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Seven scoreless innings by the bullpen, backed by some pretty good D. Raise your hand if last week you saw this happening for this team. Now pull your hand down, because you’re lying.

Well, it’s gonna happen at some point, either sooner or later.

Man, where was that right-side groundball TORK! hit from the first two batters? Yeesh.

Umpire totally helped us this inning. He rung up Conforto on a pitch about half a foot below the zone, which might have more or less forced Crawford to swing strike three on the 2-2 pitch down and in. Come on, how about a walk off now!

What ghost runners? Are there invisible runners we can’t see? 😉

And now our best reliever is coming on to preserve the tie in the ninth. As it should be.

We have signs of life!

WOW WHAT AN AT BAT BY BAEZ!

Wow, how did Crawford let that tailor-made double play ball go under his legs like that? We may never know, because inexplicably, the director of the broadcast showed us two replays from cameras far, far away. But man, we have got to capitalize on this. EDIT: And we don’t. But we clawed a couple of runs back and we are still in this game.

That was a major league 3-6-3 double play in all respects. EDIT: Fooled by the cut away to commercial. Second out is overturned. Still, great turn by TORK! and Baez.

What, is it 1957 already?

The Michael Lorenzen era is off to a rocky start.

Hill is a disappointment only to the degree you expected anything out of him.

You can’t shame MTG or any of the rest of those anti-democracy Putinites. They are beyond redemption.

Perfectly normal man who was President of the United States of America, and might well be again, talking about a perfectly normal thing he did.

One step closer to Trump announcing that he will campaign on reforming the judiciary.

We did read not long ago that Javy works best with in-your-face coaching. I’m not sure I believe that, either. But maybe we’ll see …

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We should offer Englert back to Texas for free.

I wonder whether Javy liked the idea of playing with the Tigers when Al Avila but not so much now that Scott Harris is here? Javy is pretty much an emotions-driven by-the-seat-of-the-pants kind of guy, and I wonder whether he might be chafing under the new studious data-driven rigor put in place by the new front office regime? I have no idea either way, but I do know there are players who like working with analytics to improve their game, and players who just want to show up and play ball, and I’m guessing Javy is in the latter group.

Oh, they are all for abortions for their daughters if it’s convenient. They’re just against abortions for your daughters. You’re the one who needs to be saved, not them. They’re already saved. 😏 But in all seriousness, yeah. 100%. It’s to their benefit to be in charge of people and control what they can and cannot do.

Relax, no need to become agitated or defensive. Sure, a person can just be nice. It happens a lot. I also find it interesting that a specific type of person in a specific area, which has a well-documented history of deadly oppression against that type of person, is unfailingly cordial to me, identified by sight as a possible representative of the local oppressor type, in stranger-oriented situations; while other types of people in that same area are not, and while the same type of person in other areas are also not. I suppose that that specific type of person in that specific area could simply just happen to be, as a group, far more cordial (or "nice", if you prefer) than the other types I mentioned. It's possible, but I find that a little far-fetched when taken against the other, to me more probable, explanation: that the history of deadly behavior toward that type of person precipitated a necessary survival strategy of highly-visible, inordinate, even excessive cordiality as a way of gaining enough approval in the moment to survive the encounter. This is consistent with the voluminous historical documentation of the subject, it was a very real circumstance well past the mid-point of the last century, and it makes more sense than the explanation that, by simple coincidence, this group of people in this specific area just happen to be far, far nicer (i.e., more cordial) than any other group of people in any other area I have encountered.

I've been keeping my eye out for a full book-sized kindle (~ 10" screen) that has a paperwhite background and allows for full color graphics. Either the technology is not there yet, or they're working on something like that now, or they're not actively working on it, or they've decided it's not worth the R&D hassle because iPads. But I would definitely drop a couple or three c-notes on something like that if it ever came out.

Also, Sue, I ran out of likes for the day. I'll try to remember to give you one when I come back in another day. 🙂

I almost always get physical books, mainly because I don't like staring at a backlit screen for long stretches of time. Especially true on those nights I wake up in the middle of the night, can't fall right back to sleep, and then want to read something to lead me back to dreamland. Although, by sheer coincidence, I did get a library book today through Libby, first time in maybe over a year, because an e-version was available but the actual book has a lot of holds on it. The book is: Adrift America in 100 Charts