It's Opening Day, Baseball Fans!
April 1, 2021 5:36 AM Subscribe
I cannot tell y'all how excited I am for Opening Day 2021 to be here!
Go Yankees!!!
Loved the bonus questions. Of course.
posted by AugustWest at 6:43 AM on April 1, 2021
Go Yankees!!!
Loved the bonus questions. Of course.
posted by AugustWest at 6:43 AM on April 1, 2021
Remind me why we should give a damn what The Bowtied Monster, a man who attacked taking victims of college sexual assault seriously says about anything? Hell, his choice of opening quote in the piece is illustrative of his misogyny.
posted by NoxAeternum at 7:22 AM on April 1, 2021 [19 favorites]
posted by NoxAeternum at 7:22 AM on April 1, 2021 [19 favorites]
Go Giants!
posted by chavenet at 7:55 AM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by chavenet at 7:55 AM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
37 questions. If I'm generous, 8 of them include players or teams who have played in the 21st century, though most of them got their start in the 90s. This seems less like a quiz and more like an exercise in boomer nostalgia, cherry-picking questions that allow readers to reminisce about Warren Spahn and Duke Snider. I mean, any quiz that has Nellie Fox as the answer twice is tilted just a bit in favor of the 1950s.
posted by googly at 8:17 AM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by googly at 8:17 AM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
I'd rather talk about baseball, which is just a lot of jerks, instead of George freaking Will, who is 100% jerks.
posted by Think_Long at 8:24 AM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by Think_Long at 8:24 AM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
Boo to George Will, but yay for Opening Day!
posted by ob1quixote at 8:41 AM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by ob1quixote at 8:41 AM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
OK, so, it’s raining in Boston and the Nationals caught a COVID outbreak right before opening day after making it through spring training clean so their opener against the Mets is postponed.
BUT STILL. Opening day, hooray!
posted by Huffy Puffy at 8:59 AM on April 1, 2021
BUT STILL. Opening day, hooray!
posted by Huffy Puffy at 8:59 AM on April 1, 2021
Opening day in Cincinnati: woke up to snow! on the deck and windshields of the cars. And then it started flurrying in little snowballs, teeny-tiny baseball-shaped balls! It's currently snowing; it would be drizzle if it were warmer. And it's windy.
Still: BASEBALL! A regular season! And we have tickets for a game in June - AT THE ACTUAL BALLPARK.
Play ball! Go Reds!
posted by cooker girl at 9:12 AM on April 1, 2021
Still: BASEBALL! A regular season! And we have tickets for a game in June - AT THE ACTUAL BALLPARK.
Play ball! Go Reds!
posted by cooker girl at 9:12 AM on April 1, 2021
We bought tickets to opening day at a point when they have a significantly limited maximum attendance and a whole bunch of restrictions in place. Then, our idiot governor relaxed a bunch of Covid controls and since then the team added more tickets for that day. I feel like that's a whole lotta bullshit. And, even though we're both fully vaccinated, it has kind of soured the idea of going.
posted by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 9:14 AM on April 1, 2021
posted by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 9:14 AM on April 1, 2021
This seems less like a quiz and more like an exercise in boomer nostalgia...
Oh, FFS. Professional baseball's been around for nearing two centuries now. To limit a baseball quiz to the last 20 years is to be in deep denial of its long history.
posted by Thorzdad at 9:15 AM on April 1, 2021 [2 favorites]
Oh, FFS. Professional baseball's been around for nearing two centuries now. To limit a baseball quiz to the last 20 years is to be in deep denial of its long history.
posted by Thorzdad at 9:15 AM on April 1, 2021 [2 favorites]
GO M's!
posted by calamari kid at 9:33 AM on April 1, 2021 [4 favorites]
posted by calamari kid at 9:33 AM on April 1, 2021 [4 favorites]
This seems less like a quiz and more like an exercise in boomer nostalgia...
If "such and such thing happened last in 1963 to which player?" offends you, well, I got some real bad news for about 99.8% of the game of baseball.
Also:
Go Dodgers!
And since I bought a house where I can see the stadium from my backyard: Go Angeles also! Except when you play the Dodgers!
posted by sideshow at 9:36 AM on April 1, 2021
If "such and such thing happened last in 1963 to which player?" offends you, well, I got some real bad news for about 99.8% of the game of baseball.
Also:
Go Dodgers!
And since I bought a house where I can see the stadium from my backyard: Go Angeles also! Except when you play the Dodgers!
posted by sideshow at 9:36 AM on April 1, 2021
Oh, FFS. Professional baseball's been around for nearing two centuries now. To limit a baseball quiz to the last 20 years is to be in deep denial of its long history.
If "such and such thing happened last in 1963 to which player?" offends you, well, I got some real bad news for about 99.8% of the game of baseball.
I neither said that it offended me nor that it should be limited to the last twenty years of baseball. I merely observed that it seemed heavily tilted towards a particular era (which also happens to be the era of the quiz author's youth).
posted by googly at 10:39 AM on April 1, 2021
If "such and such thing happened last in 1963 to which player?" offends you, well, I got some real bad news for about 99.8% of the game of baseball.
