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3:10 p.m. CT
RHP Miles Mikolas vs. RHP Alek Manoah
Bally Sports Midwest and KMOX
(and Bally Sports Southeast/Southwest)Pregame Schedule
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Official Opening Day Pep Rally at Ballpark Village: Join Fredbird, Team Fredbird, DJ Todd Thomas, Cardinals organist Dwayne Hilton and Cardinals Alumni at the Busch II Infield Stage in the Together Credit Union Plaza for the Cardinals Opening Day Pep Rally. This event is free for all fans to attend and includes prizes and ticket giveaways to Opening Day and other 2023 games.
12:00 PM Gates Open
2023 Cardinals Magnet Schedule: All fans, ages 21 and older, will receive a magnet featuring the 2023 Cardinals schedule, compliments of Budweiser.
12:05 – 12:55 PM Cardinals batting practice (subject to change)
1:00 – 1:50 PM Blue Jays batting practice (subject to change)
2:25 PM Pregame ceremonies begin with an appearance by the world famous Budweiser Clydesdales
Introduction of Fredbird & Team FredbirdRecognition of Chairman & CEO, Bill DeWitt Jr.; President, Bill DeWitt III; and President of Baseball Operations, John Mozeliak at home plate
Special Tribute Video on scoreboard
Introduction of Cardinals Hall of Famers via 2023 Ford Mustang convertible motorcade
Recognition of 2022 N.L. Central Division Championship
2:50 PM Introduction of the St. Louis Cardinals via 2023 Ford F-150 truck motorcade
Introduction of the Toronto Blue Jays
3:00 PM Canadian National Anthem performed by violinist Abigail Stahlschmidt
3:01 PM U.S. National Anthem performance with Color Guard presentation by the Ft. Leonard Wood Joint Service Color Guard
3:05 PM Ceremonial First Pitch by National Baseball Hall of Famer Scott Rolen to
Cardinals Hall of Famer Matt Holliday3:10 PM First Pitch by Cardinals Opening Day Starting Pitcher Miles Mikolas
Forecasted Weather – Partly cloudy skies. High 67° F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph.
Television Coverage
Opening Day airs on Bally Sports Midwest and streams on the Bally Sports app. An extended edition of Cardinals Live pregame begins at 1:30 PM on Bally Sports Midwest and will include live coverage of the pregame ceremonies inside Busch Stadium.
Chip Caray and Brad Thompson will call the game, with Jim Hayes serving as reporter. Alexa Datt, Ricky Horton and Al Hrabosky will host pregame and postgame coverage from a special set inside Busch Stadium.
Radio Coverage
Fans can tune into KMOX 1120 AM, 98.7 FM, or one of the 147 stations in the Cardinals Radio Network to hear John Rooney, Ricky Horton and Mike Claiborne call the game. The Ameren Total Access Show starts at 1:35 PM and will include live coverage of the pregame ceremonies inside Busch Stadium.
Fans can tune in locally to WIJR 880 AM “La Tremenda”, or one of the six stations in the club’s new Cardinals Spanish Radio Network to hear Spanish broadcasters Polo Ascencio and Bengie Molina call the game as well.
Nice! A game thread. Won’t be long now. I’ll have to come up with some genuinely useless info for some pregame baseball trivia…Haha! I’ll also have to rummage around in the basement and out in the garage and scrounge up all of my leftover supply of those coveted oven mitts for all of the illustrious prize winners…
I don’t know if this is good or bad, but I can’t find a website or sportswriter that doesn’t think the Cardinals will repeat as NLC champs this season. I also found a couple of articles that claim although a guy named Corbin Carroll with the DBacks is the favorite to win the NL ROY, Jordan Walker is indeed named as a favorite in a couple of places. I’m going to go with Walker simply on the basis of he’s 6-5 and I don’t think Carroll at 5-10 can beat him at anything…Haha!
