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Vlad Junior Homer’s oh my God

If the Blue Jays get out to an early lead, I’ll watch this game… Oh my God Davis Schneider homers (1) on a fly ball to left field.

I am looking forward to the off-season for the Detroit Tigers through the double vision of an elated child on Christmas morning, and of an adult who wants to see his enemies guillotined. If I can experience a little of both as soon as possible, I will be rejoicing.

Toronto for very specific reasons I am keeping to myself.

When I saw him play for the Boise Hawks when he was 17 years old in the NWL - and everyone else on the field was at least four years older - as I recall, he was playing shortstop and over the years with everyone I had ever watched play in the NWL you held your breath when the shortstop went deep and threw to first because it was usually an iffy proposition and he threw right on the button back then. But I think you’re right and he probably knows his limitations better than the rest of us which is why he doesn’t want to be tested at third base.

This is pretty dramatic stuff going on.

Never in doubt.

Bottom of the ninth coming up for the Dodgers with the score still 6-1 BJ’s.

When I watched the Freddie Freeman in the 18th it looked like almost nobody had left.

Six runs? I must be dreaming, but somehow that seems familiar…

I hope no one took small children to that 18 inning game last night. Good Lord, that would’ve been torture for the kids and what the kids did to the parents by squirming and being bored.

I just watched the Freddie Freeman at bat and in defense of Dodgers fans, there was hardly an empty seat in that ballpark and those fans stuck it out to the very end. Good for them. They represented themselves well.

This only matters if you live in the west can go to an In-N-Out Burger, but I discovered today that although they technically open at 10:30 AM, if you walk in the door at 10 AM, they will serve you. There’s nobody there and there’s no wait. Small victories in a bad world.

Did the stands begin to empty when it got into extras? I know Dodgers fans take a lot of heat for leaving before a game is over - or at least they used to - but the traffic is really bad so I cut them some slack for this.

**** this game recap!

The first game I ever attended was a 1963 Sunday doubleheader at Comiskey Park with my dad and a bunch of other kids and their dad‘s through the Elks Club and it was the White Sox versus the Yankees and Sunday Charlie - by then with the White Sox - hit a home run in each game. Neither Mantle nor Maris did anything I remember other than put on a show during batting practice and I would remember because they were pretty big deal then and I was paying pretty close attention. I don’t remember who won because I didn’t care because it wasn’t the Tigers.

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think 18 inning games are a good idea. I think the return on investment and the possibility of injury incurred is a transgression of Puritan economic thrift and modesty. For this transgression I will gladly stitch a scarlet “A” for “ass hat” made of fine red cloth, and surrounded with an elaborate embroidery of gold thread on to my somber, coarse gray 1968 block lettered Detroit Tiger road jersey to emphasize my bold and defiant nature. Grrr…

Good God it’s 2 AM for you poor bastards in the eastern time zone. It’s only midnight for me. Ha!

For my next great prediction, the Vulcans are going to land, give us warp drive, and solve all our social ethical and economic problems.

Looks like I might be getting what I wanted, but I didn’t really want it. I should’ve hoped for Uma Thurman or something instead.

It would be interesting if this game went 16 or 17 innings and ended in some fluke play that was the equivalent of two winos fighting over a bottle of ripple in an alleyway. But I’m not really hoping for that. I don’t wish that upon either of these clubs. But it would be quite a spectacle.

It’s really neat how the Blue Jays can score runs and not strike out 17 times and just shrug it off.

Alejandro Kirk homers (5) on a fly ball to center field. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. scores. Bo Bichette scores. Can I care? Yes. Carefully though.