IdahoBert

Nice beginning.

I’m really bored by all this talk about 50/50 or 63 home runs. Baseball is most real at the ground zero of an actual game. It’s really quite beautiful, and it doesn’t need to be fussed up by headline grabbing PR statistical fetishism. Granted, if one of my own players were in the mix for this I’d probably care, but they’re not. Also, it’s a celebration of the good times being had by the “haves” and as a team that is a “have not” I’ll admit it rubs me the wrong way. As it is, heading into Sunday’s game, Judge had no homers and a .175 average over his last 11. On Sunday, he got a single. i’m not gloating, but I take some small pleasure in this. I’m not against either of these players, far from it. They are great, actually historically great, athletes. I just don’t like it when the texture of the game itself is overlooked and reduced to showy stuff like this. It’s like overlooking Cinderella when she’s in work clothes and only paying attention to her in a ball gown.

I already know where it is. I’m watching it. They’ve just had 40 minutes of ads and I’m tired of it.

So I never get a chance to watch Lions games and this one’s on Peacock and the Peacock feed began 35 minutes ago. When are they gonna stop playing with themselves and broadcast a damn game?

4 hits for Sweeney.

If they keep this up, I’m going to miss the beginning of the lions game.

9-1

8-1.

7-1. Thank you, Riley.

And there’s no chance the Tigers are leaving Detroit. Heads would roll. It would be like the French Revolution and the perpetrators would end up on the guillotine.

6-1

Parker makes it 5-1

The Tigers have been in the 3 million range six times in the last 15 years but they’ve been about half that much since they have stunk.

My understanding, although I have the understanding of a 10-year-old as well, is that the introduction of the automatic ball strike system in AAA has inflated offensive numbers but I don’t know how to explain that precisely. Also, the tigers pay specific attention to aspects of a hurlers arsenal that can be better utilized with their own genius like coaching interventions. And I am really stretching here to make this point.

I’ve been so focused on the Tigers I didn’t even realize that was in play but aside from not liking no-hitters in general, because I expect them to ruin a pitcher’s arm, it’s hard to take a group effort no-hitter, seriously. In addition to strikeouts, I think home runs and no hitters are fascist.

Nice catch by Riley. I don’t know if he misread it and corrected his mistake so it looks more dramatic or if it was dramatic in its own right.

It’ll be interesting when the Athletics play at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento. Relatively small park in a different climate with vastly smaller foul areas.

Only 36 pitches for Madden in 3 innings.

Sweeney the Great makes it 3-0.

Madden doing a Ryne Duren impression with balls so far out of the strike zone they don’t register in AtBat. Got out of the inning though.

Carp singles and it’s 2-0.

Jung doubles.