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The Rays tried to give us a gift, but we refused to accept it, because we want to earn those runs.

Nice first by Montero and brilliant strategy to give up an early single to get an easy double play.

That’s a mean and thoughtless thing for me to say. But it would be even more chicken**** for me to delete it, so I’ll just fess up and admit that this is undeserved.

Thank God they kept Herr Enns.

Just saw that Nats Dave Martinez was fired on Sunday along with general manager Mike Rizzo. I somehow missed the earlier posts on this. It’s amazing that they won the World Series in 2019 then couldn’t do a thing after that. This is a hard game.

That’s a good idea.

I don’t think we’re going to need any driveway reports today. Something good happened!

Didn’t Charlie Finley assign colorful names to his players just to make things more colorful, exciting, and quirky?

Keider Montero is now listed as the starter

This is the kind of thing that my daughters would roll their eyes over and say “it’s such a boy thing.“

I’m fine with Montero. It’s better than the pen getting over extended. The next two games are Flaherty and Olsen. There are no starters assigned to the next series by either team.

To maintain a 196 pound weight, and given that at my age I burn calories at a slower rate than 10 years ago even though I walk 2 miles a day, I have to stay at under 1700 cal daily. I was once able to exceed that mark frequently and not gain weight, but that is no longer the case. Banquet and celebration eating as a lifestyle is over for me. On the positive side, the mindfulness and sense of agency required to stick to this regimen is its own reward. At times I feel more comfortable inside my own skin than I ever have at any time previously.

When I was recently pet sitting for two groups of family members who were out of town on vacation, I was yanked out of my usual circumstances and “gained” 10 pounds in two weeks. This was mostly due to bulk and water weight retention due to high sodium intakes and lots of sugar from which I had generally abstained. After going on a sugar fast and eating under 800 cal a day I got back to my normal set weight that I’ve been at for the last couple years. Now I’m slowly eating more every day, but being careful not to break the rules. 10 pounds is a big difference for me because I tire more quickly and feeling bloated is just a yucky feeling. My stomach now automatically winces at the thought of disturbing it with foods and drinks that were the problem. This is good.

I also just discovered that rain is in the forecast for much of this next week in Detroit. Color me not at all surprised. But this is getting really tedious.

I thought Skubal would be pitching the Apple TV Friday night game against the Mariners this week because it would be five days since his last start. But this is not the case, because there’s an off day between series so instead of his next start being Friday it will be Saturday. He’s pitching every five games NOT every five days. Jason Beck says Saturday is currently his next scheduled start. If he were pitching every five days it would also means he’d be pitching on an additional day’s rest for the All-Star game. I was really looking forward to him being on a national broadcast because it’s always a treat to see the announcers gush about him and our other players. And it’s an additional treat because this series will be blacked out for me on mlb.tv because I live in Mariners territory in the Northwest, but this Apple TV game will not be blacked out for me. Will the Tigers finagle their usual patterns of operation to attain the higher social good of having him pitch on Friday night’s national broadcast as well as engineer an extra day’s rest for the All-Star game?

When we played the other teams in our division 44.4444444% that was truly excruciating, and when the Tigers really sucked, and we had a spate of games in September against the teams we were tired of at the end of the season because we were allegedly in some sort of “race“ it was really bad.

Turmoil and despair that’s something that I am really familiar with these last few years. Of course, unlike Cleveland which last won a World Series in 1948 we’ve won a whole two of them since then!

I haven’t really watched the All-Star game in a long time but the idea that we have three starters in the lineup is exciting, finally.

Yeah, I guess going on three days or four days rest isn’t going to kill them. I suppose over half the pitchers are operating under conditions of mild duress anyway.

When I asked this question to google AI, I got gobbledygook saying yes it was a bad idea and no, it wasn’t a bad idea.

Since Scoob pitched today, he is scheduled to pitch Friday, which is an Apple TV game of the evening against the Mariners. If he pitches in the All-Star game it would be on his 4th rather than his 5th day. Is this advisable?

Chase Lee’s W/L is 4-0 in only 30.2 innings of work.

Zach wasn’t named as a reserve to the AL squad.

During the top of the 10th after all the runs were scored that stadium was empty according to the drone shot they showed on TV.

Ha ha ha!