4/6: Opening Day Pregame Open Thread

Plus, I can’t get over this uncanny resemblance, everytime I see one of those MLB 09 The Show commercials.

I mean. God.

Goddamnit, you’ve killed most of my buzz for the Mariners OD.

Sigh….let’s go…whatever.

This probably won’t go over well.

After my normal late-night running, I decided to put the calories right back in with a cold glass of Manny’s Pale Ale. A good decision, indeed.

GO MARINERS!!!!!!!!

“For now, the Mariners will have to content themselves with hanging Ichiro’s No. 51 game jersey in their dugout, meant as a teamwide gesture of respect, when they open their season today at the Metrodome against the Minnesota Twins.”

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It’s nice to see that at least on Opening Day, they don’t want to throw him against a wall.

Counting t-minus 9 days until the real Opening Day at Safeco Field.

And since everybody seems to be doing this, I took a pic of me tonight in my new Felix jersey since I didn’t pay $230 for nothing.

The opening-day pregame thread has become one of my favorite traditions in life. Here’s to Griffey smiling at the bottom of a (very gently done) dogpile again…

My Jake Woods jersey isn’t on in this picture because Ma is washing it.

GO M’S!

Having to go into work today on Opening Day since the M’s open on the road…

So, no photos of me in jersey with a beer today. I’ll raise a Westvleteren since I’m pretending anyways…

Happy Felix Day everybody! Man it feels good to say that now!

I said: “Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!” He was hilarious: “That’s beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it’s our game: that’s the chief fact in connection with it: America’s game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.”- Conversation with Whitman (7 April 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV

I will open my first “Bangor Foursquare Tripel Play” Belgian-Style homebrew that’s been aging since I bottled it at the end of the season last year.

Here’s to a fantastic season, of madness, joy, and baseball. Oh, and Felix hitting another grand slam!

GO M’s!

Keeping a close eye on the out-of-town scoreboard from club seats at Petco.

and Zduriencik was just on KJR, harshin’ my buzz.

When asked about Aumont being "destined to be a bullpen guy, making it 3 high draft choices to the ‘pen" said he’s a big guy, very aggressive, very powerful– spent a lot of time on the DL last summer, pitched in the WBC, sat down as a staff and looked at him, and thought it was where he was best suited, based on his injury history, his size, his personality, his pitches.

FWIW, Zduriencik says that when they told Aumont they were going to put him in the pen, his response was: "That’s what I thought I was going to be anyhow."

Bottle of Sailor Jerry’s Rum… Check.
Lot’s of baaaaad but tasty food… Check.
Week off of work… Check.

FELIX RAPE THE TWINS FOR ME.

Let’s make this year count.

…also, in spite of the last week looking like December 2006, go M’s woo!

GO 2009 MARINERS!

I’d hate to be the Padres.

It’s a full day of baseball from 6PM until 4AM. I’ve got it planned out: Mets at 6pm, Yankees and 9PM and of course us at 1AM. In between let there be much drinking, eating, playing MLB 09 The Show and posting on LL.

Happy days, I love opening day so much but it wouldn’t be the same for me without fellow fans to enjoy it with. Thank you, LL.

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