IdahoBert

So the Tigers are going to spend eight days and seven nights in Chicago, first playing the Cubs and then the Sox. This will be almost like a home stand only on the road. Hoping they settle in on this off day, get dialed in, and play some memorable baseball in the city of broad shoulders.

I know. I’m not much of a football fan, but when I checked the box score I kept going “Who? Who? Who?“

Yeah, that headline kind of pissed me off. It’s like beating KC doesn’t mean anything because you know they’re like God and you can’t diss God. “You know, God lost this battle, but man he makes nice hummingbirds.”

I just can’t get over how nourishing, exciting, surprising, and hopeful these last dozen games have been. And after the trade deadline, these last dozen games have disrupted the narrative I expected to witness. And hey, I guess they could go into a collapse, but my philosophy is what I think the novelist Sherwood Anderson said “eat your ice cream before it melts.” This is really good ice cream. This is really enjoyable.

I love this so much, it’s one of the happiest things on the Internet I’ve ever witnessed. And the music is so catchy.

The Apple TV people seem pretty knowledgeable and I’ve actually seen the Tigers there more often this year than I’ve seen them as the “free game of the day“ on MLB TV.

So all I’m getting on the radio feed is canned ballpark noise in and the crowd and no ads and no Dan.

THANK YOU MARK!

Ha!

This is really really delightful, especially given the not very good day. I’ve been having.

Double Dutch bus time

WIN And now time for the after the game handshake.

OMG

Zach McKinstry “Whoa whoa what you gonna do about me?”

Jace Jung singles on a ground ball to left fielder Jasson Domínguez. Colt Keith scores.

I remember seeing Gleyber Torres with our NWL short season Cubs A team the Boise Hawks when he was 17 and he already looked like a polished veteran. He was breathtaking to watch in the field. As I followed his career I was amazed at the power he exhibited that was seemingly absent at 17. That stuff about power being the last thing to come around I guess is true.

Dan said on the radio broadcast that they weren’t getting any of that data either so it may be something this venue can’t provide or some genuine glitch.

AtBat on my phone is not telling me what kind of pitch was thrown. Oh well.

As someone already said, Galarraga is more famous for how his perfect game was handled than if it had been called correctly. Honestly, the only perfect game I actually remember is Don Larson’s in the World Series — I think I was only four years old, so this is a manufactured memory — and that’s probably because he was a Yankee and everybody’s in awe of the pinstripes. Everybody and his mother knows Galarraga pitched perfect game. And what’s more he handled the disappointment quite honorably.

That was absolutely my first thought, that I didn’t want Riley in the outfield under inclement conditions on a subpar field.

Since this is being played in a college summer league ballpark I’m making the assumption that the drainage system may not what major league ballparks are able to offer and what MLB players are used to. I hope nobody on either team wrenches a knee or anything tonight. Of course, since so many of our guys are young their memories of lesser ballparks may be more vivid and their muscle memory for dealing with them more pronounced.

If anybody here has relatives in Williamsport, we might want to get a driveway weather report from them. It’s raining.

I thought you were a numbers guy, but you’re also capable of street poetry.

Indeed.