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Parker with a big smile in the dugout.

Parker earns his keep! Great belly slide catch.

Meadows would’ve caught that

Halfway there. But given the run drought I think I need more.

Yes

Ding Dong

Greene getting his 1.3 strikeouts per game out-of-the-way quickly.

Carp

He’s no Wenceel Perez when comes to a return….

When he was on that St. Louis broadcast, he just looked really uncomfortable with the role of an analyst. He might be more of a sidekick than an analyst and and that’s not to say anything bad about him, but he looked so uncomfortable. He looked like a guy that had just been given a circumcision without anesthetic Three days in a row.

Vastly worse. When you’re young and I was 19 at the time peripheral people will float into your friend circle and you just don’t know any better until you learn better.

We haven’t seen Todd Jones in the booth during the last three series. I’m curious as to what the rotation for Tigers Live actually is.

When Meadows gets hurt, he’ll be back there.

Other concerts that were really good was seeing big names in bars in Tucson, Arizona in the late 1970s. At a bar on 4th Avenue, which was Tucson’s counterculture street of the time, I saw both Tom Waits and the Talking Heads. And at another venue near the University of Arizona in a former church I saw Elvis Costello. During the Waits concert a guy who sat next to me started talking and Waits threw a drink at him, but it hit me in the face instead, and I can tell you for sure that there was gin in it. I knew Waits music pretty well because my alcoholic roommate who was getting a masters degree in History at the University of Arizona played his albums continuously. I went with another group of friends to see the Talking Heads about whom I knew nothing at all, and who I believe were on the cover of Rolling Stone that week but still not so famous that they were still performing at small venues. Everyone was going wild over them because they were all smart and I wasn’t and the music was completely over my head, which is good because I was introduced to something that I was unfamiliar with and in the end it expanded my horizons. The Elvis Costello concert was pretty good. We were sitting at a table right at the very front of the stage and he glared at me and my friends with contempt the whole time because I think that was just his thing, so I didn’t take it personally.

Best concert was spring of 1973 in San Francisco at Winterland featuring Captain Beefheart during the Clear Spot album era as the opener and John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, which then included Billy Cobham. You would think that these two vastly different groups would be completely incongruent, but they weren’t. It was an ecstatic concert perhaps given an edge by the fact that I was coming down from ingesting a legal hallucinogen purchased at a health food store on Haight-Ashbury, Hawaiian Rosewood seeds, and it’s not something I would ever recommend anyone do. It was just weird, the seeds not the concert. The worst concert was the summer of 1971 on the Boston Common during their summer concert series and it had nothing to do with the group I saw, which was the Allman Brothers when everybody in the band was still alive. I spent a month on Fort Hill in Roxbury and I went with some friends that included some sketchy guys. And the sketchiest guy threw a dozen barrels of Orange Sunshine LSD into a half bottle of Boone’s Farm without telling us and in about 30 minutes in things were really really weird and there was no way I could enjoy the concert. One of the guys with us somehow didn’t make it home and the next day he called from Northern Maine and said he’d hitched a ride with people that took him all the way up to Maine instead of back to where he lived on Fort Hill.

As of 4:26 PM the White Sox lineup is available but not Detroit’s. Looking forward to see if Meadows is in it.

I feel bad for JHM but there’s only spots for 13 position players. I don’t know how Parker Meadows will pan out this year. I have no idea if last year‘s performance was anomalous or indicative of his true abilities. What is certain is that his play will decide.

I have no idea what this all means or how they arrived at this. I have no idea of how they quantify “power“ and all I see are results, but nobody is “showing their work” like in math class. Maybe I’m just too much of a moran make the proper inferences and fill in the work my own. I am not “Mike Myers, your company’s computer guy.” I wish somebody would just sit down and push me out of the way and make sense of this and laugh at me. At least I’d learn something.

It’s a city of broad shoulders and a hell of a town. I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit when I’ve been there.

Right now, the weather app on my iPhone leads me to believe that three games will be rained out but the one on my Yahoo app which is more reliable implies that we get the first three games in, but the fourth game is sort of dicey.

By the way, I altered this photo putting the cap on him and his son as well as a tattoo on his arm and I don’t want anyone blaming AI for this. I take full blame.

Wow, I had to look that up because like I said I was traveling and pretty disconnected and doing other pretty thrilling stuff and not paying attention to things like that in 1985. That had to be a real gut-slammer to Cardinals fans.

It was just uncanny how they couldn’t put wood on the ball solidly. I’m just not used to that. The art of pitching that makes putting wood on the ball solidly difficult is an unusual talent unevenly distributed. To see this talent showcased repeatedly it’s not something to take lightly. I’m still envious of how Kansas City has won two World Series since our team won their last. In October 1985, I was traveling through Europe and whenever you were in a bar in the Netherlands, the World Series with the Royals was on and people were watching it and it just amazed me. I didn’t realize how popular baseball was in Holland.

I’ve been looking forward to this stretch for quite a while. Especially when we were scoring a lot of runs. But now that we’re not, it may not be quite as much a slam dunk as I thought.