MLB Thread 109: Happy Opening Day!

[angryfan]

Apr 19, 2015 18:24:41 GMT -5 ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul said:

Apr 18, 2015 13:54:15 GMT -5 andrew8798 said:

Vin Scully called his first Dodgers game 65 years ago today.

Amazing. I say this as a Giants fan, that man is a national treasure, we should bronze him.

I got lucky growing up in the 80's in Ohio with a dad who was a huge baseball fan and passed his love for it on to me. Scully, like you said, is a national treasure and as far as I'm concerned is on announcing's Mount Rushmore.

I didn't get Dodgers games in Ohio, obviously, but I got to hear Harry Caray on WGN, could pick up Ernie Harwell out of Detroit on the radio at night, and hot to here Herb Score calling Indians games on WTAM. Locally, of course, we had Nuxhall, which was always fun cause the man could just tell some stories.

My personal Rushmore for announcing, and I know it's subjective, is Scully, Caray, Harwell, and the fourth one is tough. Nuxhall and Score are big parts of my childhood, and meeting Herb at spring training in '94 was awesome (super nice guy), but my fourth would have to be the voice of This Week In Baseball, Mel Allen.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Apr 20, 2015 4:22:41 GMT -5 angryfan said:

Apr 19, 2015 18:24:41 GMT -5 ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul said:

Amazing. I say this as a Giants fan, that man is a national treasure, we should bronze him.

I got lucky growing up in the 80's in Ohio with a dad who was a huge baseball fan and passed his love for it on to me. Scully, like you said, is a national treasure and as far as I'm concerned is on announcing's Mount Rushmore.

I didn't get Dodgers games in Ohio, obviously, but I got to hear Harry Caray on WGN, could pick up Ernie Harwell out of Detroit on the radio at night, and hot to here Herb Score calling Indians games on WTAM. Locally, of course, we had Nuxhall, which was always fun cause the man could just tell some stories.

My personal Rushmore for announcing, and I know it's subjective, is Scully, Caray, Harwell, and the fourth one is tough. Nuxhall and Score are big parts of my childhood, and meeting Herb at spring training in '94 was awesome (super nice guy), but my fourth would have to be the voice of This Week In Baseball, Mel Allen.

No love for Jack Buck?

Scully isn't just a national treasure, he's the voice of baseball.

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Marlins are already considering firing Redmond (the hell?) and possibly replacing him with Wally Backman (LOL)

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[angryfan]

Apr 20, 2015 4:57:24 GMT -5 Jedi-El of Tomorrow said:

Apr 20, 2015 4:22:41 GMT -5 angryfan said:

I got lucky growing up in the 80's in Ohio with a dad who was a huge baseball fan and passed his love for it on to me. Scully, like you said, is a national treasure and as far as I'm concerned is on announcing's Mount Rushmore.

I didn't get Dodgers games in Ohio, obviously, but I got to hear Harry Caray on WGN, could pick up Ernie Harwell out of Detroit on the radio at night, and hot to here Herb Score calling Indians games on WTAM. Locally, of course, we had Nuxhall, which was always fun cause the man could just tell some stories.

My personal Rushmore for announcing, and I know it's subjective, is Scully, Caray, Harwell, and the fourth one is tough. Nuxhall and Score are big parts of my childhood, and meeting Herb at spring training in '94 was awesome (super nice guy), but my fourth would have to be the voice of This Week In Baseball, Mel Allen.

No love for Jack Buck?

Scully isn't just a national treasure, he's the voice of baseball.

No disrespect to Buck intended, but with just four spots hypothetically it made it tough. For me, Allen was the fourth just because he was part of my Saturday mornings as a kid just as much as cartoon and Bobby Heenan were.

[andrew8798]

An MRI taken last Thursday confirmed that Justin Verlander is dealing with a right triceps strain.

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Mets fans are super spoiled with our history of announcers: the original Lindsey Nelson-Ralph Kiner-Bob Murphy team is legendary (I wish Bob Murphy got more national recognition, just godly announcing), and the modern era headed by Gary Cohen and Howie Rose is remarkable, as well.

Cohen always worships at the altar of Scully, though; I think they let Gary do a brief interview with him a few years back, and he was fanboy-ing out, and justifiably so.

[Perd]

Scary situation in Pittsburgh, where a woman sitting behind home plate, was struck in the head by a foul ball. The games been delayed for several minutes. This is just awful. Saying a prayer for her.

[BRV]

Reds manager Bryan Price went on a profanity-laced tirade for the ages, a tirade that would make Lee Elia and Earl Weaver green with envy.

www.cincinnati.com/story/redsblog/2015/04/20/bryan-price-reds/26101107/

Bryan Price (BP): Can I ask you a question?