I neither said that it offended me nor that it should be limited to the last twenty years of baseball. I merely observed that it seemed heavily tilted towards a particular era (which also happens to be the era of the quiz author's youth).
posted by googly at 10:39 AM on April 1, 2021
Important news for baseball fans: MLB.tv has added a feature where you can choose to have the radio audio over the video feed. It's a-maz-ing, as you can have the (almost infallibly far superior) radio crew calling the game synced up with the video.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:45 AM on April 1, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:45 AM on April 1, 2021 [2 favorites]
Opening Day deserves something with more dignity than George Will. Like... the immortal Lee Elia, for instance. (NSFW)
posted by delfin at 11:01 AM on April 1, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by delfin at 11:01 AM on April 1, 2021 [2 favorites]
As the Washington Post's Thomas Boswell wrote, "Time begins on Opening Day."
posted by martin q blank at 11:32 AM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by martin q blank at 11:32 AM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
Opening Day is better than opening presents. Obvious Shirts. Great collection of baseball t-shirts
posted by AugustWest at 11:51 AM on April 1, 2021
posted by AugustWest at 11:51 AM on April 1, 2021
It's apparently near freezing in Chicago (where my brother is at the Cubs game) but will be over 80 in Oakland (where I suspect my niece is at the As). Climate change isn't a thing, right.
posted by suelac at 12:33 PM on April 1, 2021
posted by suelac at 12:33 PM on April 1, 2021
GO TWINS!!!! They're opening the season in Milwaukee, but I will be in attendance for the home opener next week in beautiful, sunny, and maybe-temps-in-the-70's Minneapolis.
posted by Gray Duck at 12:50 PM on April 1, 2021 [3 favorites]
posted by Gray Duck at 12:50 PM on April 1, 2021 [3 favorites]
Boo George Will!
Hooray opening day!!
Go Phillies!!!!!!
posted by eagles123 at 12:51 PM on April 1, 2021 [3 favorites]
Hooray opening day!!
Go Phillies!!!!!!
posted by eagles123 at 12:51 PM on April 1, 2021 [3 favorites]
It's a-maz-ing, as you can have the (almost infallibly far superior) radio crew calling the game synced up with the video.
Radio crews are undeniably superior but even they are starting to follow the trend of letting the color override the play-by-play.
I'd tell you if "local" broadcasters are guilty of this, but I can't because I'm blacked-out.
In case, you know, I decide to take a lazy afternoon and drive 300 miles to see a game in person...
posted by madajb at 1:00 PM on April 1, 2021
Radio crews are undeniably superior but even they are starting to follow the trend of letting the color override the play-by-play.
I'd tell you if "local" broadcasters are guilty of this, but I can't because I'm blacked-out.
In case, you know, I decide to take a lazy afternoon and drive 300 miles to see a game in person...
posted by madajb at 1:00 PM on April 1, 2021
Oh, FFS. Professional baseball's been around for nearing two centuries now. To limit a baseball quiz to the last 20 years is to be in deep denial of its long history.
I mean it is George Will. He’s got questions in there about specific years that I would have no reason to know about, not just “all time” questions reaching back a long ways. But I do think it’s kind of fair game to go *pretty* niche to make the trivia hard. And I don’t really feel like talking about George Will one way or the other.
posted by atoxyl at 1:01 PM on April 1, 2021
I mean it is George Will. He’s got questions in there about specific years that I would have no reason to know about, not just “all time” questions reaching back a long ways. But I do think it’s kind of fair game to go *pretty* niche to make the trivia hard. And I don’t really feel like talking about George Will one way or the other.
posted by atoxyl at 1:01 PM on April 1, 2021
People will come, Ray...
Miss Dave Niehaus so much...
My Oh My
posted by Windopaene at 2:43 PM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
Miss Dave Niehaus so much...
My Oh My
posted by Windopaene at 2:43 PM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]
Is this where I can complain about the MiLB goofery killing my nearest minor team in the name of efficiency. grr
posted by drewbage1847 at 5:28 PM on April 1, 2021
posted by drewbage1847 at 5:28 PM on April 1, 2021
My Phillies beat the division champion Atlanta Baseball Team yesterday in extra innings. It was so great to see a smattering of real live fans in the seats.
Meanwhile, Justin Turner of the Dodgers, last seen endangering his teammates after going out on the field after a positive COVID-19 test to celebrate winning the World Series, robbed his teammate of a home run, and Fernando Tatis, Jr. demonstrated yet again that he is not of this planet.
And now, after all that excitement, MLB gives us a 7 game schedule for Friday. womp womp
posted by tonycpsu at 6:11 AM on April 2, 2021
Meanwhile, Justin Turner of the Dodgers, last seen endangering his teammates after going out on the field after a positive COVID-19 test to celebrate winning the World Series, robbed his teammate of a home run, and Fernando Tatis, Jr. demonstrated yet again that he is not of this planet.
And now, after all that excitement, MLB gives us a 7 game schedule for Friday. womp womp
posted by tonycpsu at 6:11 AM on April 2, 2021
GOP Targets Major League Baseball (MSNBC), in which Texas governor Greg Abbott says he won't throw out the first pitch at the Rangers game, Donald Trump and the RNC call for an MLB boycott, a South Carolina congressman says he's writing legislation to remove MLB's antitrust exception, and Marco Rubio questions the MLB commissioner's membership at Augusta National.
posted by box at 8:43 AM on April 6, 2021
posted by box at 8:43 AM on April 6, 2021
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Play Ball!
posted by bodega at 6:20 AM on April 1, 2021 [1 favorite]