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You obviously didn’t want it hard enough. And they tried *so hard* to give you a nice thing. Perhaps a polite letter of apology to Apple and MLB is in order?

Love Jake, happy for him, but I don’t think major/permanent fielding changes are in order just yet. I think he’ll find at-bats and I will happily file this away for now as a good problem to have.

Your bragging about how well you navigated the extra, needless hassle associated with watching this single game on a separate streaming service is really not making the point you think it is. People should’ve started “prepping” for watching this game last week? ? I’m sure Apple appreciates your support tho

So weird to see people lining up to excuse MLB/Apple’s money grab. Yes, I also easily cleared the extra hurdle needlessly placed in front of me and other fans hoping to enjoy this game, but I’m not happy about it and think it sucks that others didn’t. Also, the audio and broadcast crew sucked. But anyway—great win, and super happy for Burger.

Seattle bitching about rain ?

Yeah I’m a huge fan of sitting behind the visitor’s box and chatting up the players who are cool, and engaging in a little of the long-lost art of heckling for the ones I don’t like. That’s a good time! Not a lot of that going on in the scout seats, which really have a pretty low quality cross section of fandom in my experience. Laptops

Just one man’s opinion: -they are not fun enough to inspire me to make a special effort to get there. You can buy a normal seat in the adjacent section and be inches away from the scout seats. It will not “spoil you for anything else.” -The coolest part to me is the special entrance/exit thru that tunnel that you don’t otherwise get to see. The food is very “separate” but the same quality as the stadium club (or whatever they’re calling it these days). Otherwise it’s just a seat behind home plate with some of the extra pomp and circumstance that comes from a “vip”’ seat, which honestly makes me feel uncomfortable in a baseball game setting. I hate the luxury box experience, usually sitting next to some Cub fan in a blazer who clearly knows nothing about the team. I gaze through the netting at the “normal” seats and kind of want to kick my own ass ?

4D chess…

Did we lose the division yet?

How? They made all the big moves and are winning the division

Based on today’s results and yesterday’s supersmart extrapolation methods I guess Cease will win the CY! Yay!

Put your head back down—you’re in grave danger of seeing the forest

As it is people have to shell out money for a cable subscription just to get games that were broadcast over-the-air free for decades (to say nothing about the ever more expensive and stratified stadium experience). Now people have to navigate two additional streaming services if they want to watch all the games? That’s likely not a significant barrier for people posting on a message board, but if you think it’s not a huge one for many—especially older fans, the kind who have been with the team for many years—you have a very narrow range of experience. While it’s only a few games now, I suspect it will be more in coming seasons. Whatever the number of games they wall off, the key is there’s zero fan-centered reason for this, it’s just an attempted money grab and assist to the streaming services. Maybe that’s your kind of thing, but it’s definitely not mine.

...because saying the season is over after one game is more than a bit of an overreaction--it's a facially, laughably absurd statement deserving of maximal scorn and ridicule. But you know what they say--if you have to explain it...

Saying it's a bit of an overreaction is a bit of an underreaction

Yeah, some starting pitching depth would be nice right about now, as predicted by approximately everyone

Pro tip: you should avoid sarcasm when the things you say earnestly are generally unclear and/or incoherent.

I was told in a dream that the season would go the opposite way as Opening Day. So congrats, Sox fans (and the other posters here)

All-fastball Hendriks is scary

AV's shoes grew three sizes that day

And to think he's the guy there in place of Madrigal, then Kimbrel...he's going to deprive this board of a lot of top-shelf bitching opportunities

Man, imagine if one team had signed Baez, AND Bryant, AND Schwarber, AND Rizzo this offseason. They'd be a lock for their division

I sometimes stay at the Aloft in the David Whitney building, which is an absolutely gorgeous and historic building with this grand old lobby...you can look into Comerica from the rooms (though it's probably two city blocks or so on foot). Always plan to stay there if/when I find myself in town for a game.

They're just going to continue to ratchet up the difficulty level for normal people to enjoy baseball, aren't they? How long until access to all 162 games is only available with the "platinum VIP experience"

Detroit (including downtown) has a ton of cool stuff going on--some awesome restaurants and bars and a booming art scene. One of my favorite cities to visit, which I do regularly. The above is like a 2009 take. Baseball aside, Chicago and Detroit should stick together imo