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Perez with another hit!

This is not enough of a lead to feel comfortable handing it over to the pen for long.

Scoob Ks 2 more in the 5th and at only 59 tosses.

Gleyber Torres singles on a ground ball to center fielder Harrison Bader. Colt Keith to 2nd.

Colt Keith singles on a ground ball to right fielder Nick Castellanos.

Bryce Harper flies out on one pitch to do Sccob a favor. Ends with a ten toss frame.

Perez gets another hit.

Carp bomb

Colt Keith knows Wheeler

Colt Keith homers (9) on a fly ball to right field.

Skubal Ks the side in the 2nd.

Wenceel and Colt are better at facing Wheeler than everyone else in this game so far.

Wenceel Pérez singles in a 9-pitch AB

I am impressed that all the rest of you have active lives that take you away from following this game. I hope it’s a good monster truck rally for y’all.

Skubal Ks the side in the first.

And then Torres and Carpenter and Greene all strike out

Keith leads off with a single

Daniella is awesome when she messes something up and momentarily gets that deer in the headlights look in her eyes, and essentially goes “oops,” then moves on.

The good thing is that for me in the mountain time zone this game begins at 2:05 PM which is pretty much perfect.

I don’t know how much more of getting gutted out and respawning the next day to do it again like in a video game I can take.

Like I said, the demolition derby was fantastic and they didn’t just drive around in a circle. They drove around in an irregular manner and tried to crash into each other. The fact that so many of these vehicles could withstand so much punishment was an epiphany. A lot of thought and craftsmanship has to go into making these vehicles worthy of this much punishment. I’m really impressed with practical skills of that gravity, which I myself do not possess.

I’m honestly ambivalent too. I just like to vent.

I’m in a bad mood in general and far too snarky at times and I don’t want to go on record forever as disliking people who are attracted to a sports that do little or nothing for me. It’s petty. The world doesn’t revolve around me. It’s not the end of the world for a baseball game to happen at a NASCAR track I guess. I went to a demolition derby once and loved it as much as everyone else. Though I could’ve done without the Confederate flags. If it weren’t a 4 hour drive away I probably would’ve gone again. I’m perhaps even capable of liking tractor pulls. The food there is surely good. So if other people like events and “sports” that to me are mere sideshows (oops I did it again) too bad for me. I probably need to lighten up. I do, though, dislike pandering attempts to make baseball “relevant“ to people with even shorter attention spans than my own who seem unable to appreciate baseball for the right reasons or to grasp its nuances. I don’t like seeing my sport disfigured. When I was a little kid and I figured out the complexity of the game and could understand it at a glance, there was a soaring sense of accomplishment and belonging that has never left me. I felt invited into the inner sanctum of a holy temple of sorts and I don’t like seeing that experience diminished. But the push is to reduce it to a level everybody can accept. Make it big, make it loud, make it proud, bet on it, turn it into a home run derby along with all the other aspects of the military industrial sports complex because it’s nothing more than one big revenue stream anyway rubs me the wrong way Maybe Tennessee needs Major League Baseball. Maybe it’ll be a good thing. Maybe they even deserve it. So I will stop praying for it to rain in Bristol and for tornadoes to touch down and lift everybody’s pick up trucks into the sky. I hope the event goes off without a hitch and everyone eats lots of funnel cakes and deep fried squirrel and whatever else it is they like down there.