C. Trent Rosecrans (CTR): Sure

BP: I don't understand what the importance is for everybody to know if we have a player that's not here. We don't benefit from the other teams knowing we don't have a player. It does — you don't have to be a Reds fan, but it doesn't help us if our opponents know who is here and who isn't. That's what I want to know.

CTR: Well, as a fan, I'm wondering, here's a spot for Devin Mesoraco, why isn't he there?

BP: Where was the spot?

CTR: As a pinch-hitter? He's an All-Star with 25 home runs last year, I know I asked if it was a left-handed bat thing, you said no.

BP: I don't get it. It's, you know, look, I don't need you guys to be fans of the Reds, I just need to know if there's something we want to keep here, it stays here. We don't need to know that Tucker Barnhart's in the f****** airport when we haven't spoken to Kyle Skipworth. I think we owe that f******* kid the right to be called and told that he's going to be sent down as opposed to reading that Tucker Barnhart is on his way from Louisville. I just... I don't get it. I don't get why it's got to be this way. Has it always been this way where we just tell f****** everybody everything? So every f****** opponent we have has to know exactly what we have. Which f****** relievers are available, which guys are here and which guys aren't here, when they can play, and what they can do. It's nobody's f****** business. It's certainly not the opponent's business. We have to deal with this f****** b*******.

I like to talk — and I have spoken as candidly as I can with you people, if that's not good enough, I won't say a f******thing. I'll go, 'yes sir, no sir.' And I can do that. But f***, I've been as candid as I can f****** be about this team and our players, and we've got to deal with this s***, every f****** team that we f****** play has to know every f****** guy that's here and what they can and can't do? F*** me. It's a f****** disgrace. I'm f****** sick of this s***. It's f****** hard enough to f****** win here to have f****** every f****** opponent know exactly what the f*** we bring to the table every day. It's f****** horse****. I don't like it. It's what I'm saying. To make it very clear, I don't like the way that this s***'s going — at all. I don't like it. I don't think you guys need to know everything. And I certainly don't think you need to see something and tweet it out there and make it a f****** world event. How the f*** do we benefit from them knowing we don't have Devin Mesoraco? How do we benefit from that? They benefit from it. I just want to know how we benefit from these f****** people know we don't have a player here. Can you answer that? How is that good for the Reds?

CTR: I don't know…

BP: Yeah, well it's making my job f****** harder.

CTR: I'm sure it is.

BP: Well, thank you. I don't know if that's what we're supposed to do. Are we supposed to f****** open up everything here for everybody to know all the f****** time? That's all I want to know, what your expectations are, because f*** me. If I've got f****** to tell these guys, we gotta go out there and they know we don't have f****** Devin Mesoraco, what f****** benefit is that to me as a manager? And our team to win a f****** game?

CTR: He hasn't been there for a week-and-a-half

BP: I just want an answer on how we benefit from them knowing that Devin Mesoraco isn't here.

CTR: I don't think you do and I don't know that that's my job.

BP: Your job is not to sniff out every f****** thing is about the Reds and f****** put it out there for every other f****** guy to hear. It's not your job. You want me to be candid with you? I've been candid with you. I f****** talk to you guys like men, I tell you what the f***'s going on with the team, I tell you how I'm feeling as candidly as I can and then this s***? You've got to watch this f****** s***? I've got to f****** read that on a f****** Tweet on our own people in here that we don't have a f****** player? How the f*** does that benefit the Reds? It doesn't benefit us one f****** bit. God **** we try to go out there and win f****** games and I got to come in here and then you guys f****** blow it all over the f****** place? Who we can play? Who we can't? I'll tell you what you want to know, I'm not going to f****** lie to you. I didn't tell you f****** s***.

CTR: You did not lie to me and I appreciate it.

BP: Ah, f***. I'm just, I'm f****** p****** up a rope in this f****** business. Because everyone has to know everything all the f****** time. That's not my f****** obligation, it's not their obligation. You know why f****** Billy Hamilton didn't f****** play? The other day? Because his f****** finger's hurt and he couldn't hit right-handed comfortably. Right? So that's something that I need to know and no one else needs to know. No one else needs to f****** know it, and all of a sudden it's out there. His f****** fingers are sore. It doesn't benefit us. It wasn't from you, but it doesn't benefit us one bit to f****** announce to the f****** other teams that we're playing to bring in lefties when they need to f****** get Billy out. There's no benefit. So, I'm f******, to be honest with you, I'm f****** sick of this s***. I'm sick of listening to this f****** s***, I'm sick of f****** the f****** second-guessing b*******, you guys can do whatever the f*** you want, but I'll tell you this — I'm not going to f****** tell you everything about this f****** club, because you f****** guys are going to out there and sniff it out anyway. I don't f****** like it one f****** bit. I bend over backwards to be honest and direct with you f****** guys and you stick it right up my f****** a** — and the f****** team's a**. And I'm sick of it. What do you got? If you don't got anything, get out and I'll do this f****** interview with Marty. You don't have anything? Just get out, please.

