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OK! Thanks for not striking out and then hitting into a double play just there!

Please don’t strike out and then hit into a double play, guys.

I’ve been wondering lately how sleep factors into the equation of player performance, and whether/how steaks or slumps contribute to that. Had the Tigers been sleeping poorly because they’d been worried by the collapse, which also made them perform poorly? Had the Guardians been crushing it because they’d been sleeping soundly, which helped them play at peak performance? Did the Tigers sleep well last night and feel better and feel more up to playing today, and are the Guardians anxious now and had a fitful sleep last night which now makes them suboptimal physically? Will that factor into tonight’s games? These are the things I think about when I wake up in the middle of the night and lie in bed for a couple of hours before I drift back to sleep myself.

My god, this is exhausting, isn’t it?

Finally! Some positive movement! How long has it been?! Tigers beat the Guardians tonight, 4-2, and so the magic number drops to:

Swinging strikeout! Looking good so far …

Vest looks amped, ain’t gonna lie, a little nervous about that

Oh my god froze Arias on that!

Benetti sounds more tentative than he probably wanted to saying Will Vest will try to get the final three outs.

Why, yes. Yes, he will.

OK, here we go … bottom of the ninth … 😬

Also too woman.

Those days are OVER!

Man, we really, really needed Tork to field that cleanly and double the guy off second there.

What, Joey Cora didn’t wave Jahmai home on that single? Alert the media.

Clap, clap, clap-clap-clap

Riley got his Willie Horton homer!

Within the realm of possibility still: Tigers win three of last four, Cleveland loses three of last four, Tigers win division. Just sayin’. Anything can baseball, man.

I’ll keep half an eye on the game rather than two whole eyes on it.

A terrorist’s wet dream.

Yawn

So was not having Jobe or Olson for much of the year, or Colt Keith at the end.

During the first half of the year this team was one of the lost exciting, most entertaining teams of my lifetime. I dont know what’s happened either, but let’s not forget how awesome it was to watch them earlier this season.

I’ve been thinking along those lines myself the past day or two. This is really doing a bigger number on my baseball psyche than I imagined it would. It’s even making it harder for me to watch baseball games involving other teams, which I normally enjoy, because doing so just makes me think of The Collapse. (Yes, I am conferring that official name onto it. No need to add the team name or year to it. We will always know what it refers to, and when it happened.) The biggest problem for me as far as The Collapse is concerned is that I am going to be hearing about it constantly for the next year, and then hearing about it occasionally for the rest of my life. This has been so monumental a collapse that it’s almost as though 2024 never even happened.

Not exactly true. That team won five of their final six.