The Indians Beat The Blue Jays Tonight In A 19 Inning Marathon To Win Their 14th Game In A Row

I got home after work and took a much needed tiger snooze with The Martian playing in the background and this game was in the 15th inning.  Woke up after from an absolutely dominant nap piece, looked at my phone, saw the game was in the 19th inning and decided to flip it on.  As soon as I turned over to the game the final out was being recorded.

A few quick things here:

1. I never wanted to live in a world where Cleveland was somewhat-ish the center of the sports universe, but here we are.  Thank god for Johnny Football. Fuck outta here, Cleveland.  Anyways, right on the heels of an NBA Championship, the Indians are playing the best baseball in the league right now, winners of 14 straight, and might just be a top 3 or 4 team in all of baseball.  Sabermetric geeks have loved The Tribe for the last few years and they haven’t really clicked, but they’re starting to play as Bill James would have predicted they would.

2. Michael Brantly has hardly played this year, and he’s their best player BY FAR.  Dude’s a freak in all facets of the game.  He started hitting off the tee this week, and will probably be back sometime right after the All Star break.  Basically what I’m trying to say is once he comes back, the Indians are gonna run away with the division

3.  Darwin Barney got the loss in relief for Toronto today.  Every time I see him playing I think to myself, “how in the fuck is Darwin Barney still playing Major League Baseball,” but he’s had a sneaky good year for Toronto getting semi-regular at bats.  Prior to 2016, he had ONE good year in his career, 2012 with the Cubs, but other than that he’s hovered around being a below replacement level player in his 8 big league years.  Once again, never thought I’d pull up his stats and see he has a .294/.343/.725 slash line on a solid team, but here we are.  What a day to be alive.

I really hope you enjoyed reading this Friday night blog on the Indians and Blue Jays.   Normally I would be out frequenting the saloons on a Friday, but Lake Michigan decided it’d be fun to swallow my wallet whole last weekend and I don’t have any form of identification/credit card/ cash until my dad finds my birth certificate, which ain’t happening either.  It’s basically like I don’t exist.

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