IdahoBert

Air quality at game time in Detroit is 150 which is bad enough for me to notice it. 10 years ago, 200 would’ve been nothing to me, but that’s not the case anymore.

Too bad Apple TV isn’t making them wear the home uniforms with the old D

So Apple TV gets to cancel City Connects? Now that’s power.

My son pays for Apple TV, so I don’t care how much it costs. I’m fine with an occasional Tigers game on Apple. About the only thing I’ve watched on Apple TV is the first two seasons of the Asimov Foundation series - the third season starts in July - some nature programs and a Godzilla series that was pretty decent. I’ve been advised repeatedly that Slow Horses is fantastic. It probably is I just don’t know how much of my life I want commit to it. Same thing about Severance. It’s not like I have to be cured of a naïve and slavish love affair with corporate America.

At least we’ve never worn pajama shorts like the White Sox

Nice. SRO only.

“Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.” — Sun Tzu Of course, this is easier said than done.

In Southeast Idaho where I live, between our own fires and the fires in Canada last year we had days of 300–400 air quality alerts and being old really bothered me. A few hours north of here in Spokane Washington they had readings of 500 which is as high as it goes.

I was wondering why the air quality in Chicago last weekend was unhealthy even though it was raining and is unhealthy in Detroit right now even though it’s drizzling when usually rain improves the air, but I forgot about the Canadian fires. In Idaho, where I live we’ve been tortured by Canadian fire smoke for the last couple years, but those fires were directly north of us, and I guess the fires in Canada right now are more located further to the east.

I sure hope we don’t have to witness Tigers hitters being confused and stymied by a Cubs pitcher with a 5.72 ERA. I also hope the squirrel returns.

And they’ll be wearing City Connects too…

Ordinarily, I would be OK splitting a series on the road, but against this opponent three wins certainly seemed more than possible. But they’re a better club than their record indicates and the Tigers didn’t play as well as they could have. Each team pretty much got what they deserved out of this series.

The 13 run outburst of that first game right now feels like it happened 50 years ago and it’s a distant memory I’m talking about with my grandchildren.

Well, it’s gonna take more than one more run for us to win this game now.

You know this is kind of inevitable. There’s a ton of data out there and we’re deep enough into the season and all sorts of scouting of the Tigers has occurred by now, and teams are figuring out what the Tigers are doing and how to respond to that.

This would be a good time for Torkelson to stop sucking.

I think a guy like Joe Pesci came up to him in the dugout and told him if he didn’t shape up, he would be sleeping with the fishes in concrete shoes beneath the Ambassador Bridge along with Jimmy Hoffa.

Now that was a good inning. Six pitches.

A tidy 64 pitches to get through two innings. Now in the next two frames Mize just needs to hit the first two batters on the first pitch to the plate and get two triple plays, and he’ll be right about where he needs to be, 70 pitches in 4 innings

I just noticed there’s no Riley today.

To be fair, Johnny and Daniella are neither former ball players or necessarily astute analysts and for the pregame to have any weight they’ve had to bring Bobby into the mix. Maybe it’s just a getaway day thing. I have no idea. I was just surprised.

So, let me guess to save money FanDuel doesn’t have the pregame show and Johnny and Daniella have to drive back to Detroit in a cheap rental to save money on airfare.

So is this game not a 2:10 PM start time?