No Blackouts Today: Cubs vs. Royals at Surprise, Tuesday 3/23, 3:05 CT
by Al Yellon on Mar 23, 2010 1:00 PM CDT
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PrintIt's been raining much of the morning in the Phoenix area; the rain is supposed to end by midday and thus, today's game should be played, although in coolish (mid to upper 60s, compared to low 80s yesterday) conditions and mostly cloudy skies. The sun and the 70s and 80s are supposed to return tomorrow.
Presuming the rain does end, you've got a treat today. MLB Network is picking up the FSN Kansas City feed of today's game and sending it out to everyone nationally -- no blackouts. Hopefully, this is the first step toward real blackout lifting.
Smart move, MLB. Keep it up.
Ryan Dempster will make his fourth spring start today; he will face the Royals' Luke Hochevar. You'll also see Royals relievers John Parrish, Roman Colon and Josh Rupe.
Lineup, which includes Aramis Ramirez's return to action (as DH), via tweet from Carrie:
SS Theriot, RF Colvin, 1B Lee, DH Ramirez, CF Byrd, LF Soriano, 2B Fontenot, C Hill, 3B Tracy
As noted above, today's game is on the MLB Network -- no blackouts -- via FSN Kansas City. It's also on MLB Audio via MLB.com announcers and the Royals flagship KCSP. Here is the complete MLB.com Mediacenter for today. According to Carrie Muskat's blog, you can listen to the next three games free via MLB Audio:
Fans can listen to live streaming play-by-play of the next three Cubs' Spring Training games through Thursday, free of charge, via cubs.com. Mick Gillespie, voice of the Double-A Tennessee Smokies, will call the action, including Tuesday's game against the Royals in Surprise (3:05 p.m. CT).
To access the webcast, fans need to visit cubs.com and select "Listen to Gameday Audio" from the "Audio and Video" link at the top of the page.
As usual, the first pitch thread will post at 3 pm CDT, and the overflow thread at 4:15 pm CDT.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
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"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
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by eths on Mar 23, 2010 1:09 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
hi eths!
Nady's beard looks fine to me!
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 23, 2010 1:13 PM CDT up reply actions
How you doin'?
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
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by eths on Mar 23, 2010 1:19 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I'm good and you?
Nady's beard looks fine to me!
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 23, 2010 1:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Too much work but otherwise fine
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
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by eths on Mar 23, 2010 1:25 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Nady's beard looks fine to me!
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 23, 2010 2:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Smart, smart MLB?
Seems…strange.
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
Huh???
Aren’t the words MLB and Smart a contradiction in terms… like
Jumbo Shrimp or Military Intelligence…
"Why people who have not committed any punishable offense, listen to Country and Western music is absolutely beyond me" - John Cleese
Haha, the word 'moron' is forever tainted for me because of that picture.
Much like ‘candidate’ will always make me think of LOST. I hear ‘moron’ and I immediately think of that picture.
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Extensive Briefing
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
small crowd
Nady's beard looks fine to me!
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 23, 2010 1:50 PM CDT up reply actions
Forward lateral
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
pretty ugly
Nady's beard looks fine to me!
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 23, 2010 1:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Greater Cleveland
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
This thread is giving me a taste for some hot chili.
"Chicago Cubs baseball is on the air."-Pat Hughes
how bout some free credit
Nady's beard looks fine to me!
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 23, 2010 1:57 PM CDT up reply actions
organized chaos...(a personal favorite)
Nady's beard looks fine to me!
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 23, 2010 2:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Guest host
Rich Hill will win a Cy Young before Prior and Wood...
Is everyone getting whackier the closer it gets to opening day or something?
As if the “airmail”/palindromes weren’t enough for one day. Now we got the oxymorons going. We should tell Vermont-he’s going to love this.
"Chicago Cubs baseball is on the air."-Pat Hughes
I agree. This entire thread is a Fine Mess.
I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted - George Best
I think we have the makings of a new classic
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
that's terribly nice of you to point that out
Nady's beard looks fine to me!
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 23, 2010 2:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Now if only we could get a paid volunteer to put these in some sort of random order.
