IdahoBert

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.

6 RBI day for Riley

I hate this umpire. 4 inches out of the strike zone is a strike and then they throw the next three pitches that are a foot and a half out of the strike zone

I remember years ago when the Tigers were playing the Red Sox they had an eight run lead off of Wakefield I think and the Red Sox scored 10 runs in return and beat us.

If the Tigers bat around one more time, and Riley comes up in the 9th, he could be facing an infielder and end up with the three home run day.

This ump sucks so bad that the Astros catcher had his mit 2 feet out of the strike zone. Pushing it as far as they can.

Three hit day for Colt Keith.

This keeps happening. I stop watching for some reason and a big rally occurs without me. It’s like Schrodinger’s Cat but every time I take a nap or my attention span lapses runs are scored in the box. It’s like I’m bad luck or something if I’m focused on the game. I’m amazed that Kelly could just now hit a homer with me paying attention.

What are rotten day for me to lose track of time take a midday nap because I am old and miss 10 runs being scored? and it’s the free game of the day on TV?

That’s good to hear, but I’m not jealous. I am seething with petty infantile anger. That’s worse than jealousy.

I keep feeling like Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath: fleeing to a land of white picket fences where we think we’ll be safe and when we get there, it ain’t what we expected. It feels like we’ve crossed the whole damn continent in the last few years and we still haven’t got to where we want to be. It’s galling to think how teams like Baltimore and KC have fallen so low then rebounded beyond us.

Anyone who pronounces “Merry, Marry, and Mary” differently probably pronounces “banana” as “bah-NAH-ah,” and wears a bow tie and a corduroy jacket with patches on the elbows. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

I am aware of a Northern Minnesota accent, but not a “Michigan accent.“ I grew up in Northeastern Indiana, and I’ve never noticed that anybody from Michigan speaks in a way that made me notice a difference from what I take to be standard Midwestern speak.

I really like Andy’s insights.

2-run Malloy heroics

Malloy>Tork

Malloy HR

Riley HR

Let’s at least keep it at seven runs for Washington so a walk off grand slam would win it.

Tigers in the mirror are closer than they appear! God, I love this!

We got our run for the game early today

Leadoff homer by Matt!

Whoa! I went to put cream in my coffee and by the time I came back and after only nine pitches, the first half of the first inning is over?

A rookie pitcher and they’ve never seen his stuff? Even Miggy and Prince in their prime couldn’t hit a guy like that when they were on the Tigers. A whole lineup of Tiger All-Stars would be flummoxed by that. Hopefully we will only face this future Sandy Koufax once.

I wish we played the White Sox 17 times a year like we used to. They suck. They would be easier to beat.