IdahoBert

For the next 10 days in Boise, Idaho, the weather is supposed to be sunny and in the 70° - 80° range with 24% humidity and light winds making it feel cooler… Just sayin’….

Just as well. My son and I are going to see Backrooms at the local completely refurbished and updated Regal on $6 Tuesday. He’s already seen it and he’s worried that I’m too much of a pussy to deal with it. I’ll show him! …. 😗 this game should be starting just about the time we’re getting out.

People talk about getting bats as if it’s as easy as just writing a check. If I were one of these guys and I had the choice of playing someplace where it was easier to hit home runs - for example - I would go somewhere other than Comerica. Maybe Tony Gwynn would like it here. If that’s an impact bat then sure. But when it comes to a guy like Bregman, for example, he didn’t want to play here for a variety of reasons, among which writing a check was apparently not one of them. Nick Castellanos, for all his deficits, ‘blossomed’ as a hitter when he played in ballparks better suited to his abilities. Yes, a guy like JD Martinez could hit here, but he can hit just about anywhere so he’s an outlier. Torres could hit 40 hr in the Bronx but not here. Anyway I think purchasing bats is a lot more problematic than we might think regardless of how well old man Ilitch and DD were able to do it.

In August 1988, my wife and I drove from Idaho to Detroit to visit some native Detroiters who’d spent a few years in Idaho then moved back. The humidity was beyond anything I could remember, even in Northeast Indiana where I’d grown up. I quickly learned that taking a dip in their swimming pool would cool down my core body temperature for the day and make the heat tolerable, but on the days when I didn’t do that, it was true suffering. Got to see Jack Morris spin a 3–0 CG shut out of the Rangers at Tiger Stadium, the first game I’d seen there since the 5th game of the World Series in 1968.

Thank you so much. So “spray hitters” with some power -aside from Dingler - with average to marginally better defensive abilities would constitute a really good team in the absence of traditional and perhaps one dimensional “power hitters” that the chicks dig because chicks dig home runs? I would be OK with 100 wins. Sign me up.

How good would a lineup of Dingler and eight McGonigles do? I’m curious if anyone could do the math on that.

We won? Another 12 straight to get to .500.

Kevin Homer’s to tie it up? Sweet.

Oh, it looks like it’ll take more than one run to win this game…

I’m sick and tired of crappy umpires. I don’t think I care if the game goes full robot on calls about balls and strikes regardless of what Dan Dickerson feels.

Oh, I guess we got one of those overturned. Never mind I’m only following this on game day.

Naylor did us the favor of taking Seattle’s two ABS challenges out of the mix so now Jack or Jock - whomever is pitching today - can mess with the umpire and exploit his weaknesses.

Many people don’t realize that Jack has an identical twin named Jock. That’s why his performances are apparently so bipolar. This is true and you can look it up on the Internet in some obscure subreddit somewhere that someone told me about.

Jack starting….

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

I like it more when you stick to analytics and don’t become like Crisswell predicts.

I went out to run errands and came back and heck I didn’t realize we’d only managed one hit.

Carp, Greene, and Tork all K’d swinging in the bottom of the second. At least they didn’t K watching it go right down the middle of the plate so I consider this better than that alternative.

Well, I’m all for lying, cheating and stealing and tricking the umps today if that’s the case.

I thought you had two challenges on play in the field.

Montero tallied only 11 pitches in that first inning. Good. Strikeouts are fascist.

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

A Saturday afternoon game? Sweet! Montero, the starter. Don’t let him go past 70 pitches! When the club unloads him for three washed up relievers at the deadline and a handful of magic beans we want him at full strength! oh, I know we’re optimistic again- sorry. Ingrained habits die hard.

This is tragic. The guy has maybe only played one full season if that in his whole career.