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Funny. Seems like anymore you can find a hat of every color. I have seen red Yankees hats, and black Cardinal and Dodger hats on occasion. Now green.
Still the worst uni’s I have seen of late are those Red Sox yellow jerseys.
Did something happen to Goldschmidt? Is he injured too?
I just read something that used both his name and being injured in the same sentence.
José Fermín, who is making a strong push to make the #STLCards Opening Day roster as a utility fielder with five doubles and nine RBI this spring, starts today in left fielder. The Cards face the Marlins at Roger Dean Stadium. pic.twitter.com/0qmghYZnrV
— John Denton (@JohnDenton555) March 18, 2025
Well, at least we won’t spend the entire 2025 season in last place in the NL Central.
Dodgers 4
Cubs 1
From TokyoI don’t think it’s at all fair that the Dodgers/Cubs have to begin regular season play on a foreign planet more than a week before any of the other teams are required to show up and play games that count. It’s reaching a point in which I have a hard time taking the Big Leagues seriously. With the seemingly neverending implementation of silly new rules along with the inane scheduling and the league being in cahoots with the gambling syndicates, it won’t be too long before I’ll be able to come up with any reason at all to afford Big League baseball anything that remotely resembles a sliver of credibility. That’s a genuine shame.
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I don’t think it’s at all fair that the Dodgers/Cubs have to begin regular season play on a foreign planet more than a week before any of the other teams are required to show up and play games that count.
My bet is that the Dodgers don’t HAVE to do it. They WANT to do it. Asia is a huge fan base as well as a source for players. The Dodgers are the predominant brand there which will help them in so many ways. I hardly feel sorry for them.
On the plus side, we’re now a full game up on the Cubs. Insurmountable lead. It sucks having to play the Dodgers right out of the gate. We know this too well from last season.
I might be odd regarding this, but anyone else look at the loss column just as much as GB? I turned the game on around the fourth inning and it was nice to have real baseball back!
One good thing about starting a week early, your two best pitchers basically get an extra start for the season.
If today’s line-up is more in line with what they are thinking for opening day I don’t hate it. With Arenado on the team, I think Walker is the one who is the weak link to get left out, but I don’t know they will make that decision to send him back to AAA again. Winn struggles in spring, could put him 8th in the line-up to start the season. I’d probably flip Nootbaar and Donovan, but either way is OK.
The Dodgers swept the Cubs without two of their best players, Freeman and Betts. I like it.
I still think the Cubs are the favorite to win the NLC. The playoffs could be a different story though. The Dodgers, Mets, Braves, Phillies, Padres, and Dbacks will be tough to beat for the pennant.
We are only 8 days away from opening day. Even in a transition year I still look forward to real baseball.
I am very cautiously optimistic about this team. No, I don’t think they will be good. A LOT has to go right for them to be a consistently good team this season, but I think there is the possibility of them being the “surprise” team of the year. But I still think they will be too inconsistent and finish poorly, but only time will tell. But maybe I’m with you gscottar, maybe its just the excitement of opening day coming that is leading to optimism about this team.
Opening day starts a new season of life for me. My habits revolve around the game each day. This team and season will provide entertainment in incrments. It will also be the stimulus for a few angry outbursts. Strangest offseason I can remember. Im definitely ready to move on from it and watch real games. I think Walker and Gorman will fail. I think Scott and Herrera will replace them as our brightest young stars. With a better manager and functional front office, this team might be capable of winning their weak division.
Gorman really needs to turn things around soon. He is headed towards a Carlson type flop situation. Maybe the Cardinals should look to trade him before his value completely craters and just keep Nado until his contract runs out. Subtraction by attrition is the Cardinal Way.
I have no realistic hopes for this season – same old same old. I just need to see some baseball again after a long winter of our discontent spent talking to vegetables in the local epicerie. Who knows, we might get lucky and break .500 again.
Rah Cardinals!A new season is always fun. Optimism reigns. You never know. We have had teams in the past not forecasted to do much, and they excelled. But we have had teams projected to excel and they floundered.
I was reading an old article maybe six months ago about the 1969 season. It was about this time of year in ’69 and a sportswriter wrote, “..If the Cardinals don’t win the East Division there ought to be an investigation.” We finished I think 13 games out or something like that, in fourth place out of six teams.
Neither the Dodgers or the Cubs want to make that early trip to the land of the rising sun, BW. Everyone knows that the MLB braintrust in NY forces the Dodgers and the Cubbies go to Tokyo Town. And speaking of the Dodgers, our old friend Tommy Edman rips the first tater of the 2025 Big League season. Little Eddie has now unquestionably become the heart and soul of the storied Los Angeles, Dodgers…Haha!
Some preseason baseball trivia that I was not aware of…If my source is correct, the only player to have ever hit an inside the park grand slam walk off HR is none other than Roberto Clemente. I wouldn’t have it any other way…I watched him man up in RF many times from my cheap seat in Busch Memorial Stadium and if anyone deserves to be the only player to have ever achieved the aforementioned feat, it was the great Roberto Clemente.
Edit…Oh, I almost forgot to mention that Clemente was the only opposing player that frightened me more than Willy Billiams…Haha!
From the LA Times: “Dodgers’ Tokyo Series trip confirms the team’s ‘overwhelming’ hold on Japan”
1TD, I think the Dodgers are absolutely thrilled playing in Japan. 3 Japanese players and their org knows they get a significant Japanese viewership each game. If you watch Dodgers games, there are a lot of Japanese ads.
Would you guess how many people in Japan tuned in for the opening game? A whopping 25 million, which even the 7 last World Series have not had a single game with that viewership level.
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