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Of course Ramirez homered. If he could, he’d steal a base during a homer.

The Tigers can’t seem to hit anybody except the Yankees.

I don’t know how to wrap my mind around this. All I can assume is that there’s enough data out there and enough scouting that whatever the Tigers were doing earlier in the year isn’t working now and corrections have to be made. I hope they can make them.

Where’s my six runs?

I learned the sad fade of my relationship to gravity when I was at the local science museum years ago, and even wearing shoes, the laser - and I am told that lasers cannot lie - told me I’d lost an inch.

GameDay is working again, but Mrs. Peel is perhaps more interesting. Multitasking it is.

I am now relying on your updates because I can’t rely upon mlb.com

I’m trying to multitask and follow this game as I rewatch the 1960s Avengers season four with Diana Rigg as Mrs. Peel - and yeah, she’s wearing head to toe black leather in the forest on a hot day- and GameDay simply will not work and that’s the best way for me to multitask.

Guess you can’t expect a home plate umpire to be consistent. Tork is called out on strikes.

A SF or home run from Tork would be nice.

I think Jones was out at Second, but there was not enough convincing evidence unobscured by other players, to overturn the call.

Ramirez looked like he had a decent swing, but he popped up in the first. I hope Casey can keep his ERA under 4.00. When offense was struggling in the later 60s being under 3.00 was a big deal but these days being under 4.00 means you’re functioning decently I guess.

It’s a really wonderful drive. Never a dull moment.

One of my kids started going to college in Olympia, Washington in 2016 and this was right around the time when fully licensed cannabis shops could open. In nearby Lacey, Washington there was a main strip with countless cannabis stores. Four months later, 2/3 of them were closed. Only a fraction of the public is interested in being that high and having one of those shops is not automatically a license to print money. If you overproduce, you can’t ship it out of state so you’re stuck with it and the price plummets and stores close. And Olympia is pretty far away from a boundary with another state where it’s illegal.

My son tells me that in Oregon you can get a 28% THC hybrid of gloriously beautiful crystallized buds with an amazing bouquet for $60. 34% is a little bit more. The places that are right over the border and right off the interstate charge about twice as much, but if you’re willing to travel 5 mi. further out into the boonies, the price plummets because there is an enormous glut.

When I went to the doctor today for my yearly checkup, they said I had gained 3/4 of an inch in height. I’m 73 years old so it’s a little late for a growth spurt. My only explanation is that they made me back up against the wall and back my heels against the wall, and I was standing straighter than normal. So if your parents ever said something like “Stand up straight and stop slouching“ I think they might’ve been on to something.

The Yankees are the greatest sports franchise in world history. That’s why everyone hates them.

I’ll be totally fine if the Tigers go 7–5 in the last dozen games. But I’ll take whatever I get and I won’t throw a fit.

I don’t know if it matters if a team is charging into the playoffs on a roll with a head of steam, or if they back into the playoffs trying to hold onto what they have and making sure no one makes off with the family jewels. That’s why I will not lose a lot of sleep over this. The playoffs are their own animal and I don’t think Big Mo or a lack there of makes much difference. In a three or five game or seven game stretch anything can happen.

Yes, that probably is a factor in honing the mental acuity necessary to keep going.

Sometimes a baseball season feels like it’s 1000 years long. As a fan, it can feel that long. Personally, I’m starting to feel exhausted by it all. I can’t imagine how long it must feel to a ball player. These guys are a special breed. Keeping themselves fit and emotionally and psychologically balanced has got to be an ability unequally distributed among human beings. I know I certainly don’t possess it.

I’m glad this isn’t a WNBA game because there’s all sorts of children on the field right now.

Ha. Win

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