[Vampiro138]

...bryant gets credited with a 3 run double, then reached home on two errors due to the pirates not being able to catch a baseball.

[Perd]

Update on the fan who was struck by a foul ball. She was conscious and responsive as she left PNC park via ambulance.

[angryfan]

Apr 20, 2015 20:53:25 GMT -5 BRV said:

Reds manager Bryan Price went on a profanity-laced tirade for the ages, a tirade that would make Lee Elia and Earl Weaver green with envy.

www.cincinnati.com/story/redsblog/2015/04/20/bryan-price-reds/26101107/

Bryan Price (BP): Can I ask you a question?

C. Trent Rosecrans (CTR): Sure

BP: I don't understand what the importance is for everybody to know if we have a player that's not here. We don't benefit from the other teams knowing we don't have a player. It does — you don't have to be a Reds fan, but it doesn't help us if our opponents know who is here and who isn't. That's what I want to know.

CTR: Well, as a fan, I'm wondering, here's a spot for Devin Mesoraco, why isn't he there?

BP: Where was the spot?

CTR: As a pinch-hitter? He's an All-Star with 25 home runs last year, I know I asked if it was a left-handed bat thing, you said no.

BP: I don't get it. It's, you know, look, I don't need you guys to be fans of the Reds, I just need to know if there's something we want to keep here, it stays here. We don't need to know that Tucker Barnhart's in the f****** airport when we haven't spoken to Kyle Skipworth. I think we owe that f******* kid the right to be called and told that he's going to be sent down as opposed to reading that Tucker Barnhart is on his way from Louisville. I just... I don't get it. I don't get why it's got to be this way. Has it always been this way where we just tell f****** everybody everything? So every f****** opponent we have has to know exactly what we have. Which f****** relievers are available, which guys are here and which guys aren't here, when they can play, and what they can do. It's nobody's f****** business. It's certainly not the opponent's business. We have to deal with this f****** b*******.

I like to talk — and I have spoken as candidly as I can with you people, if that's not good enough, I won't say a f******thing. I'll go, 'yes sir, no sir.' And I can do that. But f***, I've been as candid as I can f****** be about this team and our players, and we've got to deal with this s***, every f****** team that we f****** play has to know every f****** guy that's here and what they can and can't do? F*** me. It's a f****** disgrace. I'm f****** sick of this s***. It's f****** hard enough to f****** win here to have f****** every f****** opponent know exactly what the f*** we bring to the table every day. It's f****** horse****. I don't like it. It's what I'm saying. To make it very clear, I don't like the way that this s***'s going — at all. I don't like it. I don't think you guys need to know everything. And I certainly don't think you need to see something and tweet it out there and make it a f****** world event. How the f*** do we benefit from them knowing we don't have Devin Mesoraco? How do we benefit from that? They benefit from it. I just want to know how we benefit from these f****** people know we don't have a player here. Can you answer that? How is that good for the Reds?

CTR: I don't know…

BP: Yeah, well it's making my job f****** harder.

CTR: I'm sure it is.

BP: Well, thank you. I don't know if that's what we're supposed to do. Are we supposed to f****** open up everything here for everybody to know all the f****** time? That's all I want to know, what your expectations are, because f*** me. If I've got f****** to tell these guys, we gotta go out there and they know we don't have f****** Devin Mesoraco, what f****** benefit is that to me as a manager? And our team to win a f****** game?

CTR: He hasn't been there for a week-and-a-half

BP: I just want an answer on how we benefit from them knowing that Devin Mesoraco isn't here.

CTR: I don't think you do and I don't know that that's my job.

BP: Your job is not to sniff out every f****** thing is about the Reds and f****** put it out there for every other f****** guy to hear. It's not your job. You want me to be candid with you? I've been candid with you. I f****** talk to you guys like men, I tell you what the f***'s going on with the team, I tell you how I'm feeling as candidly as I can and then this s***? You've got to watch this f****** s***? I've got to f****** read that on a f****** Tweet on our own people in here that we don't have a f****** player? How the f*** does that benefit the Reds? It doesn't benefit us one f****** bit. God **** we try to go out there and win f****** games and I got to come in here and then you guys f****** blow it all over the f****** place? Who we can play? Who we can't? I'll tell you what you want to know, I'm not going to f****** lie to you. I didn't tell you f****** s***.

CTR: You did not lie to me and I appreciate it.

