Left Coast Bias

Just a few years away from taking in that same experience. So jealous!

3 hours ago, Fatbat said:

Just a few years away from taking in that same experience. So jealous!

It's a very different experience from Spring Training at Ft Myers.  Definitely a bucket list item, but keep your expectations in check and look for the little things to entertain you.  You saw the size of the crowd in my photo - there is a pretense that this is a fan experience, with a 7th inning stretch and so forth, but people are here to watch prospects, not a "game" per se.

Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of meeting Josh Tobias, a recent Red Sox farmhand who now scouts for them, and he was willing to share a thought or two as we watched (no scouting nuggets from him, of course - I wouldn't ask).  I commented that there are a lot fewer big-name prospects in the AFL anymore, but he responded that it makes the scouting here this month even more important because pretty much every player here has a "for sale" sign if the offer is good enough. (My interpretation, not his specific words.)

8 hours ago, Fatbat said:

Just a few years away from taking in that same experience. So jealous!

Come to games and you can take quick snaps like this.  (Or better. 😊)

 

National Anthem 

37 minutes ago, ashbury said:

National Anthem 

Pump up the volume. Having trouble hearing the words.

 

Oh, right. I read the time stamp above. This is all yesterday's game thread. My bad.

1 hour ago, sampleSizeOfOne said:

Pump up the volume. Having trouble hearing the words.

 

Oh, right. I read the time stamp above. This is all yesterday's game thread. My bad.

Nah, this is from today.  No real difference from yesterday of course, as far as opening festivities are concerned 

 

No Twins batters in the lineup today.   Jack Noble just pitched a so-so fifth.

Noble on the mound (about to give up a single).