On the Sidelines

⚾️Happy #OpeningDay

Terrance Mann 🎩🪄 Before I dive into some classic baseball songs, here’s the iconic narration by James Earl Jones, setting the stage for America’s favorite pastime. ⚾🎶 Good Luck to everyone's teams⚾️🧢

ITALY IS ONE WIN AWAY FROM RETURNING TO THE FIFA WORLD CUP 🇮🇹

Italy’s national anthem ahead of its FIFA World Cup Qualifying playoff matchup against Northern Ireland 🎵🇮🇹

Vin Scully reciting the Field of Dreams speech Happy Opening Day ❤️

This is a product of two things. 1. MLBs media rights deals are a disaster. The RSN model is collapsing, but contractual obligations make the issue very difficult to fix. They’re very much in search mode for how to distribute games once they can fix it in 2028. 2. MLB is trying way too hard to attract fans who don’t already like baseball. By putting games on multiple services, they think they can reach more people. But they’re doing it at the expense of the fans who already love the game. I think that’s a mistake. Either way, it won’t be this way in a few years. The league knows it’s not sustainable.

Holy cow

If you ever find a pretty girl who keeps a scorebook at baseball games, marry her.

A great reminder how passionate Ken Dryden was on reducing blows to the head in hockey and all contact sports. He cared so much about his former teammates, players he played against and the young players playing the game today. #ENDCTE @ConcussionCTEfn

Baseball is here. Spring is nearly upon us. I couldn’t be happier. It’s the perfect time to share this clip from Field of Dreams & the perfect time to remember James Earl Jones. This film is in the pantheon of all-time sports movies. Also featuring Oscar-winner Amy Madigan.

Major League Baseball is aired in the morning for Japan. So technically they eat breakfast with it being on television. Here’s their #openingday commercial. No hyperbole, when I say this, it might be greater than any US MLB commercial I’ve seen. Well done and worth the watch for any baseball fan.

Who’s your favorite female vocalist of all time? A) Whitney Houston B) Mariah Carey C) Aretha Franklin D) Celine Dion E) Beyoncé F) Jazmine Sullivan G) Patti LaBelle H) Chaka Khan I) Toni Braxton J) Adele K) Tina Turner L) Comment another vocalist ✍️

@JimmyTraina Is he taking the Concord? 🛩️

One crazy note: Matt Vasgersian, who is calling this Yankees-Giants game in San Francisco is calling tomorrow’s Pirates-Mets in New York at 1pm on NBC.

My First Ever ⁦@Yankees⁩ ⚾️pening Day with My First Favorite Yankee Mel Stottlemyre on the Hill and Before Chris Chambliss and Oscar Gamble Became #Yankees ❗️God Bless You John Musumeci For Taking Me and Some Classmates from David A Boody JHS to Shea Stadium for the Day‼️

@UnderdogMLB @AP Just use it for every pitch!

Richie Garcia, former MLB umpire, on ABS system (via @AP): "I think it's embarrassing, embarrassing to the umpires that are calling the game. Nobody likes to be humiliated in front of 30,000, 40,000 people."

@BaseballAmerica Way tooooooooo BIGGER ‼️

The Netflix score bug is…. interesting Thoughts?

CBC and all of Canadian Media 🇨🇦 Should Feel Shame for Treating this Icon With Contempt!

@phil6636 I think you mean Backstabbing Weasel!

Ron McLean is a weasel!

Another Sign of the Apocalypse ‼️

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