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In the early 1960s when I first became a fan — and even in the later ‘60s when batting averages fell — it was still unusual for a team to carry four guys in the starting lineup with a sub-.200 or slightly above batting average. you can’t have **** Tracewski (apparently you can’t use the short familiar word for Richard on our site), Don Wert, Ed Brinkman plus some other no-name guy all in the batting order failing on a daily basis but we do. At least these aforementioned guys made some defensive contributions, but being able to play a position should be a given, not cause for celebration. And although you have to adjust for inflation and what not, it’s still maddening that Tork signed for more money than Al Kaline ever made in his life.

Instead of bums, which is what we are.

And he grounds into a double play.

Greene actually has a man on base for him.

Javier Báez rally killer.

God, they’re awful.

I don’t have the TV package to see what these uniforms really look like on the field, but from this photo it looks like something out of Tron. It looks kind of cool, but it doesn’t look baseballish.

Well, we got our run for the day out of the way quickly. See you tomorrow.

Dead man walking.

I like how Lee has used the term “sabermetrically” twice in the last two days, which is sort of like saying “father” instead of “Dad.” I like it. It packs more punch.

I always made the assumption that a guy who played first base in college was sort of a lumbering fellow without a lot of athleticism even if he could hit home runs in college. I assumed he was a one dimensional player, and apparently major-league pitchers have figured out his one dimension.

Yee Godz

Looks like we already got our run for the day. Too bad Casey isn’t pitching a no hit shut out.

Right now we have four guys that Ed Brinkman could out hit.

It would be nice if I had $10 million too, and just as likely as them going back to back apparently.

It would be nice if Keith and Tork could go back to back in the fourth inning.

This umpire is almost as good as the robot umpire calling the game on gameday.

4-6-3 DP

Walla Walla has a nice Downtown and that’s where you can run into Kyle McLaughlin who did all the films with David Lynch. He has a winery there. It’s not the heavily forested area of the northwest though.

I hope the bad old days when we could lose 18 games a year to Cleveland will never happen again. There needs to be some serious karmic payback to make up for that. I’m not hoping for something like out of “Fallout.“ I would just like to see us win more than we lose against Cleveland.

I hope some of the guys that have been struggling can put some good wood on the ball at Yankee Stadium and regain a feel for that.

It’s not exactly like landing on Omaha Beach, but the next road trip is pretty challenging.

The Tigers struck out only five times today.

Zero errors in these last three games per Dan.

This is amazing.