Opening Day!

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1. Finally! Picked up my season ticket packet last night & getting amped for opening night @ the Phitz.

2. I am back from hibernation! Check out my first post here. Most of my stuff is directed at casual fans oriented towards the Federal Baseball/SBNation axis. I read the box scores aggressively, but I stop here before I hit the beat reporters and team sites.

   1. Please let me know if I’m out of line with a shameless plug. Sue’s got my linked on the blogroll at right (which also includes anything I post within SBNation minors or nonminors related). I finally joined twitter during the offseason and following @souldrummer25 may actually be the best way to keep track of my minors posts this year.

      1. SD — Hey, you’re part of the community, no need to be apologetic amongst the seamheads here.
         But, I’m proudly not part of the attention deficit, er, twitter community.

         1. To me, the major advantage of the SBNation interface is the live blogging feature more than anything else. There’s the Natstown message boards that I started using a bit during the playoffs, but there really isn’t a place where there’s enough critical mass to know there will people consistently. SBNation has the weakness of requiring handles and pretty observable profiles, but the strength of strong moderation.

            Be very interested in seeing if there’s a place where people who are interested in live blogging or chatting on affiliates minors stuff during games could congregate. For example, I’ll probably be jumping around between the MLB gamethread/Gameday, Harper’s at bats, and Meyers start tonight if I’ve got enough steam left after following the Syracuse game from work.

      2. No, not out of line. But it is the kind of stuff that lead to being asked to help or produce posts 😉

         1. Sue, LOL!

         2. Just let me know what you’d like me to do, and if it’s something within my skill set and limited time I’ll be happy to try. After all, the mysterious “April” has vanished into a cloud of smoke.

            1. She’s back and we’ve been in touch all winter long. No worries, but I’m glad to see you might be able to help at some point!

3. Two of my minor league favorites toe the rubber tonight, Maya and Meyers.

   1. Maya toes the hill at 3:05PM. Just sayin’.

4. Just wanted say that I check in here once a day and love the work you do!

   I think the first link for the Potomac article is linked incorrectly, it took me to the same site as the 2nd link for Hagerstown did.

   1. Thanks for the catch, got it fixed.

5. Wow, who had Selik in the Hagerstown rotation?

   1. Not me. Selik was good but not great last summer and didn’t get sent to instrux.

      1. Sue, the reply button on your previous post is inoperative, so will do here.
         This is the first we’ve heard of April since she left in July for the Hudson Bay.
         Thought it might have been a polar bear situation, just sayin’.

         1. Take off!

            (BTW, that song predates April by several years.)

            1. Hoser.

   2. With Hagerstown having a staff with what, eight pitchers who started a game in 2010 (none of them named Selik), not me.

6. What’s with no assignment for A.J. Cole? I know Solis is fighting a hamstring but where is Cole going to end up?

   1. Cole and Ray are in XST. They’re probably going to start in Auburn, but it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s only for 2-3 starts until a spot opens up. Kilgore reported earlier this week that this was because the Nats want to keep the innings down for both of them. Considering the flameouts and injuries from the ’06-’07 batch of schoolboys, not the worst decision.

7. Whiting starts over Bernadina! In left field. Is Bernadina on his way to DC or nursing an injury.

   So, it looks a bit like it’ll be Frazier in right … Bernadina in left and Corey Brown in CF for the Chiefs. (Unless Bernadina has already been called up?) Knorr isn’t a double switch artist like Riggleman so you have to think this might be the line up?

   1. Boomer Whiting LF
   2. Brian Bixler 3B
   3. Jeff Frazier RF
   4. Chris Marerro 1B
   5. Jesus Flores C
   6. Seth Bynum 2B
   7. Corey Brown CF
   8. Chris McConnell SS
   9. Yunesky Maya P

   1. Knorr, however, is a seven lineups in seven games kind o’ manager, so there’s not much to read into that based on one game. But I was also surprised, figuring Bernadina would only sit against lefties in favor of Whiting.

   2. Byron Kerr reported that Bernadina that Bernadina is “temporarily inactive with a family issue”.
      bkerr32 Byron Kerr
      Temp inactive family issue RT @souldrummer25: @masnBen @Nats_prospects @Bkerr32 @tyinDC Why didn’t Bernadina start for Syracuse? #Nats

8. Maya: 3 hits and a balk already after 2 innings. No walks, no runs … but ??

   1. And then he was shelled for runs after being staked to an 8-1 lead and fails to get out of the fifth for the “win”. Cole Kimball may be in line for the win instead with his 1.1IP of scoreless hitless ball.

9. Seth Bynum strikes early with a big fly. Stakes Maya to a 4-0 lead.

   1. @BinM,

      An original “Canadian”. One of the remaining Expo signees.

   2. Bynum really raking … now a bases loaded double.

10. Sue – Just a quick thanks for keeping this site going. I visit often but don’t post too much, especially in the off season. Thanks for all your hard work (as well as your “foreign correspondants!”)

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