Din din on Thursday will be the weekly trip to the Amish restaurant, the Gasthof. I am meeting my coaching buddy for lunch about 2:30 my time. On the menu will be green beans, noodles, mashed potatoes/gravy, dressing, fried chicken, roast beef, fish and some cherry cobbler and chocolate soft serve ice cream. Yum yum!
Then home in time to catch the first pitch. I’ll be on the couch with my best buddy in the whole world, Whitey Herdog. And have a couple of 7×50 Cuban Sandwich cigars. Then late Thursday night I can catch the late game at Dodger Stadium between the Rockies and Dodgers.
Happy Days are here again!
r/Esteemed Rat
No telling how a whole season worth of baseball is going to go. I hope the lads are just worried about winning Thursday. I’ve never gone for that “its a marathon not a sprint” business. I’ve never heard anybody who is winning saying that, just those who have been losing. Winners know its 162 sprints in a row and that’s how they play.
Just signed up for another year of free mlb.tv through T-Mobile. Almost ready to go. I am working Thursday, but it might be my last day for quite awhile. Will either retire, or at least take a good six month sabatical.
Yeah, I’ve always thought it’s real important to make a strong showing right out of the gate to set the tone and create the sort of atmosphere that produces a mindset that instills confidence going forward. I always think of the ’73 season when the Redbirds went 2-15 in their first 17 games and then had to fight and scuffle back for the remainder of the regular season only to come up a little short at 1.5 games behind the Mets for the old NL East title.
In these first six with Toronto and Atlanta, I will be okay going 3-3. Tough teams to start with, but then we looked great in Florida so those clubs are no doubt saying the same thing.
Chip could have some nostalgic thoughts calling games against his former employer in that Braves series.
I don’t know, BikeMike. Gotta go at least 5-1 in this first home-stand or the hole may be too deep to dig out of…Rats rubs off on me anytime I see what he’s having for lunch…Haha!
Not a great pitching matchup for the Cardinals, but no surprise as a matchup of number ones is not the Cards’ strong suit. Manoah has been ready right out of the gate in his young career. Probably gonna need a good one from Mikolas.
Yeah Euro, I just looked up Manoah and he looks really good. Big too. They’ve got him listed at 6-6 and 285 lbs. He must be the guy Rats is meeting for lunch on Thurs. before the game.
Speaking of two pretty big guys. With a battery consisting of Scott Rolen and Matt Holliday for the ceremonial first pitch, I’d probably think twice before heading in the direction of the mound if Rolen happened to plunk me while I was standing in…
The truly pressing question for Thursday is…will Puggs be back on the PBP call? If he misses opening day, I’m officially going to start worrying about the guy.
Yeah, me too, stlcard25. I missed seeing him around during the off-season and I didn’t start on here until about the end of last July, so I’m wondering if anyone knows if he normally took a break over the winter? At any rate, I hope to see him around when we get underway.
I mentioned earlier that I’d have to come up with some utterly useless info to formulate and present a pregame baseball trivia question for the long awaited arrival of opening day. I was a little worried I’d have trouble coming up with some decent trivia questions only for the reason that I’m perfectly aware that I had driven this silly thing into the ground last season and thought I’d have a difficult time finding some new and reasonably interesting material to put forth. Well, not to worry…The great game of baseball has once again bailed me out. The rich and seemingly endless history of our favorite game and pastime has not only provided me with 2 or 3 bonus trivia questions, but has also in it’s special way placed it’s providential support of 1TD in the form of these trivia questions perfectly pertaining to opening day Redbird baseball. I should have known that it would. At any rate, stay tuned Cardinal fans, because they’re some good ones and I’m reasonably certain that our elite squad of experts will ace a couple of them and take home a coveted oven mitt…GO REDBIRDS!
stlcard, I wondered about Pugs a while back when you (I think it was you) assigned him to be the Professor of PBP 101 for TCN University. I asked if he had been on sabbatical. Didn’t know for sure since I don’t read all the threads. Nobody responded. I think he was missing some games toward the end of last season because he said he was having to spend more time at the salt mines than he wanted. Hopefully that’s it and he’ll re-prioritize now that the season is starting. Wooster also took a break.
