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It turns out something I enjoy nearly as much as I enjoy enjoying Alejandro Kirk (whom I enjoy a great deal) is enjoying Bob Uecker (whom I also enjoy a great deal) enjoying Alejandro Kirk (which I really do enjoy, I have just now learned, a very great deal also). I make it a point to treasure every inning of Bob Uecker on the radio, which isn't actually that hard to do, because they are so inherently wonderful that they kind of autotreasure. How many catchers do you see hitting cleanup these days! Boy, not many! Lots of stuff just like that got said about Kirk, who went four-for-four with a home run in an easy-breezy 9-4 win for Alek Manoah, who allowed just two of those four runs in his very-nearly-seven innings of work ("one more? one more?" you could see him plead as Charlie Montoyo made his way up the steps). Cavan Biggio, who has been better than ever this last little while, was two-for-two with a home run and two walks, and Uke got to thinking about Cavan's father Craig, which led him to all kinds of reminiscences about Houston, and the ballpark they played in even before the Astrodome, and then the Astrodome, and then how it was a clear roof for the first season, but then they painted it because nobody could see the ball, and then the grass wouldn't grow, and on and on until unfortunately the game ended and everybody had to go to bed. Back tomorrow, though.
KS
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