IdahoBert

Hitting a projectile thrown at high velocity with a stick over and over again, or throwing a projectile and making it do funny stuff to confuse or throw the guy with the stick off balance are two of the most sparsely distributed talents in the world. There are small number of people functioning on the planet at one time that can do that at the highest levels. It’s no surprise that guys wash out.

Tork hit something like 63 homers in 159 college and summer league games. Which is an awful lot. He even had a high BA and could walk. But a guy who’s playing first base in college isn’t much of an athlete overall. I don’t know if there were other more “complete players” available in the first round or not. But my non-expert take on it was that he had a good chance of being a one-dimensional guy, and that without an overall athleticism expressed in the ability to play a more demanding position he might not be up to the challenges he’d face. He may simply not have either the reflexes or the mentality to adjust when he’s being figured out. It’s a drag.

I came back from my walk in the foothills and a big Mexican meal and a couple beers so exhausted that I fell asleep after the first batter in the top of the ninth and just assumed we’d figure out how to lose. I should take more midday naps. The world’s a better place when I take a nap and wake up.

Never mind me I just don’t get a chance to troll that often.

Chafin has more W’s than Olson so he must be better! I’m about results!

Wong Gone.

Chafin got the W! That must mean he’s really good!

I don’t watch a lot on Apple TV, but I’ve really enjoyed the Foundation series and some of their nature programs and Richard Attenborough type stuff. I like the Godzilla TV show with Kurt Russell in it too

I’ll miss this game because I hike in the foothills with a friend on Sundays. Already re-watched “Godzilla Minus One” on Netflix and Critérium du Dauphiné on Peacock today and I hope when I open my phone at lunch we will have scored double digits because this happens on occasion.

No Tork.

Getting pretty deep into this game for three homers so it’s going to have to go into extra innings.

I’m calling it, and you heard it here first, Tork with 3 HRs and 7 RBIs in this game.

See you tomorrow

I’ve got my fedora turned inside out. It’s now a rally fedora.

I swear, “the green monster” is virtually the fifth horseman of the apocalypse.

I wish the Tigers would wear the old gray road jerseys from the 60s every now and then. It would make me extremely happy.

Glad that wasn’t one of those cheap home runs.

Wearing the usual road jerseys today, so we’re doomed.

Thanks for reminding me I’ve got that.

So be it. Reminds me of the opening of the Woodstock movie: It's been a long time comin' It's goin' to be a long time gone. Appears to be a long time, Yes, a long, long, log time Before the dawn.

I am not used to being around so much optimism. I might even be won over to optimism.

Now THIS is baseball:

It was a lot nicer to have an owner — however, complicated and inconsistent — who actually ended up caring about this team and who loved it instead of his children who see it as just another financial obligation, a mere business.

I just watched all three homers in replays on the TV and those were three classic monster homers. I hope they do this the whole series. Even Tork could hit a homer here, if he can figure out how not to strike out three or four times a game.