Rodon vs Keller
White Sox
1. Leury Garcia (S) CF
2. Yoan Moncada (S) 3B
3. Jose Abreu (R) 1B
4. Yonder Alonso (L) DH
5. Eloy Jimenez (R) LF
6. Daniel Palka (L) RF
7. Tim Anderson (R) SS
8. James McCann (R) C
9. Yolmer Sanchez (S) 2B
Royals
1. Whit Merrifield (R) RF
2. Adalberto Mondesi (S) SS
3. Alex Gordon (L) LF
4. Jorge Soler (R) DH
5. Frank Schwindel (R) 1B
6. Chris Owings (R) 2B
7. Hunter Dozier (R) 3B
8. Martin Maldonado (R) C
9. Billy Hamilton (S) CF
get in here autists
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R O Y A L S
Heim time
is this the tank?
Here we go
Rodon opening day starter! I believe...
...in not losing 100 or more games again this year
reminder that our opening day starter was a rule 5 pick last year
>the absolute state
The edible I took was time for scheduled first pitch, not a delay. Whoops.
*crickets*
Just a little delay, it's alright
>first game of season
>delayed
Will abreu hit 50 dingers this season???
>4:00 PM start
oh boy
did he find secret cuban drugs?
at least its not a postponement
first for fuck hiromoot
seconded
This season may suck but at least it will be done in very quick movements
Ohhhh, it's good to be back!
Another cell about to move through, this game isn't gonna start at 4.
reminder to protect your nuts this season Yea Forums
god i love that gif
no please no
>homer bailey
This is gay.
Should have voted for that rolling roof.
>Due to persisting rain in the Kansas City area, the 4:00 p.m. first pitch has been pushed back.
5:00 it is then
Even the KC area doesn't wanna see the White Sox play baseball.
inb4 7 pm
This thread needs Moar Konerko.
Paulie was so humble that when I was at his final home game and they were giving him a commemorations he made his speech brief because he didn't want to disrupt the playoff bound royals that we were playing. It was the same day Abreu hit franchise record breaking 36 rookie HR. Memories...
Hi wanna talk about baseball in a discord?
no
>using discord ever
No
neck yourself
I don't use it but your invite is invalid,friend
possible start time of 5 now it seems
HAPPENING
TARP IS OFF
Wily Peralta is too autistic to look at the camera
WE IN WARMUP
what's everyone drinking?
it is go time
WGN radio isn't gonna cut away from their shithead announcers back to the game until five seconds before first pitch, are they?
Anyone using a proxy to watch mlbtv on their tv using an app at not just streaming it from their pc/phone to the tv?
im just wondering what your solution was, i had to come up with a fairly creative one.
are there no stream available I assume?
thanks to the delay I gotta drive now
But that won't stop my enjoyment of opening day
Lets gooooo
ITS TIME TO PLAY BALL!
i wouldn't know, i have mlb.tv
Nice Leury!
I'm glad he's back.
Rbo I went to the Fruits Basket Premier last night and got free stuff.
Eloy soon
Predictions?
>special olympics commercial is back
backwards K
K
>bustloy
Broke my usual 1/3 choice of opening day food of calzone, brats, italian beef and went with some 16ish hour slow cooked pepperstreak mixed with rice. no need to chew, it just fell apart in my mouth. sorry no pics, i was in such a hurry to eat and cleanup : /
how do i found pepperstReak
ꓘ
You need to come to Chicago.
God that looks good.
FRANK
THE
TANK
I mixed mine a bit more with the rice, but i had about the same numbers of peppers in mine.
rip bellatap
TIMMY WITH THE HOPS
has Rodon's deliver always been this fucking shit. no wonder he has shoulder issues
Stop watch the Sox, sparkles.
>I think jose quintana is a number 1 or 2 pitcher, I believe the cubs won that trade
>I believe jose quintana is elite
1 week later
>I never liked it, I thought it was a stupid trade and the cubs gave up too much
At least he was btfo zoomers today
why the fuck is james mccann on the team?
man fuck this team. spent like $40M this offseason to get absolute faggots like mccann, jay, alonso, colome and nova.
there's an infinite number of ways they could have spent that money better
that B2 should have dropped all of its ordinance to wiped both of these teams out.
What’s the best strip club in the Chicago area?
it is sad that they used 40 mil on these bums when 30 mil could have gotten machado + 10 mil to spare
timmy giveth and taketh
And this was after Rick Hahn said he wasn't interested in stopgap players.
nice one timmy
nice throw buddyboi
NO HITTER WATCH (for both teams)
ya BLEW it
No no hitter!
KC has hot girls at the bars at P&E and Plaza, but you can go slumming and have a pennicillin shot ready for your cock if you hookup with a girl in westport.
