IdahoBert

I might be home in time to see that.

I don’t know if the guy sat there the whole time going “please, please please please please somebody notice it.” I’m pretty sure he wore it when he was with clients because it would be a good way of impressing the crap out of people.

This is a really good post. To be brutally honest about most modern athletes, we can project all sorts of positive qualities on to them we want and get all Ken Burnsie about them, but at the end of the day they’re just jocks, full stop. They’re not 300 Spartans defending Greece or honoring Zeus on some hyper-real pasture in the Olympics 2700 years ago. They are good at some highly specialized physical activity that is only meaningful in a limited number of venues. Otherwise, they are just guys. But here they are feted gods, and they don’t like being told what to do. They are used to being treated like really, really, big deals. They may well have been treated this way since they were children because they had some unusual athletic gift. AJ manages them like a tactician. They want to be big shots, not cogs in a machine. But they do like to win, and we like watching them win. I remember sitting on an airplane next to some boring guy many years ago and just before we landed I noticed he had a ring on his finger the size of an old style flash cube on an Instamatic camera and it was a World Series ring and he had been on the 1978 Yankees as a role player of some sort. I could’ve been talking to him the whole time and I wasn’t because in fact, now, he was just another real estate agent. In Mesa AZ. Not a god. Staking a whole lot on what these guys think might not be the best thing to do. Just like money, winning changes everything, and the Tigers are winning, and Hinch is a really big part of it.

4HRs 2nite

This is a painful ninth inning in a game that is already over. Thanks for nothing Brebbia.

11-2

Javy swings at a ball way out of the strike zone and gets a double

A girl who will go with you to a baseball game in the rain and sit through it the whole way is golden.

We are collectively manifesting goodness in the universe. 😉

I’m sorry forgive me

Torres 2nd HR. OPPO TACO

I’m glad we’re winning, but it’s too bad Chase Lee can’t get a win out of this game.

3 run double for Riley

Don’t strike out Riley

That might’ve been the longest dribbling I field single I’ve ever seen in my life.

4-2 SF Gleyber

Loaded no outs Torres up

Zach single moves Javy to 3rd

That may well be true. I read an article saying they weren’t selling single game tickets, but you really can’t believe anything on the Internet anymore.

I think Carp was having trouble with footing too.

They sell different packages but they’re not selling single game seats and the prices I’ve seen quoted her for the various packages between $10,000 and $20,000. But I haven’t paid very close attention because to me that might as well be like buying a ticket to go into space

I’ll accept a single.

A carp bomb sure would be nice