IdahoBert

Zack triple. Don’t waste this opportunity!

2 run homer for Cubs

Riley K. Greene

Man, things will boil over with this ump. That was another bad call. Jake must be doing a brilliant job of framing today.

That’s a disappointing 3rd inning. First batter gets on base and is erased in a double play and then Parker strikes out

Tram!

It would be nice to hit the ball where the Cubs are not standing or over the fence in this next inning, which I believe is a recipe for success.

These umpires are in a no win situation, and the ability to not be tricked by the catchers is an unevenly distributed skill. The home plate ump walking over to the Cubs dugout and telling them he will not take it from them is just indicative of this situation.

I know that technically this is not a particularly big deal but when our pitchers strike guys out, it’s a big deal because they’ve humiliated them; and when the average player strikes out 100 times a season and Riley does that more than twice as often we deserve to be frustrated, even though technically “it’s no big deal.“

After getting the first two outs, I wish they hadn’t said this is going just as planned now Suzuki homers.

There’s supposed to be a pregame show — which is usually meh — at 12:30 PM today. Of course there was no pregame show for the last game against the White Sox. I’m not exactly sure why. I wish I could go back and look at the FanDuel daily schedule for Thursday to see if one actually was scheduled and didn’t happen or was never intended to happen.

Yeah, I think that’s probably the case. Montero was always supposed to go five or six innings, hopefully, and if Holton can go a couple, that would be pretty good. The Cubs lineup could be pretty brutal to Montero if he’s not really sharp though. Guess we’ll just see.

Hopefully.

And to top it off, it’s another Parlty Cloudy day.

A day game and another bullpen day for us. But the Cubs have real starter going out there. I hope the team can figure out how to hit the ball and not just hit it directly at somebody today. I don’t feel like looking it up, but I think the BABIP has been really biting our boys lately.

So I guess Vierling “resuming baseball activities” means doing more than just sitting still and staring at the wall. No real game action. Then I presume another stint at Toledo. When I first became a fan as a kid, I don’t remember players getting injured so much. Of course, the wealth of information now and the expanded ability to hyper focus on a team thanks to the Internet means I know more about what’s going on. But I could look on the back of a baseball card or look up a player in the yearly Sporting News Baseball Register and starters routinely played 145 to 150 games or more year by year without interruption. Is the game more demanding or physical than it used to be? Or do I now just have more information to fret about?

In the early 60s when I became a Tigers fan, I felt an obligation to be a Lions fan because Detroit was the closest city with major league sports franchises, 150 miles away. But the Lions made it hard, and were not much fun to follow and since there was no social pressure where I lived to be a Lions fan I simply never became a fan of NFL football, period. It was Detroit all the way in everything or nothing at all because I was a kid and kids are absolutists. So here I am 60+ years later and finally caring about the Lions, without any of the intervening suffering, so I’m a bandwagon fan. But I definitely wish Lions well, especially because it means so much to so many of the people I like. I really enjoy when the Lions win, but the sting of their losing which I haven’t had to put up with much is not nearly so bad as when the Tigers lose.

Good, the White Sox can’t hurt anyone unless they hurt us directly.

I remember in 1961 I had a Sporting News baseball card that celebrated Mazeroski’s home run beating the Yankees in the 1960 World Series I was nine years old and I was happy as heck that the Yankees lost because my next-door neighbor rooted for the Yankees because they always won and I thought he was morally degraded for rooting for a team 650 miles away that could always be assured of victory but not in the 1960 World Series.

Win

Keeping up with the Joneses

I want four runs in this bottom of the 8th for obvious reasons.

Carp catch HR steal

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