TwistedLogic

Fun fact: I had no doubts about the Jays yesterday because I haven't actually seen them lose in person in like 16 years, lmao. I'm sure that streak is going to end this month since I'm going to every home game in April but it's still a hilarious coincidence that the first 4-ish games I watched in my life were all losses and they've won every game I've attended since then.

Yup, back of section 115.

Oh I know, I just didn't do that with either of my previous comments because there were several photos in each one and I didn't want to make it a pain for people to scroll through the page haha.

This guy's video is better at showing the blue light theme: https://imgur.com/gallery/J7eZVLA Not sure if someone took something similar for Romano's entrance. If he gets a chance to pitch again today, I'll try and capture it in video instead of photos, will probably be more accurate.

It was incredible. I watched it back on TV when I got home and the photos I took on my phone and neither did it justice to how good it looks in person. Here are some terrible photos I took of Romano's theme: https://i.imgur.com/j5w1Lu7.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VLFvmmc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/o0V9133.jpg Like I said, that's like 10% of how good it looks in person. The arena went almost completely dark when Romano was coming out but my phone's light-correcting s*** always raises the brightness of my photos in dark scenes. It's usually a good thing but it didn't help capture this, haha.

Going to the game again today so I'll edit the lineup in while I'm on the road (whenever the Jays release it).

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Every game me and my wife went to last year, we went early. Gates always opened around 5:30 and if you got in with that early group, you'd catch a bunch of the away team's BP. There were also other unexpected perks like their payment system being down on the team's first game back in Toronto so they just gave us everything for free. And we got first dibs at looking at like a year and a half worth of exclusives and authentics in the Jays shop since nobody else was around. Today we were in Downtown from like 10 am because my wife was part of a charity basketball game on the Raptors court. We grabbed food and headed over to the Skydome gates at like 4-4:30 and the gates opened 4:45 ish, maybe 5? Guessing it was early today because of opening day. When we got in, a few Jays were still taking BP. I've heard you should get there three hours early on giveaway days so we're gonna try that tomorrow and see.

Probably going to be the most underrated part of the home opener but the new lights are f***ing amazing. I really didn't think much of it when Shapiro kept bringing up those and the screen upgrades but both things really enhanced the in-person experience. Romano's custom lights and graphics show was utterly epic.

Sucks to be you bro. That was the most electric atmospheres I've ever been in. I'm still buzzing.

Early look at the opening ceremony preparations: https://i.imgur.com/FPmyEeC.jpg

They just rolled out a grand piano, lol.

Semien has a grudge with these baseballs, sheesh.

Bruh, the Rangers are absolutely murdering the baseball in BP right now.

Got an extra pair of tickets to tonight's opening day game. Section 504, Row 5. Looking for around $60 for the pair if anyone is interested. Edit: Sold.

Game #1 Texas Rangers (Gray) @ Toronto Blue Jays (Berrios) Schedule | Standings | FanGraphs | News | Video | Spotlight | Twitter | Reddit | Instagram I'm going to the game today and I'm already in downtown so I'm editing this on my phone. Bear with me, lol.

Thought this deserved its own thread. And yeah, I love this trade.

Fun fact: Corbin Burnes did not allow a single extra-base hit on his slider all of 2021. Burnesy decided to start his season by giving fantasy owners everywhere palpitations.

That usually means it's probably a good deal for both sides, haha.

Because he could have signed the same contract with almost any other team after getting traded there. There might be five executives across baseball that wouldn't have immediately signed that deal. He probably could have actually gotten more somewhere else and, if an extension was part of the trade, it would have actually increased the value of the trade for the Guardians. I started pulling back on the idea of a Ramirez trade weeks ago when I realized how exorbitant the cost could actually be considering they'd be selling low on every player that was being talked about publicly. It's fine if you think my comment is a bad take. It probably is. But I've seen dozens of athletes over the years be completely resistant to the idea of getting traded because they grow accustomed to the comfort and familiarity of the organization they've always been in. And then they get traded and fall in love with their new cities and realize what they were missing out on. There's nothing really proving that this is anything different for Ramirez. He's a single 29-year-old that is heading towards the down-turn of his career, is the last remaining star from the young Indians core he came up with and is the only player making any money on a team where the most flattering assessment you can make is "they're probably a .500 squad with potential."

Scared money don't make money. He wants to stay in Cleveland because it's all he's ever known in his professional baseball life and it's the safe thing to do. He's scared of change. There are 0 objective reasons to want to stay there beyond that. It's a garbage city for a young millionaire athlete, their payroll is a joke, the owners are a joke, they are not in a contention window, they've already low-balled him once and had to low-ball him again to retain him, and they regularly trade away their stars. It's not uncommon for some franchise stars to just dedicate their entire career to the meme of "I played with one team forever" and not have any ambitions beyond that. It's probably a good thing for the Jays in the long run anyway. He would have been an incredible addition to this team but would anyone be surprised if Biggio, Kirk and Pearson combined for more WAR this season and Martinez had a big year in the minors? Even the packages most fans were okay with giving up (including myself) were still a potential Chris Archer-to-the-Pirates level overpay.

Agree with King. Tigers could be sneaky decent this year. They were 77-85 last year and made a bunch of solid upgrades throughout the roster. Plus, the AL Central is a garbagefire division.