IdahoBert

Perez gets another hit.

Carp bomb

Colt Keith knows Wheeler

Colt Keith homers (9) on a fly ball to right field.

Skubal Ks the side in the 2nd.

Wenceel and Colt are better at facing Wheeler than everyone else in this game so far.

Wenceel Pérez singles in a 9-pitch AB

I am impressed that all the rest of you have active lives that take you away from following this game. I hope it’s a good monster truck rally for y’all.

Skubal Ks the side in the first.

And then Torres and Carpenter and Greene all strike out

Keith leads off with a single

Daniella is awesome when she messes something up and momentarily gets that deer in the headlights look in her eyes, and essentially goes “oops,” then moves on.

The good thing is that for me in the mountain time zone this game begins at 2:05 PM which is pretty much perfect.

I don’t know how much more of getting gutted out and respawning the next day to do it again like in a video game I can take.

Like I said, the demolition derby was fantastic and they didn’t just drive around in a circle. They drove around in an irregular manner and tried to crash into each other. The fact that so many of these vehicles could withstand so much punishment was an epiphany. A lot of thought and craftsmanship has to go into making these vehicles worthy of this much punishment. I’m really impressed with practical skills of that gravity, which I myself do not possess.

I’m honestly ambivalent too. I just like to vent.

I’m in a bad mood in general and far too snarky at times and I don’t want to go on record forever as disliking people who are attracted to a sports that do little or nothing for me. It’s petty. The world doesn’t revolve around me. It’s not the end of the world for a baseball game to happen at a NASCAR track I guess. I went to a demolition derby once and loved it as much as everyone else. Though I could’ve done without the Confederate flags. If it weren’t a 4 hour drive away I probably would’ve gone again. I’m perhaps even capable of liking tractor pulls. The food there is surely good. So if other people like events and “sports” that to me are mere sideshows (oops I did it again) too bad for me. I probably need to lighten up. I do, though, dislike pandering attempts to make baseball “relevant“ to people with even shorter attention spans than my own who seem unable to appreciate baseball for the right reasons or to grasp its nuances. I don’t like seeing my sport disfigured. When I was a little kid and I figured out the complexity of the game and could understand it at a glance, there was a soaring sense of accomplishment and belonging that has never left me. I felt invited into the inner sanctum of a holy temple of sorts and I don’t like seeing that experience diminished. But the push is to reduce it to a level everybody can accept. Make it big, make it loud, make it proud, bet on it, turn it into a home run derby along with all the other aspects of the military industrial sports complex because it’s nothing more than one big revenue stream anyway rubs me the wrong way Maybe Tennessee needs Major League Baseball. Maybe it’ll be a good thing. Maybe they even deserve it. So I will stop praying for it to rain in Bristol and for tornadoes to touch down and lift everybody’s pick up trucks into the sky. I hope the event goes off without a hitch and everyone eats lots of funnel cakes and deep fried squirrel and whatever else it is they like down there.

There is a 30% chance of it raining I guess. MLB’s attempts to broaden its appeal to people who aren’t into baseball just rubs me the wrong way. “Hey all you people who are into cage fighting, and motocross, and NASCAR, you need to get into this interesting exotic strange sport baseball!” says MLB spokeswoman Stormy Daniels.

Good Lord, that Yankees collapse tonight, and that Rockies win are truly epic! What an astonishing sport this is. Honestly, I feel nowhere near as bad as I did. And actually, it’s nice to hear that that the guys in the minors did well tonight. Takes some of the sting out of it Honestly. There’s no way I could manufacture as much drama and excitement by sitting in a room by myself as I did by following our game tonight and hearing about all these other amazing games. Beisbol bean berry, berry good to me, tank you berry much!

That was really a bad way to audition for the rest of the season. I know it’s just one game, but it’s not exactly putting your best foot forward.

Well, what an ignominious loss after having been riding so high for so long in this game. I hope the future Hall of Famers we didn’t want to trade live up to their potential. I mean, it’s just one game, but it is not a good look tonight.

Well heck.