* Headline from KSR:
Kentucky adds some depth.
lol.
* Elly de la Cruz is everything we wanted and then some. Absolutely manufactured the winning run yesterday against the Cardinals.
- walk
- moved to 2nd on a groundout (would have been a fielders choice otherwise)
- moved to 3rd on a passed ball
- scored on a groundout with the infield drawn in (looked like the throw beat him by 5 feet, too)
The dude is absolutely electric. 3 games out. Let's get Nick Lodolo healthy, call up CES, and go ahead and win this division.
2024 NL Champs.
* That's a wrap on the race production business until September/October. Lass took the leap and decided to run our race business full time this year, and the past 2 weekends she produced a 2-race series taking place at twin bars (each one on different sides of the river). Hugely successful, great turnout, made some coin, and got tons of positive affirmation. She's going to be great at this.
* When I picked up the pup, the volunteer at the shelter said "3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months." A little cliche for the amount of time it takes most dogs to make new strides in their comfortability in their environment. He was so right. First 2-3 days and our poor guy was terrified. Just hid in the corner and shook most of the time. We're 4-5 days in now and the guy is fun and playful and turning into a maniac. I love it.
* Conventional wisdom says you can't send a starter out for a couple innings, sit him for an extended period (like a rain delay), then send him back out once again. I disagree, but whatev.
So if you're wondering why LSU bitched out and refused to play until the rain was 100% certainly past, that's why. No taking chances when their ace was on the mound. F them.
* Party in the USA still slaps.
* Seriously, I cannot believe Joe Rogan interviewed f'ing Jelly Roll. I tried to listen but couldn't. He's so completely awful.
* We're grinding our own beans and I'm drinking coffee black nowadays. Really upping my snobbery.
* Don Winslow -- The Cartel.
2nd in the series, which is really good. Just don't follow that goofball on social media.
* Next up = either Chaos (Tom O'Neill, about Charles Manson/CIA/etc), or Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky, the pedo).
* Corbin Carroll likely has NL ROY on lock, but that idiot/loser/clueless Matt McClain is having a pretty epic season in his own right.
.336 with 21 runs scored in his first 25 games. Wake up, America. This dude is legit. The epitome of the professional hitter.
* The social media hype for Matt Rife tickets, I'm convinced, is some sort of Russian bot/Ticketmaster collusion or something. He is talented and sexy, though. Gotta give him that.
* Was talking to a dude the other day who worked for years as a civilian contractor in the middle east. In Kuwait, alcohol was illegal, so they would have to pay $500 for a bottle of Jack Daniel's from their "dealer."
So anyways, that Riyadh tour stop next year should be fun for some of these guys. I assume John Daly and Pat Perez will sit that one out?
* Tittays.
