IdahoBert

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I’ve got my fedora turned inside out. It’s now a rally fedora.

I swear, “the green monster” is virtually the fifth horseman of the apocalypse.

I wish the Tigers would wear the old gray road jerseys from the 60s every now and then. It would make me extremely happy.

Glad that wasn’t one of those cheap home runs.

Wearing the usual road jerseys today, so we’re doomed.

Thanks for reminding me I’ve got that.

So be it. Reminds me of the opening of the Woodstock movie: It's been a long time comin' It's goin' to be a long time gone. Appears to be a long time, Yes, a long, long, log time Before the dawn.

I am not used to being around so much optimism. I might even be won over to optimism.

Now THIS is baseball:

It was a lot nicer to have an owner — however, complicated and inconsistent — who actually ended up caring about this team and who loved it instead of his children who see it as just another financial obligation, a mere business.

I just watched all three homers in replays on the TV and those were three classic monster homers. I hope they do this the whole series. Even Tork could hit a homer here, if he can figure out how not to strike out three or four times a game.

I missed this game because I was taking the 2-hr. drive from my friend’s place in the mountains up north back to Boise and phone coverage was spotty so I didn’t even try to follow the game and I’m glad it turned out like this. What a treat. My friend’s place is in Donnelly, Idaho and it’s a very modest 120-year-old cottage built by Finnish pioneers who moved here after fighting in the Spanish-American War. This is the view from the second floor of the mountains behind the place.

I really like how mlb.com keeps telling me how great other players on other teams are hitting, NOT. They act like I’m supposed to care about other teams in general and want to be informed. They might as well be telling me about the Kardashians. I care that little about how well other teams are doing.

The seven-run ninth inning walk off that we’re going to experience right now is something we will be telling our great great grandchildren when we are living in space colonies and have had our brains replanted in robot bodies.

The thing that’s funny is that when I was eight years old in 1960 I laid down a ruler on a map and Detroit was 1/32 of an inch closer than Chicago but when I did a Google search a few years ago to the addresses of each respective stadium Comiskey Park was 3/4 of a mile closer than Tiger Stadium so it’s possible I could’ve become a White Sox fan which is sad. I was already listening to Ernie and he had won me over, but still if I went by which Team was closer I could’ve become a White Sox fan.

He was noted for hitting homers on Sundays and when I was a little kid, the first game I was ever taken to was at Comiskey Park against the Yankees and he, of course, had been traded to the White Sox by then and he did indeed hit a Homerun and each game of that doubleheader. Of course I was crushed because we weren’t going to Tiger Stadium but the idiots at my dad‘s Elks Club that took us to the game chose to go to Chicago instead of Detroit, even though they were equidistant from where we lived.

Didn’t he hit a home run in each game of another doubleheader? This makes him sort of like Sunday Charlie Maxwell.

Andy Dirks called it. Matt Vierling homers (7) on a fly ball to left center field.

On both the TV and the radio broadcasts I notice that the ads cut off the announcers an awful lot of the time and it’s really annoying and I’m not sure who to blame. The announcers seem to be doing what they’ve always done so I guess I have to blame who’s ever controlling when the ad kicks in.

Let’s get this kid some runs!

At least Montero doesn’t have the deal with a cloud of accusations about gambling. I’m trying to put a good spin on this.

Quick first MLB inning ever for Montero.