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Don’t need to look back at prior posts to know what they say, just here to say hahahahahahaha

Looks pretty bleak. Unless they want to push it back to like 8 pm I don’t see them playing this one

This place is great.

Am I reading this right that the White Sox got "crushed" by picking hall of famer Harold Baines in the draft?

My weather forecast just got a lot worse, going from 40/20% at 3:00/4:00 to 60/75% at those times. Starting to worry

Seriously--the guy needs reps. It's going to be hard for him to get acclimated with all this stop-and-start nonsense.

No worries - thought that with the forecast they may have bumped it. (Wouldn't be surprised if it's delayed as a previous poster mentioned.)

...3:10 game time, no? Has it been changed or is the thread title wrong?

With bells on. Let's gooooooooo

Billy Hamilton always looks terrified

Thanks. Hope to head to Maria's pregame, and hopefully Bernice's post-game. Both seem to be open.

Forecast I'm seeing says the rain will clear up in the afternoon so I'm hopeful.

This is the very thing that makes me think he'll be fine. Not making routine plays is totally aberrational; he's been doing it his whole career, and slow grounders are no harder in MLB than in the Minors or college. Missing plays like that is definitely attributable to jitters. Hopefully he gets over it.

Not intended to be the game thread, but I lucked into a ticket that will allow me to keep my 18-year Home Opener streak alive so wanted to start a thread about my favorite day of the year. Who's going? What are you planning to do before hand instead of tailgate? Any intel on whether any bars will be closed pre and postgame? Discuss.

Nobody ever thought he was going to hit for any power. That's nothing new.

A) It was a joke; B) you may well be wrong anyway. But otherwise good post

WON'T GET THAT HERE! Seriously, I think he's absolutely in his own head. His issues so far don't strike me as being related to adjustment to MLB talent level: you don't just forget how to field or run the bases. He's pressing and I think he'll be ok. The biggest worry is that his mental makeup won't allow him to get through this, but that also seems doubtful given all his success at other levels.

This reminds me of all the "well *obviously* Vaughn will start 2021 in Birmingham" discussions of several months ago. We'll see what happens. I have a sneaking suspicion that if Crochet is dominant going into the playoffs (and we make the playoffs) he'll figure more prominently in our playoff pitching plans than a standard middle reliever. There's also no way there's a 60-inning limit.

I'm not so sure--perhaps it depends on how you define "starting rotation." He was basically used as something akin to an opener in last year's playoffs. I certainly don't think he'll be on the Strasburg shelf; if he's dominating I wouldn't be surprised to see him in a starting or near-starting role assuming they limit his innings all season.

Having lived in Boston the Boston Marathon/Patriots' Day thing is a lot bigger than most realize, so I'm not surprised at the tie-in. But man oh man -- those are horrible. They're so plain. I'm surprised as I think Nike has generally done a nice job with alternate uniforms (City Edition, Color Rush, Oregon, etc.)

3. He is a great big fat person

Boy, I hope this team lives up to potential because September holds the promise of some pretty dramatic pre-playoff storylines, with the return of Eloy and injection of Kopech/Crochet into the starting rotation mix...

I actually think we may need a third thread: “stop freaking out about the freaking out” or some such. Kidding of course, but the idea that we shouldn’t draw broad conclusions based upon a four-game sample (where we could easily have gone 3-1 despite the same problems) is so obvious it should be left unsaid. People are spending too much time in game threads and/or taking them too seriously.

I’m out of town on vacation — I take it tonight’s “opening night” game is not on natl tv?