IdahoBert

Zach homers.

Maybe it’s a good sign that Tork is hitting his meaningless home run earlier in the game.

Don’t give up a first inning home run Jack

Is Jason just taking a short vacation or something?

I would prefer not to

Gleyber is back!

Keith 3B Torres 2B Carpenter RF Torkelson 1B Greene, R LF Pérez, W DH Dingler C McKinstry SS Vierling CF

Hinch is a thug! Sweet!

No, I’ve barely scratched the surface.

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

It’s beginning! Parlay! Parlay! ♬ Money for nuthin’ and the chicks are free ♬

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.