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2outs……..

I suppose an eight-run lead is enough… 😗

Well, the Rays have sent some lefties out there and Jones is no better against them tonight than he is against righties.

Nice going Riley. It would be nice to see his home run swing return, and I don’t mean constantly going for a moonshot on the golf course, but just hitting the ball over the fence a little more.

De Jesus gets out of it with a DP and a strikeout. Nice!

Now it’s De Jesus… Hinch was channeling his inner Brad Ausmus there and they were both catchers so maybe that’s just something they do

Flaherty back out there for the sixth inning… he promptly walks Diaz on four pitches. Thanks, Brad…

Oh my God!

So after 5 innings, Jack has allowed no runs, walked 1, K’d 6 and thrown 90 pitches. Now Brad Ausmus would just leave him in to “build his confidence“ or something like that and the result would be disaster. I’m hoping here that Hinch is not Brad Ausmus.

So through four innings, the pitch count is high for Jack, but he’s allowed no runs and struck out six. This is the point where nobody should sit with him in the dugout and act like he’s pitching a no hitter or something. He’s at 75 pitches and this is the point where he usually unravels.

Reason is a good antidote to simplistic complaining. But we do enjoy complaining around here. 😉

Great minds think alike

Why is Jones still in there when he’s now facing a right handed pitcher? I thought we were “playing the numbers.”

I hope Flaherty stays sharp… < ducks >

If the Tigers played in a crappy indoor stadium, we could enjoy games like this all the time!

Matty doubles in Short. 5-0 almost there…

Short doubles i’m liking this team again!

Perez with a two run homer

Spencer hits a lead off triple to open the second!

What is this strange sense of urgency and acumen that has overtaken this listless and hopeless baseball team of ours?

This is hilarious probably staged. But I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. One of the things that’s hilarious about it is that the Bible he claims is being used in the assault by the old ladies is the biggest Bible out there. I have the revised version of that Bible and half of every page is footnotes and additional information which makes it twice as big as an ordinary Bible without all that additional stuff. So that Bible is almost a weapon. What a hoot.

I watched Jason Statham’s newest film Shelter on STARZ. It is certainly not his best work, but it’s in the ballpark at least and definitely watchable. I’m not giving too much away here, but the young girl he ends up protecting is deeply affecting so there’s some definite rooting interest here about outcomes. And the villain is acceptably villainous.

Trying to “stir the pot“ and get people excited the mlb.com app on my phone just told me that the trade deadline is “fast approaching!“ It’s on August 3. At least that’s what a robot told me. Over two months away. You can’t even fool a child into getting excited by telling them that Christmas is fast approaching“ when it’s Halloween. But apparently we baseball fans are dumber than a stump, and not as smart as small children.

There’s no reason to treat him like he’s Cal Ripken or something.