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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 1, 2021 8:48:20 GMT -5
my current mood
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 1, 2021 8:53:21 GMT -5
OverTheMonster @overthemonster · 32m For what it's worth, AccuWeather has the forecast worse than some other screenshots I've seen going around. Postponing sucks, but it's better than risking having an hour long delay or two. This is why they schedule that Friday off in the first place
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 1, 2021 9:05:51 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 43m 'Tomorrow's forecast for sunshine also factored into our decision.' -- #RedSox president/CEO Sam Kennedy, in part
But if you took today off and have to work tomorrow, tough luck.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 1, 2021 9:08:28 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 50m Release from the Sox.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 1, 2021 9:13:58 GMT -5
Mastrodonato: Welcome back to the Red Sox,…
April 1, 2021 at 9:29 am SportsMLBBoston Red Sox
By Jason Mastrodonato | jason.mastrodonato@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald April 1, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.
It’s the smell we missed the most.
The fake crowd noise could be pumped through our television speakers and the modern-day cameras could catch angles of the pink and purple sunsets behind Fenway Park that our own eyes might’ve missed.
But the smells, those were irreplaceable.
Today, we welcome back not just Red Sox baseball to our lives after a long, cold, stressful and relentless winter. We also welcome back, for the first time in 550 days since the Sox last hosted an audience, the parts of the game that light up our senses and remind us of those first baseball memories.
There were no Fenway Franks being served in 2020, no wafts of Italian sausage on the corner of Jersey and Van Ness streets and no grease traps to be cleaned from the charred grills.
There was no beer being poured, no faint smell of someone’s Budweiser breath from a few seats over and no reminder of a spilled beverage when we caught a sniff of the bottom of our sneakers later that night.
There was no leftover aroma of kettle corn on our T-shirts, no perfume of a chicken tender basket that sat on our lap and no trace of cotton candy stuck to the top of our lips.
If you smelled someone’s sweat and sunscreen at any point in 2020, it surely wasn’t the same flavor as the perfectly unpleasant concoction that requires nine innings in the hot sun to marinate.
These are the joys (and frustrations) we missed out on over the last year, six months and three days.
When Nathan Eovaldi takes the ball and throws what is certain to be a triple-digit fastball to officially open the 2021 Red Sox season this afternoon, some of these smells will be back.
We’ll think of all the time gone from then until now and all that was lost in that span. For some more than others, it’s been a difficult (an understatement) year. Baseball in itself won’t change that, whether you’re at Fenway Park or watching from home.
But baseball can help us move forward. It’s the only major sport played over the full duration of the summer, the only game we can catch through our airwaves as we drive to the beach or sit on the deck while the kids splash around in the pool.
It won’t help us forget, but it will help us forge on.
It helps that it’s a whole different ballgame in 2021.
Alex Cora is back for a chance at redemption, and with his return comes a renewed confidence in the locker room of a team that just finished with its worst winning percentage since 1965.
Fans will cheer for their beloved Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers, Eovaldi and Eduardo Rodriguez, among others who have earned a place in their hearts.
Chaim Bloom and Co. didn’t spend a ton of money this winter, but made a few additions (and a few subtractions; so long Andrew and Jackie). The new players, and the lost ones, will be watched with scrutiny as Bloom is charged with bringing entertainment to our Boston summer, from April through September, and maybe just October.
Anything less than an enjoyable summer — a full summer, at that — at the more than century-old park will be a failure on his part, and fans are certain to let him hear about it.
Watching this team a year ago was often painful, if not dreadfully boring. Playing without any fans in the stands, and with record-low TV ratings of those watching from home, was something new for everybody.
Perhaps it was the great separator of those who are in the game to compete, who’d give everything they had to win a single matchup in front of nobody but him and his opponent, just so that, if nobody else, at least the opponent knew who was better on that day, and of those who are in it for the widespread glory.
Players who had forever been great suddenly stunk. They had their reasons, to be sure, but 2021 will provide no excuses.
There are too many former Red Sox players, coaches and front office members throughout the league now. Another stinker of a year, this time in front of Boston’s loyal fans, won’t be sliding off folks’ backs too easily.
The Celtics have faded, the Bruins are interesting and the Patriots have a lot to prove. But it’s the Red Sox who can bring us our summer.
For everything we’ve endured the past year, for all the long days at home and the pain we were forced to sit with, too often alone, baseball owes us something. Opening Day owes us something.
Finally, we get to hear it, to see it, to feel it, to smell it. It’s hard to remember a time when we needed it more.
Play ball.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 1, 2021 9:18:09 GMT -5
Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 42m Apparently Mother Nature is also annoyed that no young player signed a contract extension in March.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 1, 2021 9:21:24 GMT -5
Krenaud21 @renaud_keith · 44m Replying to @loumerloni They should play early season games in warmer weather cities or places with roofs on the stadium.
Lou Merloni @loumerloni · 34m Unless you are a warm weather city and you hate that idea. Attendance is usually down in April and May while kids are still in school. Everyone wants more home games in the Summer
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 1, 2021 9:21:49 GMT -5
Lou Merloni @loumerloni · 10m It’s not raining. What are we doing?
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 1, 2021 9:34:44 GMT -5
well looks like the jays and yankees to start then start surfing...
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Apr 1, 2021 10:30:26 GMT -5
I do hope today even though it is at Fenway that Trey Mancnni gets recognized today.... RS fans are pretty good that way.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Apr 1, 2021 10:43:39 GMT -5
Krenaud21 @renaud_keith · 44m Replying to @loumerloni They should play early season games in warmer weather cities or places with roofs on the stadium.
Lou Merloni @loumerloni · 34m Unless you are a warm weather city and you hate that idea. Attendance is usually down in April and May while kids are still in school. Everyone wants more home games in the Summer This is why we need to revert to a 154-game season with expanded playoffs. Even in NY, Tues night tickets v BA are $14 for section 312. Those are really nice tickets.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Apr 1, 2021 10:44:50 GMT -5
well looks like the jays and yankees to start then start surfing...
365 fracking days I waited, and it gets rained out. Still, OD is always glorious.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 1, 2021 11:03:44 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 54m Cora said Sawamura is likely to start working in the sixth inning and progress later into the game from there. #RedSox
Cora would prefer Ryan Brasier (left calf) to pitch in the seventh inning when he returns. #RedSox
Alex Cora said Eduardo Rodriguez (arm fatigue) will start the season on the IL. Tanner Houck will start Saturday. #RedSox
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 1, 2021 11:04:59 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 54m Cora on the Francisco Lindor signing -- 'As a kid, as an individual, as a friend, very proud of him. He worked so hard to get to this point.' #RedSox
Cora on Lindor -- 'He's a guy who lives, enjoys and brings the best out of people. When you're around him there's a vibe that he brings.'
'This kid is one of my favorites -- not only as a player, but as a person.' #RedSox
Cora on Xander Bogaerts -- 'I'm very happy that he's my shortstop.'
'He's hopefully going to play short for us for a long, long time.' #RedSox
Cora, in Spanish, said Christian Vazquez will be ready for Opening Day. He'll go through a workout today. #RedSox
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Apr 1, 2021 11:07:53 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 48m Cora on Nationals-Mets postponement due to COVID -- 'This is where we're at. I hate to say it's a wakeup call for organizations, but you still have to be on top of this. It's nonstop.'
'Families have to be as disciplined as the players.' #RedSox
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