IdahoBert

He sleeps with the fishes.

Interesting never been there. My daughter‘s been to both ball parks and likes Dodger Stadium more but both ball parks are pretty old compared to modern standards.

The most recent reports say Trout was planning on playing tonight, but he’s not in the lineup. The Angels are in the midst of a five game skid right now.

Mike Trout has the most PA on the team with 121 and he’s not starting tonight. I heard that he had kind of a knee injury last night.

Malloy RF Torres 2B Greene, R DH Ibáñez 3B Torkelson 1B McKinstry LF Dingler C Báez, J CF Sweeney SS Mize P

Ha. It’s not incurably late. It’s just that what I’m used to is not happening. It makes sense for these games to begin seven thirtyish in Los Angeles. It takes a long time to drive to these games. One of my daughters lives in West Hollywood and she sometimes works late just to wait for traffic to die down so she spends 30 or 40 minutes less driving home.

I really hate these West Coast games. In the eastern time zone games begin for me in the mountain zone anywhere from 4:40 PM to 5:10 PM. And for all of you in the eastern zone, these games are painfully late. I’m not an 11 year-old listening impishly on a transistor radio late at night and getting one over on my parents. Late starts are annoying.

Just as an aside, I checked that high school Jack Flaherty and Bryce Rainer both went to, Harvard Westlake in LA, and the tuition is $52,000 a year. Wow.

It was hard enough to endure those losses in Anaheim on TV and radio broadcast or following a game thread, but braving traffic and going to an actual game to witness the slaughter of our best and brightest, so to speak, had to be painful.

I know it was bad, but that’s worse than I even thought. That is probably 3–16 with maybe even worse loss numbers if some of those sweeps were four-game series.

I remember when we had a team stacked with All Stars and Cy Young winners or candidates and going on West Coast swings and tallying 2–6 records and being inexplicably shut out for 25 innings straight. I just couldn’t understand why this was so hard.

Also, it was real touching when the rookie pitcher’s mom broke down crying, saying that her son was realizing his dream. It was very sweet. And she is not a “prototypical hot mom.” Which made it even sweeter and more vulnerable.