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My son saw Kyle Schwarber hit a home run in his first professional at bat with the Boise Hawks in the NWL in 2014. He went to the game with friends because I had to work that night.

Jack is pitching a good game.

Gleyber admired his work.

Gleyber Weavers it!

Gleyber long gone

You’re right that’s it. It’s the weird contrast.

The centerfield camera when it’s focused on the pitcher, the pitchers hat has an orange glow on it

Javy singles

Wenceel singles!

Captain Jack is dealing!

That’s a good deal. I got it a few days before Mother’s Day for half price and the season was clearly not even half over.

Hey, this is a game thread not a political thread.

I wonder if this also means that they’re not looking for guys who are simply mercenaries and looking for the biggest payday possible. I’m just thinking out loud because the general assumption is that players are only motivated by the largest paycheck. I wonder if this could say something about how interested the Tigers are in signing guys to seven year $50 million a year contracts either in free agency or to keep existing players.

Scott said in a clip I hadn’t seen yet that the Tigers really like guys who are with them “for the right reasons.” I presume that means buying into the ethos and culture of the organization. I guess it could mean something else but that seems like the more obvious choice.

Finally.

Still no pregame show and apparently the Phillies are having some honoring old guys who were Phillies thing going on so this game might be starting at 7 PM, but I can’t see why FanDuel can’t do a pregame show yet.

So MLB is trying to broaden its base with NASCAR fans who have presumably never heard of baseball before with this Bristol thing?

Getting back to baseball <cough, cough> both the MLB site and this game thread are saying the game begins at 6:45 PM but the FanDuel schedule tells me it begins at 7 PM. Is Philadelphia celebrating “Safe Streets Night” or something before the game and that’s the reason for this disparity?

I think this whole thing about Scott Harris being “hard to deal with” is that he doesn’t play by the rules many others adhere to and since he doesn’t obey it irks them. The Tigers are doing something different other teams don’t understand. There are those who merely understand “big guns“ and more of them as the beginning and the end of it all. But it’s really a question of the difference between a “frontal assault“ that is merely additive, and an “asymmetrical war position” which identifies unique strengths, and exploits weaknesses in other teams leading to an advantage. It’s sort of the difference between merely adding more cheese to an omelette and thinking you’ve accomplished something, and adding chopped onions and peppers and some curry powder and changing plans to make a quiche instead. It’s the difference between Guy Fieri and Anthony Bourdain.

Being an early out can happen to team. Just ask the Seattle Mariners.

Minus the music traditions, and the cars, and countless other things, and whereas there is a South Philly, there is no South Detroit.

Lynch spent the most formative years of his childhood in Boise where I now live between 1955 and 1960. I sometimes take a walk past his old house just for the fun of it and imagine what it was like when he set off a pipe bomb in the city pool across the street and how he’d roam around with his friends in the foothills and nearly drown in the canals that crisscross much of Boise. He talks about it in the HBO documentary “the art life.“

As an interesting aside the film maker David Lynch spent a good part of his early 20s in Philadelphia and had this to say about it: “Yes, Philadelphia is horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there was so much fear and crime that just for a moment there was an opening to another world. It was fear, but it was so strong, and so magical, like a magnet, that your imagination was always sparking in Philadelphia. I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.” — David Lynch

We are living through the footballization of all sports programming. Everything is being reduced to Cub Scout virility rites re-imagined as combat between “real men,” and an appreciation for the graceful nuances of the game are trivialized to base spectacles because that’s what “the public” wants, allegedly.

He missed the first month of the season due to lower back strain so it’s too bad we didn’t try to trade for him. He would’ve fit in really well.