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Today was a perfect opening day. Wore shorts. Ditched my light jacket around 11:30. Got home and walked to the local bar for the final fish fry of the season. A mile walk after that. 20,000 steps and a tanned face. and a tiger win.

Did you know Anderson had remade himself as a pitcher in Korea?

Cough cough

Might as well win the series

Bert playing hurt when it mattered most.

I’m seeing that they won

I had the Finish Him pic all loaded up and everything

it is absolutely pouring on driveways in birmingham

So....nobody? 😅😅

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Jack is a guy I'd like to see Hinch give a less rope than he usually does. Sure he works his way out sometimes, but I think the probability of an inning going south for Jack in a hurry is high enough I'd be willing to give up the times he gets out of it. Esp when he's at his third or 4th jam.

That’s on Hinch. Flaherty should have been on a short leash to start the inning. He and Harris are off to a rough start to the season.

It certainly could. That was my pitching glove. I had a fielding glove that is smaller, but broke in even more. 🙂 I had another that was completely wore out and I finally had to retire it. Hated breaking in new gloves. When not in use, wrap a baseball in it. They don't do it today I don't think, but back then (70s) we rubbed them down with neatsfoot oil to soften them up. Things were much different 50 years ago. A funny little story. In 1994/1995 I coached a high school team. By that time all they had were aluminum bats. I suppose due to cost? Doesn't matter I guess. Anyway, I had an old wooden bat at home (I made one in shop class and used it, but it broke and never made another) so I took it to a practice late in the year. The kids were amazed. They never saw a wooden bat, and of course never hit a ball with one. It was neat to watch them all gather around and "wow" over that bat. We had to have extra batting practice so everyone could use it just to see what it was like. Oh wow, that was cool!!! No ping. A crack of a ball on a wooden bat. Music to the ears. The glove also traveled. In 1973 it rode in a car from a ball game in Mansfield, Ohio to our hometown (about an hour drive) with 4 other guys on the team, a case of beer, and a bong that was the head of Richard Nixon. The bowl was his nose, you sucked on his head, and his ear was the carburetor. 🙂 I wasn't quite old enough to drink, but nobody cared.

Ouch. Them some sweet cleats he's got, but they obviously are not steel toes.

weird inning for Jack. He would have been in even worse trouble if Walker had had the confidence to challenge the 2nd strike call. It was absolutely a miss.

Those St. Louis blues look right. They look good on the teams that I remember them being used for. St. Louis, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Toronto. And the home creams for San Francisco. That slaps with the orange and black motif. Sorry, just trying to distract you all from the early melt down inning.

Oh my heck JV injured? In truth, human bodies are not made to hurl projectiles at high velocities with bizarre, spin rates, etc. etc.. this might make Peacock’s Sunday night exclusive game less exclusive.

If that mitt could tell stories…..

I did enjoy seeing some of the historic bats.

His tube socks are above his knees.

He’s gritty.

I'm not sure this cast of characters should be offering emotional support.

I hope so. The problem with Flaherty is he can go from good to bad from inning to inning. He just seems to have that one inning that completely unravels and that's that. I may be wrong, but it seems like that was the difference between 2024 and 2025. In 2024, he might allow two runners on, but he'd limit the scoring to one run. In 2025, two runners on would lead to an elongated inning where both or more would score.

It ended up being a good season. I would definitely watch season three if they make one.

Two bonus episodes next week. James Marsden interviews the cast and the guy from season one meets the guy from season two.

Hooker was the 68th overall pick. That’s more like a $100 lottery pick.

Weirdly, we have the third best run differential in the American League

While not specifically Protestant, also problematic.

I was there sitting in third base box seats for that game at that moment. Fifth game of the World Series down three games to one. The Cardinals were leading 3 to 1 in the 5th I believe. I had sprained my ankle the day before, but I hobbled into that stadium and hobbled out with joy after we won 5–3.

Soon Oracle Larry or Amazon Jeff or Ketamine Elon will control all the news services anyway.

I trust Tom Nichols more than I trust the REGIME. AP is basically a headline service. They mostly regurgitate what their member news services give them. They are also not as good as they were in the 70s and 80s.

Tom Nichols has a good article in the Atlantic today about the purge of Army leadership.

Yeah sure.

I’ll be honest, the stands and everything they’ve added outside the OF wall there still seems foreign to me. My kid mind still expects to see fountains and hills and maybe the highway in the distance whilst watching a game in Kansas City.

I can't compare to that. Pretty. This one is just about broke in. You can tell at the bottom the leather laces are different. Local grocery, display of shoe laces. Scissors, a small screwdriver, and we fixed them ourselves. My web busted one night and about got my nose broke.

I am going to share my current glove again... I assure you that after several months of very muddy Virginia softball it no longer is this bright color. I explained the livery of the color scheme somewhere but its basically the US Air Force TACP crest colors. Blue for Air, Green for Ground, Red for the Firepower we deliver. The new one plays a lot better than my $35 super soft glove that I have to replace the laces on each season. Its great for coaching and having to retrieve balls without having to reach that extra 13" when i'm trying to refill the Jugs machine.

Yeah, that's usually a late May/early June thing. Sooner if it's a warm spring. When the Tigers show up there for Game 3 of the World Series, the ivy will be turning all kinds of colors.

Mighty Gabe Perreault with the natural hat trick. He was drafted #23 in the 2023 draft in which Danielson was drafted #9.

Because we need to spend much much more on bombs and such. Screw old and poor (as well as the middle class) folks