IdahoBert

What are rotten day for me to lose track of time take a midday nap because I am old and miss 10 runs being scored? and it’s the free game of the day on TV?

That’s good to hear, but I’m not jealous. I am seething with petty infantile anger. That’s worse than jealousy.

I keep feeling like Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath: fleeing to a land of white picket fences where we think we’ll be safe and when we get there, it ain’t what we expected. It feels like we’ve crossed the whole damn continent in the last few years and we still haven’t got to where we want to be. It’s galling to think how teams like Baltimore and KC have fallen so low then rebounded beyond us.

Anyone who pronounces “Merry, Marry, and Mary” differently probably pronounces “banana” as “bah-NAH-ah,” and wears a bow tie and a corduroy jacket with patches on the elbows. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

I am aware of a Northern Minnesota accent, but not a “Michigan accent.“ I grew up in Northeastern Indiana, and I’ve never noticed that anybody from Michigan speaks in a way that made me notice a difference from what I take to be standard Midwestern speak.

I really like Andy’s insights.

2-run Malloy heroics

Malloy>Tork

Malloy HR

Riley HR

Let’s at least keep it at seven runs for Washington so a walk off grand slam would win it.

Tigers in the mirror are closer than they appear! God, I love this!

We got our run for the game early today

Leadoff homer by Matt!

Whoa! I went to put cream in my coffee and by the time I came back and after only nine pitches, the first half of the first inning is over?

A rookie pitcher and they’ve never seen his stuff? Even Miggy and Prince in their prime couldn’t hit a guy like that when they were on the Tigers. A whole lineup of Tiger All-Stars would be flummoxed by that. Hopefully we will only face this future Sandy Koufax once.

I wish we played the White Sox 17 times a year like we used to. They suck. They would be easier to beat.

The MLB app on my phone is annoying because it’s always informing me about what better teams are doing to stock up for their pennant runs. I really miss the days when we ran with the big dogs and got used to walloping trades and free agent signings occurring. Not to disparage him, but hoping that Riley Greene can at least raise his batting average above .250 just isn’t the same. I’d always expected more. And getting excited about role players coming up and exceeding initial expectations just isn’t the same. It’s good but not the same. Damn.

Your money is no good here.

Gee I missed all that.

Kenta Maeda‘s no-no is still intact.

DP bails out Maeda.

Hard getting used to games starting, what, 25 minutes sooner than they used to…

I had no idea. I have spent the last 50 years in the Mountain West away from local Detroit radio and Detroit area newspapers and this is something I never picked up on. I don’t know if I would’ve learned this if I was still reading the Sporting News assiduously as I did when I was a kid, but I stopped doing that a long time ago.