IdahoBert

So many of these guys just seemed to emerge from obscurity last year. Brenan Hanifee is one of them.

“A Freudian slip is when you’re thinking about one thing, but you say a mother.”

I would be so happy if Tork becomes something like Dave Kingman. Hit loads of homers, if not necessarily for average, and provide at least adequate defense and DH a lot. This is still just spring training, but it’s a lot more than merely nothing.

No one can ever say that this team doesn’t have class… 😗

Collectively, some of the mainstays of the bullpen allowed one run over 5.2 today. I don’t know much about the caliber of the Rays hitters that they sat down, but it was still nice to see the relief staff perform well.

Win

Oops. Vest serves up a homer.

Will Vest replaces Beau Brieske. The Tigers are serious about getting their relief staff in shape. Top of the 8th and they are not sending up an invitee to see what they got.

Nice for Beau Brieske to have such a clean 9 pitch inning with a k.

I had long hair for the first nine years I lived in the heat of Tucson, Arizona, and finally realized it was stupid to be tucking that hair up under a hat to keep it off my neck so I got a haircut and it’s been pretty much the same ever since. And the thing I noticed immediately is that when I went in a store, people no longer followed me around thinking I might shoplift. On occasion, people even called me “sir.“

It would be really huge if Tork could keep this up into the regular season. I pretty much gave up on him, and although I’m not exactly a credible observer, I am happy to be proven wrong.

The Rays sort of gave Faedo enough rope to hang himself in that inning. He walks the bases loaded and they keep him in there until he ends up allowing three runs.

2-run Tork single.

I’m following this on gameday and there are huge lags for seven or eight pitches where nothing happens and I keep hoping that perhaps a new version of Morganna the Kissing Bandit is occurring and then to my dismay I just realize that gameday is malfunctioning.

Baez recorded his first error.

Guess no one’s much interested in this game. It took Mize 70 pitches to make it through 3.1 scoreless one-hit innings with 3BBs and 4Ks. I’m not watching it. I was watching the A-Team on YouTube TV. Mindless corny fun.

I bow to you. Good obscure reference.

Thank you for doing all this work. It’s really helpful.

Enns started out rocky with a home run, a wild pitch, a hit batter and ended up pitching three solid innings. Nice to see Clark and McGonigle.

We’re reaching that point in the game where guys will who will make neither club are playing and they don’t even have pictures.

Thayron Liranzo doubles on a sharp line drive to center fielder Cody Milligan. Max Clark scores. Kevin McGonigle scores. The kids are alright!

Flaherty being stretched out into the fourth, but for today at least at bat is not tabulating the number of pitches made thus far.

Tigers load the bases in the top of the third with two hit batters and a walk, but can’t score. There was a raccoon incident, however.

Must Win!

I think the MLB feed has the audio feeds messed up. First of all when the kid was playing the national anthem on the guitar there was no sound and now when you click on the TV feed, there’s no crowd noise and the announcers are describing the uniforms they’re wearing as if they were on the radio, but when you click on the radio feed, there’s crowd noise in the background so it’s kind of strange