All good in my old ‘hood Guardians edition

Welcome to Friday the glorious almighty weekend!! All pretty good in my old ‘hood after a huge Cleveland Guardians win 8-6 over the San Diego Padres last night. Let me get this out of the way too…yo too many of the Guards pitchers…stop having Aerosmith’s “Walk this way” as your favorite tune! I know many will show me stats that they really do not walk that many but sheesh stop walking lead off men and the 8th or 9th batters! That is, it.

Now why is #BaseballTheBest (Thank you Sarah Langs for that fitting description of the game!)? Guards lose the first two in San Diego, win last night and will go to Arizona to play a very good Arizona Diamondbacks squad. Surprising? To me yes! Now the “good guys” will win two in Phoenix and end the road trip 3-3! Kapowee…a successful journey. Now some words of wisdom to Guards Hurlers – many of you were apprehensive (ok, you look somewhat nervous!) in facing some of the so-called big names on the Padres! You look at the D’backs lineup and say, “no problem, dude.” Well, this is a team that is 41-28! They obviously can play.

One other note and the young fella should have a bright future with Cleveland, but Gabriel Arias is NOT a RF. He truly has been hurting the team with his bat and fielding. Now do I rather have him or Owen Miller as an infield back up? Gabe for sure even though Owen is playing good ball for the Brew Crew at 2B (we’ll see them next weekend), and I would take Nolan Jones in a heartbeat in RF but alas he is with the Rockies!

Go get ‘em Guards!! Watch out for the fangs on that rattler! As always enjoy every sandwich. Adios Amigo…long may you run!!