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Somebody got it! Actually, it would’ve been interesting if at the beginning of the game, you could just kill Micah and see how things turned out.

Just watched Mike Flanagan‘s The Life of Chuck on Hulu and I liked it more than some of of the reviewers did who said it was too maudlin, contrived, and derivative of its source material in a Stephen King novella, but I still liked it. I’d figured it all out in the first few minutes, but it was still intriguing and worth my time. Had a great cast too.

Jack with 53 pitches after four innings so he’s pretty well assured of coming out in the fifth for another frame unless perhaps the Tigers bat around twice and score another 15 runs or something and he has to sit for 25 minutes…

Yes, against a righty that’s good, but not much of a righty unfortunately, but I’ll take it. Jones w/5 RBI today.

Jones 3-run double 11-3 good guys no outs bottom of the 3rd.

Phillies pitcher King has walked the bases loaded with no outs in the third inning.

TORK BOMB 8-3 Tigers in the 2nd.

I hope Jake starts exploiting this easily deceived home plate umpire.

I guess they finally challenged one of them successfully.

The ump has called three strikes in a row balls and the tigers haven’t challenged any of them.

AA ball player hits a three run home run off Flaherty in the top of the second.

Carpenter swung at a pitch way out of the strike zone in hopes of lofting it into the stiff wind to center but he struck out. They already had a brief cloudburst that wetted just a portion of the field.

7-0 Tigers still 2 outs in the first.

Kevin with a three run bomb

Tork with a ground rule double and an RBI

Our announcers were joking that the Phillies didn’t bring much of a team - really no starters today at all - so it should be a good day for Jack to stretch out his arm

Dan and Peaches today.

He’s basically said before that his problems have been “overthinking“ what’s going on at the plate. It sounds like he’s an “intuitive“ hitter. Now he’s trying to sneak a little bit of “thinking“ back into his approach at the plate. I think he’s saying he doesn’t want to undermine his raw instincts, but he realizes he can’t entirely rely upon them. He’s trying to find the right groove. I can’t imagine that he or any player is an unchanging finished product that never has to reassess their approach. I’ve never expected him be anything more than a 32 homer lower average hitter. Dave Kingman Lite. He was stuck at first base at ASU for a reason. He has never been a shortstop that ends up being groomed for another position. He has raw power not raw athleticism.

For Monday’s March 16 game against the Phillies in Lakeland Flaherty is the starter and the only media coverage is WXYT 1270 AM. Jones, Jah RF Carpenter LF Greene, R DH Torkelson 1B Keith 3B McGonigle SS Rogers C Jung, Ja 2B Meadows, P CF There are no lineups for the Phillies yet

Yeah, gameday stopped updating for me on my phone but on the radio broadcast Dan said we had a 12–0 lead and I was worried he was losing his mind, but finally everything started updating again. Even the ESPN app didn’t go beyond the seventh-inning for quite a while.

I was out for my Sunday walk and didn’t realize there had been two rain delays and I also didn’t realize that we eventually had a 12–1 lead over the Yankees. Vierling, Tork, Greene and Yost all connected. Valdez pitched a heck of a game.

Only a 7-0 lead over the Yanks!!? Fire Hinch! Valdez suckkkks!

Valdez starts in Sunday’s March 15 game against the Yankees in Tampa. Both the Yankees and the Tigers are alleged to provide TV feeds, although that was alleged today for the Blue Jays game and there was only a Blue Jays feed. The Tigers radio feed, however, was perfectly synced with the picture on MLB.TV which made up for it and a Tigers radio feed is available for Sunday. I guess we’ll find out, although I’ll be missing this game as I have other plans. Hope any of the rest of you enjoy it. The Valdez starts have been a bright spot.

It would be really nice if he amounted to something that’s surprising and unexpected especially given his age, and the on again off again trajectory of his career.