Tenacious D

I find myself, like others, doing a lot of scoreboard watching. In addition to seeing if the teams in our division lost, I also care about Houston and Yankees losing, so we can avoid the Wild Card round. I also want the Dodgers to lose so that we have supremacy over them. Also, I like seeing teams that are on the bubble for Wild Card contention in each league lose, so ideally there will be more sellers than buyers at the deadline. Basically, I want almost every team losing. And I want everything painted black, black as night.

Wonder if the Tigers would like to see him beat up on AA pitching prior to the trade deadline?

Maybe we should stop sending him down to Toledo.

Let’s hope Holton and Hanifee are getting closer to last season. Would help solidify our biggest question mark so far.

Short leash, please

Always the objective.

Bert—want to get you up to speed on a few other things you might have missed. -Miggy retired two seasons ago. -Tampa Bay and Colorado now have MLB franchises. -Led Zeppelin officially broke up. -Women can now vote. Let me know if I can fill in any other blanks.

Hope he has better success than Inge did.

Who is the guy wearing Montero’s jersey?

You’d think taking 2 of 3 from the Gritty Tigers would have bought at least another month.

Dodged a bullet with the Cobb signing—at least he hasn’t pitched ****ty

This game not going our way, in spite of Skubal. The starting pitcher putting up a lot of pitches means we’ll get into their pen sooner (potentially). Don’t love that when we haven’t scored yet.

I think Melton sees time this season, similar to what they did with Jobe (but sooner).

I agree with this, but don’t agree that Briceno is overrated (though that is a very subjective term). I think he’s flying a bit under the radar nationally, especially based on what he did in the AFL and offensively in High A. It seems like he’ll hit, but finding a position might be tricky. That uncertainty makes him a viable trade option if another team values the bat.

Well, they do have a 9 game losing streak, so they are lost. Let’s make it 10. Skubal in line for one more start before the break—Saturday v Seattle. That would knock him out for pitching on Tuesday in the All Star game. And I’m very good with that—we have bigger goals.

But they’re not Gritty

Or spell

Remind me again when Jose Ramirez is planning to retire?

There goes his All Star game start and Cy Young.

Nashville Cats and the Salt Lake Sister Wives?

Need some more runs. Hate the Cleveland pen—would like to take it out of the game.

Pretty much a must win. Amirite?