IdahoBert

OMFG Whew!

Oh my heck! Nice!

Goff 12/12

Charlize Theron is not married. You gotta at least try.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/amateur-scouting-director-shane-farrell-leaving-blue-jays-to-join-tigers/sn-amp/

Commenting on something like this is way above my pay grade. But I’m assuming this is some sort of improvement although I have no direct knowledge of the context within which this is all unfolding. The fact that people want to join the Tigers is good. The fact that Detroit is a destination is good.

On Facebook, a thing called “Detroit Tigers Legends“ informed me that the former “head coach“ of the Tigers Ron Gardenhire was retiring. They also misspelled the city’s name as DETRIOT.

A lame and artless attempt at trolling like this is generally unworthy of comment, and is only interesting because of its infrequence. Trolling has really gone downhill. I guess Karl Marx was right about history repeating itself first as tragedy, and the second time as farce.

I’m fine with other teams signing 30+ year-olds to huge long term contracts. It’s the equivalent of sending geriatrics up in the Hindenburg, as far as I’m concerned. Heck, we have young guys who are constantly hurting themselves anyway thanks to too much strength training or whatever. Let those other teams lose their souls.

It immediately refers you to an AI summary without regard for the various contexts in which it has searched. It’s like an 11- year-old’s cheating version of “research.”

So at Comerica Park they’re putting in all new grass and new seats, and behind home plate an upscale club for the elite. I haven’t read that there are any plans to change the dimensions of the ballpark though. The stupid Google AI that was the first thing Google gave me when I searched doesn’t understand sequential time scales and reported that the changes to the outfield fence that were made in 2023 were being made for 2025. I hope this isn’t the same AI that will drive our cars and solve all our problems for us. It doesn’t even understand the basic mechanics of time when it’s researching data.

I really dislike the lag time between the end of the regular season and the end of the World Series before anything substantial happens; because, to be honest, we aren’t included in the World Series all that often. I look forward to the awards and the deals and I don’t like waiting for them.

In the late 1970s, I was into politically edgy British punk, the Talking Heads, and Tom Waits and didn’t like disco. Now that I’ve gotten older I’m OK with disco and consider it “dance music“ even though when it was then a current trend my friends and I disparaged it as “bourgeois crap.” We were sort of full of ourselves.

Alan Tram-ELL. Sweet.

I’m also curious about what it means for Torkelson to demonstrate that he’s improving during the off-season. Does this mean winter ball? I’m not sure how reliable non-game related training regimens are in providing tangible clues as to his advancement as a hitter.

I thought it was interesting how they noted that any external acquisitions, either through free agency or trades, had to be guys who would blend into the Tigers’ existing clubhouse chemistry, which is a polite way of saying they’re not looking for mercenaries or big stars with attitude. They believe in what they’re doing and how they’re doing it and that is not going to change.

It’s hard for me to summon up interest in the postseason races now we’re no longer in them. I used to feel a rooting interest in the AL winning the All-Star game or the World Series because my team is in the AL but it’s something I’ve never been able to sustain. I’m not against other people doing it, and I admire those who can make this adjustment from one team or sport to another. But I can’t successfully transfer the weird alchemy I have for the Tigers to other teams. I’m a one trick pony. A lesser version of it can go towards Boise State football or the Lions, but the highs are never as high, nor the lows as excoriating as they are for the motherland of the Tigers. The Tigers are my blue ice and it’s not even a choice, it’s just what it is. Wishing you all the best until next year. Cheers.

Extremely flawed is a good way of putting it. They got an awful lot of mileage out of this team which was unexpected. Making the team better and not just expecting it to mature is really important.

Maybe by not winning this series, ownership will be encouraged to do more than just rest on its laurels and will see the need for adding new faces, bats, arms, whatever it takes. Other teams in this division, especially the Royals and the Twins, are certainly not going to rest on their laurels in the off-season and it’s a solid business decision to do something instead of just hope for the best next year.

I’m being a grown-up about this as much as the eight-year-old mentality that inhabits my body is able to. I never expected a run of this magnitude or to get this far in the postseason, or to even get into the postseason at all. This team is sort of the assemblage of a very smart doctor Frankenstein who used new body parts instead of old ones, a handsome assemblage which walked around and didn’t throw any children in the water. No reason for torches and pitchforks. I look forward to next year. GO TIGERS!

Well, this was bound to happen eventually, it’s hard to be perfect forever.

Kerry Carpenter singles on a line drive to right fielder Jhonkensy Noel. Trey Sweeney scores.

I’m predicting Skubal with a 93-pitch perfect game which is 0–0 until the top of the ninth when the Tigers score 6 runs and after he gets the last out roses fall from the sky and cover the field 1 foot deep.