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It’s uncanny. It happens a lot. But they seem to suck more often when I’m not paying attention too. It may not be statistically significant.

I got back from my walk at the botanical garden, heated up a couple egg rolls and kept checking, but the game hadn’t started yet and suddenly when I do check I see we have a 9–0 game going on. Once again when I’ve absent, the team does better.

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At least we’ve avoided the tedium of both teams no hitting each other, which in the case of each would be due not to great pitching, but to bad hitting. They’re like two hobos fighting in the alley for the driest place next to the dumpster in which to pass out.

Until it’s a normal ballpark.

It was so strange to watch the Yankees Braves game on Apple TV last night. Everybody looked like they knew how to hit a baseball. You could read it in their body language when they walk to the plate like they had contact harbored in their bodies, waiting to be expressed through the barrel of the bat. I sometimes think our guys are afraid of the ball. They look tentative, not confident. Sometimes confidence is mere performativity, an act. But in the other game I watched last night, these guys all seemed to know what they were doing, and a lot of times our guys don’t.

I never do AI.

This is one of those few instances where two runs is enough. It’s going to be frightening when we play the Phillies.

I like the new uniforms. It looks like the kind of uniforms a team would wear in a video game if they were playing a sport called Murder Ball.

We scored runs? It’s raining runs, hallelujah. It’s raining runs…

Braves up 2–0 on a homer no outs. I’m watching this game to root against the Yankees not to root for the Braves.

I’m following this game on my phone, but I’m watching the Braves and the Yankees on Apple TV and I saw the Dontrelle Willis is now an announcer. Too bad he didn’t work out for us. He started his career in Boise, Idaho and for years he called his host family every week to talk to them because he got really close to them. He’s a cool guy. Once again it’s a shame he didn’t work out for us.

Why did the word pretty get starred out?

In our defense, it’s not like we’re the Chicago White Sox, but that’s not bunch of defense. This is really pitiful.

I doubt if nine fouls in one at bat is a record, but that’s a lot.

The way you guys are carrying on you’d think Mize gave up two runs in the first inning. Oh, wait….

I hope we score a run tonight.

Losing games like this gets old.

I do not want to be no hit. I am purposely avoiding this game because when I don’t pay attention to it, they have cloud bursts of runs occurring. Hopefully, that’ll work today.

Cabbage. Now that’s a name that’ll make you get tough or die, to paraphrase Johnny Cash.

I don’t see many TV broadcasts, but is that sort of an “ice sling” on Jack Flaherty‘s arm? I’m just assuming that’s what it is.

Three guys with 4 hits and one with 3 hits. That doesn’t happen often. Wow!

TIGERS WIN!

If the Tigers allow no more than seven runs in the bottom of the ninth this is a good day for me. I’m flexible.