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[IndyManning18]

MT Rule #1 : No politics.

 

[George_Calfas]

Good morning.

Happy Opening Day!

Local new sports talk was mentioning how the first game of the season traditionally used to involve the Reds. Any reason why? Because of their history as one of the oldest franchises?

For generations, Opening Day has arrived amid pageantry. In Cincinnati, Ohio, home of the sport's first professional team, an annual parade marks an official "city holiday" with young and old alike taking the day off to cheer on the Reds. For decades, the first pitch of every major league season officially took place in Cincinnati, and the Reds remain the only major league team to always open the season with a home game (save for 1966, when they started the season at Chicago after rain washed out the opening series in Cincinnati, and 1990, when due to a lockout affecting the schedule they opened the season at Houston).[SUP][2][/SUP] The Chicago Cubs have been the Reds' most common Opening Day opponent, visiting Cincinnati 36 times on Opening Day, most recently in 2007. The Pittsburgh Pirates, whom the current Reds organization played their first Opening Day against in 1882, is a close second with 30 and will be the Reds' Opening Day opponent in 2015; no other team has more than 19 (by the St. Louis Cardinals, most recently in 2014), largely due to the Cubs and Pirates rotating as the Opening Day opponents from 1899 to 1916, then the two teams and the Cardinals rotated from 1917 to 1952.[SUP][3][/SUP] Fittingly, the Reds were also the first team to host an Interleague game on Opening Day when the team hosted the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the first year of year-round Interleague play in 2013.[SUP][4][/SUP]

 

[A_Pharis]

Morning!

Man, was it so good to see some baseball, last night.
And my little boy was GLUED to it.
"Ball!.... Ball!.... Ball!.... Ball!"

 

[nkdbacks]

Whoo hoo, finally!!!!! In first place for at least a few hours

 

[Pine Tar]

Morning Kiddies the I found last night Cubs game to be extremely boring. Even the cards looks like they where still at spring training. But not as much as the Cubs looked like they were still in Arizona.........Oh well there is 161 more chances for them to finish under .500.....

And there is one more Basketball game to be had tonight in College. And Dustin (Hawk8) is going against bootstrap9 for all the marbles in my contest

Bootstrap9 started with Oregon and ended up with Wisconsin.
Hawk8 started with SF Austin and ended up with Duke

Should be a good game Wisconsin is a 1 point favorite.

 

[RStadlerASU22]

Morning all , enjoy the day. I hope the DBax don't put us through such a miserable season again...

Ryan

 

[BiggioBrooks755]

Happy Opening Day!!!!

 

[A_Pharis]

Morning Kiddies the I found last night Cubs game to be extremely boring. Even the cards looks like they where still at spring training. But not as much as the Cubs looked like they were still in Arizona.........Oh well there is 161 more chances for them to finish under .500.....

And there is one more Basketball game to be had tonight in College. And Dustin (Hawk8) is going against bootstrap9 for all the marbles in my contest

Bootstrap9 started with Oregon and ended up with Wisconsin.
Hawk8 started with SF Austin and ended up with Duke

Should be a good game Wisconsin is a 1 point favorite.

Good luck, Dustin! [MENTION=10405]Hawk8[/MENTION]

 

[Ashburn Alley]

Happy Opening Day! Go Phillies.

 

[metallicalex777]

Good Morning Gents and Happy Opening Day!!!

GO MARINERS!!!

 

[Hawk8]

Good luck, Dustin! [MENTION=10405]Hawk8[/MENTION]

Thanks, I was the first team out last year and when I saw I had SFAustin I was like here I go agains lol and I hate Duke so it's bitter sweet lol

 

[Enfuego79]

Afternoon all, Glad to see baseball is back...enjoy your day!

 

[Hawk8]

Received my Dawson button in the mail today!

 

[Hawk8]

Sitting down to look at my REA catalog

 

[MrMet]

Damn all I wanna do is get home and watch the rest of the game with this little guy

But there's traffic everywhere! There's never this much traffic!!

 

[AnthonyCorona]

Damn all I wanna do is get home and watch the rest of the game with this little guy
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But there's traffic everywhere! There's never this much traffic!!

That's a great picture despite the Mets gear

 

[MrMet]

That's a great picture despite the Mets gear

Thanks... I think

 

[Hawk8]

I'm not really into vintage but you have to love those 33 uncut sheets. The item I am digging the most so far is the unopened wax box of 91 Topps Desert Shield

 

[Hawk8]

Wow, why couldn't that Tim Raines unissued card lot be his good friend Andre Dawson.

 

[George_Calfas]

I'm not really into vintage but you have to love those 33 uncut sheets. The item I am digging the most so far is the unopened wax box of 91 Topps Desert Shield

Someone list a box of 91 DS every year to great results.