Opening Day (maybe): Francis vs Wainwright

you expect Nix to compete for the RoY award?

and will need to eat sometime this evening instead of skipping to watch the game, as I had planned. But now I am trying to plan very carefully, as I am sure that if I leave to go eat, the game will start without me.

I can only get gameday. Stupid Job! But I am going to the home opener on Friday.

I'm watching the pregame show on FSN Midwest - and there's no rain in St. Louis at present. Looks like it might start at any minute, but for now, there's no tarp out, and all systems are go for first pitch.

They keep playing that damned "King of Beers" jingle. CONTINUOUSLY. And each player is being driven to the field in a convertible.

Also, the Cardinals have somebody named "Rico Washington" on their team. Sounds like a name for a bad guy on Miami Vice.

THE ROX!!

NL Champs.

"Now taking on your Cardinals are the 2007 National League Champions, the Colorado Rockies"

ever been to the new Busch stadium?

Unleashing the Bald Eagle.

If the FSN Midwest feed would stay on my TV. Unfortunately, I just know they'll black it out and I'll have to go the MLB.tv route. And so far, I'm less than thrilled with the MLB.tv feature - you can't go full screen, which sucks, and the 1.2 MB stream freezes after two minutes if you're lucky to get that far into it.

how much I don't get work done on baseball days. I'm shot for the rest of the evening. Hope I don't have any homework. (It's Opening Day. It's not gonna happen).

Says Lance has been supportive and helpful in the big league transition.

Looks like the local FSN - and the campus's DirecTV feed - might stick with this game after all. That would be wonderful.

I don't mind country music, but this opening is a bit silly.

Denny Bautista - eighth inning setup man for your Detroit Tigers. And still the worst overbite in baseball.

For that "music video".

yeck

The tarp was rolled out, and then suddenly removed.

Rox lip synching....

DON'T LIKE...

Also, what's with the country music theme?

Matt Holliday is starting in left? Who's that guy?

What? They allow Canucks across the border to play beisbol?

MLB.TV is showing nothing. Has the game started?

inside corner

Centerfield basehit

WILLY!

Way to start!

Molina vs WillyT as the best arm vs the fastest basestealer in the NL.

Stolen Base to come.

Willy on base, Helton behind him...

Tulo is gonna have a solid season at the dish.

That was a nice catch.

How close of a catch was that?

Gameday audio feed is apparently a bit behind. I hate that.

Ouch. That would have been huge.

Woop. 2nd and 3rd.

Holliday.

Gotta like the lineup switch.

Runners at the corners...Holliday time!!! Ducks on the pond!!!

3 for 3....well, Tulo was flat robbed.

Es en fuego. Es muy caliente. Let's go MATTIE!

Matt here too...pitch around him

I love that man with the bases loaded.

2 last year according to mr kingery

He's only 1-5 with 2Ks against Wainwright :(

Small sample size, though.

I still love this line up.

I just wanna see Nix and see how complete it is.

I'm thinking 3-0 Rox after 1?

Nice start though. Good looks

but I'm already bitter that Tulowitzki got robbed.

Tight strike zone.

One of those 4 was a strike.

Not a good start against a poor hitting team.

For sure.

Francis is cold after the long first half of the inning.

has a case of the nerves? Come on now.

This isn't good...we really need 5-6 innings out of him today.

He was hoping to see with 2 men on.

Mound visit.

And the body isn't warmed up yet.

Not a good combo

No worries now.

It's just time for Tulo to turn another unassisted triple play. C'mon, he's got those up his sleeve like nobody's business.

Do not throw eight straight to put on two for Pujols. Okee plx thx.

This is redonkolous. Cut it out.

Loud out

You got an out.

Easy as pie, just the best hitter (pretty much), in the NL.

STRIKES!

Throwing strikes would get him that call.

wowowowowoowowowow

I do not like.

When pitching slowpitch softball. He just has to yell kegger!! as he releases. Gets em everytime!

Wow that was close as shit.

An opposing pitcher wild against Ankiel?

They are damn close, but after all the balls, he isnt getting the calls.

3 or 4 of those pitches could have easily been strikes to a guy who was throwing normal.

it

Didn't get the call though.

Don't know what to think.

He's not wild, he's just nibbling.

2 runs in the first inning last night, went on to have a great night.

4-1

and it sucks.

Not fair.

he sucks.

And get your head on straight.

Backfire.

Plenty of ball left here to play people... Jeff needs to settle down, get a DP pitch and let's get the offense rolling

He's gotten those locales down against Miles.

He just missed a bit early.

THEY SHOWED KIP WELLS WARMING UP
PLZ DONT

= two outs. Amazing!

Figure it out Jeff.

did somebody set the clock back to 2006 or what?

We'll get the runs back. Jeff needs to forget that inning. Fast.

He went around?

Kidding?

Isn't getting those calls either.

Francis hit 3 doubles after the All-Star break last year.

Can anyone give me a quick updatem, i have been in a meeting since 1 p.m.?

