IdahoBert

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Sports/sources-twins-cut-minor-league-catcher-derek-bender/story?id=113650216 Twins cut minor league catcher Derek Bender for tipping pitches to Lakeland

Nobody can expect to sweep every series against even bad teams. Even bad teams are filled with the best professional athletes in this discipline in the world.

Down 3-2.

That’s not fair. Colorado sending in a guy who’s throwing 100 miles an hour?

Pitcher wins are fascist.

It’s always a mistake when I go on a Tigers-oriented Facebook page and read the blathering idiocy of ordinary fans. It makes me appreciate this place even though we are Morans. Two or three months ago, scores of ordinary fans on a Facebook Tigers page were venting their rage at Verlander claiming that he had left the team in free agency for more money and they could never forgive him. There were so many of them almost no one could be heard over their grunts that simulated reasoned discourse Just now it was white hot rage at the Jack Flaherty trade that anyone with brain tissue knew was inevitable. Even though we are fewer than we once were, I’m glad the few of us who remain are still together.

It’s a win, and ugly or not, it’s a win and I’ll take it.

Hope Mize doesn’t give it all back.

Home Run Trey Sweeney homers (4) on a fly ball to right field. Spencer Torkelson scores. Jace Jung scores.

3-0 w a buncha stuff happening.

Riley Greene homers (21) on a fly ball to right center field.

Mize struck out the first guy without barely being in the strike zone. I guess whatever works.

Trump campaign after “debate.”

It was a very enjoyable game, even though I only glanced at on AtBat as I was hanging out with friends up in the mountains of Central Idaho where debris is raining down from smoky skies and we’re surrounded by fires. Had a great dinner during most of the game. Glad we won and Montero had such a good game. Looking forward to tomorrow night and Thursday afternoon’s game.

Why has she done so little as vice president? He really thinks we’re stupid.

Loathsome

TIGERS WIN

Nice beginning.

I’m really bored by all this talk about 50/50 or 63 home runs. Baseball is most real at the ground zero of an actual game. It’s really quite beautiful, and it doesn’t need to be fussed up by headline grabbing PR statistical fetishism. Granted, if one of my own players were in the mix for this I’d probably care, but they’re not. Also, it’s a celebration of the good times being had by the “haves” and as a team that is a “have not” I’ll admit it rubs me the wrong way. As it is, heading into Sunday’s game, Judge had no homers and a .175 average over his last 11. On Sunday, he got a single. i’m not gloating, but I take some small pleasure in this. I’m not against either of these players, far from it. They are great, actually historically great, athletes. I just don’t like it when the texture of the game itself is overlooked and reduced to showy stuff like this. It’s like overlooking Cinderella when she’s in work clothes and only paying attention to her in a ball gown.