Baseball season is here again! Missed opening day because I was flying home from Mexico City, but watching Rays home opener now and feels good to be hearing Dewayne and B.A.’s voices again. Where the baseball heads at?

Pioneer League / Oakland Ballers will get my attention now. The A's fucked off, so that's a lifetime of fandom down the toilet. Will never be a Giants fan. Guess I'm an Angels fan...???

    FWP 7 has the great Sabermetric titan Darren Viola with his memories of Yankee Stadium. Check out his daily warped radio-factoid like posts on Facebook- you won’t be disappointed. Where punk rock (especially of the NY variety) and baseball meet is with Darren. He’s saved so many clippings and has got the sense to date them all.

    Been waiting for this thread to appear. Giants fan here. Their come from behind win against the Reds on opening day made my week. Admittedly, Webb didn't have his stuff (should've used the changeup more), but I think it was more opening day jitters than anything. I think after he failed to strike out De La Cruz in the bottom of the first, it completely threw him off probably due to DLC's reputation as a base-stealer. Was pleasantly surprised by Wilmer Flores's 3-run homer in the 9th especially given his trainwreck season last year. Entered opening day with the best spring training record and Buster Posey as new president of baseball ops, so I got reason to be (cautiously) optimistic about this year, but not trying to get too ahead of myself. Verlander's acquisition was interesting (I mean he's 42 and it's only a one year deal, but an ace is an ace) and I think will have a positive impact on our pitching staff. I think Birdsong could be an elite enough reliever that hopefully he can make some starts now and again if it comes down to it. Excited to have the Giants back in what hopefully marks a new era for the orange and black, but still trying to keep my expectations in check. I'd like to think we'll be marginally better than the last few years, but it's too early to tell how long we can keep a good thing going. That said, I think a potential wild card spot is entirely possible. Season prediction: 85-77.

      (Unfortunate) diehard Padres fan. 2008-2011 was my peak baseball devotion: worked for the Mariners, had a decent grasp on every team's farm system, coached high school baseball. Then came weed and more punk rock distractions. So now it's just watching 60-75 games a year w/o knowing too much about anything significant outside the Padres' 40 man roster. For 2025, we're a cusp playoff team unless we add 1-2 quality starters. With Musgrove out for the year and Darvish being streaky as hell the more he ages, relying on Cease and King--both free agents after the season--to be rock steady for 30+ starts apiece with a B/B+ bullpen isn't promising. Offense is top tier but that can only do so much.

      Mitch C. I love that MLB is in Sacramento, but I despise the circumstances under which it happened, so I am gonna be the Randy Quaid character from Major League at any game I go to.

        regarding minor league, excited to see some syracuse mets games! they dedicated the first pitch to "frank" aka jim morrison haha. also im a jays fan.

        I'm a Phillies fan. Excited they are (mostly) running the team back with a few new additions. I always think they can make a run for it and win it all (even when the team isn't great), but also it's a long season and anything can happen. The beauty of it all.

        Baseball related: I got to see Eephus last night in a theater. Goddamn, what a love letter to the game and friendship and bonding. Absolutely recommend it if it's playing near you, especially if the theater has good sound.

        Vinnie Vacuum Giants look good so far. Not getting my hopes up yet. .500 would be disappointing but with LA, SD and AZ going for the ring it's going to be a tough go. There's always the Rockies to beat on (knock on wood)

            The Rays have been fun so far. Starting pitching has had 36 Ks/ and 1 walk in the first four starts. Jake Mangum has been really fun to watch these last few games. 11AB, 4 RBIs. I don't see him keeping this streak long term but a fun little story. Brandon Lowe is looking like he gets hot. Really hoping Junior Caminero works out. Not getting ahead of myself yet so far we've had series with the Pirates and Rockies, but loving having baseball back

            Attended my first ever MLB opening day game last week in Phoenix. Was cool. Nice park.

            Expectations are pretty low for the Jays this year, but I think that's good for them. They have a roster that theoretically could do quite well. Have only caught parts of the past 3 games but so far so good. Giminez looks great. I'm sure Santander will pick it up. Bo's off to a great start, as is Springer. Wagner and new guy Roden are looking pretty good too. Of course Scherzer is already hurt. They should have kept Yarborough.

            Go Sox. I'm from New Mexico but had an excellent day at "Guaranteed Rate Field" with some South Siders and have been rooting for them ever since.

            Al Dorado I agree, I'm very happy with what I've seen so far outta the Giants. Our division is interesting. Per usual, the Dodgers and Rockies are basically a nonstarter (albeit for opposite reasons), so SD and AZ are the main competition.