IdahoBert

If the Tigers don’t make it to the World Series I would rather see a team like Cleveland or Milwaukee from “flyover” territory beat the big money teams that assemble teams recruited like mercenary armies sent to invade small countries.

I lived in Tucson from 1974 to 1987 and the Indians had spring training there at the time for something like 50 years in a row and I went to a lot of spring training games and I don’t remember ever meeting a single person in the entire city who would self identify as a Cleveland fan. They were basically a profoundly frustrating team that made virtually no impression on the local population, which I don’t think is the case for Lakeland which is, however, a much smaller place.

Whatever they were doing that gave them an inexplicable momentum has been erased.

Standard operating procedure.

Maybe playing the odds with every at bat - which is a make do thing born from expediency - is a scotch tape and paper clip thing that isn’t infinitely sustainable, especially when the guys you really rely upon falter and teams have figured out how to pitch to them. Add to that relievers who are really failed starters also get figured out.

A part of me just wants this season to get over and done with so I can invest my time in worrying about things I can actually affect like the state of the world and the limitations of human mortality. <ducks>

I was really hoping for a three run home run that was 310 feet away from home down the line.

Loss

“It is what it is…”

Did he just swing it to pitch 3 feet out of the strike zone? Hell I could do that.

Paddack at over 100 pitches they’re getting what they want from him.

Paddack being himself was bound to happen.

Guardians have loaded the bases in the bottom of the third with no outs they are trailing 4–2

Wish Jake could’ve kept the line moving.

Javy Waevers!

Bojorquez punts 39 yards to DET 35, Center-R.Sunahara. K.Raymond for 65 yards, TOUCHDOWN. DET-J.Saylors was injured during the play.

Yoshida HR

Let’s hope Paddack can be as good as the kid called up from AAA.

He put them down easily.

And it just feels like the guys have had some tremendously bad luck with BABIP.

They need to beat up on this guy brought up from Woostah big time.

Although batting average doesn’t say everything - obviously - what it does say is that in the last 15 games Riley has batted .161 and in the last seven games, Torkelson has batted .185. Neither one of them are connecting bat to ball much. Can’t say that their absence from the lineup will hurt too much and they might be called upon to pinch hit.

Tork and Riley sitting.

I guess I won’t get to watch any Lions games out in Idaho this year that are on Fox because they’re all require some Sunday ticket thing. I guess Peacock, ESPN ABC, which is the same thing or CBS Paramount will be my only chances.

Thank you everyone for answering my question.