Know if these guys that we prize so highly in the minors — and everybody else prizes so highly — get up here and struggle like Jung or Keith did initially, I’ll be really pissed off.
I don’t know how much tension and unfulfillment I can take. The last few days I’ve been watching the Diana Rigg era of the two seasons she was on the Avengers and while that’s tense it’s very fulfilling, which is better than the tigers lately.
Zach McKinstry has really stopped being the guy we got used to earlier in the year. His last 30 games have been pretty bad and in his last seven games he’s 0 for 16. I haven’t watched a lot of games closely during the bad stretch so I don’t know if he’s making up for any of this in the field.
It’s a very bad stretch. In the last 7 games, the Tigers have been out scored 17–37. And have a 1-6 record. Maybe they’re due for an upturn. I sure hope so.
When I saw that we were already onto the second page of a game that’s five hours away I was worried that something catastrophic happened or that something good happened like the whole Cleveland team had been banned for betting.
I don’t know how to wrap my mind around this. All I can assume is that there’s enough data out there and enough scouting that whatever the Tigers were doing earlier in the year isn’t working now and corrections have to be made. I hope they can make them.
I learned the sad fade of my relationship to gravity when I was at the local science museum years ago, and even wearing shoes, the laser - and I am told that lasers cannot lie - told me I’d lost an inch.
I’m trying to multitask and follow this game as I rewatch the 1960s Avengers season four with Diana Rigg as Mrs. Peel - and yeah, she’s wearing head to toe black leather in the forest on a hot day- and GameDay simply will not work and that’s the best way for me to multitask.
Ramirez looked like he had a decent swing, but he popped up in the first.
I hope Casey can keep his ERA under 4.00. When offense was struggling in the later 60s being under 3.00 was a big deal but these days being under 4.00 means you’re functioning decently I guess.