IdahoBert

I didn’t realize that A.J. Hinch, George Lombard and Chris Fetter all have psychology degrees. I don’t know if that means anything on its own or what its practical utility may be. At best it means they have not only a natural curiosity but that they also have goals they thought psychology would help them achieve.

I almost bought a used copy of that but I’m actually wondering if this is something I want to relive in detail. it was painful. That was the year I coined the phrase “Where’s my six runs?” because there were such high hopes and every baseball publication chose the Tigers to win the World Series. Some thought the Tigers win score 1000 runs. But it was last place. Last place.

Same here. I wish the Rays luck, but I just can’t watch a team I’m not connected to. The only World Series I’ve watched with interest — other than when it’s the Tigers — was the 1975 Boston v Cincinnati. I was kind of pulling for Boston and I hated Pete Rose. That was enough to give me a reason to care. It’s been 46 years since anything other than my own team has been worth investing the time and emotional energy it takes. It’s like being set up by friends for a date with a woman in whom you’re uninterested and with whom you are utterly incompatible. “Oh, but you have to like her, she has a pulse.” No I don’t. I’m not proud of being only a Tiger fan instead of a baseball fan but that’s just the way it is. Honestly, baseball bores the piss out of me unless it’s my team. If I lived in a major league city I would probably find a way to get into the local team but I never have lived in such a city.

The Yankees vs. the Dodgers is about as appealing to me as a Ron Jeremy special on A&E Biography.

I’m going to relent in my childish resistance of supporting an American League team because they have all in one way or another hurt my precious feelings. At least the Tigers won the series against Tampa Bay and they’re a team with a low payroll that overachieves. The Tigers also handled the Astros well but I have a bad taste in my mouth about that. I love Sue but not enough to root for the Yankees. And the Red Sox can just bite me. I also have a close friend who grew up in Detroit who lives in Clearwater and even though he loves the Tigers he wants the Rays to win. If someone other than the Rays wins the AL I’ll have to think about it. But in reality I’ll probably ignore the whole thing as I usually do when I have no skin in the game.

If they’d won only 2 more each against CHI and CLE against whom they were terrible — 6-12 and 7-12 respectively — they’d have been .500. They were that close. But 77 is 31 more than 2019. Great season.

77 wins.

Raining and the Tigers score 2 in the top of the 9th.

I could normally care less about what happens in the off-season. It’s not like that this year. Also a win today would be meaningless but it sure would feel good.

I wonder how many of the guys on the roster for today’s game will be gone when the season opens next spring. I know the roster’s been expanded but I am expecting a number of guys to be gone.

If it were seven teams in each league Cincinnati and Philadelphia who are barely .500 would make it. Can’t see why they should be penalized though when a couple teams run away with it and everyone else is fairly competitive. I’m not all that wild about seven teams from each league but I am not all that much against it and it doesn’t matter what my feelings or opinions are anyway. With this new system if it’s implemented the Tigers could very well be in the playoffs next year.

I prefer my snarky interpretation of it.

Why does this game have such a weird start time? Oh yeah, this is America and football is OUR favorite show. GO LIONS!

Yes Yes Yes He wants to play and the Tigers can’t treat him like a burned out whore who isn’t pretty anymore. More confidence than is rational is a part of the psychological and emotional make up of every big-time athlete. The Tigers are a business that offered him a contract and he signed it. He plays until he physically breaks down or his contract is over. Period.

That was pretty disappointing.

Haase motors home in Daz’s double.

2-1 w/ Haase’s single.

Haase heroics would be nice

Whoa. Thought that was a home run for Robert.

The ump is really not giving those outside pitches that just nip the corner to the pitcher.

The Ump was doing Burr no favors calling strikes there. Grossman walks.

Those were some great home runs that we’re not.