IdahoBert

YES. Holy Jesus, this umpire sucks or Jake is a genius.

I’m impressed the ump didn’t call that ball four on Matt Verling as a strike because hey it was two or 3 inches near the strike zone. I’m just kinda used to this **** happening.

Kinda sorta actually really is a must win. Scoring some runs would be good too.

I think the issue was sending him out there on short rest. He’s too valuable a commodity with too great a future to risk that future. He’s the anchor that keeps the Tigers from drifting away.

I don’t know if I believe that this franchise will offer long-term contracts of substantial value vastly exceeding its existing payroll to win what could quite possibly prove to be only a few more games and disrupt the “26 Musketeers” élan that seems to be providing dividends right now. It’s not like I have a crystal ball or anything, but I don’t think it’s in the DNA of this team’s ownership to do that. Chris Ilitch looked like a happy leprechaun when he was getting doused in the locker room and it just seems unlikely to me that if he departs from the way of building this team thus far it will be a moderate departure and nothing really dramatic unless Scott Harris does a really, really good sales job.

Yeah, I did the same, or tried to, but the wisp in the air of our resurgent Idaho range and forest fires, reinvigorated by stiff winds, quickly made that escape unappealing. Living in the charmed bubble of these last two months, and following only this site and Detroit media sources, it was hard to watch even the pre-game on TV as the national media seemed to slap us in the face with the wet fish their gushing appreciation of all the other teams deemed important — and how no matter what our team has done, it’s still considered a sideshow (and then it responded in kind today). But it’s just one game and I don’t think this one game is going to deflate the resilience of this club. I hope something germinates within this team during the off day and it charges out of the gate defiantly on Monday.

This game was hard to endure. I wish I hadn’t seen it.

Yeah. I wish we played tomorrow and it was like a regular season thing without an off day. It’ll be good for Skubal, but usually you want to bounce back immediately and there’s no opportunity to get the momentum immediately stirred back up. We have defeated good teams all year. Heck even before this good run, we took two of three games from the Dodgers. But Cleveland is not interested in respecting our narrative and they’re writing their own. At least today.

I guess the philosophy behind throwing “1st pitch strikes” is also to make sure they’re hard to hit.

The dramatic come from behind victory will be all the sweeter when it happens.

These guys are really swinging the bats with authority like there’s no tentativeness about this at all.

This is not looking good.

Need a triple play.

Well, the no-hitter is over for both teams quickly.

Wish that ball off of Colts bat had been seeing eye double.

Just got back to the little house in the mountains after a walk to see the coverage on Max and they’re talking a lot about the Yankees and Pete Rose, which for me is a tremendous yawner.

Hi… < shuffles feet, stares at the ground, then lifts up his head and looks at other people in the room then resumes his soliloquy> my name is Bert and I’m a Tigers fan and I have invested vastly more of my psychological and emotional well being in this team than I should… And it’s been going on for years…

I love it when a plan comes together.

Do people not know how to spell the Guardians name or do they misspell it on purpose?

It’s Holton.

I’m hoping to see the Tigers vs. the Padres in the World Series. And not only because I like the way it turned out last time < cough cough choke > 40 years ago. It would be an underwhelming spectacle for commercial interests and for temporary, fair weather fans who like football more than baseball anyway. It would basically be a big “fail” for everyone but us, and for people who like all varieties of David vs. Goliath narratives. And I’m honest enough to admit that I would take pleasure in this even though it’s probably kind of small for me to do so.