So, I am not made for humidity. Earlier this year I started assisting a volunteer program that works outside. I will be the first to volunteer for January shifts, but as the college kids are out of town, they need me for all these humid days too.
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Interesting take from Keith Law in the Athletic (q and a on the draft)
(No link because it was the daily email)
Link. There was another article about the jump from AAA to MLB being harder than ever that I can't find at the moment.
Found it: "Why top hitting prospects are having a harder transition to the majors than in the past".
That’s quite a throwaway comment in a mailbag. It’s counterintuitive — has the reduction of roster spots for “organizational filler” guys who are repeating levels driven that decrease? One would think the decrease in roster spots would have concentrated the talent pool a bit, but apparently MLB screwed this up and destabilized its development chain.
Reading the article sean linked to above, cost-cutting seems to be part of the problem:
So MLB, which had predicated its player development on a serfdom model, destabilized it by, in part, being too cheap to maintain the competitive integrity of its minor league system once indentured servitude became socially unacceptable.
I’ll bet the NFL is laughing all the way to the bank since the development of its players has been outsourced to universities that will now be paying their
student-athletesentertainment division employees while the NFL waves non-guaranteed contracts at the end of the CTE tunnel.Save money now to spend more overall with minor leaguers taking longer to establish themselves.
Double check that, NYT
close enough…
They should have just written "not on the coasts".
Right! "One of those towns that starts with an 'M', whatever."
bridging Bluesky and Mastodon how-to
Thanks for the vibes and thoughts, friends. Back to New Orleans this afternoon. Those of you on the mothership, this heat ain’t shit. I’ll be deplaning into someone’s mouth where I’ll live for the next 4 months. Jobu, you wouldn’t enjoy nawlins in the summer.
Ground ac out in aircraft. Check engine light on on dashboard. Dented engine. Deplane. Walk F to C for new plane. Crossed fingers.
Covered parking kiosk broke, had to park in open lot. H U M I D. Have to change shirts after the long wait for a shuttle. Blah
Cleveland has already lost to Tampa Bay, 0-2. A win today puts us just 3.5 games back going into the break. We were 9 games behind Cleveland less than three weeks ago.
Meanwhile, no hitter alert
Snell unusually efficient today.
About to go into airplane mode -- fix this debacle please
No-hitter over might be the best I can do.
Margot with a single in the 7th to break it up.
Few pitches, and nice defense. Going into the All-Star break this could definitely be something...
And on cue...
Margot giveth and Margot taketh away.
With some major help by Lee.
Dude, keep it in front of you!
Bux catches that.
If he's healthy enough to punch run, why not have him in CF for an inning?
I am a bit surprised Baldelli didn't swap one of the outfielders for Camargo to leave Buxton in center. Something something double switches too hard.
SF breaks up the HR streak and the series winning streak
We lost power last night. I bike 20 miles this morning and he to go under 3 downs trees, climb over 2 more, and pedal off the trial to go around several more. Learned that two of my siblings also lost power despite being miles away. Only my sister's power has returned, so it looks like 10 people will be hunkering down at Papa Young's tonight.
Thankfully, we live in the MAC improvement zone, and all the noise improvements have sealed the house up tight. This, it's only 75 upstairs despite no AC all day.
Well, d@mn, now Carlos' plantar fasciitus is back
And now in a different foot.
TiL his last name is Oppenheimer Jr