IdahoBert

I am of Dutch ancestry on my father’s side of the family which lived in upstate New York during the American Revolution and they were Loyalists. We had to flee into Canada after the revolution, thank you by the way for providing us refuge, but we eventually filtered back into upstate New York, and Michigan, and Northern Indiana, because Americans pretty much have no historical memory.

At least you’re surrounded by water. I’m in the desert.

By the way, every game, including this one - unless it’s one of the Apple TV Friday games - is an mlb.tv free game of the day.

I don’t know if I’ll watch the game or not. The last two games have left me feeling like I’m lying in the desert being pecked at by buzzards. I suppose I will, though since it doesn’t conflict with Fourth of July brunch.

There’s no reason to do an official roster change any sooner than necessary, but Reese isn’t a part of the 13 pitcher squad yet. It would seem that they would send down Enns but what the heck do I know? Maybe they have a good idea of how to fix him.

But I really like interleague play. It’s a lot better than playing the other four teams in your own division 72 times a year.

The All-Star game used to mean a lot to me in ye olden days before interleague play was common, especially when the NL had the disturbing habit of beating up on the AL which I found personally humiliating. The only other times when the two leagues met was in spring training, which didn’t matter, and the World Series. So in relation to that, the All-Star game was special. It doesn’t feel like that big of a deal to me anymore. It seems to be more about marketing than street cred, and being interested in street cred itself is pretty lame, but it’s better than marketing.

Wow, Toronto beat the Yankees four games straight to move into first place in the AL East and the Yankees are tied for second place with Tampa Bay.

This was a really disappointing game, which I stopped watching after a while.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/02/athletics-las-vegas-stadium-john-fisher-mlb-debacle?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other This is worth reading. The Guardian newspaper reports the outlook for the new Las Vegas stadium is not as rosy as alleged. It explains that financing for the stadium is highly problematic, due to rising construction costs in Vegas, and to the deficient acumen in these matters attributed to the Athletics owner.

Man, this has descended into batting practice.

When you think something is too good to be true I guess it usually is.

Now the nationals lead 5-3.

Enns seems to harbor an animosity for the strike zone.

Now 3-2.

Looks like the Tigers went all Mitzi Gaynor and washed last night’s game right out of their hair. Hope Enns can get out of the second inning here without harm.

Zach the hit machine

3-0 Tigers

Aww, shucks…..😗

When the Tigers lose, I’m pretty much the same, even though I come here when I’m feeling bad I tend to sulk in the corner like a teenager and mumble things like “you just wouldn’t understand.”

I wish no lasting ill fortune on any athlete and I hope his deficiencies continue through today and after then I wish him only the best.

I was initially looking forward to this as one of those Thursday afternoon early start getaway games but it’s not one of those. I suppose that after a doubleheader yesterday, even though it was unplanned, this is probably a good thing.

After the Tigers charged back and had the second game in hand yesterday, the Dark Angel of Regression spread her wings to spoil the celebration. I hope her more amiable sister, the Bright Angel of Moderately Good Fortune slowly wafts down from the heavens like a feather landing gently on a cotton ball to go correct yesterday‘s outrageous maleficence.

Kahnle‘s meltdown exceeds anything I ever thought possible.

Maybe we don’t deserve to win this game. You can’t expect Tommy to be perfect all the time.