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De Jesus.

So, who can we trust with a six run lead? Jake?

I saw The Backrooms with my son tonight. It reminded me of dreams I’ve had for years so it was genuinely creepy, if only for that reason. Kind of put me in the zone. I felt some investment, but not a lot in the characters. I liked the woman who played the therapist. I didn’t find it boring. But I don’t feel the need to ever see it again. Whatever it gave me, once is enough. It’s worth seeing though, especially if you want to see something that sort of gets under your skin.

10 runs thanks to Torres. One more and this lead will be officially bullpen proof!

Bases loaded for Torres…

It’s a great idea to bring Perez in a pinch hit for Matty because he gets to play centerfield which is his best position and this is a game where you don’t want things to get out of control!

Do something good Mr. Torkelson

This Rogers fellow was pitching to Riley Greene like he’s Ted Williams and terrified of him.

Where’s my bullpen-proof 11 runs?

My youngest is 50 years younger than me. So everyone is potentially a kid to me.

After jumping to a four run lead, the bases loaded with Twins and one out. I love it when a plan comes together.

No comment, Mr. Cosell…

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…