What games are you planning on going to this season? I wanna shitpost at you irl
dont reply to me
>bustmenez
haha, i'll let you know. i always like to know who's pitching.
>bustoy jimebust
MonDESU
damn
he should be out though
he was very obviously safe. umpires starting the season great
sorry you got clamydia from a westport skank lol, fuck dude do i love getting shitfucked drunk at westport and then going to Town and Topic Burger though. i don't even live in your city and know the social places a restaurants better.
fuck or not he's safe fuck
what a terrible throw by yolmeme
filtered lel
did they not make replays have a 2 minute timer or am I imagining things? maybe not this season, or maybe it was just a proposal. That was like 4 minutes I think
that's what speed do
based
thanks palk
ONE RUN CALL THE GAME
Bet you show up to St. Luke's down the street in the ER after fucking a skank like that and act like a jackass.
You now remember when Palk jokingly lied about being an all-state basketball player.
why so angsty and triggered by opening day bants on opening day? I love the city of KC, im gonna spend 2 weeks there this fall to visit a good friend.
Let us know in the gamethreads, I'll bring my waifu
>gordo will never get a hit ever again
will do, you gonna buy me a brat or a beer or maybe a polish?
Pick some good promotion days
>If you don't like Baseball, go play Fortnite
David Kaplan everyone.
we have a whole season of this fucking team flailing at bad pitches and striking out 12 times per game to look forward to. can't wait
I'd say it's new and exciting, but it's really not.
fat fuck keller is gonna steal yo girl and there is nothing you can do about it
Cubbies are about to win!
Why the fuck have we not fired steverson yet? jesus christ I've never seen a team be this fucking bad at just hitting the goddamn baseball
bustcada can play third at least, that's nice
what is the general soxfag attitude about the machado situation?
The Cubs won!
Fuck the FO
If the supposed contract that was offered to Manny truly was tied into incentives, then fuck the Front Office so much.
Also Fuck Kenny.
That they were wasting their and the fanbases time if they were only going to 250 anyway and should of spent on the AJ Pollock tier of guys instead. Either that or they were only in it cause Jerry never wanted to spend in the first place and just hung around at the table to they can pretend they are a major league ballclub.
TLDR
even if a lot of it was incentives the Sox offered him more money and more years than any player ought to be offered. Half of that contract is gonna be bad money. And he wanted more money and more years than the Sox were offering. He just cost way too much to be worth it.
well at least I'm playing the right games for this season
I don't care. Machado wouldn't have made this team good.
based whit
>front office claims they made the highest offer
>actually made the lowest offer
>took no responsibility
>blamed the player for not "betting on himself"
Pretty much business as usual. At least they didn't blame the fans this time.
KC advertisement for "Sweet Baby Rays" none of you guys would dare buy that national stuff considering all the fantastic local sauces you have available?
shifted
kek maldonado pulling out the scouting report in the middle of an at bat
top lel
because there were no fans to blame dohohohohoho
fug
>21 straight
noice
21 games in a row
KANSAS
CITY
S P E C I A L
Good to be back
Come on Rodon
Name one sport more boring than baseball
You literally can't
the quest to steal a bazillion bases begins
>james mccant
whit for mvp
ouch
RODON IS A BITCH
I did a season of OOTP20 and set the Royals to max base stealing and aggressive base running. Literally lodesabases
>Exposed on day one
>Soler
I miss him. I'm glad he got a ring
goddamn it come on Rodon don't fizzle out already
thank you speedwhit
Insurmountable lead. Im going to go watch Sale pitch and pretend hes still on the White Sox.
damn i didnt realize gordo has been in the show for 12 years now. where has the time gone
lol if it wasn't opening day i'd so be with you, i'll just put the game on one of my other screens.
E4
based smallball
wew
Fuck.
Fuck outta here this isn't boystown
>storming again up north
CALL IT NOW.
I really hope they stick to it this season, I think that's when baseball is at its best.
where rbo at
They meme'd their way to the 2014 pennant that way after all.
sonic slam inning bois
guys give me one good reason nick madrigal and luis robert shouldn't be called up to the show. Madrigal especially, he has nothing to learn in the minors, needs to see major league pitching. Robert probably needs more seasoning but he has the talent to play in bigs, I say challenge him, but mostly I just never want to see adam engel play again. Madrigal too can't be much worse than yolmeme
they both looked pretty good in spring
>summer coming back
time for half price blue coconut cream slushes
Nasty nate please
Would gladly never eat Sonic again for a single Whataburger in the metro though.
You don't want to see HR robberies?
For some reason this post reminded me of the sad tale of Jake Burger.
>Gets out of the inning
amazing
Learning in the majors would be fine if doing so didn't effectively decrease the amount of time you have a player on your team during his good years.
got enough runs to bean the shit out of whoever walks up to the plate first in the top half
I don't want to see him let more shallow flies drop in front of him because he misread them and started back. I also definitely don't want to see him hold a baseball bat
And increace the amount of time he would spend with Steverson.
