MLB: Opening Day!

[Moral Hazard]

Right. ERA is calculated by ER and IP, so in asleep example it would be 2 + 3 ER / 7 + 0 IP = 6.43 ERA.

I meant MLB.TVs quality, I wonder if it's good enough to export to my TV. A friend of mine has XM had the quality is easily good enough.

[Moral Hazard]

Oh and does anyone like the manager for their own team. I decided to give Dusty Baker a blank slate to start the season. Yesterday however he decides to PH Neifi Perez (our defensive replacement) so I'm right back to hating him. He still had DuBois and Hairston on the bench and the Cubs lose 5 to 4.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I didn't mind Willie Randolph. He couldn't help Looper's meltdown.

[Moral Hazard]

Ya don't have time to hate him yet It's his first job so who knows how good he'll be.

[Ming]

While I originally liked Dusty... watching the madmen run the asylum last year while he sat back and did nothing but support the madmen... I'm no longer a fan of his

[pchang]

Dodgers suck this year. But is it really De Podesta's fault? The fault really belongs to their new owner who has no money.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
derek ****ing jeter. grrrrrrrrr

HA HA HA

The season might just have began, but maybe you can start planning for the 2090 world series, when the Red Sox's might win it again

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Hueij
Siddiqui, when I wake up tomorrow I want that Susan Sarandon quote back in your sig

Starting a baseball thread without it

Second.

[Guynemer]

As for the manager issue, I was very suspicious when Alan Trammell was first hired.

Sure, one of the all-time Tiger greats, but that doesn't necessarily cross over to managerial skills, no matter how savvy and smart a player he was.

But after the improvement of last year, he has won me over. If the Tigers finish above .500 (and I think they have a decent chance of winning at least 86 games), look for him to be in the running for Manager of the Year.

[Imran Siddiqui]

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!

The Red Sox are Mariano Rivera's Daddy! 5 runs in the 9th Inning to take the game. OUCH!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Woot! I'll be going to the Braves-Mets game this Sunday. It should be Pedro vs. Smoltz on that day.

I'll be field level just past the ballboy on the 3rd base side (visitors seats). It's funny, I paid like $32 for each ticket (well more like $40 with all the freaking Ticketmaster fees). I'm seeing worse seats being sold on 3rd party sites for like $65 each! I wonder who in the world is buying that crap from those sites?

[Ned]

Is there any hope that Atlanta will "finally" be dethroned? There run at NL East championships is amazing, but also, annoying.

[Ming]

Every year the experts keep trying to find somebody to pick in that division... and when the season is over, Atlanta keeps winning. It's hard to pick against them.

[Imran Siddiqui]

If Beckett and Burnett can stay healthy, Florida can definetly do it. If the Mets can find another bullpen arm, they can definetly do it.

The Braves have to lose the division at some time (it can't go on forever), and they look the weakest now than they have since 1991.

[Ned]

The Marlins! It is amazing, is it not, that they have won two world series in the last several years even while the Braves continue to capture the division title. Goes to show you that the tools needed to win in the playoffs may be different from those one needs to win a division.