Game Thread: 4/8 Opening Day Fish @ Big Boys

[calsnowskier]

Base hit and WERE GOING HOME!

 

[Robotech]

Okay, boys, let's take advantage of initial placement!

 

[Robotech]

It was gone for about a month. Manfred saw that just about everyone, everywhere was glad it was gone, so he reinstituted it.

Rob Manfred makes me feel ashamed to be a lawyer.

 

[calsnowskier]

Rob Manfred makes me feel ashamed to be a lawyer.

He just isn’t a fan of the game. He is a businessman, 100%. Nothing wrong with that, but it leaves a very bad taste in the mouth of fans.


A few weeks ago, Baer was on KNBR and he was asked if Manfred liked baseball. Baer hemmed and hawed and avoided the question.

 

[calsnowskier]

Classic Doobie brain fart.

 

[calsnowskier]

Not what Doobie needs to keep his roster spot.

 

[Robotech]

same here ... didn't realize it until I saw the runner on second ... hate that rule ...

I still haven't accepted that the DH is a good rule. I'll never accept initial placement.

Classic Doobie brain fart.

There goes our initial placement. SMH.

 

[calsnowskier]

I still haven't accepted that the DH is a good rule. I'll never accept initial placement.



There goes our initial placement. SMH.

DH ISNT a good rule.

I would hope you wouldn’t have accepted a falsehood as fact.

 

[Robotech]

He just isn’t a fan of the game. He is a businessman, 100%. Nothing wrong with that, but it leaves a very bad taste in the mouth of fans.


A few weeks ago, Baer was on KNBR and he was asked if Manfred liked baseball. Baer hemmed and hawed and avoided the question.

I didn't think anyone could be worse than Selig, but here is Manfred amazing us all. And the fact that Manfred is a highly educated lawyer makes it even harder to accept that he is so bad.

 

[Stokes1931]

Slates!

1-0

There's still hope for me this month!

 

[calsnowskier]

 

[Stokes1931]

DH ISNT a good rule.

I would hope you wouldn’t have accepted a falsehood as fact.

I don't like the DH. But I do like some of the suggester tweaks, like if the starting pitcher is pulled, so is the DH. The Union will never allow this to happen, though. Nevah!

 

[Stokes1931]

Had 'em all the way!

 

[Robotech]

Had 'em all the way!

A laugher.

 

[calsnowskier]

I don't like the DH. But I do like some of the suggester tweaks, like if the starting pitcher is pulled, so is the DH. The Union will never allow this to happen, though. Nevah!

I suggested this idea years ago. But the proposed rule, imho, goes too far. I just think if the pitcher is pulled, or if the DH is pinch hit or pinch run for, the other is pulled as well. The two are linked. But the next pitcher is now linked to the next DH (and vice versa). The team never loses the DH, they just have to use a different one.

 

[calsnowskier]

A laugher.

HA HA HA

 

[msgkings322]

I didn't think anyone could be worse than Selig, but here is Manfred amazing us all. And the fact that Manfred is a highly educated lawyer makes it even harder to accept that he is so bad.

I actually like the man on 2nd rule in extras (would prefer waiting until the 11th or 12th). But I heard a great idea on the radio for what to call it: the Manfred man

Remember them?

 

[msgkings322]

I suggested this idea years ago. But the proposed rule, imho, goes too far. I just think if the pitcher is pulled, or if the DH is pinch hit or pinch run for, the other is pulled as well. The two are linked. But the next pitcher is now linked to the next DH (and vice versa). The team never loses the DH, they just have to use a different one.

Obviously the current rule is the Ohtani rule and I'm ok with it. Baseball needs to market the hell out of him.

 

[stanford the manford]

Who are the alternate broadcasters this year?

Estes
Lopez
Winn (??)
Affeldt is gone at this point, right?
Aurillia (??)

Anyone else?

Thought I heard Pence and Estes were getting some booth time, but maybe it was just pre/post game shenanigans

 

[Robotech]

I actually like the man on 2nd rule in extras (would prefer waiting until the 11th or 12th). But I heard a great idea on the radio for what to call it: the Manfred man

Remember them?

They were before my time, but I know some of their songs. I remember hearing the Doo Wah Diddy song when I was a kid in the '80s, but it was decades later when I actually knew the name of the band who performed that song.