Inches From Disaster

We had a tremendous storm come through around 6:30 or so.  Winds looked to me like they were hitting 70 mph or so.  I was downtown at the Bingo Tent helping with the big fundraiser for the Farmington High Music Department when I got a text from Jeannie asking me to come home.  A huge tree on our neighbors lawn had come crashing down into our yard.  It dented the second story a bit, some damage to the gutters and such but I think the house pretty much came through in good shape all in all.  Laura was home at the time entertaining a few of her fellow Falcom Marching Banders and it could have been nasty.  So, nobody hurt and no property damage and we all feel pretty lucky.  They tell me it was loud.

Baseball's back on tonight following the All Star break and I've been watching the Red Sox swing back into action.  Tim Wakefield's knuckler ain't knuckling too good and Texas had 6 runs on the board by the time their 8th hitter had come to the plate.  It's 7-0 now and Wakefield has thrown all of 34 pitches and here comes Boston manager Terry Francona out of the dugout and that will be that.

The Tigers open the second half tomorrow in Cleveland but will be watching the game out of Minneapolis tonight as the Twins host the White Sox.  A winny by Minny will put the Tigs back into a first-place tie in the AL Central.

It will be an interesting second half for Detroit.  The Tigers have a lot of games to play against those tough teams from the AL East: 4 at New York, 7 against Tampa Bay (4 there), 8 against the Blue Jays and 3 at Boston (here's hoping it will be Wakefield's turn in the rotation for one of them!)

Additionally, the Tigers have a ton of games, 20 of them, versus the teams they are battling for the division title and mind you to make the playoffs this season you are going to have to win this division because the wild card team is coming out of the east for sure.  Detroit has 14 games left against first-place Chicago (8 at home) and 6 to play versus third-place Minnesota.

Gotta go.  That Twins/White Sox game is coming on...