[Albion] Albion tour in USA

[Eggman]

 

[Icy Gull]

Club ambassador and Sky media reporter

Loving him as a pundit/commentator. Yes he makes it clear he’s an Albion or Palace fan but is balanced in his commentary. Very unusual these days. Whatever happened to the mardy uncommunicative Glenn?

 

[The Maharajah of Sydney]

Loving him as a pundit/commentator. Yes he makes it clear he’s an Albion or Palace fan but is balanced in his commentary. Very unusual these days. Whatever happened to the mardy uncommunicative Glenn?

Have to strongly disagree there.
He’s an absolutely awful commentator.
His delivery is akin to that of a travel show reporter.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

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I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong, but reckon this is the other fella in the photo...

'Kodai Senga (千賀 滉大, Senga Kōdai, born January 30, 1993) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) debut in 2012 for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, and played for them until 2022. He is a three-time NPB All-Star.'

 

[Springal]

another one from the rounders

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

another one from the rounders

Stool ball surely?

 

[medwayseagull reborn]

Stool ball surely?

Not sure anyone is supposed to be throwing s**t around.

 

[Easy 10]

Citi Field is a great ballpark, saw the Twins get trampled there a few years back, 3-1 I think.

Looks like our guys will have seen the Mets thump the White Sox 5-1 last night.

 

[Horses Arse]

Loving him as a pundit/commentator. Yes he makes it clear he’s an Albion or Palace fan but is balanced in his commentary. Very unusual these days. Whatever happened to the mardy uncommunicative Glenn?

Never waved at Brentford. The bastard!!!!

 

[Nicks]

It's about 85 F here in Philadelphia at the moment, but if your heading to the Atlanta game they are forecasting temperatures of 103 F

 

[El Presidente]

Any NSC’ers fancy a meat up in Philly? I think the official group meet has sold out

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

another one from the rounders

Interesting that Murray is out there with them. Is he some part of the wider coaching setup now?

Or is he just part of the media team covering the whole pre-season gimmick for Sky etc.

 

[Springal]

Interesting that Murray is out there with them. Is he some part of the wider coaching setup now?

Or is he just part of the media team covering the whole pre-season gimmick for Sky etc.

Media work

 

[Nicks]

Any NSC’ers fancy a meat up in Philly? I think the official group meet has sold out

I got the email yesterday saying that but you won't officially know until Friday when they send out the invites.
I applied straight away but got the full up email yesterday as well

 

[Nicks]

Any NSC’ers fancy a meat up in Philly? I think the official group meet has sold out

Me and my lad are happy to share a beer or two with you if you fancy it ?

 

[US Seagull]

another one from the rounders

On the subject of rounders, did anybody else find as a kid in the UK, that whenever we played "rounders" it seemed like the teachers just randomly made up the rules on the spot and we used whatever equipment happened to be laying around at the time? I remember playing it with bats that looked like baseball bats, with cricket bats, with some kind of wooden paddle. With a target thing on a board, with wickets, with nothing at all. With something resembling a diamond, with just two "bases". With a single batter, with two batters...I swear never the same way twice.

It was always some random Frankenstein cricket / baseball / rounders / something else hybrid.

 

[Albion my Albion]

I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong, but reckon this is the other fella in the photo...

'Kodai Senga (千賀 滉大, Senga Kōdai, born January 30, 1993) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) debut in 2012 for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, and played for them until 2022. He is a three-time NPB All-Star.'

That's Senga.

Here is an issue he had rather recently with the pitchcom, a rather new device, catchers and pitchers use to communicate what pitch they will throw. Reminder that the teams are limited as to the number of times they can visit with the pitcher on the pitching mound. There are also many rules about what motion a pitcher can make before he delivers the pitch towards home plate. When he violates those rules it's called a balk and any runners on base get to move up one base. There are also language issues involved because Senga doesn't speak English (that is his interpreter that comes onto the field during the discussion) and the catcher's first language is Spanish.

here is Senga pitching for the SoftBank Hawks in Japan much earlier in his career.

 

[Superphil]

On the subject of rounders, did anybody else find as a kid in the UK, that whenever we played "rounders" it seemed like the teachers just randomly made up the rules on the spot and we used whatever equipment happened to be laying around at the time? I remember playing it with bats that looked like baseball bats, with cricket bats, with some kind of wooden paddle. With a target thing on a board, with wickets, with nothing at all. With something resembling a diamond, with just two "bases". With a single batter, with two batters...I swear never the same way twice.

It was always some random Frankenstein cricket / baseball / rounders / something else hybrid.

Sounds like there is a bit of Stool Ball in there somewhere. No Aunt Sally though.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Ottavino & Robertson are both relief pitchers for the Mets. They sit in the bullpen, where relief pitchers warmup before they enter the game, in relief of the starting pitcher.

 

[Winker]

Great - so these games are being shown live on the club website, except in the UK.

Any streams available? May as well start as we mean to go on!