Every time I hear that name, I wish Seth Beer was with the Sox.
And then pair them up with Jace Fry for shits and giggles.
the white sox extend literally everyone who is any good
shockingly, whoever they have in the minors is just as bad. organizational problem
Neither of them have done anything to indicate they're ready for the big leagues.
BUSTIMINEZ
Hamilton and Burr works for now though.
>Lets just hit all our hard hit balls right to their Outfielders
a-at least it wasn't another s-strikeout
I didn't say they did. I said that they'd be better served learning what they lack while in the majors than in the minors. especially madrigal
He finally put the bat on the ball though. That's progress.
last year we scored like 15 runs on opening day
this year we're getting shutout
eh
Honestly. Off to a better start than bustcada already
Moncada needs to get boo'd hard if he sucks this year. he has had 1.5 years of full at bats in the MLB.
Elloy is just a rook.
I was told the Chicago White Sox were due for a hot start this year?
Is this considered a "hot start" on the south side?
They also lost 100 games last year.
How's Tatis looking boys?
Yes. That's how it is with Reinsdorf owned teams. See: The Bulls
Shit just got real .
They lack too many things at the moment. Both of played poorly last year. Let them show they're at least good enough for the minor leagues before starting their free agent clock.
Why can’t the Sox and Cubs just be good at the same time so I can witness what this place would be like during a cross town world series?
really no reason for hamilton to be dodging inside pitches
white sox hot start can't make it up
It would burn
Ok, I'm 90% sure Jason is lurking here. This joke is now way too coincidental.
steve/jason talking about aaron burr and alexander hamilton dueling, this is why i still watch this team...
Could someone explain to me the Jiminez situation?
Ryan Lefebvre said he got paid without taking a major league at bat
Will literally never happen, 2005 and 2016 proved that these teams will never be successful at the same time. The Sox will get better only when the cubs continue to decline
royals guys made the same joke btw
White Sox free agency is run by a random outcome generator
i assumed he meant signing bonus
At least it's not Kenny.
>getting paid to professionally shitpost for MLB
bros how does he do it
Its the shared winning magic in this city
that magic is now with the bears
wish it would be the hawks though, 5 fucking points away so close yet so far
keep running
>with the bears
>double doink
pretty sure jussie smollet has the magic rn
And now palka giveth and taketh
yeah, im thinking we are back
History will vindicate James Shields as a better pitcher than Tatis, just you wait.
>on pace for 324 triples
gotta go fast
DUB TRIPS
>FBI and Rahn coming hard
Better think twice about that
madrigal lacks a lot of things and he will always lack those things. he will never have power and he won't walk much. what he doesn't lack is the ability to put the bat on the ball and to field, and he's proved these things last year and in spring training. he doesn't really have anything to learn in the minors he sees those pitchers fine, no doubt he'll strike out at around a 5% clip again, he needs to see major league pitching to really improve from this point.
Robert doesn't really make sense to call up, but I want to see it anyway. He clearly has all the talent in the world, maybe it comes out. Maybe the better routine, amenities and facilities of the majors will help keep him healthy. And also I'm like 95% sure he's better than fucking Engel.
>all my favorite players in this game are on the royals
feels weird, also bad
Man nurse was shit
we haven't had a good closer since jenks, maybe arguably santos
the win percentage graph for this game was absolute madness
The magic won’t be with the Bulls anytime soon.
RAIN BOIS
>markannen shutdown for the rest of the year for extreme fatigue and irregular heartbeat
Feels so bad...
Eloy playing too in
rip
nice defense by Bustinez
where does the i come from
>covey
based frank the tank forcing errors
it just keeps tumbling down
Well at least they arent decieving us this season unlike last season with that blowout win on opening day I guess
>he will never have power and he won't walk much
Then he won't be a major league regular and there's no reason to rush it just to watch him sit on the bench.
>inb4 Lauri's career gets cut short due to some insane health complication
I just assume the worst possible thing will always happen to the bulls at this point. It's easier that way.
