IdahoBert

Hmmm… nine hours in a row without a single post on any thread in the Tigers board and 17 hours on this particular thread. We have sort of reached the nadir. I hope the band snaps back and stings our adversaries.

The one good thing about this great disappointment is that it occurred early enough in the day that I didn’t have to sit in expectation like a puppy waiting to be fed in relation to the position of the sun in the sky. Got the bad news over with quickly and early in the day.

I don’t know what to make of this. If any game seemed on the face of it a done deal this game should’ve been. It’s quite possibly an unfortunate blip on the screen, but in the larger context since briefly before the All-Star break 7–16 I’m not sure how many bold moves before the deadline could’ve affected this outcome for the better. It’s pretty disheartening.

This is officially a beat down.

9-4

8-4

6-4 Twinks

At least we have a lockdown cadre of relievers

Sigh…

OMG Jack!

Kerry Carpenter homers (20) on a line drive to right field. Colt Keith scores. OK the trampy niece can wait.

I’ve switched over to watching King of the Hill for a while. I like the trampy niece who goes to beauty school. Although this game is starting to get interesting.

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.