Just turn the dial ... no, put it on FM first. Then, turn it. Now. Please ... ?
Maggie did as instructed, and we did something baseball fans can do in only a very very small precious few places in the States: cruise through town with the Blue Jays on FM.
The switch was made because Jacob Turner, making a spot start in place of the disabled Drew Smyly, got whacked for seven runs in two innings. Four batters in, the score was 4-0, in a game we sensed was doomed even before pitch one.
Every Angel except the batboy homered.
The Pretenders, recently elevated to Bridesmaid status by qualifying for the second American League wild card berth, managed four singles off two Halo hurlers.
13-0 ... boy oh boy oh boy, as Harry Caray would say during particularly frustrating Cub losses. First shutout in 158 games, a streak that had been the longest active in MLB.
"Scouts In Town To Watch Turner," read a headline in one local paper. Your cynical baseball blogger speculated: Boy Scouts, Webelos, Tiger Cubs (!), Girl Scouts maybe (yes!) while picturing kids in uniforms with a section all to themselves, in the upper deck nosebleed seats.
No, the real scouts were behind the plate, they all left early, and Turner's status as a prospect took a hit right before the trading deadline.
You're only a prospect for so long, before you become suspect. The start was Turner's fifth over two years. The seven runs raise his ERA to 9.15, and the six hits give him 27 allowed in 19 innings.
He goes again next week, in Smyly's spot, and the start may become a career-changing moment for the young man from St. Charles, Missouri who was once regarded as a cornerstone of the Tigers' future starting rotation.
Our other home team also lost, 6-1 at Yankee Stadium.
"Scouts In Town To Watch Turner," read a headline in one local paper. Your cynical baseball blogger speculated: Boy Scouts, Webelos, Tiger Cubs (!), Girl Scouts maybe (yes!) while picturing kids in uniforms with a section all to themselves, in the upper deck nosebleed seats.
No, the real scouts were behind the plate, they all left early, and Turner's status as a prospect took a hit right before the trading deadline.
You're only a prospect for so long, before you become suspect. The start was Turner's fifth over two years. The seven runs raise his ERA to 9.15, and the six hits give him 27 allowed in 19 innings.
He goes again next week, in Smyly's spot, and the start may become a career-changing moment for the young man from St. Charles, Missouri who was once regarded as a cornerstone of the Tigers' future starting rotation.
Our other home team also lost, 6-1 at Yankee Stadium.
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Most of this blog's traffic comes from Russia, and all of it is spam. Although I imagine a young Borat Sagdiyev in the glorious nation of Kazakhstan reading it, to acquire more cultural learnings from America. He's probably baffled. "Why he write so much words about third best baseball men in region?" he may be asking his brother in law. "And you can keep clock radio! Have American transistor radio in brown leather case, with listening phone, made in Japan. Clock radio are for little girls!"
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