New York @ Florida GameThread, Mar 31, 2008 4:10 PM EDT

Open Thread and Ichthyomancy: Mets at Marlins (3/31)

by craig on Mar 31, 2008 12:00 PM EDT in News

New York @ Florida

It's Opening Day!

I will spare you my rip-off of Thomas Boswell and just leave it at that.

This is the first time to trot out the new Game Thread so I'm not exactly sure what is going on. If I'm able to put the Ichthyomancy table into the thread I will. If not, another solution will be thought of later.

In the meantime, make your Ichthyomancy picks in the comment section as always and let's see what shows up in the thread.

Oh, and Welcome to another season of Marlins baseball and Ichthyomancy!

FishStriper	Attendance	Player	AAB
Architect	39,700	Cantu	Marlins: 2+ R in 1st
Brickell	41,325	Cantu	Marlins: back to back HR off Santana
Bumppo	35,100	Uggla	Hendrickson: W, QS
Colombo	36,919	Willingham	Marlins H+BB > Mets H=BB
Dan	42,817	Ramirez	Ramirez: leadoff HR
Fishcrazy	32,012	Hermida	Marlins: 4+ XBH
Fluxuation	39,456	Ramirez	Hendrickson IP > Santana IP
GameFish	43,768	Ross	Drunk Mets Fan: Streaks
GMFB	35,000	Ramirez	Ramirez: 2 H, HR
HadMatter	42,042	Ross	Marlins: 10+ H, 3+ XBH, Mets 1+ CS
Hurricane	28,765	Ramirez	Hendrickson: W
Jrsyeagle	34,331	Ross	Game: 5+ HR
Jsprt08	41,283	Ramirez	Santana: 5+ ER
LadyFish	40,530	Ramirez	Marlins: 2B=3
Matt Wilson	37,523	Jacobs	Hendrickson: QS
Mbaamin	33,313	Ramirez	Marlins: H > 4
Spud	40,100	Jacobs	Marlins: 2B+DP > 4
Stlcardinalsfan	45,152	Willingham	Willingham: HR

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meanwhile in Detroit...

Miggy goes deep. Announcer: "I think I've seen him do a different handshake with every guy down there."

by dan 2.0 on Mar 31, 2008 2:41 PM EDT 0 recs

::Sigh::

I will miss him.

I'm doin the Fish again. (Yeah, yeah, yeah.)

by colombo259 on Mar 31, 2008 2:54 PM EDT 0 recs

Lineups

New York

SS Reyes
2B Castillo
3B Wright
CF Beltran
1B Delgado
LF Pagan
RF Church
C Schneider
P Santana

Florida
SS Ramirez
2B Uggla
1B Jacobs
LF Willingham
CF Ross
3B Cantu
RF Gonzalez
C Treanor
P Hendrickson

by mbaamin08 on Mar 31, 2008 3:29 PM EDT 0 recs

Picks

35,100
Uggla
Hendrickson: W, QS

by Bumppo on Mar 31, 2008 3:48 PM EDT 0 recs

Back from the game

The game was kind of pitiful. I was proud of the Marlins' fans for booing every time the Mets' fans would start chanting.
BTW--Wiley has Woody's old number 28.

by LadyFish on Mar 31, 2008 9:35 PM EDT 0 recs

Darn

An inauspicious beginning. Luckily, we've lulled the Mets into a false sense of security and will now proceed to sweep the last two games.

I totally blew it on the attendance. I figured attendance would be down among Marlins fans for obvious offseason reasons, but forgot that it's also opening day for local Mets fans.

by Fishcrazy on Mar 31, 2008 9:55 PM EDT 0 recs

Me too

I had some of the 3's in the attendance right but it was just off by about 6,000 people. Oh well. At least I hit my AAB.

This is the best day of the year to be off. I have done nothing but watch baseball all day. I got to watch our game on mlb.tv (well, after Hammer's homer anyway when my mlb.tv decided to quit being retarded and actually work) and the Cubs-Brewers, Nats-Phillies (while the Cubs game was in a rain delay), Twins-Angels and now the Astros-Padres on tv. What a great day!

by mbaamin08 on Mar 31, 2008 10:43 PM EDT up 0 recs

Thoughts

It's not just the Marlins opening day. It's for everybody. I must of seen at least 8 or 9 other teams jersey's today. Mets, Red Sox, Cubs mostly, but also Texas, Milwaukee, Yankees, Atlanta, Philadephia, etc

Why did the switch Ross and Cantu in the batting order after they were already announced?

Santana was good. Very good.

What no souvenir cups this year? Lame.

The new club zone is nice. Very nice.

Watching Castillo bunt a single and stealing 2nd brought back a lot of good memories of my favorite Marlins of all time. It's good to see he still has it.

by brickell on Mar 31, 2008 10:27 PM EDT 0 recs

Oh

And here's the opening day opening pitch and opening swing.
http://flickr.com/photos/ahlbrandt/2379241758/
http://flickr.com/photos/ahlbrandt/2379241244/

by brickell on Mar 31, 2008 10:48 PM EDT up 0 recs

Oooh, make a Fan Shot post of the pictures

It will be our first.

by craig on Mar 31, 2008 11:53 PM EDT up 0 recs

Ugly, but not as bad as the Pirates choke

Did anyone see them choke on the final out of the game. Bay and McClouth let a routine fly ball land between them and allow the Braves to tie the game in the bottom of the 9th. Ugly!

by SprintSTboy on Mar 31, 2008 11:00 PM EDT 0 recs

I was at the game...

sat in the fish tank. a small group of mets fans had a sign that said "shea stadium south". they got cheers from other mets fans and a lot of boos from marlins fans. when I went out to get a hotdog I found out that they were kicked out of the stadium by the security. I assume they were just being really loud and causing a ruckus. they kept arguing with other fans and just generally being annoying.

by Fluxuation on Apr 1, 2008 1:48 AM EDT 0 recs