MLB Opening Day Today! 2021 Season Underway Megathread

[Team_Mclaren]

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Agreed - you should have heard my father when Toronto pulled Berrios, he was yelling at his TV for 5 minutes (he's 76). Such a stupid, stupid decision. Why pull him when he was throwing so hot. You should never take away a positive to replace it with the unknown IMO. Jays had a pitcher that showed no sign of deterioration, and they decide to kill their own momentum with that, to replace him with a pitcher who will be having an unknown performance. Crazy not to stick with Berrios. Crazy after issuing just that one walk, which did come around to score, but Berrios was still throwing fire. Jays coach is taking heat in the media, and so he should.

I mean I get it that when they pulled Berrios, the next 3 batters were all either left batting or switch hitters, and that Berrios statistically had poorer performance over the whole year vs left hand hitters over right, but JFC, there are times when you shouldn't just "go with the stats/numbers", and simply observe how hot a pitcher is in that single game.

I'd argue that pulling Snell in the world series is worse. But this is a close second.

[Buster]

Baseball is a bit unwatchable with all of the analytics BS.

[jutes]

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Don’t forget unbuttoned jerseys to show 2 or 3 massive chains. What the hell is with that?

Classic HoodRat behavior.

[rage2]

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Classic HoodRat behavior.

[Darkane]

Approved

[sexualbanana]

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Vlad is just a terrible player.

And fat.

I missed most of the game but managed to see that pick-off in while passing by a TV. Antonelli had a pretty good breakdown on the move. It sounds like a combination of crowd noise and communication (breakdown for the Jays and execution by the Twins).

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When you champagne celebrate like ret reds for getting into the wildcard you are bound to lose.

Im also very tired of these elaborate celebrations and schoolgirl dancing by outfielders when they win a game or the fucken gun signs in the air to the bench when they hit a squib single. Ffs.

Meh. Modern baseball has a weird mix of north american players who grew up under the hammer of 'act like you've been there before', while latin american players grew up with 'baseball is a game and games should be fun'. I like the latter.

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Aight let’s see if dodgers sweep tonight

[vengie]

Freddie Freeman with another homer.
4 in 4 games, including the walk off grand slam in game one.

Insane.

[The_Penguin]

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Freddie Freeman with another homer.
4 in 4 games, including the walk off grand slam in game one.

Insane.

And an all-out gutsy run through the pain for an RBI single. Nice!

[rage2]

This has been a mostly boring series. And I’m ok with that. Fuck the Yankees.

[The_Penguin]

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This has been a mostly boring series. And I’m ok with that. Fuck the Yankees.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to rage2 again.

And the horse they rode in on. I'm almost always an AL guy but the Yankees and Judge can fuck right off.

[rage2]

I’m a guardians fan so this is personal.

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interesting. boss rage2 is a guardians fan lol how did that happen haha

can never cheer for division rival so goooo Dodgers!
good for Teoscar Hernandez and Kevin Kiermaier couple ex Jays

[killramos]

So wait is baseball over or not over?

[bigboom]

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I’m a guardians fan so this is personal.

Ricky Vaughn fan?

[jutes]

They will always be the Cleveland Indians.

[sexualbanana]

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This has been a mostly boring series. And I’m ok with that. Fuck the Yankees.

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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to rage2 again.

And the horse they rode in on. I'm almost always an AL guy but the Yankees and Judge can fuck right off.

Aw, screw you guys.

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I’m a guardians fan so this is personal.

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interesting. boss rage2 is a guardians fan lol how did that happen haha

can never cheer for division rival so goooo Dodgers!
good for Teoscar Hernandez and Kevin Kiermaier couple ex Jays

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Ricky Vaughn fan?

If I remember correctly, he's a Steven Kwan fan.

[rage2]

That was my 2nd ever mlb game. Went with a hardcore jays family, so I just wanted to be a troll. Helps there’s a rookie named Kwan on the team, and he was super nice. Gotta cheer for a brother going forward. Pretty sweet he’s an all star now.

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Ricky Vaughn fan?

That certainly helps.

[The_Penguin]

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That was my 2nd ever mlb game. Went with a hardcore jays family, so I just wanted to be a troll.

As a hardcore Jays fan.... I approve.

[The_Penguin]

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So wait is baseball over or not over?

Nope. Another professional sports miracle. Underdog pull off a do or die win dragging out the series cause <insert conspiracy theory here>