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I remember in the early 60s listening to Ernie announcing from LA late at night on my transistor radio and how he loved pronouncing the the name of the Angels pitcher Bo Belinsky and I marveled at the fact there was another team out there other than the Giants and Dodgers. At the time I wasn’t aware there was an American League team out there.

I never got around to posting this photo.

I do wish ill for the Phillies though. Almost enough to root for the Dodgers, but I wish both teams could lose.

HA! well, I guess it’s 5:30 in the morning and I’m delusional. I’m celebrating prematurely after four hours sleep. I guess I’m guilty of wish fulfillment.

I’m glad the Mets didn’t make it anywhere. The Mets went 38-55 from June 13 onward, and finished 7-14 in their final 21 games. $765 million to Soto and and barely a .500 team. Neither did the Phillies. No Houston no Rangers. My cup runneth over. I guess dancing on the graves of other teams and their fan bases is a bad thing to do but the fact that my team is moving on does bring me joy, even a kind of malevolent joy.

I didn’t feel all that bad for the fans. I don’t dislike them personally, but I didn’t feel all that bad for the fans. I found their joy annoying, which may not reflect well upon me. But I actually felt bad for the Cleveland players who’ve been flying so high they should all have nosebleeds. They played magic baseball for the last month of the season and they overcame a lot of adversity. But it’s a zero sum game. I’m much happier my team won than their’s did. I am so relieved. They finally put together a good game.

I think this is correct.

Granted, but compared to some clubs that’s a small sample.

After it became available on mlb.tv, I revisited the Tigers seventh inning and the Guardians ninth and those guys in the Cleveland dugout were a sad looking crew. As were their fans. I’m amazed that for the deciding game of this series Cleveland still couldn’t get a sell out. A part of me still feels like I’m dreaming. Short of a collapse it looks like the Yankees are cruising to win.

I’m toying with watching the Yankees - Red Sox elimination game, but I don’t know if I can weather fawning celebration of these two teams on ESPN.

Looks like Skubal won’t be able to pitch against Seattle until game three in Detroit. It’ll be like his last time, pitching on the sixth day. Too bad he’s not like Mickey Lolich who pitched game 5 in Detroit in the ‘68 series and on the third day game 7 in St. Louis.

I feel like a lot of the seeming toxins that accumulated in me towards the end of the season have been flushed out. I’m re-achieving an equanimity that’s been lacking and it’s a relief. Honestly, there’s been times where I felt like there was broken glass in my bloodstream. I obviously take this stuff too seriously.

Tigers presser on now.

A lot of respect for Cleveland and the moxie it took to come back from the scandal of two pitchers taken from them for gambling, and being so far back, it was the good feeling story of 2025 just as the Tigers were last year. But their loss is our gain, and I’m not shedding too many tears for them.

On MLB.TV and Cleveland is up and going right now, but the Tigers are so busy celebrating. They haven’t had theirs yet.

I guess the Tigers are too busy celebrating their post game interview is not up and going yet.

Steven Vogt getting choked up talking about his team.

MLB TV will be showing the Tigers press conference in the next few minutes. They have the title card up right now but the press conference at hell itself hasn’t started yet. i’d love to see the locker room celebration.

I actually don’t care what happens after this. This is so sweet, anything after this is gravy. It would be great to keep moving on, but I’m just savoring this right now. Beating Cleveland, the team that beat us 16 times one year or whatever? Damn this makes me happy.

Two outs

We just need clean inning and it begins with nobody on base.

All they have to do is allow no more than two runs in the bottom of the 9th. That’s not so hard. That’s not asking for too much. It’s not like I’m asking for a DeLorean and time travel or anything.

Oh, no, stop this immediately.

I have figured it out. I am only following this on game day while watching the remastered Star Trek original series. I think this is the magic elixir. I’m not allowing myself to be disturbed by national announcers.