IdahoBert

The tedium of seeming mediocrity or worse is really starting to wear on me.

Fire @gehringer_2! 🙃

Winning in baseball Is like stroking rich sable When you were a child (my haiku)

I really enjoy Bobby’s insights. His tales of being a ball player are very good. It’s not just reminiscences. He was having a hard time with high breaking pitches and one of his coaches said that a pitch like that was already a home run and that all he had to do was to “tap it.“ It was a description of the minute mechanics of a specific challenge that evoked a sensuous immediacy. He has a good voice and a good sense of presence too.

I’m killing Nazis, and I’m having a great time.

We should probably consider ourselves lucky to get out of that bottom of the first and down by only one run.

I’m re-watching Sisu for the eighth or ninth time because killing Nazis is more pleasurable than losing to the Sacramento Athletics. Good luck to all…

Had the pleasure of helping a family of former Michiganders who had just moved to Idaho and still had Michigan license plates on their two vehicles parked one next to the other, one of which had the hood up with a dead battery, at one of our Trader Joe’s. The dad is an engineer, and Micron Technology here is going through a big hiring phase and he’s a new hire. I found it amusing that a person who can understand the ins and outs of memory and storage products, including DRAM, NAND flash, and SSDs didn’t know how to jump the battery in his minivan. But he had all this rarified technical knowledge - at least in my eyes - but not practical knowledge like that. It reminded me of another engineer I knew who was high up in the Micron hierarchy that I met here in 1988 who had a VHS tape player that always flashed the time 12:00 12:00 12:00… that he had apparently never figured out how to set. Those of you who are engineers or work with engineers might find this amusing or instructive in someway. I did

Or some McKinstry?

Sure could use some divine intervention on our side.

Sure could use some Dingler magic

We sure could use some Javy magic

We sure could use some McKinstry magic right now

Cool.

This team is trying to emulate Todd Jones, but on a collective level. What a roller coaster.

She loves me, she loves me not. She loves me, she loves me not. She Loves me!

Riley Greene hits a grand slam (32) to center field. Jake Rogers scores. Colt Keith scores. Gleyber Torres scores.

It feels like we’re facing the Brewers or something.

I think I’m gonna watch YouTube videos about car crashes since that would be more optimistic than following this game.

Three run homer Wilson.

This game is not beginning the way I hoped but more or less the way I expected, and who knows Morton might work his way out of it.

Last night’s game should’ve been “the gimme” of any opportunity we had out there. I’m not particularly looking forward to the next two games. They were talking on the TV broadcast last night that the clubhouse facilities are so meager that there was no place for Skubal to stay limber during a long inning when the Tigers were batting. Sometimes reality sucks.