Tigers 4
Astros 3
contributed by NeilT
The NRA was in Houston today, along with a Rockets playoff game, and the Detroit Tigers. Like most Fridays I had a burger for lunch at the Boat House at Discovery Green. It was more crowded than usual, with the kind of peculiar crowd one would expect at an NRA convention. Glad to have their money.
Our table was next to a group of exhibitors in matching shirts with nametags that said “Loon Lube”, which reminded me of an oddly disconcerting walk I once had down the personal lubricant aisle at the Montrose Walgreen’s. It’s also the deodorant aisle, and the shaving aisle, and I’m saying right now, loud and clear, I wasn’t there for the personal lubricants. It was startling though, and I revisited the Montrose Walgreen’s on the way home, just to refresh my memory. After all, Fister was pitching.
Swiss Navy. Gun Grease. Boy Butter. It’s not stuff they sell at the Rice Village Walgreen’s. I checked. Gun Grease, that’s pretty funny; so is Boy Butter. At the Montrose Walgreen’s you can buy this stuff in industrial sizes, and in camo.
Astroglide.
Now you know how Fister loads up the ball. Now you know how it feels to get fisted, NTTAWWT.
It was not a bad game, all in all. It’s the first game I recall this season that the Astros came from behind to take the lead. The Tigers went up with one run in the second, and picked up a second run in the 4th on a Cabrera home run.
The Astros big inning was in the 7th, off Fister, who got KY’d with a Dominguez double, then an Ankiel scoring error. Dominguez scored when Gonzalez reached on an Infante fielding error. Ankiel scored on a Grossman single. Altuve, who had 3 hits for the evening and who had warmed the Tigers’ announcers’ hearts, drove in Gonzalez with the strangest hit ever. Astroglide.
Which brings me back to Loon Lube. Do you think it’s only used among loons? Birds, or the human kind?
Veras at the top of the 9th gave up a two run homer to Alex Avila. Use more Boy Butter, please.
Disclaimer: Loon Lube makes a lot of good flyfishing stuff, the best of which makes flies float. I’ve also used their putty strike indicators and their putty weights for sinking flies. If I were Mr. Happy, I would never leave Missoula.