IdahoBert

Montero hurling at 97 MPH K’s three up and down in the 4th.

Mize goes 3 hitless and scoreless innings. Good news!

I don’t really care if they win or not because it’s just spring training, but I really do care and it bugs me when they lose. I wish I had an attitude of serene detachment, but I don’t.

Was trying to stay away from social media today but saw my banking app that mlb.tv. Automatically charged me $149.99 as an auto renew and I had no idea I was signed up for that. I got on the phone with them and they assured me that they have refunded it but I’m just waiting for my banking app to update showing it. It’s kind of annoying. Especially because I got the last quarter of the season for only 20 bucks with a special deal last year.

I can only go back so far in the pages of this thread without messing with myself psychologically and emotionally, so if this has already been seen, here it is again. I can only stand just so much exposure to political social media, and although I don’t think we’re going to tame capitalism with boycotts, if this is the only thing I can do, I’m in. I’ve run into a number of people socially who are talking about this. I’m not going to buy anything Friday, although I might go to a Mexican restaurant tomorrow because I know the people there are good people and it’s a family owned place. I’m also going to go dead on social media and not even turn my TV on and for me this is not some sort of self involved conceit, it’s more or less what I’ve been reduced to and I’m admitting that this is what I’ve been reduced to right now. See you all in a couple days.

I guess it’s called spring “training” for a reason. It’s for training purposes, not edification.

Stretching out Maeda into three innings yielded three runs, but five strikeouts. So there is some upside to it and it is spring training.

Tork is channeling his inner Hank Greenberg.

Home Run Jake Rogers homers (1) on a fly ball to right center field.

So, are the pitchers way ahead of the hitters at this time of year?

On the TV broadcast, I noticed that AJ and Fetter were sitting on the steps in the stands to get a better view of the play on the field than apparently they can get in the dugout.

At least we got a hit today because it’s humiliating to be no hit in a spring game.

This game needs to get interesting quick or I’m going out for a walk. The weather has finally broke. It’s almost 50°. It’s sunny.

I wish there was an automatic “home run challenge” in the game.

Jeez Scott Harris looks young.

As for the FanDuel broadcast, the radio feed doesn’t sync with the picture and there’s absolutely no crowd noise in the background and usually there’s at least a little. Hope it will not be subpar all year. i’ve gotten used to it being good. Oh, no ball/strike box either.

Billy Beane

I have no idea who it might be, but I am deeply intrigued.

I really really enjoyed Andy Dirks. This is disappointing.

I’ve had this for a few years and hadn’t really read it, and read the 1980 Joe Falls article about Kaline. I didn’t realize Kaline was such an odd bird. Didn’t know much about his upbringing, his working class origins, or about his moodiness and ill-tempered outbursts. Didn’t realize that when he came up the Tigers only played a handful of night games so he spent his time in a hotel room not knowing what to do with himself.

If that’s a literary allusion it’s over my head, but I’m willing to learn.

Back in the day when Ty Cobb and and I were chewing Laudanum gum and hunting pheasant in the off-season we never lifted weights, and I don’t remember baseball players getting injured and straining their biceps simply by throwing a ball during spring training.

I don’t know if it’s necessarily unacceptable but since I pretty much despise the statement “it is what it is“ I do accept that it’s unacceptable. When you consider the fact that many other franchises that we not without some substance consider historically lesser than our own have won the ultimate prize it is something that it is indeed hard to accept.

I’m not going to purchase doom and gloom about Meadows until I have to. So as far as I’m concerned, he’ll miss a week of spring training and be back in center field, chatting with the unicorns that typically hang on the berm and feeding them tangerine marshmallows.