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[Drygioni]

I think our new baseball fans (Judy, for one) will find MLB likes to shit on a lot of things' chests.

I'm cool with that.

Daaaaaaaamn, my team looks rather awesome.  You will all rue the day you did not draft Ryan Zimmerman.

I have just told the game to trade all my players for yours.

[Carlos del Vaca]

The real opening day is Sunday night!  In Washington DC!  At our shiny new ballpark!  And I have tickets!  WHooooo!

I look forward to standing in long lines for food, paying $7.50 for a beer, and listening to people bitch about parking the next day.

[CortJstr]

The real opening day is Sunday night!  In Washington DC!  At our shiny new ballpark!  And I have tickets!  WHooooo!

I look forward to standing in long lines for food, paying $7.50 for a beer, and listening to people bitch about parking the next day.

Wait, the stadium capacity is 41,222 but there are 58,478 parking spaces. More if you count the spaces at RFK for people dumb enough to drive all the way into the city. So I see nothing to complain about.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Wait, the stadium capacity is 41,222 but there are 58,478 parking spaces. More if you count the spaces at RFK for people dumb enough to drive all the way into the city. So I see nothing to complain about.

What's your source on the parking space count?  I hadn't heard that figure.
Not all the spaces are particularly close, and by and large they're expensive as fuck.  They tried to sell me a parking pass that would cost more than my actual game tickets.

[CortJstr]

What's your source on the parking space count?  I hadn't heard that figure.
Not all the spaces are particularly close, and by and large they're expensive as fuck.  They tried to sell me a parking pass that would cost more than my actual game tickets.

I went to wmata.com and added up all of the daily spots at all of the metro stops with parking lots.

[lprkn]

Get much free time at work?

[CortJstr]

Get much free time at work?

I was just making a conscious, personal choice to be a dick. But yes, work was crazy slow today.

[littlefallsmets]

Opening Day is supposed to be a businessman's special afternoon game on a weekday in The 'Natti followed by night games for every damn one else, except maybe a later afternoon game for the Cubs what with Wrigley tradition and shit.

Only then is God in his heaven and everything awesome.

[Golfhaus]

They referenced Cincinnati and Opening Day on Around The Horn today - I had no clue... there's significance to the Reds and Opening Day?

[littlefallsmets]

Hells yes.

There is/was a parade and everything.

(I'm pretty sure there ain't a parade no more but it could be that there still is but no one cares.)

They were the first full-on professional team in the sport and there were traditions associated with that.

These were the traditions that made the game so quirky awesome.

Death to the designated hitter! Death to the wild card!

24 teams or Fight!

*LFM is dragged off by the Baseball Short-Term Profit At The Cost Of The Long Term Good Of The Game Police*

[melack]

Did you just... compare... in a roundabout way... the DH to this year's debacle of an Opening Day? Don't get me started on the DH again!

[littlefallsmets]

It is a dude... who doesn't field a position. Doesn't even step on the field and stand around.

He just hits every ninth time.

It is definitely in the same ballgame (so to speak) as the Disco-Night glowing-ball uniform-shorts stunty lameness as starting your season a week early, overseas, and on at the same time as Coast-to-Coast AM is talking to Professor Batshit Crazy about whether the aliens will start the Rapture in 2012 or if it might actually be reverse-vampires.

Dude just kinda... hangs out on the bench when everyone else has to play the other half of the game.

Pinch-hitting a midget to draw an automatic walk is truer to the spirit of the game than the designated hitter because at least the normal substitution rules apply and when you pull him for a pinch runner, the midget cannot be put back into the game.

The DH is a pinch-hitter who gets to be re-substituted in four or five times a game.

Why not a holographic "shadow-man" for slower running hitters?

Bionic "Go Go Gadget Arms" for the centerfielder but he can only use them four times a game and if he uses them a fifth time, even on accident, it activates The Multi-Ball?

These are both things roughly equivalent to the bullshit nature of the DH.

It is still not quite as crazy as having major league teams in Florida cities that clearly don't want them, just to dilute the pitching talent pools and give the FSN channels in Miami and Tampa more programming but... it is reasonably close.

[melack]

Your opinion is wrong because it's not the same as my own!

[littlefallsmets]

haha.

All I'm sayin' is... there's no compelling reason for baseball to be a sport where you split the offense from the defense... part of the fun is that everyone is supposed to play "iron man"-style, especially considering that doing as such really isn't that much more extertive or dangerous.

God, what's more awesome than booing the pitcher when he walks the opposing pitcher?

What's more awesome than when the pitcher surprises everybody and ropes a double?

Other than sex-related things, it is difficult to conceive of a cooler thing than a pitcher goin' yard.

Anyway, we can agree to disagree... as long as we agree that someone's gotta trade with me for my back-up corner outfielders. Justin Mourneau and Kevin Youklis, just sittin' on the bench? C'mon now.

[Carlos del Vaca]

What's more awesome than when the pitcher surprises everybody and ropes a double?

Which is exactly why Livan Hernandez is one of my favorite players.

Ha freakin' ha, Cort.  You know what I mean, though:  they've been preachin' "Pllleeeeeease take Metro" non-stop, but a certain breen of Beltway douchebag is going to say "Metro?  That's for losers!  I'll find a space with no problem."  Said douchebags will be quoted in the Post the next day in the inevitable article about how much parking near the ballpark sucks.