are for open to banning assault weapons. they ll hammer that message. alexi, thank you for being with us this morning. we appreciate it. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. jack-packed morning joe starts right now. one of the constants over the years is baseball. america has rolled by like an army of steamrollers, built like a blackboard, erased and erased again. but baseball has marked the time. this field, this game, it s a part of our past, ray. it reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. oh, people will come, ray. people will most definitely come. willie. there you go. good morning. that line. welcome to morning joe. all that was good. 30th. all can be good once again. so many l opening day. opening day, yes. very exciting, huh? best part about opening day is, no matter who you are, any team, there s hope. right now, sitting here this morning, there s hope. now, hey there s a point
The royal navys Flagship Carrier enters its home port of portsmouth for the first time. And coming up in Sportsday On Bbc News celtic play the first leg of their Champion League qualifier tonight at celtic park, they take on kazakhstan champions astana. Good evening and welcome to the bbcs news at six. After brexit, people and goods should be able to move seamlessly across the border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, much as they do today. In their latest proposal for life outside the eu, ministers says there will be no return to check points and border posts. But critics say the plan raises as many questions as answers not least, whats to stop eu migrants coming into the uk from ireland through an unsupervised crossing . Our ireland correspondent, chris buckler, is in narrow water, on the irish border. Chris. George, people who live at this border rarely recognise it. But could all that to change once the other side of this water is still inside the eu and this part is
right side of the infield. he was thrown out at first base. that is going to change drastically for a lot of left-handed hitters and right-handed hitters. theo, my question is the wiggle room in the rules. i was thinking of it the night, the great night we saw rotani versus mike trout. the game on the line in the ninth inning. the pitch clock is out there. i think ohtani, a couple times, went over the amount of time in the pitch clock. will the home plate umpire have wiggle room to say, oh, this is tense, i m going to let it slide here? we re going to see how it plays out. we don t want to detract from the protracted drama that only baseball can deliver in those moments. the umpires are great game managers as well as being the arbiters of the rule. they know when the time is to dust off home plate and create extra time. there is some wiggle room in the rules, especially for the