IdahoBert

It’s irksome - though to be expected - that no MLB team is a pushover. Looking at a schedule and relishing facing a certain opponent is usually a fool’s errand. I wish I would stop falling for this assumption. All teams are a pit of snakes out of an Indiana Jones movie. I thought if any team would be a pushover it would be the Twins who by expectations should be in a hospital room right next to the morgue but and this is not the case. We’re going to be facing a lot of AL Central Division opponents in the near future who are no longer treading water to the degree they were a few weeks ago. We’re headed into a decisive stretch.

This is a reasonable observation, so thank you. I have an unhealthy investment in this team, and I need to be reminded of the value of approaching things rationally on occasion. Too often I crawl out on the ledge and threaten to jump when I should really just chill and see what happens the next day. The Tigers have every possibility of winning this series tomorrow. And winning series at home is the sine qua non of methodical success, which is what I should be looking for in the long run and not just cheap immediate boo-yah thrills. I was, however, primed for boo-yah thrills today. At least tomorrow’s game is a day game and I don’t have to wait too long for a sense of closure on this series.

At least someone got six runs.

Sister Boniface is actually fun, set in the early 60s and not excoriating suspenseful yet intriguing. Some of the major series on BritBox are now on HBO Max.

The last of us is quite fantastic. I watched my son play through both the first and the second games.

If this game doesn’t improve quickly, I may be forced to watch Sister Boniface on BritBox. I’m not sure however if that will be an improvement.

So the Twins are well-acquainted with Paddack’s deficiencies? Impossible!

My Internet just crashed to spare me the suffering of experiencing what just occurred live. So something positive did come out of this. it’s not an MLB problem for me just coincidental.

Through some terrible error on mlb.tv I was just now forced mistakenly to watch a Rally House ad for the Texas Rangers.

They made Paddack eat a Little Ceasar’s pizza? I’d prefer Vietnamese Cha Gio with a light spicy sauce. “When in Rome do as the Romans do” as St. Augustine is alleged to have said…

Keith 3B Vierling CF Carpenter DH Torkelson 1B Pérez, W RF Jones, Jah LF McKinstry 2B Báez, J SS Rogers C

Riley day off

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As I think Lou Brock said or as I recall him being quoted as saying “in the end this game humbles everyone.“

It did kind of happen in the mid-1980s for the Tigers, but the hopes that this would be something that would last 10 years or so doesn’t seem possible, especially under the conditions of today of rampant inequality in what some teams can afford to spend and what other teams can’t.

Somehow someway these perfect teams full of homegrown superstars that played their way into the majors and stuck together for years as a band of brothers never really happens.

Wow, I completely missed that era for the most part. I was in my early 20s, 2000 miles from local Detroit media, baseball was just a distant memory of childhood and something I’d left behind, and I hadn’t looked at the sporting news for years and spent every weekend hiking with friends in the mountains and deserts of Southern Arizona. I did go to a few AAA games in Tucson at that time and I remember in 1975 wearing my Tiger‘s cap at a game and people walked up to me and honestly offered their condolences, one baseball fan to another.

I’m just happy that with the newfound intimacy established between MLB and NASCAR, the case has been made for baseball to be mentioned in the same breath with all the real sports like professional wrestling, wet T-shirt night, and dwarf tossing.

The Tigers like announcers that are amiable and don’t appear too stuffy. I’ve watched other teams broadcasts, and some of them have announcers that seem kind of uptight and officious wearing crisp suits and affecting a kind of propriety that seems archaic and alienating to a younger generation. The Tigers are going in a different direction. God knows the ads on mlb.tv are trying hard not to be too officious where they’re constantly making jokes about d*ck pics. Apparently every woman on earth would never date a man unless she saw a picture of his junk in advance. I think it’s conceivable this might be an overstatement of the actual state of affairs.

Yeah. I like Daniella though. She fulfills her role quite well.

Guardians won the game but too bad so sad for us. We can’t expect other teams to do the heavy lifting for us.

Tied going to extras

Ha! Thanks man! “My name in print!”