Blarney Stone

The Blarney Stone is the other Irish bar on Woodward. It is a good thing we didn't go to Duggan's last night as the place was on fire according to the TV playing over our heads while we ordered at the Stone. Wait staff was good, but few. I only saw two girls covering the whole bar with a bartender taking care of the regulars at the big rectangular bar. I got the Blarney special. Two 1/4 pound patties with american, lettuce and tomato. I couldn't shake the idea that the patties were Bubba burger patties. They just looked too similar. Mine was a little cold by the time I got to it. Not the fault of the staff of the Blarney Stone. I was sorting out our tickets for the next month or so, and wnated to get them put away before I ate. It looked good, just didn't have the juice and flavor I would look for in a 4+ burger. 3 napkins for all the cheese.

I thought I was going to the game last night, but got to the bar and realized that this was the only game in July that we had actually sold. This old age is a bear. I write everything down so I don't forget, than I don't remember to look at what I had written.

What is going on with the Tigers? Thank goodness the Seattle starter was throwing batting practice for the first 3 innings or we would have let this one get away too. Does every pitcher coming in from the bullpen have to give up a homerun? I still think that if we don't get to the playoffs this year, it will be because of the weak hitting, not the pitching.

Since Zoom-zoom is on the DL, how about we use this as a time to make him back into a starter? He looked great in the 16 inning game pitching 5 innings. He took a little off of the fastball, located it better and it seemed like he belonged there.