Make. It. Go. Away.
I imagine Detroit can even up their record to 5-5 pretty easily. I imagine, once things start to click, they will really start to click. But until we get some sort of outburst, the team doesn’t look like its having fun. To quote one Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez,
Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun
Or, from Crash Davis:
You just got lesson number one: don’t think; it can only hurt the ball club.
Last, from Mr LaLoosh, technically also quoting Crash:
A good friend of mine used to say, “This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.” Think about that for a while.
Its just that easy. Step 1: Have fun. Step 3: World domination. Its Jimmy Leyland’s job to figure out step 2. And i’d prefer he do it without Jason Grilli.
I also respectfully disagree with Lynn Henning’s assessment of what’s been going wrong with the team so far. Clete Thomas has played better then expected in place of Curtis Granderson. While he hasn’t (and probably won’t at this point in his career) matched the power of Granderson, he’s hitting .500 and strikes out less. The real problem offensively is Polanco; he’s not moving runners. No reason to think he won’t turn it around, but the leadoff position has been getting on base.
Apologies to Jason Grilli for not enjoying getting booed by the crowd. I’m sure the crowd hasn’t enjoyed paying top dollar to see you stink up the joint. Team called up another pitcher, something’s going to have to give soon.
Something isn’t right with Dontrelle Willis. Rumors are that his velocity was down last year, and everyone thought he was hurt. Now his velocity is back up, but he can’t find the strike zone (7 walks today; career high). After one pitch today the trainer came out to check on him — I think the team thinks something is wrong. I really hope he can figure something out.