Same applies to the Sox
please be a baserunner...
adalberto you fucking retard
Ok Kennedy, pls don't fuck this up.
that's not true at all. everyone knew before he was even drafted that he would always lack those things and he was a consensus top 10 pick anyway. His hit tool has that much potential, he can be a perennial .300 hitter who hits a lot of doubles and a gold glove fielder. Obviously if he's called up he won't be sitting on the bench, he'll be seeing and learning from facing major league pitching every day. there's no point in having yolmer be the regular, we know what he is and that's a decent utility guy
>white sux
top kek rex talking about his pre game interview with the guy who runs the headset out to the umps during replay reviews
fuck
Mondy has to get this sorted
also it's kind of strange that .300 is an elite batting average these days
Too much home run swings and mindsets now
dinger or bust baby
inb4 home runs
chicago related: rip jordan howard
I can't wait for reinsdorf to die, I cannot fucking wait. His son will inherit the team and likely sell it to the highest bidder. We can just hope it goes to someone who takes better care of this team, that's our only chance at happiness as far as I can see
at least we won't be the only team shutout this opening day
It's a chicago tradition for the decrepit owner to die (or in the cubs case their medium die) in order to have a chance to be good again
virginia mccaskey remains to be seen if she can break this
>beanie with a royals and sporting logo on it
thats retarded tho
Moncada looking comfortable at 3rd though right? Should make the eventual Madrigal callup smoother.
>everyone knew before he was even drafted that he would always lack those things
Because it was a weak draft and people were hoping that he would turn into Altuve. As he is now he is not a good prospect. If you saw his numbers and didn't know his draft position you'd think he was minor league filler.
>there's no point in having yolmer be the regular, we know what he is and that's a decent utility guy
Check Yolmer's minor league stats vs Nick's. He is not ready to take the job.
Imagine Adam Dunn playing his career now.
F
3 outs to go
can we at least get a meaningless solo homer?
>i had a ticket to this game but had to work
>the same thing happened with that one huge comeback in 2014 too
I'm not saying he's ready. I'm saying he has more potential, and the best place to realize that potential is being an everyday major leaguer
Your sister's bedroom.
I respect the fuck out of McCaskey, a lot of mistakes were made that she oversaw but she at least consistently tried to make the bears competitive and wasn't afraid to spend big money on the team
whoa a leadoff hit
COMEBACK INCOMING
fucking hell I haven't been on Yea Forums since last season the captchas are so fucking shit now
walkada ayy
n-n-not like this
Save us Josavior
good to know the closer is shit in game 1
Welcome to 4channel fren
>wasn't afraid to spend big money on the team
This is just the key isn't it? If only more owners would realize this.
""""""""""""""""""""infield""""""""""""""""""" fly
>It's going to be 5 years next month after the walkoff slam
kill me
Oh I see how this is going to work
Yonder will flyout and that leaves Eloy up
to strikeout to end the game
It would be such a white sox way for this game to end
that's a deep infield
I can still remember it clear as day. How far we've come since then. in the wrong direction.
he was looking for that pitch 3-1 it was right in his wheelhouse and he missed it by 4 inches
fuck it takes so long to get past this captcha, 3 pitches later now
bases loaded for eloy
its like the beginning of RTTS
PLS WHITE SOX PSSSSSSSSSSSS
i always forget alex rios was on the ship team
uh okay we'll take that
Sympathy Run.
Thanks for the no shutout.
eloy's stance is ugly as fuck. how the fuck is he gonna hit with that crap stance
hey an rbi
If you can't hit the ball let it hit you
ELOY'S FIRST RBI
NO SHUTOUT
Who taught jimenez that weird ass stance?
He got the hit that started the Miracle at Minute Maid
I blame the Cubs.
>yfw its stevershit
We haven't had a good hitting team ever since he took over
Meanwhile I know him as the OG Checked-out man.
i prefer to call it the Sipp Game
hit a dinger anderson you faggot
TIMMY
A legitimate rbi now
>mccann now though
well fuck
>False Hope on the first game of the season
I didn't ask for this
Sipp collapsing after the error was an all time sight.
the entire bullpen is garbo
midseason form
Remember last year in game 2 when beef got a clutch xbh late? That was when he was on drugs though
Who is to say he isn't on something now?
Guys should have signed Machado.
If beef hits a home run here, do we forgive him?
classic
based maCHADo would have hit a walk off by now
no
Yolmeme could make up for his costly botched dp
or just solidify an awful opening day
even kennedy didn't fuck up this bad
>bases loaded for yolmeme
wow it's nothing
rondon too
This is, well, concerning
really no reason to make this dramatic
I CANT TAKE THIS
Does the Royal's reliever even know what the strike zone is?
Yolmemes slamjam?
impossible
give em an ol' kansas city special. please, I ask for nothing more
Ha, crush their hope
Welp Season's over, everyone pack it in.
See ya n̶e̶x̶t̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶ tomorrow..
wew lads
>yolmeme
gg
gay
welp losah
gg royals
at least they made it interesting i guess
the yolmeme botched DP was the difference...
its finally ogre
Fuck, at least we showed a pulse at the end there. gg KC.
>first place, wire to wire
why not pinch hit rondon. muh lefty righty matchup. nevermind the fact that yolmeme is just shit
J-sus
saturday*
>ass to ass
was thinking the same too
#blessed
>there were 9 total hits in this game
gross