BP: Ah, f***. I'm just, I'm f****** p****** up a rope in this f****** business. Because everyone has to know everything all the f****** time. That's not my f****** obligation, it's not their obligation. You know why f****** Billy Hamilton didn't f****** play? The other day? Because his f****** finger's hurt and he couldn't hit right-handed comfortably. Right? So that's something that I need to know and no one else needs to know. No one else needs to f****** know it, and all of a sudden it's out there. His f****** fingers are sore. It doesn't benefit us. It wasn't from you, but it doesn't benefit us one bit to f****** announce to the f****** other teams that we're playing to bring in lefties when they need to f****** get Billy out. There's no benefit. So, I'm f******, to be honest with you, I'm f****** sick of this s***. I'm sick of listening to this f****** s***, I'm sick of f****** the f****** second-guessing b*******, you guys can do whatever the f*** you want, but I'll tell you this — I'm not going to f****** tell you everything about this f****** club, because you f****** guys are going to out there and sniff it out anyway. I don't f****** like it one f****** bit. I bend over backwards to be honest and direct with you f****** guys and you stick it right up my f****** a** — and the f****** team's a**. And I'm sick of it. What do you got? If you don't got anything, get out and I'll do this f****** interview with Marty. You don't have anything? Just get out, please.

Two things. One, that's some late 70's drunk as f*** Tommy Lasorda level swearing there. Two, given that rosters are not like secret ballots, it's one of those "Well, yeah, you do kinda have to tells us who you've got". Otherwise it's a big ol' screw you to the guys printing up programs at the stadium. Do they just guess?

[Perd]

Addison Russell, come on down (or up):

mweb.cbssports.com/mlb/writer/jon-heyman/25156722/cubs-are-calling-infield-prodigy-addison-russell-up-to-the-majors

[bluemeii]

Apr 20, 2015 21:54:06 GMT -5 angryfan said:

Apr 20, 2015 20:53:25 GMT -5 BRV said:

Reds manager Bryan Price went on a profanity-laced tirade for the ages, a tirade that would make Lee Elia and Earl Weaver green with envy.

www.cincinnati.com/story/redsblog/2015/04/20/bryan-price-reds/26101107/

Two things. One, that's some late 70's drunk as f*** Tommy Lasorda level swearing there. Two, given that rosters are not like secret ballots, it's one of those "Well, yeah, you do kinda have to tells us who you've got". Otherwise it's a big ol' screw you to the guys printing up programs at the stadium. Do they just guess?

I'm a Reds fan and I think I've posted this here before....but Price is in way over his damn head as a manager. It's getting late and not gonna go off on a ramble here, but for a season and a month this guy has made me do the wtf Jaguars fan gif more than I care to remember.

This particular foray into 4 letter words has a history though. End of last year he out and out admitted he was too open with the media concerning players availability and the like. He said he was going to cut back on that this year, unfortunately he decided that info was now part of national security and should be accompanied with a tirade that would make Billy Martin blush.

[andrew8798]

MLB suspended Kelvin Herrera for five games and fined him an undisclosed amount for throwing at Athletics third baseman Brett Lawrie on Sunday.

[angryfan]

Apr 20, 2015 23:45:12 GMT -5 bluemeii said:

Apr 20, 2015 21:54:06 GMT -5 angryfan said:

Two things. One, that's some late 70's drunk as f*** Tommy Lasorda level swearing there. Two, given that rosters are not like secret ballots, it's one of those "Well, yeah, you do kinda have to tells us who you've got". Otherwise it's a big ol' screw you to the guys printing up programs at the stadium. Do they just guess?

I'm a Reds fan and I think I've posted this here before....but Price is in way over his damn head as a manager. It's getting late and not gonna go off on a ramble here, but for a season and a month this guy has made me do the wtf Jaguars fan gif more than I care to remember.

This particular foray into 4 letter words has a history though. End of last year he out and out admitted he was too open with the media concerning players availability and the like. He said he was going to cut back on that this year, unfortunately he decided that info was now part of national security and should be accompanied with a tirade that would make Billy Martin blush.

Well, growing up in Cincinnati, the local sports media has a, I think, weird relationship with both the Reds and Bengals. Half the time they're out and out homers for both clubs, to the point it would make Hawk Harrelson flinch, and then they go Woodward and Bernstein the other half the time.

Before the paper was shut down, I remember they had a war of sorts going with the Post back in the early to mid 90's.

[HMARK Center]

The Mets, winners of 8 in a row, are currently up 4-0 on the Braves.

[RKTaker]

mets win again

[Renslayer]

even with all the injuries, the mets are off to a terrific start. i had almost forgotten what it was like to watch a good team

[HMARK Center]

Plus, at 11-3, they've matched the all-time best start in franchise history, tying the 1986 team.

Which means...HIT THE MUSIC!