And for 1td’s question, I think Pugs has been less active in some off-seasons, but don’t think he ever completely disappeared like this for this long. And bring on the trivia. I think forsch is another one who likes that kind of stuff.
Yeah Euro, if my memory serves, I haven’t seen Pugs on here at all since the instant of the last out of game 2 of the NLWC. I was real close to breaking furniture during that series, so hopefully he simply destroyed his phone or laptop after seeing those two games and he’ll surface with a new one once we get underway.
1td,
Pugs usually takes the winters/off-season off. Hopefully, his absence is just business as usual for him and he’ll reappear like a spring robin.I have been thinking about Pugs also. He usually resurfaces by opening day.
Come to think of it but has anyone actually seen Pugs and 1TD in the same place? A lot of similarities in writing style. LOL
gscottar, don’t let the secret out..:)
Then again, it’s been intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer for how long now?
r/Esteemed Rat
Hmmm…Am I to understand that it’s a possibility that I might be in line for providing the PBP on a game thread? That’s simply out of the question as there are numerous times during the course of any Cardinal game when I’m highly susceptable to uttering an endlessly protracted succession of…bad words. Moreover, since I enjoy participating in baseball discussions with the entire elite squad of baseball experts on this panel, it’s in the best interest of my welfare to refrain from performing any PBP during games threads for the simple reason that our highly esteemed leader, Mr. BW, would be perfectly entitled to immediately revoke the credentials that enable me the privelege of engaging all of you baseball knuckleheads in my nonsense at the instant he was made aware of this profane and offensive sort of vocabulary…In more simple terms, I genuinely hope Pugs is present in the booth prior to first pitch…Haha!
It’s nice to see that the gates will open at noon on opening day to allow baseball fans through the turnstiles and into the ballpark to witness and enjoy what I always thought was one of the more enjoyable experiences of attending a Big League baseball game. Fielding reps and BP. By BOTH of the combatants. In my view, the entire spectacle really showcased the level of talent that was going to take to the field in about 3 hours or so to compete for another W. Seeing all those big and strong hitters uncoil and scorch drive after drive into the gaps…The seemingly endless string of gargantuan and towering arcs of baseballs that would leave the field of play to crash into the seats of the distant mezzanine and upper deck areas really gave a fan the proper perspective of how good these guys were and would leave you in a genuine sense of awe. And then there were the IF reps and the perfect execution of cutoff after cutoff. Perfect throw after perfect throw. They were simply too good. Heck, even watching a couple of these guys play simple catch was witnessing flawless execution. At any rate, we always got to the ballpark at least a half hour prior to the opening of the gates so we could spend 2 and a half or even 3 hours watching the best in the entire world getting ready to play a game. I always thought it was really something to see. They should open the gates early for all games like they once did in the not too distant past. Three hours for a game isn’t long enough to spend at the ballpark watching these guys play baseball. I’m in no hurry…
Just got home with the jumbo dogs, kraut, peanuts and beer. And a bag of charcoal of course.
Opening day always causes me to think about an old friend, gone now. Many years back the boss announced that the uniform policy would be enforced and there would be no Cardinals caps or shirts allowed in the shop on opening day. So on that day this old guy came walking in with his uniform pants bloused at the knee and Cardinals stirrup socks on. Naturally I introduced myself. I learned that he had been a player in the Cards minor league system years prior, and we became good friends. That led to me, him and a long ago teammate of his and fellow St. Louisan, Earl Weaver, having dinner with a few others in Kansas City. Its a treasured memory.
I recall you once mentioning the dinner with your friend and the “Earl of Baltimore”, Bling. My memories of Earl Weaver and a couple of other managers who had similar tendencies were the primary reason I was reluctant to advocate the arrival of instant replay. When Weaver thought his team had been slighted by an arbiter the show was almost always as good as a game saving play. In my view, his image is the perfect illustration of the hard nosed Big League manager. I certainly hope the waiter got his order right…
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