1, I had a good conversations about our heating and cooling system and our furnace with the technician who came to the house to do annual maintenance on both. Everything is spiffed up and operating well.
2. Seth, Cas, and later on, Tracy, and I had a terrific time together at The Lounge late this afternoon and on into the evening watching the Major League Baseball All-Star game together.
I devoured about a hundred and fifteen slices of delicious Dominio's pizza and enjoyed drinking about forty-seven cans of Bud Zero non-alcohol beer, or so it seemed.
The game epitomized the beauty of baseball. The National League scored in a variety of ways, first scratching out a couple of runs early on and then, after a handful of ho-hum innings, added four more tallies when Pete Alonso sent a three run parabola into the stands and Corbin Carroll launched a solo rocket of his own over the fence.
Baseball is a game of lulls and surges and after hibernating for six innings, the AL squad woke up and roared to life in the seventh, themselves scoring in a variety of ways. Brent Rooker crushed a three-run roundtripper and Maikel Garcia turned a walk, a stolen base, an error, and an infield groundout into a run, and the awoken AL was within striking distance of the lead.
In the ninth, I loved how Byron Buxton and Bobby Witt Jr. hit consecutive opposite field doubles just inside the right field line and how Witt scored in the most small ball way possible when Steven Kwan legged out a weak chopper to third base for a game-tying RBI.
3. No one else scored and with tonight's tilt tied at 6-6 after nine, the two teams each sent three batters to the plate. Each batter got three swings and earned a point for each home run he hit. The team who piled up the most points would win the tiebreaker and the 2025 MLB All-Star game.
Kyle "I'm just here to have fun" Schwarber turned having a good time into earning the title of the game's Most Valuable Player by parking all three of his swings deep into the Atlanta night, earning the NL three of the team's tie-breaker winning four home runs, and a 4-3 Swing Off/Mini Home Run Derby victory.
Our night in The Lounge featured a lot of first-rate yakkin' about baseball in the past and the present, travel, work, scammers, grandchildren, and a host of other topics, yakkin' made possible by the leisurely rhythms of a baseball game, the stretches of inaction between innings, and our enjoyment of one another's company.
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