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Yes, sure. Let's go on believing that. It's completely harmless.

During the Star Spangled Banner, the speakers of the park all rang out "OH!" Also emotional, but for a completely different reason.

The first pitch was VERY emotional for me. They honored some front line workers at Johns Hopkins. One of them threw out the first pitch and they had a bunch of them on the field.

There is an error in the game summary. Alex Cobb gave up a solo home run, which was an earned run charged to him while he was on the mound. The bases were empty when Paul Fry relieved him.

And they win!

Bleier still up so far on At Bat, but that could change at any instant.

OK. I'm living in 2012 in terms of Orioles Magic and 2014 in terms of the O's just being plain good. Better?

Darren O'D-- ... Wait ... I'm living in 2018 apparently.

Davis is still a good defensive first baseman. For that play he just needed to be tall and have long arms, which he does, and does.

After the commercial break the TV broadcasters said the decision was made to give Valaika an Error on that play.

Man, now we almost know how it feels when football fans win or lose a game. They have 16. Now we have 60. So 162/60 = 2.7, which means every win or loss has the same weight as nearly a 3-game sweep in a regular season.

5 1/3, 1 run isn't bad these days. In the 60s it would've been embarrassing, but with the reduced stamina and harder velo of today's pitchers, and the elevated home run numbers from moving the fences in, it's a pretty typical, pretty decent outing. Especially this early in a season.

They showed the sportscasters' booth in OPACY. The crew has access to about 3-4 extra angles that we don't have, in addition to the "production" stream that we see on TV. It's laid out on a bunch of large monitors in front of them. It's not too bad. At some places like at Nats Stadium, they probably rely more on the monitors than they do their own eyes, because the booth is so high up that the players look like tiny ants down on the field. Worse than the 300 sections at OPACY. They'll figure out which monitors to look at, when, and be in good shape. The thing I'm more annoyed with is the MASN stream intern who can't keep the count and number of outs straight. It's like the MLB Gameday App intern who's usually several hitters behind and with a ~20% error rate on balls and strikes is now working for MASN.

Nice play at short by Iglesias. Nothing for the highlight reels but very competent.

Wow. We're scoring prodigiously despite two baserunning errors so far.

I'm going on record: the O's will win today. I give it a 75% chance that it'll be a nail-biter, but ultimately the O's will come through somehow. Ugly or not.

Cobb working, Perez not so much. After 1, game looks to favor the O's.

Best half-inning of the young season. Sox pitcher Perez is already on the ropes based on how poorly he's pitching right now. Here's hoping for a reversal of last night's score.

Just seeing the offense pick up a respectable number of runs is the only reason I'm still following tonight's game. They have a chance to put up a crooked number. Probably won't affect the W/L, but could make for some nice highlights.

Whoever's updating the balls and strikes count on MASN really isn't paying attention to the game. I don't blame them.

LOL Walter Johnson threw a perfect game against the Red Sox in "1820" according to MASN. The announcers rightly said 1920, but it was amusing. Baseball didn't exist as an organized sport in 1820 did it?

Shut up. ?

I'll take a CD staring at strike 3 looking any day of the week as long as he doesn't GIDP here.

Joe Church good.

Milone fits right in with the club. ?