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That’s fine, although that was not me saying that. That was me in character.

I’m with you. I like the occasional pop culture reference in a ballgame. Just not a whole truckload of it. You and I come from an era when a play by play announcer would practically never make a pop culture reference or joke. When announcers started doing that, we were still young enough to think that was unique and cool and fun. It started up shortly after Monty Python and Saturday Night Live and Airplane the movie and the like started changing the rules of how funny works for society. And it started creeping into other areas of life, and baseball broadcasts comprise an area of life. Announcers couldn’t overdo it because it felt like they were getting away with something in the first place, and we liked that part of it. But now things have evolved where everything is unironically self-referential all the time. Just look at all the Pixar movies and MCU content and such. Everyone in them is always joking about themselves and everything around them all the time. It’s not special or unique anymore. Far from getting away with something, it’s practically expected to be part of the landscape. So when we see a guy a couple generations behind us leaning into that, It looks like overkill. But to people who came up at his time and after him, growing up seeing all the same video content, it’s the norm. So we may or may not like it, but it’s not good or bad per se. It’s just a different time now, just like our time was different from our parents’ time during the war. And that’s also why we like Dan. Dan is a boomer, so Dan is all business on the job. But it’s also good that Jason is there when you want to lighten things up. In that respect, they provide perfect relief for each other.

I don’t see us starting Melton in the postseason if we don’t start him for the rest of the regular season.

Is Dingler both #1 and #2?

Guardians lose to Diamondbacks 3-2 in 10 Innings.

One of my friends know I'm adamant about the difference between "obtuse" and "abstruse", and he always uses the former to mean the latter, and I make a show of getting all mad about it, and we have a good laugh. But yeah, he's still a **** about it. 😁

Yeah, I don't doubt that the regime knew the judge would block the release so they could say to their acolytes see, we wanted to release it but the woke justice system is preventing it, so fly! Fly! Fly, my pretties!

At least he didn't say it was abstruse.

I still feel pretty good about this post.

They'll digitally drain my money before they put me to sleep.

So ... I notice there's a lot less chatter about Trump and Epstein lately.

Despite my pasty white skin and my drumpfy name, I have a trail of apostatic musings scattered around the internet several miles long, and presumably linkable to my PII.

You’re on the good guys’ side, so you’re going to be that guy in three years along with me. 😁

Tigers beat Astros, 7-2.

What is up with that font on Vanwey’s jersey? Dan is saying nothing because it has nothing to do with the game. I assume Benetti is weighing in on it?

It’s especially difficult for me to forget because I was there!

Several of us are going to be that guy three years from today. I can think of a few of us who won’t.

I have actually started wondering whether, if Trump were to die in office, they just won’t shuffle JD off to Paris Disneyland or something and Miller declares himself president.

I assume muskets and long guns are also A-OK? Glocks and Tec-9s, though? Off to Alcatraz with you!

I don’t think I like what I have seen during the last inning or so. Astros hitting home runs; Astro fielders making multiple great catches; Tiger runners making TOOTBLANs; Tiger infielders heaving throws past intended targets into the outfield. Taken together, events like these are frequently harbingers of a team collapse and a loss. Hope I am wrong.

So a few minutes ago, the TV crew named Luke Putkonen their random Tiger of the Day, and provided a few factoids, but not what I think is the most interesting one: he was the guy who threw the walkoff wild pitch in Miami during the Henderson Alvarez last-game-of-the-season no-hitter against the Tigers in 2013. Even better, Alvarez was on-deck to hit when it happened, surely making him the only pitcher in history to win a no-hitter while standing in the on-deck circle. He would never have even stepped to the plate, though: bases were loaded with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, so there was either going to be an out to end the inning, or a run to win the game.

Bob Gibson would have done it with a first-pitch fastball.

There are people in charge who would strongly disagree with that idea … OK, that’s enough of that.

Good points all, and it’s even worse than that: if a starting pitcher fails to go at least five full innings—if he pitches 4-2/3 innings of shutout ball, then leaves with the lead that’s never relinquished—then he is, by rule, ineligible for the pitcher win. So the official scorer is forced to assign the win to some other pitcher who didn’t pitch as long or as effectively, which is exactly what happened here. It’s beyond asinine. What really got me to start questioning the value of pitcher wins altogether was the season Nolan Ryan had in 1987. He led the league in ERA (2.76) and strikeouts (270), placed fifth in Cy Young voting—and finished with a “record” of 8-16. By pitcher record, he was terrible. By actual performance, he was arguably the best starting pitcher in the league. What else did I need to know?

Well done. Hadn’t even occurred to me.