Seriously, is Gameday working for anyone? I mean, I'm also listening to the audio, so it's not a huge problem, but since I'm working, sometimes I miss something, or want to look at the lineup or box score, etc. And Gameday is doing next to nothing. I thought once ST was over, it'd be back up to speed. Now I'm wondering if it's just my computer.

5-1.

Now I'm putting on my lucky hat. Maybe it will change our luck a little.

We saw in game one of the WS.

That was a charge by Willy.

Through the rain wow.

Just mentioned that the mighty Detroit Tigers/Marlins lost to Kansas City in extra innings today.

Love it.

Way to show some wheels by the Captain!!

good to hear the guys back brodcasting rockies baseball.

Friday is going to be awesome

Wow what a pitch.

Well deserved strike out there.

Best Old Spice commercial I have ever seen.

maybe that'll help?

SF-0
LA -4

Az- 4
Cin- 2

Anyways....

Braun is 0-3!

here comes the rain!!!!

thank you heavens

Looking at the radar, it looks to me like that band of heavy rain is moving northeast right over St. Louis. Depending on how long that takes to pass over, this could be a long delay. Or they could call it. But it is still early in the day, you'd think they'd try to wait it out.

Newest radar images are not promising. Which has now become a good thing.

I don't usually check these threads during games anymore, but was the feeling that Francis was getting squeezed in the first inning unique to me? I mean, yeah, he was wild, but he wasn't all over the place or anything - that was hardly a Rick Ankiel-like first inning.

Newest radar images are not promising. Which has now become a good thing.

I don't usually check these threads during games anymore, but was the feeling that Francis was getting squeezed in the first inning unique to me? I mean, yeah, he was wild, but he wasn't all over the place or anything - that was hardly a Rick Ankiel-like first inning.

St. Louis not a great town to be stuck in for a few days. Pretty sad we are rooting for rain but that first inning by Francis was pathetic and basically buried us. He has singlehandly taken us out of the game.

According to Jeff and Jack. A gullywasher has stopped activity in St. Louis. They're bringing out the tarp!!

Is it Santana? He's throwing a no-no through 4 so far.

This is certainly not how I imagined opening day would be. All those long winter months, I had hoped this day would be a little different. How many games have been delayed today?

looked to me like he didn't get warmed up properly. More specifically, like someone in a high school or sometimes college game that came straight to the mound from playing a position.

Though out it sounds to me like it more than likely will be.

one of my employees in STL called and said it is pouring everywhere with tornado warnings.

I doubt they'll try to get it in today.

It'll be a relief. Start us fresh, Francis can actually warm up properly, and we can give it another shot. Then again, they might just suspend it and leave off at 5-1 in the third, which would be annoying.

It's a huge system over St. Louis, I'll be shocked if there's any more baseball there today.

In re: Tom's comment about suspended games, I wanted to post this for clarity:

No game called because of a curfew (Rule 4.12(a)(1)), weather (Rule 4.12(a)(5)), a time limit (Rule 4.12(a)(2)) or with a tied score (Rule 4.12(a)(6)) shall be a suspended game unless it has progressed far enough to have been a regulation game pursuant to Rule 4.10(c). A game called pursuant to Rules 4.12(a)(3) or 4.12(a)(4) shall be a suspended game at any time after it starts.

Who thought making Eric Gagne the closer after his implosion last year was a good idea? Gagne blows a three-run lead in the ninth on a three-run homer by Kosuke Fukudome.

Now showing the final game of 07 season against the Dbacks. Fun to watch since I was there. Better than what we were watching anyway.

on if the game will played tomorrow or two on wednesday?

The Dodgers are kicking Giant tail. Zito: 5 runs in 4 innings. Giants offense: Being shut out.

MLB Gameday just flashed - PPD, rain. We'll try this again tomorrow.

I suppose it's mostly it's a good thing, we can forget these first couple innings happened and try again. But it's still such a let down. All that excitement, only for nothing to happen.

They're saying game time tomorrow will be around 6:15 MDT.

We escape that one. Let's try again. And Redman won't throw the home opener, either.

And holly, I'm perfectly relieved with it being a letdown rather than a loss.

He’d be throwing on short rest, as would Jimenez (who pitched yesterday) on Wednesday.
Maybe Kip Wells would pitch if there’s a game tomorrow?

Cook was going to be the Opening day starter!!!

Cubs lose, Cubs lose! 4-3, Riske gets the save. I wonder how long the Eric Gagne Teh SuperCloser experiment will last?

I didn't miss anything.

But then I remembered they're facing the Marlins.

"The Rockies" opener at Busch Stadium was postponed until Tuesday night at 6:15 p.m. MST after relentless rain. Aaron Cook is scheduled to face Todd Wellemeyer. Cook threw a bullpen today, however, so it's unclear if that would affect his status."

-The Denver Post

This just posted by Thomas Harding:
"The opener was rescheduled for Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. MT. Probable starters are right-hander Kip Wells for the Rockies against Cards righty Kyle Lohse."

303 posts in less than 3 innings!

Hey, what do you all think of Jeff Baker and his chances to play second if Nix falters?