Boston, MA
Saturday Bird Droppings: Hoping the rain goes away in Boston
Good morning, Birdland!
We will might need Orioles baseball again in our lives at present after the annual headache that’s the built-in rain date for Opening Day. It’s seemingly a logistic necessity, but it surely does really feel like MLB’s execution of it may use some work.
For instance, each single workforce performed on Thursday. That was nice! We had baseball to look at for 12 hours straight from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. It received the juices flowing and my private pleasure for Orioles baseball was sky excessive. The ten-9 win over the Pink Sox made it even higher!
However that was dampened by a sparse and dense sport docket on Friday. I had gone searching for which sport would function background noise as I did a couple of afternoon duties to wrap up the workweek. My Orioles had been off, however absolutely there needed to be one thing to see on the primary Friday of a brand new season, proper?
Nope, nothing. Not till 6:40 anyway, then 8, after which three 10 p.m. first pitches. The league had 5 video games however none through the day and all of them stepping on one another within the night.
Maybe the league has executed some evaluation to make this set-up make sense. Nevertheless it simply appears odd to ramp everybody up for baseball on Thursday after which solely go away them hanging at the beginning of the weekend. That is the week the place diehards and casuals alike are each very a lot into the game. Seize that pleasure. Give individuals a purpose to skip work or faculty.
The league may make the most of stadiums which are extremely unlikely to expertise an Opening Day cancellation: these with roofs! Tampa, Texas, Miami, Houston, and Seattle all have roofs and hosted on Thursday. Their video games weren’t gonna get known as. Schedule them everytime you need for Friday too! Or do Opening Day on a Wednesday, then give half the groups off on Thursday, half off on Friday, everybody performs Saturday and Sunday.
Happily, we do have a full slate of video games at present, so my concepts can return within the can for the subsequent twelve months. The Birds are alleged to play the Pink Sox at 4:10 at present, however there may be rain within the Boston space this afternoon, so we’ll see if there’s a delay or perhaps a postponement. April baseball, child!
Hyperlinks
For O’s on first opening day roster, being collectively was one of the best half | The Baltimore Solar
These guys all love and care about every, and they’re finest associates. Signal all of them to 10-year contracts instantly, Mike Elias!
Might rain drive Orioles to rearrange how rotation aligns for early sequence? | Roch Kubatko
Springtime baseball is hard within the northern states, and it looks like the Orioles get rained out at Fenway within the first month of the season not less than as soon as yearly. Hopefully it doesn’t occur once more at present, however there’s a probability for precipitation all day lengthy, and I would favor a rainout to somebody getting damage.
Does Rutschman’s huge sport result in a giant 12 months? | Steve Melewski
So long as he’s wholesome, Adley Rutschman goes to be the sport’s finest catcher for the subsequent 5 years, not less than. He simply does the whole lot so nicely! Apart from attempting to take the additional base. He was unhealthy at that on Thursday.
Orioles birthdays
Is it your birthday? Blissful birthday!
- Keegan Akin is 28 at present. The lefty has hung out on the Orioles’ huge league roster for 4 straight seasons, making his debut in 2020. As soon as considered as backend starter, Akin has settled in as a center aid pitcher that’s able to going a number of innings when wanted.
- Wealthy Amaral turns 61. The utilityman wrapped up his decade within the huge leagues as a backup with the Orioles in 1999 and 2000.
- Mike Kinnunen celebrates his sixty fifth. Between 1986 and ‘87, he appeared in 27 video games out of the O’s bullpen.
Today in O’s historical past
2010 – The Orioles purchase infielder Julio Lugo from the St. Louis Cardinals.
Boston, MA
Five Tuscaloosa County residents finish Boston Marathon
Out of the six Tuscaloosa County residents that were registered for the Boston Marathon, five crossed the finish line of the world’s oldest and most prestigious marathon on Monday.
William McGee, 38, of Northport was the first county runner to cross the finish line, covering the distance in 2 hours, 38 minutes and 44 seconds. He finished 371 overall and was the second-fastest runner from Alabama.
For McGee, a former track and field runner at Auburn University, it was not his first marathon, but it was his first time getting to run the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon course, starting in Hopkinton and ending near Copley Square in Boston. McGee qualified for the Boston Marathon in December 2023 at the California International Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 33 minutes and 58 seconds.
“The only way to run it is to qualify, so for a lot of folks it is a real accomplishment just to get to the starting line,” McGee said. “It is also the oldest, ongoing marathon in the world … Just the amount of tradition along the course, they have been running the same course for 128 years, so the traditions, the lure, just the history of it just make it really a special race unlike really just any other.”
It was a 70-degree race day, and McGee was feeling the heat. By the time he crossed the finish line, his thoughts were focused on recovery, but were also focused on all the support he was receiving back in Tuscaloosa. The night before the race, he said, his phone was flooding with texts and messages from people within the Tuscaloosa community.
“It was a really warm day, so I was really glad to get finished,” McGee said. “It was really hot out there, no cloud cover, just in the sun all day. So, the first though (when I crossed the finish line) was to get fluids in my body and get in the shade … I just remember those final miles of the race, just thinking about all these new friends I have made over the past year that were supporting me from Tuscaloosa … I just became very overwhelmed with gratitude.”
Kathleen Callahan of Northport was the only county woman to finish and the oldest of the runners from the county at age 56. She crossed the finish line with a time of 4:04:23, while Chihiro Nakai was the second runner from the county to cross the finish line with a time of 3:18:27.
Below is a full list of how all five runners from Tuscaloosa County finished at the 2024 Boston Marathon:
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Tuscaloosa County Boston Marathon finishers
371. William McGee, Northport: 2:38:44
6,500. Chihiro Nakai, Tuscaloosa: 3:18:27
16,899. Kathleen Callahan, Northport: 4:04:23
19,231. Russ Guin, Tuscaloosa: 4:22:25
23,436. John Sanders, Tuscaloosa, 5:12:11
Anna Snyder covers high school sports and University of Alabama softball and football recruiting for The Tuscaloosa News. Reach her at asnyder@gannett.com. Follow her on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, @annaesnyder2
Boston, MA
Investigation underway following crash on Boston Road in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) – Police in Springfield responded to a car accident on Tuesday morning.
According to the Springfield Police Department, at around 9 a.m. officers were on scene for reports of a crash on Boston Road.
Officials said when crews arrived they saw female driver was ejected from her car.
She was taken to Baystate Medical Center with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.
Her passenger and the other driver involved were also taken to Baystate, both with minor injuries.
The cause of the crash is under investigation at this time.
Copyright 2024. Western Mass News (WGGB/WSHM). All rights reserved.
Boston, MA
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposed commercial property tax shift sparks on Council
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s plan to increase property taxes on businesses beyond the state limit is continuing to receive skepticism, with the City Council the latest to express concern on how the proposal could do more harm than good.
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