You can’t spell ‘no big contracts’ without RSN: 2024 regular MLB season thread!

did all sorts of juggling to make room for opening day, turns out it's gonna rain. not sure if it'll be the kind of rain that calls a game, but i dunno if i wanna spend the money to find out....

okay so the plan is this
we wake up at 5am
we've got 5 minutes to make a coffee
we struggle to hit that time but thankfully the tv is visible from the coffee machine
we see big dawg corbin burnes pitch an immaculate inning and adley rutchman goes 6/6 before 6am at which point we switch on the dodgers
we see tyler glasnow strike out 3 but give up a run on a walk, hpb and 2 wild pitches
after shohei goes yard, we switch over to the royals and twins because we never watch the AL Central because it's a bad division so we need to get some reps in early in the season
it's now about 9am, the appropriate time to have a beer or two.
we heat up some nachos in the microwave after Webb gets pulled in the third inning for giving up back to back jacks to tatis, croenenworth and machado
we fall asleep on the couch for an hour
wake up in time to see louis castillo pitch a no-hitter
we check in with ippei who is blown away that our opening day parlay has hit; we cash out for 4.5mil, letting him pay back ohtani and I become ohtanis new best friend in the process

can't wait

fr tho Pablo Lopez vs. Cole (Carl) Ragan (Sagan) is a fire matchup

I just got MLB.TV for free via T-MOBILE, second year in a row after paying DirecTV for probably 20 years.

Nice! Good luck to your Giants tomorrow Bee

Amazing, just got it too. Thanks Bee Ok!

NL West is going to be so much fun this year, can't wait. It will be the Dodgers on top, but with expanded playoffs, who knows how the rest will shake out.

Big bias here, but it definitely feels like the division to follow this year. Gonna be a lot of NL West and AL East watching for me

ESPN must be giving up on MLB as they used to have three games on Opening Day, this year-1.

I took the day off, even if I'm only watching one game.

I can only watch Giants-Padres today because of timezone but I’ll be following all the scores on the app. I’m excited. Lee has huge potential to be A Guy on this team. Also watching Tatis is always fun.

Also, having an east coast team to follow when your beloved Mariners are constantly playing at 2am (my time) constantly backfires when they are starting the season in Seattle. I’m just…not taking sides there. Kirby is now so good he’s the Mariners #2. Have so many hopes for all my faves this year but above all: STAY HEALTHY

Delete one constantly there, the second one

doing some file cleanup and found one not in my meme folder labeled 'george bush smashing pumpkins.mp4' pic.twitter.com/py5X6dkvg3

— Will (@WillemDaFro) January 31, 2024

Trout is back!

Just saw that.

He makes it look so easy

Adley 2 for 2, the parley is looking good!

How can you pitch to these orioles hitters sheesh. Everything thr bat touches Is a hit

The Angels lineup is so fucking bad, obvious exception aside.

Do you think Mike Trout is standing in center field right now thinking, "man, this fucking sucks."

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) March 28, 2024

trout leads the league in WAR. he’s back baby

Tatis is wearing cleats dedicated to Peter Seidler
https://i.postimg.cc/k41T4YGz/IMG-8144.jpg

The Angels lineup is so fucking bad

they have 3 potentially interesting/valuable young guys in their line up so of course they gotta have ron washington around to bat them 6, 8 and 9

Omg dodgers stadium is a painting right now. Gotta turn my TV brightness down

Jung Hoo Lee has a little patch on his sleeve that says debut!

https://i.postimg.cc/6p1WwtfN/IMG-8133.jpg

Okay after watching ohtani try stretch that double to a triple, I'm convinced, he is the gambler

Haha they’re interviewing 20 year old Jackson Merrill’s parents, they’re younger than like 60% of ilx

Tim Anderson’s lack of power last season was pretty bad; however he was hitting for extra bases towards the end of his spring training and hopefully his health/personal circs etc mean he’s back being good at the plate?

Tim Anderson with an RBI double in his first Marlins at-bat! pic.twitter.com/gef7fy7lHV

— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) March 28, 2024

The lefty-lefty matchup in Tigers-White Sox is too good. Tarik Skubal is him, sadly.

Framber Valdez walking the bases loaded and hbping two runs in is too funny.

I shouldn’t cos they’re playing the Giants but Tatis going first to third is electric! What a player.

i still kind of can’t believe how trash the uniforms are, it’s very obvious on today’s hi-def sets

hader’s not bad huh

filthy

i think he missed the tag but there’s no angle that shows it

Astros have a good pen but their rotation isn’t it

Wow even the road greys look awful

pic.twitter.com/KxbHCCfLwm

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) March 28, 2024

yanks actually went to a new away uniform look for the first time since 1971 or something they were saying on the broadcast. don’t think the sweat stains were part of the plan tho lol

90% of the league is very large men who sweat a lot, what’s their plan for when someone inevitably shows something they shouldn’t

This runner’s lane stuff is dogshit

(xposts) How can you not post this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYFbknzeVNM

Abbot kinda getting booed in TX

xp I thought about it but I thought someone else would!

That was actually directed at myself; what I meant was, you can't talk about the Yankees and uniforms and sweating and not have me post that. I'm helpless.

I actually saw that episode for the first time recently (I’ve only watched Seinfeld episodes here and there, I’m married to someone who’s like “why haven’t you watched Seinfeld yet”, trust me I know)

Justin Steele left the game after this play. pic.twitter.com/hK0ROAFPaS

— Marquee Sports Network (@WatchMarquee) March 29, 2024

The matching clip, from earlier in the episode, explains the great "All of a sudden there's a problem with Tartabull's swing" line. (I know, I know--enough already, season's started.)

Hey talk away! Anyway your fave Adolis just homered

An ALL TIME pimp job from Adolis García. pic.twitter.com/8HWVBM20cs

— Alex Fast (@AlexFast8) March 29, 2024

For .3 seconds I was confused at why he was acting like he just hit a lazy pop fly after the ball came off that bat like that, then it all made sense at .4 seconds

Rocktober cannot come soon enough.

(this game is not in Denver)

16 runs. Wow.