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I saw the game started without me and I was going to sarcastically ask “where are my two runs?“ And now we already have them. At least Tork and Riley struck out so now things are back in balance.

I just clicked on the mlb.com app and the pregame show came up and Daniella was giving the parlay odds or what not, and when the Tigers were doing well, I could suffer through this, but now I just want to ask “What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?“ I am in a really bad mood.

I think there’s a good chance this is on target. Was Verlander throwing as consistently hard as Skubal throws today 15-20 years ago? You can’t compare the stress on an arm back then with the stress received on an arm today. Assuming Skubal is going to produce at the elite level he has the last two years for another seven or eight years after this point is wishful thinking. He’s pretty much made it clear he’s going to the highest bidder. And the Tigers will not be in that echelon. I don’t think he’s the kind of guy who will make a home town deal. Does anybody even do that anymore?

A boot stomping on a human face forever. Roger Ebert had not yet passed away when he reviewed Battlefield Earth, and this is what he had to say about it: ”Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.” This recent stretch of the Tigers is a very bad bus trip.

I might not follow this game tonight. I might do something more hopeful instead like watching L. Ron Hubbard‘s Battlefield Earth that has a 3% Rotten Tomatoes rating. I understand John Travolta weighs 300 pounds, that burned-out cities have electricity, and hangars full of jets, buried under 1,000 years of dust, not only fire up instantly but still have full tanks of gas. I need some optimism in my life.

So Cleveland doesn’t do visiting teams the courtesy of an afternoon game on a travel day, unlike the Tigers, who seem to extend this courtesy to everyone. I would just like to get the suffering over early so I can find something else to worry about this evening.

I’m not angry. I’m not fed up, but I feel worn out. There are, honestly, greater things going on in this world than the fate of a ball club can make up for. To paraphrase Bogart‘s character from Casablanca: "Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of a baseball team doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.” I’m glad for the good that the team gave me this year regardless of how things turn out and I’m glad for the camaraderie we have here. And I guess that’s enough payback to make up for this hill of beans of a crazy world we live in.

Cleveland is changing pitchers with two outs to pitch to Dingler? The way this team is going they could send a position player out there and it wouldn’t make much difference.

This is getting tedious. All I do is check in on GameDay and it’s even tedious to do that. It’s like they’re cursed.

In his career against the Detroit Tigers, José Ramírez has a .306 batting average, 184 hits, 35 home runs, 128 RBIs, and 118 runs scored in 165 games, as reported by StatMuse. (I don’t know how up-to-date this is, but my guess is there’s truthiness to it).

Oh well….

It would be nice not to start the game with three easy outs.

Weather delay first pitch scheduled 7:15 PM

I wish MLB TV still had the option to just listen to crowd noise. I take this all way too seriously, and boosterism or lamentations are both what I’m not looking for at a time like this. I would just like to see the game and hear the crowd, even if it’s in an opposing ballpark.

According to the MLB app, there’s a delay.

I have a picture of Slick Nick Shady’s hat, superimposed over a blowup doll that Yoda assembled years ago somewhere I’m not sure if I can find out.

I wonder if the “Band of Brothers“ thing has faltered for some reason. In addition to that other teams have figured out how to pitch to the Tigers and much of the rest of the pitching staff has had issues. Oh well. I’m not for firing everybody selling off everybody or promoting everybody from AA because there’s no difference supposedly between AA and the majors.

Heck.

Bases loaded and we need the pre-All-Star game McKinstry to do something.

Wenceel Pérez doubles (17) on a line drive to right fielder Jhonkensy Noel. Zach McKinstry scores.

I’m glad the Tigers got that DP to end the inning. If Cleveland scored two or three runs in the first. I was going to go back and watch something more uplifting like “28 Year Later“ on Netflix.

Walking Ramirez is one of those things that gives me hope that I live in the sane world.

28 years later is on Netflix

DC’s new Superman is now on HBO Max