I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted - George Best
oooo.... two in one sentence, that was awfully good!
Nady's beard looks fine to me!
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 23, 2010 2:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes. But can anyone do an oxymoron AND a palindrome?
by DisCUBbobulated on Mar 23, 2010 2:11 PM CDT up reply actions
I wish I had thought this up
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
@Twitter as @brommmietze
That is really cool!
"There are no curses here...Games are won and lost on the baseball field" - Lou Piniella
Worth no value?
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
@Twitter as @brommmietze
Happy to see black out lifted
But I would also be happy to have it 720 so that I could listen to the first game of the season
"I cherish this dream I had as a little kid to play baseball,'' Ted Lilly
by Madison Cub Fan on Mar 23, 2010 2:20 PM CDT reply actions
first ST game for me at least
"I cherish this dream I had as a little kid to play baseball,'' Ted Lilly
by Madison Cub Fan on Mar 23, 2010 2:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Then I can lean back, crack a beer and won't need to do PbP...
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
@Twitter as @brommmietze
you deserve a break
Nady's beard looks fine to me!
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 23, 2010 2:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Which reminds me of the old pun
about McDonalds that someone tossed a rock through their window with a piece of paper wrapped around it that said "You deserve a brick today.
"Chicago Cubs baseball is on the air."-Pat Hughes
ha, never heard that
Nady's beard looks fine to me!
by cooliogirl47 on Mar 23, 2010 2:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Laughing 
off
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
@Twitter as @brommmietze
I think maybe I'll catch up on podcasts
"I cherish this dream I had as a little kid to play baseball,'' Ted Lilly
by Madison Cub Fan on Mar 23, 2010 2:28 PM CDT up reply actions
you too!
"I cherish this dream I had as a little kid to play baseball,'' Ted Lilly
by Madison Cub Fan on Mar 23, 2010 2:43 PM CDT up reply actions
So if it's a Spring Training Game AND a game vs. the Royals...
Does it produce postiive meaning?
by DisCUBbobulated on Mar 23, 2010 2:28 PM CDT reply actions
Only if you multiply them
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
@Twitter as @brommmietze
Let's not be divisive here...
or “Let’s thank the Network Division of Major League Baseball for lifting the blackout.”
Rich Hill will win a Cy Young before Prior and Wood...
OT: NFL sudden-death overtimes will no longer be so sudden
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/03/23/overtime-proposal-passes/
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
Slow death overtimes
"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
@Twitter as @brommmietze
If the NFL had this years ago Marty Mornhinweg might still be the Lions Head Coach...
Marty Mornhinweg’s Windy Gamble
In the NFL’s overtime system, winning the coin toss is key. Many teams get the ball and are able to score the game-winning points without the other team even getting a chance. So usually when you win the coin toss, you elect to have the ball kicked to you – unless of course you are Marty Mornhinweg.
The Lions head coach elected to kickoff with the wind at his team’s back in overtime of a game in Chicago in 2002. The results were predicatably disastrous. Not only were the Bears able to drive for the game-ending score, but their kicker drilled a long 40-yard field goal into the “gusty” wind which Mornhinweg was so afraid of facing.
"Look, what do you want me to do?"
This goes to illustrate
why baseball is the greatest sport in America.
"Chicago baseball fans, who are composites of scar tissue and mortifying memories..." - George F. Will
but there are a few rules such as blackouts
that baseball could do to make the sport a bit better :)
"I cherish this dream I had as a little kid to play baseball,'' Ted Lilly
by Madison Cub Fan on Mar 23, 2010 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions
those aren't flaws with baseball though...
those are just flaws with how the people who are supposed to bring us baseball do stuff.
Believe or Leave ~Cubswynn 9/9/2008
They're one of the teams that voted against the rules change
"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
HA!
Favre would have just broke my heart again anyway im sure
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"Who ever heard of the Cubs losing a game they had to have?" -Frank Chance
"If [Ruth] had [called his shot], I would have knocked him down with the next pitch." -Charlie Root
Apparently the rumors
of you being ticklish are very much true!
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