One of my favorite quotes: ...in the inimitable words of Ozzie Guillen, "If you play against him, you hate him. If you play with him, you hate him a little less."
This sounds like Reusse/Soucheray back in the days of Monday Night Sports Talk. When they held a contest they announced that the winner would receive their warmest personal regards.
It's been done before. 37 years ago. Google Fernandomania Dodgers. And BTW I generally like ABBA, but you'd never have gotten me to admit that back when they were popular.
Amen. Proper protocol does not require removing hats for anything other than the anthem. Which, by the way, should be changed to "America The Beautiful". IMHO, of course.
Quite a few players have worn 0 and 00. Wonder if MLB would allow any other 2-digit numbers with 0 as the first digit. For example,say the Twins acquire a veteran who has worn number 6 his whole career and wanted to continue that could they issue a uniform with 06 on the back?
There are 60 teams needed for the 30 home openers. That means the average number each team plays is 2. Some play 1, some play 3. 4 would be unusual; I wonder if that's ever happened.
There is almost always a scheduled day off on the day following a home opener so the game can be rescheduled if necessary with no loss of ticket revenue.