Happy Opening Day!
Take me out to the ballgame.
Just when you begin to think you can’t stand it anymore, you hear the sound of a ball hitting a catchers mitt and all is well with the world.
Baby boy ran into an old lawyer friend of ours we hadn’t seen in years. He asked, “Where did your parents retire to?” Boy replied with a grin, “Minute Maid Park.”
My grandbaby at 2 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa7qTUbXqNU
If you’ve got a favorite team, say it now because I ain’t listening to that stuff after tomorrow.
GIANTS, Giants Giants open the season for the hapless Padres, tomorrow. The wife is going and I have prime seating in front of my 65 inch flat screen,
1The Cubs!
2Never could get into baseball. My father and I used to talk about going to a Senators’ (First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League) game, but we never actually made it. I was born a football fan (Hail to the Redskins!) but recognition of CTE has made that extremely problematic.
3I was asleep at the wheel, and didn’t notice that the Mariners are playing my Red Sox today at 4. All that’s left of ‘affordable’ seats are nosebleeds at $73. And the noon Amtrak to Seattle is sold out. Oh well. That’s what I get for taking my eye off the ball!
4Phillies!
5NATS! NATS! NATS! (Even without that traitor Bryce Harper)
6SEE-ATTLE MARINERS, home opener today, Safeco Field, with “Louie, Louie” during the seventh inning stretch!
‘course, long way drive from Canton, Ohio, where I live now.
7Baseball season’s under way
So ya better get ready for a brand new day
Hey, Chicago, whaddya say?
The Cubs are gonna win today!
They got the power they got the speed
To be the best in the National League
Well this is the year and the Cubs are real
So come on down to Wrigley Field
We’re singing now:
Go, Cubs, go!
Go, Cubs, go!
Hey, Chicago, whaddya say?
The Cubs are gonna win today!
-The late, Great!, Steve Goodman
8Wrigleyville’s Poet Laureate
I had to retire to a brick veneer northeast of DFW.
But, I’d like to have had a summer place near the temple err Ballpark, in Arlington. And a seasonal/week-end place adjacent to Circuit of the Americas. There’s even a soccer field right on the CotA’s grounds. I hate Austin a little less since I discovered CotA.
9We are a mixed marriage: I’m a lifelong Giants fan, husband grew up in KC and is Royal Blue. Yes, 2014 World Series was great for both of us up until end of game 7,when one was left disappointed, until redemption in 2015.
10We just got back from spring training in Phoenix area, first time for us. 3 games: Giants-Cubs, Giants-Royals, Royals-Brewers. If these games foreshadow the season, Royals will have a good year, Giants will struggle. But we love ‘em anyway!!
Giants
11http://www.georgerothert.com/opening-day/
Toledo Mudhens. And University of Texas.
12I just said goodbye to my husband until October.
13Nats win the NLE, beat a wild-card team, then get bounced.
14Cubbies
15But with the alt right family ownership of the club it makes that tough
I follow the Astros but root for anyone playing the NY Yankees aka “Satan’s Nine”.
16If we were truly civilized, opening day would be a National Holiday
17According to the local rag, they’re already talking about Bregman as MVP for 2019. If they have that kind of future vision, I want them to pick stocks for my IRA.
18The Rockies!
19I was there at their conception, helped with the petition to bring them into the world, and paid a buck for a seat in the Rockpile section of the old Mile High Stadium.
(My first comment – love Juanita Jean, El Jefe, and all the commenters. The best, you know.)
A’s! Loved them in great times (70s, Rollie Fingers, Blue Moon Odom) and bad.
20Miss Demeanor. I was there opening day when EY hit the homerun against Montreal. Also opening day at Coors Field.
This is the Rockies year
21I say “GO SOX” and I don’t mean the White Sox.
22OMG, I see people are actually choosing the Cubs, so I will just have to step in and holler out THE CARDS!
23Haven’t quite forgiven MLB for striking over pay and calling off the World Series (they didn’t even call that off for WW II and then they do it over MONEY!!!!), but I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the Atlanta BRAVES, ’cause when we got married, my husband joined my church, and I joined the Church of Baseball….and the chapel was at Turner Field.
24Go Astros!!!
25Cubs win, Cubs win!!! Chi 12/Tex 4.
26https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/mariners-blast-defending-champion-red-sox-in-front-of-sold-out-crowd-in-2019-home-opener/?fbclid=IwAR029eeD5E333e1TMluuLHrnyd_4Chez9rRm2-Kjwc7kNa4-treTD_j8IMY
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