WARNING!! It's the 2012 Annual Baseball Thread!! Open at your own risk!!

[Mark Padgett]

Unfortunately, it looks like my White Sox will be having another mediocre season. However, as long as they finish with a better record than the cross-town rival Scrubs, I'll be OK with it.

Even though I haven't lived in the Chicago area for over 40 years, I have a White Sox license plate frame on my car and I use a photo of my youngest grandson in a White Sox t-shirt as the wallpaper on my computer. When I was a kid, I played shortstop and had a Luis Aparicio model glove. He was my baseball idol.

[Welpe]

It's a good day, for even the Cubs are in first place.

I also will be working my first baseball games this evening after almost 9 years away. I have good timing on coming back.

[Raymond]

My one and only contribution to the thread. I accidentally got a hotel room in Miami about a mile or so from the new Marlins baseball stadium, which I didn't realize had been built, and on Opening Night, which I did not know was scheduled for last night.

One cool thing is that we got to witness the pre-game fly over from the patio of Garcia's Seafood Grille.

[Hugh Refner]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

My one and only contribution to the thread. I accidentally got a hotel room in Miami about a mile or so from the new Marlins baseball stadium, which I didn't realize had been built, and on Opening Night, which I did not know was scheduled for last night.

So, was it nice and quiet in your room?

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by Welpe

It's a good day, for even the Cubs are in first place.

....and Stephen Strasburg pitched very well against them......and got NO run support again (is this a different yr or not?)

[canuckrefguy]

OK (OK!)
Blue Jays (Blue Jays!)
Let's....play....ball!

[Welpe]

Hehe I lied, evidently the Cubs are already a half game back.

[Zoochy]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Hehe I lied, evidently the Cubs are already a half game back.

That's right. St. Louis won the 1st game played in the States. So season started yesterday.
Go YANKEES

[Lcubed48]

Originally Posted by zoochy

that's right. St. Louis won the 1st game played in the states. So season started yesterday.
Go yankees

Go Redbirds !!!!!!

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by canuckrefguy

ok (ok!)
blue jays (blue jays!)
let's....play....ball!

+1

[BillyMac]

My "Old Towne Team" certainly missed Jonathan Papelbon today. I wonder if they serve Popeye's Chicken, and Bud Lite, in the visitor's locker room at Comerica Park?

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

My one and only contribution to the thread. I accidentally got a hotel room in Miami about a mile or so from the new Marlins baseball stadium, which I didn't realize had been built, and on Opening Night, which I did not know was scheduled for last night.

One cool thing is that we got to witness the pre-game fly over from the patio of Garcia's Seafood Grille.

Originally Posted by Hugh Refner

So, was it nice and quiet in your room?

Is that a thinly veiled (as in no curtains) reference to the old SkyDome Hotel?

[LeeBallanfant]

Originally Posted by canuckrefguy

OK (OK!)
Blue Jays (Blue Jays!)
Let's....play....ball!

I am really surprised that the Canadian government allows the Blue Jays to play while the hockey season is still going on. Like who would watch a Blue Jay game when they could watch the Maple Leafs.

[canuckrefguy]

Originally Posted by LeeBallanfant

I am really surprised that the Canadian government allows the Blue Jays to play while the hockey season is still going on. Like who would watch a Blue Jay game when they could watch the Maple Leafs.

Unless you're being sarcastic, you clearly haven't been keeping up with the Leafs the past, oh, DECADE or so

[Welpe]

Well the Marlies are playoff bound...