IdahoBert

I like the Yankees radio crew a ton more. They’re listenable.

I’m listening to the Dodgers radio broadcast and maybe they’re jaded about all of this, but it’s about as interesting as a description of grass growing. I’m just used to Dan creating a sense of atmosphere so I guess I’m spoiled.

4-0 Dodgers top ‘o the 6th game 3.

The Dodgers did very well by obtaining Freddie Freeman. Wow. He knows how this baseball game thingy works.

Ohtani walks Freeman homers 1st inning.

I just watched the Commanders Hail Mary pass that defeated Da Bares and it was more than merely amazing. The CBS announcers did not seem to respond to it in a particularly objective manner. But with the quarterback scrambling for what seemed like forever and the ball tipping off the hands of defenders into the arms of the Commanders it was pretty amazing.

Ohtani will play in game #3.

If wins were awarded for something other than points scored, the Titans won this game.

So if we score another touchdown and go for a two point conversion we can break our record. 🙏

Lions recover a fumble as the Titans were almost maybe possibly going to score.

49 points on 168 offensive yards. Wow.

You know nothing can ever compare to the strange psychological and emotional cocktail that was flowing through my veins for our last 50 games of the season. I thought the end of this game was interesting, but I never felt my head was going to explode or rainbows would start shooting out of my rear end to propel me into orbit around the Earth like when the Tigers were rampaging this year.

Game.

This is actually pretty exciting. I still don’t have much skin in this game so whatever happens is fine, although 51% of me is pulling for the Dodgers.

Ohtani hurt his shoulder when he was thrown out stealing a base.

This 4-1 Dodgers lead halfway through the sixth is starting to look real, but I would never count out a New York Yankees team in this situation. I do find myself pulling for LA simply because I have a lot of resentment built up with the Yankees over the years which does not exist with the Dodgers. I also have a lot of friends who are Dodgers fans here in Idaho who, even though of Mexican ancestry, have forgiven the team for the way people were forced out of Chavez Ravine to make room for that stadium. But they have indeed had to think about it.

I’m sincerely trying to watch this World Series, but I just have no skin in this game. I might as well be watching an HGTV program featuring a preppy Instagram couple who’re trying to remodel their guest bathroom for under $200,000. I just can’t care about the outcome. In this World Series there are big, big, stars and lots of history, but it’s still isn’t the bolivian marching powder I got used to scoring in our own hood just this last season.

I was looking back on the 1982 season of the Dodgers, which I inadvertently followed closely on radio in Tucson that season, and it was such a different kind of baseball than we know today. First of all Fernando started 37 games. Nobody does that anymore. It was still the era of the four-man rotation. He pitched 285 innings and had 18 CG’s. Sheesh. Everybody aside from the catcher and an outfielder played 150 games or more with of course Garvey doing 162. I’m going to count Dusty Baker’s 147 games as 150, rounding it up. Not much platooning. Doesn’t look like there was a lot of “overmanaging“ going on. Nobody struck out over 100 times. Most were striking out 60 times and everybody was walking 50 to 60 times. Garvey was of course the outlier and only able to walk 20 times in 162 games. Nobody was striking out one guy per inning as a rule. The game is just so different now.

I don’t know, I may be even less qualified than you, so let’s have a race to the bottom.

I’m really saddened by the passing of Fernando Valenzuela. It feels personal. When I spent six months recuperating from a bad motorcycle accident in 1982 and couldn’t go anywhere I listened to all 162 of Vin Scully’s broadcasts which was the only baseball available in Tucson, Arizona and Fernando was a big part of that. The Dodgers ended this season, I think, one game out of first place behind the Atlanta Braves, and I was honestly disappointed. It’s not like Ernie Harwell’s broadcast could reach all the way from Detroit to Tucson. So, for one year I was a Dodgers fan and a huge Fernando fan. Then of course in 1984 and no longer laid up and fully recovered I was able follow our own season as well as possible from such great distance — and with three new friends who’d recently moved from Detroit to Tucson — I forgot all about the Dodgers easily. But forgetting Fernando is hard. I will easily pull for the Yankees in the World Series, though, simply because of Sue.

I gotta tell you this made my day. 🤩

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/bally-sports-parent-company-fanduel-partner-regional-sports-networks-rebrand?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0kgLPT1lbVg7oB_n38kHW3fXVUiWyvCjgdh5gDVqAgyUAu6WKc8LX2Q3c_aem_51u_xD0V8axohExIiJ-IQg yes, there will be Detroit baseball on TV this coming year. FanDuel Sports Network Detroit. [I guess this is old news, but I only just now found out about it]