IdahoBert

Let’s all put our tinfoil pyramid hats on and start thinking positive thoughts about the rest of this game

At Bat is really slow with this Cleveland Minnesota game and the score is now 4–4 and AtBat is about three minutes behind the information that Dan was given.

Meadows is fast.

Tarik let out an almost barbaric yelp with that K of Perez.

Tarik almost circumcises Witt.

4-2 Twins. Perez tracks long one for an out.

Twins have loaded the bases with no outs

I’m starting to feel a great and temporary love for the city of Cleveland. The only time I was really there was coming back from New York City during spring break in 1971 and I visited a friend’s family in Cleveland and we went to a bar and saw the then well-known band Dr. John the Nite Tripper. One young woman stripped her top off, and we all thought that this was not spontaneous and was probably done for effect and that the band arranged it. CLEVELAND ROCKS!

Tork and Jung score and Tork tells him how to slide!

TORK walk. I’m teasing you.

Riley HR

I would think that the Royals, however, have got their lucky seeing-eye hits statistically out-of-the-way for the rest of the game. That is unless our infielders are positioned stupidly. I’m in no position to have an opinion on that.

Wow, at least we tied it.

Crappy defense by the Royals is helping us tonight

I want my six runs right now in the second inning. Let’s snuff out this nonsense immediately.

Garbage cans…

Another hit just out of reach. 1-0 KC

2 seeing eye hits in the first inning

Struck out Witt!

Thank God the no-hitters over with now. We just need to get a DP and get out of this.

Tigers loaded them up in the first, but didn’t score.

I ran across this “Sports Illustrated baseball issue 1969” on Facebook and it’s pretty cool.

I don’t have any genuine animus for any of the teams in the Central. I just see them as obstacles to my enjoyment. And not having lived in the Midwest for over 50 years I’ve never had to mingle at games with their fan bases. So I enjoy a kind of distance from a lot of this and completely understand the ground zero enmity people who are closer to the action can have for other teams and their fans. I am in no position to be judgmental about that. Dealing with the unwashed masses of other teams is unpleasant. But being sheltered from all this in my own little La La Land out west, I have the luxury of focusing more on the adherents I’ve met of other clubs who are very literate fans and passionate about the histories of their various teams, and in this sense, like us on our better days. I enjoy that type of W. P. Kinsella collegiality with baseball fans from numerous teams and it’s sort of like Hinduism, different faces of the same God. But for the last three games against the White Sox, I have no problem forgetting what I just said and going all Lawrence of Arabia on them and yelling “no prisoners!“ and it doesn’t matter if the wild card is still in play or not.

That long? I didn’t bother to look it up. KC hasn’t normally done stuff like this. In the past, they’ve let just about every good player slip into the hands of other clubs.