I couldn’t find any statistics for that Reds phenom first round draft choice Burns. I wonder if they just had him doing training or simulated games. He looked pretty good last night against the white caps for four innings.
Malloy — at least according to the box score because I’m not watching this game or paying close attention in general — appears to be playing like a AAAA player again. Of course he might be taking called third strikes that are really balls and the ump is an idiot.
They should put cardboard cut outs in there like they did for televised games during Covid, or maybe they could get a series of those crash test dummies, a gaggle of Busters, like MythBusters used to have.
I’ve heard them before, but usually they don’t seem to go on quite as long as this one did, but I might be impatient and just wanted to hear about baseball.
Was listening to the “pregame” in the car and it was mostly a chat with a Blue Cross guy whose message was “hey we’re the good guys don’t shoot us in the back.” I kept muting it in the car thinking when I came back it would be over and the darn thing must’ve lasted 10 minutes.
I had a Sporting News stat book of all-time great players when I was a kid and I was amazed that Joe DiMaggio played 186 games one year in the PCL and another year 172. Of course the PCL had the milder West Coast climate in its favor.