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Finally, the 2020 baseball season begins tonight. Gonna be a short, weird season but it’s live baseball nonetheless.
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Doesn't start till tomorrow (I am a mets fan unfortunately)
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I'm disappointed the Dodgers batted Mookie second, in my opinion he's a leadoff batter and I assumed would have gone down in history as one of the top 5 leadoffs ever...how do you not want to start a game off by getting that first run? Put that fear into the opponents right away, and also gives his own team that confidence at the start of each game.
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Its late July, and the Yankees have only won one game all season........ :barebutt:
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.. sure hope Fauci keeps his day job :wink:

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Red Sox, Cubs ...... oh, and Yanks all win their openers :mrgreen:

Edit to add: We’ll, that did not last long :shock: Shortened season means - keep those wins coming 8)
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.. many will be surprised if baseball season lasts more than 3 weeks :sad:
.. Even the Bubble strategy will struggle keeping a lid on this ..

They should just award the Bruins the Stanley Cup right now :like

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brownman wrote:.. many will be surprised if baseball season lasts more than 3 weeks :sad:
.. Even the Bubble strategy will struggle keeping a lid on this ..

They should just award the Bruins the Stanley Cup right now :like

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Maybe have teams forfeit, get a fine, and lose draft picks if they're caught playing after testing positive?

This is a pretty good indicator how it will be when schools open.
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Plenty of video of weekend games showing players high fiving and violating other agreed upon policies. In Korea, when they started playing in May, their rule was that if any single player tested positive, the league would be shut down entirely. That put the onus on the players to abide by the protocols in place. So far, no problems.
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MLB ain't gonna make it much further .. no bubble .. no games.
.. this would suit the Red Sux just fine .. :sad:

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DES wrote:I'm disappointed the Dodgers batted Mookie second, in my opinion he's a leadoff batter and I assumed would have gone down in history as one of the top 5 leadoffs ever...how do you not want to start a game off by getting that first run? Put that fear into the opponents right away, and also gives his own team that confidence at the start of each game.
Another 3 home run game from Mookie while batting leadoff...I'm assuming the Dodgers will now stop moving him around in the lineup and bat him where he should be, leading off (his stats in the 6 games he has batted leadoff are a .440 average, 1.517 OPS, four homers, and eight RBI).
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Mookie coming back to Fenway. Funny coincidence, he has 975 runs scored in his career, I have 975 posts on Kzone. (his stat is much more impressive though haha)
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DES wrote: Aug 25th, '23, 13:49 Mookie coming back to Fenway. Funny coincidence, he has 975 runs scored in his career, I have 975 posts on Kzone. (his stat is much more impressive though haha)
Yea, but you have more ski runs every year then he has runs in his career.
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