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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.

Tigers, pitching fielding error extends the inning

Tied up. It’s a real game. As it should be, I guess…

Need a DP to end this nonsense.

The biggest misses have all been in the Tigers’ favor. - Per Dan

So you telling me he thought he had a chance to get the call reversed… 🙃

I was moving into another room and I missed the whole thing with Harper. What happened? What did he do? Was it a called strike or something?

Wenceel Pérez homers (8) on a fly ball to right center field.

We might have to score twice as many runs as we have so far to nail this game down

Wow this all really changed so quick

Tie game…

3-2 on the single.

Nick scores on a SF 2 outs. Vest in earliest game he entered since June 4.

Holton loads the bases no outs

Runners on first and third no outs it’s getting dicey…

AJ pulls Jack for Holton after a lead off single in the 7th. Not sure why they sent him out there anyway maybe they just wanted to give Holton more time to warm up.

Oh wow Flaherty’s back out there