4/4/25 1:10 White Sox @ Tigers Home Opener!

[Tigeraholic1]

Comerica Park - Detroit, MI

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Game Time Forecast: Patly Sunny 49

Starters:

RHP Jonathan Cannon

RHP Jack Flaherty

[oblong]

weather is about as good as you can reasonably expect this time of year.  Can't be greedy.  It isn't going to rain or snow or be terribly cold.  Just layer up.

 

[casimir]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

weather is about as good as you can reasonably expect this time of year.  Can't be greedy.  It isn't going to rain or snow or be terribly cold.  Just layer up.

 

You misspelled liquor.

[Klondike]

Windy??

[RedTeamGo!]

Johnny Cannon - what a great name for a pitcher 

[Klondike]

Let's gets some triples 

[IdahoBert]

Flood warnings? April in the D?

[Sports_Freak]

And after the WSox series, we play the Yankees, in Detroit. Night games. Temps expected in the 20's to 30's. Smart scheduling.

[IdahoBert]

So they’re not doing a day off after opening day anymore in case opening day is a rain out so they can get that game in? Or is this only something they do or used to do at least if your actual first game of the season was at home?

[Sports_Freak]

22 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

So they’re not doing a day off after opening day anymore in case opening day is a rain out so they can get that game in? Or is this only something they do or used to do at least if your actual first game of the season was at home?

9 April night games in cold climates. Schedule them as day games and you have all day to wait out April showers, which bring May flowers. 😆

[RandyMarsh]

It's stupid that they don't wait till atleast Memorial Day to schedule home games for teams like the Tigers. Make them play the first two months on the road in warm climates./s

Edited yesterday at 06:07 PM by RandyMarsh

[SoCalTiger]

Just reduce the schedule to 154. If there’s gonna be another big labor war then just get all the nonsense out of the way and do it all at once.

[IdahoBert]

A 154 game schedule is rational, but not from the standpoint of money which always rules. I remember following the Roger Maris 61 home run season as a nine-year-old and being sucked into the drama of it all, but then later reflecting on it a couple years later knowing full well that an extra eight games had to happen for him to break it and it seemed a little dicey. But once again, money and marketing rule. 

[oblong]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

And after the WSox series, we play the Yankees, in Detroit. Night games. Temps expected in the 20's to 30's. Smart scheduling.

They used to do more day games in April midweek. And I'm surprised the Wed Yankee game isn't a day game given it's getaway day.  There must be a business reason behind that.  The following homestand has a Wed Padres day game.

[Sports_Freak]

5 minutes ago, oblong said:

They used to do more day games in April midweek. And I'm surprised the Wed Yankee game isn't a day game given it's getaway day.  There must be a business reason behind that.  The following homestand has a Wed Padres day game.

I feel bad for the fans who are gonna freeze their butts off. All April games should be day games.

[chasfh]

I had never understood the rationale behind 154 beyond mere nostalgia for something almost no one today was alive to see, but it can actually work, mathematically, in a 30-team situation: 12 games with your division rivals; 6 games with the other ten teams in the league; four games with a designated rival in the other league; and three games with each of the other 14 teams in the other league. That’s 154.

It might get a little touch trickier when they go to eight four-team divisions and they want to maintain separate leagues. 12 with each team in your division; six with the 12 league teams outside your division; and three with the 16 teams in the other league equals 156. If they want to maintain four games with a designated rival, that’s 157. If they don’t mind an odd number of games in a season, and i don’t see why they should, that should work okay.

The Players would be thrilled by a reduced schedule that also reduces the 172-day service year to 164 or 166, although they might accept 172 as long as it includes more in-season games off. One of the main concerns is how Baseball would reduce salaries by 8/162 = 5%, but I could see Baseball agreeing to maintain current contracts in exchange for reduced minimum salaries.

[monkeytargets39]

Every stadium should be built with a retractable roof

[Arlington]

They should run 308 game schedule with each team fielding a home and an away team.  They have the stadiums.  Use them full-time.  52-man  person rosters by each team will have to designate 26 persons for each game   40-man rosters would be expanded to 80.  Same rules with respect to options and moving players on and off an active roster, but very liberal rules for moving between active rosters.  Only real limitation is limiting the total number of games a player can be on an active roster to 154. You can strategize on the use of starters such as using them against a division rival versus a team from another division.   For 7-game series, play the first 4 games with the split squads and the final three with one united roster.  Would get very interesting in my estimate.

[davidsb623]

36 minutes ago, Arlington said:

They should run 308 game schedule with each team fielding a home and an away team.  

Maybe each team's home team and away team could play each other.

Edited yesterday at 07:50 PM by davidsb623

[IdahoBert]

I had a Sporting News stat book of all-time great players when I was a kid and I was amazed that Joe DiMaggio played 186 games one year in the PCL and another year 172. Of course the PCL had the milder West Coast climate in its favor.

 

[Sports_Freak]

8 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I had a Sporting News stat book of all-time great players when I was a kid and I was amazed that Joe DiMaggio played 186 games one year in the PCL and another year 172. Of course the PCL had the milder West Coast climate in its favor.

 

Joltin' Joe was SO good, he could play for both teams. Crush a ball to CF, grab his mitt and go catch it. 😆

[Motor City Sonics]

6 hours ago, RedTeamGo! said:

Johnny Cannon - what a great name for a pitcher 

Picture makes him look like a serial killer.  That smile is kind of creepy

 

[Motor City Sonics]

3 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

A 154 game schedule is rational, but not from the standpoint of money which always rules. I remember following the Roger Maris 61 home run season as a nine-year-old and being sucked into the drama of it all, but then later reflecting on it a couple years later knowing full well that an extra eight games had to happen for him to break it and it seemed a little dicey. But once again, money and marketing rule. 

162 game schedule in the 32-team,  8 4-team division MLB.    All based on 3-game series

18 games vs. your division   (18x3) = 54

6 games  vs. all the other teams in your leauge  (12x6) = 72

12 games vs. your "buddy" team in the other league - the Pirates for us    (12x1)  = 12

6 games vs. 4 other interleague teams = 24

54 + 72 + 12 + 24 =  162

It's perfect !

Let's go ahead and add Nashville and Salt Lake City and move the Rays to Montreal.   

Done. 

[casimir]

18 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Picture makes him look like a serial killer.  That smile is kind of creepy

 

The hat makes him look creepy.

[casimir]

4 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

So they’re not doing a day off after opening day anymore in case opening day is a rain out so they can get that game in? Or is this only something they do or used to do at least if your actual first game of the season was at home?

I suspect they might have had the option of playing a Thursday home game, but since they’re traveling from Seattle, they opted for Friday.  That’s fine.  This opening series being against the Jerk Sox, they can make up lost games as double healers or maybe common off days later on in the season.