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Tork was humbled on that called third strike and he knew it.

When I was visiting a friend in KC six years ago I was staying at a Holiday Inn, not far from the ballpark and I was the only person there who wasn’t there to go to the ball game and it was really cool. Couples, families with kids, everybody wearing jerseys everybody ebullient, “hey we’re going to a ball game!“ It was really great seeing the support the Royals get. All of these were people from out of town who had to drive a ways to get there.

Where’s my 16 runs?

Riley is hanging out with the pitchers? I thought the pitchers were like “you can’t sit with us bitch!”

Wrong… 😉

Dingler dinger

This could be a 10–9 game.

Carp catch.

Perez had a great swing on that ball. I’m glad it didn’t go out. Maybe too much of an uppercut though.

Man, the ball is really traveling

Before the game began, I was going to predict a home run fest given the weather, the humidity, etc. I’m still expecting that to happen. and Bobby Witt Junior, does it

When KC was making their run a few years ago, I really enjoyed the row of blonde Stepford Wives types that were lined up behind home plate. I thought Kansas City must be full of women like that, but when I visited there, that was not the case.

2 run shot.

Riley

I haven’t, but I’ll be looking for it.

Jason and Carlos tonight.

Parlay parlay parlay!!! “PornHub is now the official porn site of the FanDuel sports network!” It’s going to happen. It’s inevitable. It could make the pregame shows interesting though.

I am glad we are not facing the torture of a KC-Detroit FanDuel combo pregame show like we did with St. Louis.

I’ve got this memory of players jumping from AA to the big clubs with more frequency than now. AAA now seems pretty much only for real prospects, and that a career minor leaguer like Mike Hessman simply couldn’t happen now. Did there used to be guys in their late 20s hanging out in AAA in the hopes that somebody could get injured on the big club and they’d be called up for a month or two and get a real payday? What changed? I asked AI this question and got an answer, but I’d like to know what real people I respect think about this.

Dylan Smith is now officially on the Tigers 26 man roster

I guess this is the best we could help for.

Well, thank you very much Sally Sullen… 😉

It’s supposed to be 77° and sunny for this game tonight. That should be nice.

In case you’re one of those “well back in the day“ sort of persons there’s Nolan Ryan, who no one could ever accuse of not throwing hard. I don’t know if he threw every single pitch hard as he could, but anyway… “Nolan Ryan's pitch count in a game varied, but he was known for throwing a high number of pitches, especially in longer games. He famously threw 235 pitches in a 13-inning game against the Boston Red Sox on June 14, 1974, which is a record number of pitches in a single game. In 1989, at age 42, he averaged 127 pitches per game with a high of 164.”

All along, we were worried this would happen to Jobe. Oh well.