IdahoBert

Just in general, for the upcoming series with the Phillies, their starting pitchers are total studs by ordinary standards. None of them has missed a start. All of them have pitched a lot of innings by today’s standards, all of them have sub 3.00 ERA’s and all have won 9 games, sticking around long enough - which is a good thing - to actually win and have a lead provided by their hitting. Compared to them —aside from our Cy Young guy — our starters are on again off again guys and recent arrivals with one good game under their belts instead of 23 each in comparison to the Phillies. And Philadelphia is astoundingly good at Home 33–19.

I guess we have about 12 hours left, but I’m starting to feel like we’re the poor kid in Polar Express who lives on the wrong side of the tracks for whom Christmas just never works out. I don’t want to mortgage the future for momentary gain. And there’s something to be said for “pulling yourself up by your boot straps“ but I don’t think that kid even had straps on his boots.

Montero‘s last decent season was three years ago with the Astros and after that season he signed a three-year contract for $11.5 million a year. He’s a rental. Do they see something in him they can “fix?“

All the playful d*ck pic ads on MLB.tv broadcasts have made it harder to squeeze a response out of me.

I hope so. Just having guys that are not on the DL and are serviceable would be nice.

I don’t know much about this stuff, but the MLB site is leading me to believe that all the “good“ relievers are being snapped up quickly. I don’t know how much of this is real or smoke mirrors. I hope the Tigers do something good. The guy who pitched today Paddack was good. I hope he can keep it up but one of the reasons he was available is that he hasn’t been able to keep it up so I guess we’ll see.

That’s why I may go back to it, but my Internet connection has been crashing all day and I’ve kind of given up for a while.

The firestick enthusiastically pitched War of the Worlds: Revival to me, a 1:32 film starring Ice Cube as a top government security officer and Eva Longoria. It premiered today on Prime July 30. I watched the first 30 minutes and it’s basically Ice Cube who heads up the entire US security apparatus looking at 6 to 8 windows that are up simultaneously on his computer screen as the world is being attacked by giant machines. It’s honestly kind of disorienting and there’s a lot of times where you’re playing like a first person shooter in a video game. Luckily his son is an avid professional gamer and has figured out the whole end of the world invasion thing which is the way these things usually work. His daughter has also figured out how to heal humanity of all illness or something like that so the stakes are pretty high. It’s a pretty gifted family. The handful of reviews that are out are scathing and apparently the film is so bad they decided not to distribute it to theaters. I might finish watching it and I might not.

This is one of the more gratifying things I’ve been confronted with in a long time. It’s nice to see that we’re just not living in a dream world where we merely think the Tigers are doing something special. They’re walking the walk as well as talking the talk.

There’s a big difference between what can be accomplished in the Motor City and in the land of Norwegian bachelor farmers where everyone is merely “above average.”

Javy just looks like he’s been in centerfield his whole life.

They should put a dunce cap on them, make them wear a diaper, and put them on the scoreboard when they lead them out of the stadium.

Zach and the Arizona pitcher are both Fort Wayne natives

Hanifee with a precise, easy 7th. Then Carp leads off with a walk and Riley singles

Does this mean Todd Jones sleeps with the fishes?

Javy makes it look easy.

I bet it was a football fan who knows nothing about baseball who interfered with the ball on the field.

Got my Se7en runs!

Jake bomb

Wenceel doubles and Zach doubles him in. 5-1

People are starting to talk football. On a baseball game….

Paddack done for the day. High 5s everywhere.