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Jake Rogers homers (2) on a fly ball to center field. Parker Meadows scores. Javier Báez scores.

Pirates challenged (tag play), call on the field was overturned: Zach McKinstry flies into a double play. So we didn’t get a run.

Apparently, yes, they didn’t change it very quickly in the box score but they have since. That’s why I was scratching my head.

We got our run!

Mize at 71 pitches and the third inning isn’t even over.

Mize got charged with an earned run when Tork fell asleep and didn’t even imagine Cruz trying to score.

I think I know what the Tigers are doing. They’re trying to take us to the very precipice of despair so that after the trade deadline when they win 70% of their remaining games they’ll totally knock our socks off.

Lucky squib hit that results in bases loaded

Jake not tricking CB tonight.

That was a good up close shot of the cup readjustment just then

I thought the pirates couldn’t hit

Striking out on that sweeper was sort of predictable.

Javy strides to the plate..,,

Tork was not much of a speedster on that double.

Thank you CB Bucknor for doing your job.

Javy with a cold blooded throw to home for the second out

CB Bucknor HP

Pirates get a lead off single so the no hitter nonsense is off the board for both teams

The Tigers were swinging early toward the end of that first inning at least Riley didn’t strike out. And there was no one on first and there was already two out so at least it didn’t result in a double play.

Every team in the Central for the last 10 games has been playing either .500 or better. Except for our team.

I remember back in the good old days earlier in this season when we were a team incapable of losing any more than three games in a row and I got to post stuff about six runs frequently. Ahhh, those were the days.

Remember listening to the first Black Sabbath album in the fall of 1970 when I was a freshman at Purdue. It was a room filled with black light posters, and we put wet towels under the door, so whatever smoke we produced no one would know, and it couldn’t waft into the hallway. The first season of their TV show was really great, spontaneous, hilarious. The second season was less spontaneous because now they knew what they had been doing, and they minded their P’s and Q’s and it was nowhere near as much fun. His wife was clearly the genius behind the whole thing. My favorite quote from the first year of the series was when his wife suggested doing a light show filled with bubbles on stage, and he said “I am Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of <blanking> darkness, and I do not do bubbles!“ Well the long and the short of it is that they did do bubbles and it was amazing.

Glad we dodged the bullet on JV even though I still love him. Hope his name ends up on the wall, even if he enters the Hall of Fame without a D or any other insignia on his cap.

I am struggling a little bit with Foundation S-3 on Apple based upon the Isaac Asimov trilogy (which was originally short stories later stitched together into book form). I have absolutely loved the first two seasons. I don’t really have a problem with the series as much as I do with Asimov’s source material itself. I’m not giving much away here, but in S-3 there’s an ultra-powerful character called “The Mule” with amazing powers of psi-based mind control allowing him to bedazzle entire planets and armies. This is the first time in 20+ episodes where I have felt bored. For me this is just a lazy way that atheist intellectuals account for the unaccountable in human existence and come up with a cheap substitute for what has since time immemorial been seen as “the divine.” This lazy slant on things is seen in the way the once-popular fraud Uri Geller was lionized in the ‘60s while every stage magician of any worth knew what he was doing and could replicate his cheap tricks. Deterministic scientism is pretty boring so you have to come up with a way of accounting for the unaccountable that can be reduced to deterministic scientism, in other words “the mule.“ The fact that Asimov could fall for this if only as a literary device is kind of disheartening. Maybe he was just having fun and was trying to get a paycheck when he wrote these stories and it was the kind of thing that was in the air at the time. But now it just seems lame.