long as nobody distracts him he can usually leap over the baseline and sometimes last for 5 or 6 innings.

My hope is that we don't spend the season in the basement.


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Brother Buzz

(37,721 posts)
9. Oh, put me in coach, I'm ready to play today
Thu Mar 29, 2018, 05:36 PM
Mar 2018

John Fogerty is the only musician ever enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame with his classic ode to the sport, "Centerfield,"



John Fogerty Lyrics

"Centerfield"

Well, a-beat the drum and hold the phone
The sun came out today
We're born again, there's new grass on the field
A-roundin' third and headed for home
It's a brown-eyed handsome man
Anyone can understand the way I feel

Oh, put me in coach, I'm ready to play today
Put me in coach, I'm ready to play today
Look at me, I can be centerfield

Well, I spent some time in the Mudville Nine
Watching it from the bench
You know I took some lumps, when the mighty Case struck out
So say hey, Willie, tell the Cobb
And Joe DiMaggio
Don't say it ain't so, you know the time is now

Oh, put me in coach, I'm ready to play today
Put me in coach, I'm ready to play today
Look at me, I can be centerfield

Yeah, I got it, I got it

Got a beat-up glove, a home-made bat
And a brand new pair of shoes
You know I think it's time to give this game a ride
Just to hit the ball, and touch 'em all
A moment in the sun
It's a-gone and you can tell that one good-bye

Oh, put me in coach, I'm ready to play today
Put me in coach, I'm ready to play today
Look at me (yeah), I can be centerfield

Oh, put me in coach, I'm ready to play today
Put me in coach, I'm ready to play today
Look at me, gotta be, centerfield
Yeah


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