19 thoughts on “August 17, 2018: American Romance”

  1. Shoutout to the pirate and spooky (and especially the spooky family) for letting me chill with them at the game last night.

    1. Co-sign. The Milkmaid, Skim, and Sour Cream were way beyond generous in letting us crash the family outing.

    2. Good times, gang. Cool to finally meet you (Will and I have run into each other a good half-dozen times). Seeing the Twins score the highest I've ever seen live was a nice touch.

  2. Man, just discovered water in my downstairs closet for the second time. In a slightly different area than the last one that required a complete rebuild of the central stack, so not sure what is the cause here. We are averaging a significant repair way too frequently in the three years at this house, now realizing how lucky I had it at my townhome where hardly anything went wrong in 10+ years of ownership.

  3. So, the Baseball Crank, on the occasion of Aretha Franklin's death, asserted that Kelly Clarkson was a better singer than her. Holy shit, who does such a thing?

    Not to mention, I mean set aside ranking someone who just died, how wrong do you want to be?

    1. Kelly Clarkson has a very nice voice that in no way rivals what Aretha was able to do. God, I should think that Clarkson herself, who's pretty cool about this kind of thing, would be first to disagree with them.

    2. There might be a way of saying that without shitting on non parties. And really why are you spending your time giving views to that.

  4. Since the trade, Logan Forsythe has a 1.031 OPS and Brian Dozier has a .932 OPS. Of course, they are both giving far better production at second base than the teams were getting prior to the trade.

  5. Did Bookface break something today? I have not been able to access my news feed on my phone's browser since this morning (says page not found or some such; everything else seems to work as normal).

    I...I...I had to do work today instead of fb-ing! The horror!

  6. A's rally in 9th thanks to a questionable replay overturn and beat the Astros in the 10th to put the A's just 1 game back in the AL West. The A's had the tying run thrown out at home in the 9th but they reviewed it and had it overturned. I didn't think there was any way that replay could be called conclusive to overturn. It was so close, it should have stayed with the ump's call regardless.

    1. I was watching, and I could not believe they overturned that call. Ump was in all but perfect position and it was as close as can be. Certainly no "conclusive" evidence that he got the call wrong. But it did lead to a walk-off donger in the bottom of the tenth, which was cool.

    2. I agree. I think the call itself could have gone withe way, but if the call on the field is "out. Game over." how do you overturn that without blatant, obvious evidence?

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