Sacramento A's

The Red Sox are in Sacramento to start a 4-game series against the team formerly known as "The Oakland Athletics", currently known as "The Athletics" but called "The Sacramento Athletics" by me and soon to be known as "The Las Vegas Athletics" by all of Major League Baseball.

For the record, the A's kinda suck and they are currently in second-to-last place in the American League.

The problem I have with that is that the Red Sox seem to play worse against teams that are lower than them in the standings. It's almost as if they play down to their opponents level.

My hope-o-meter is kinda of sketchy for this series.

Oh, and since the games all start at 9:40 at night, I will not be watching them.

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Gas Buddy is full of shit.

I filled my car and my 5 gallon gas can this morning and I paid $3.19 ($3.84 - $.05 member price - $.60 in point accrual) at the Big Y Express gas station. Gas Buddy claims the price is $4.84. That is a dollar more than the actual price.

I don't know when the problem with the Gas Buddy map started but I can tell you that up until a month ago, it was pretty accurate. Now it lies more than the federal government...

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No, Pat, Willie and I have not gone golfing lately.

It's either been too damned hot, too wet, or one of us is off on some trip somewhere.

We will get out there one of these days.

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Here are some links:

• If they do retry him, I hope the death penalty is back on the table.



• I have a feeling some of it is going to Trump family businesses.



• Of course it's going to be cloudy and rainy where I am.

Yea, yea, I know.

Apparently this has become a "I'll post when I feel like it" thing.

I like it.

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The Red Sox are playing pretty well. They won the first game of the series, lost the next game and then won today's game. This gives them the series win.

They are currently in the #2 wildcard slot, a full 1½ games ahead of the Guardians.

They also made a trade with the Nationals. They traded pitcher Connelly Early for infielder Curtis Mead.

Mead is from Australia so I'm hoping he brings with him a certain set of descriptive verbs, nouns and adjectives that will make some people, like me, laugh out loud and other people cringe like the prudes they are...

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In other baseball news, the Worcester Red Sox swept the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. They played a 6-game series and the Shrimp never stood a chance.

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Oh, and this made me laugh out loud:

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Here are some links:

• Another clear case of car violence.



• Minnesota: It's more exciting than you think.

Oops

I forgot to post something last night.

Deal with it.

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The Red Sox take on the Blue Jays tonight and the game is being streamed on Apple TV.

That means no watching for me, just listening.

Maybe Castiglione will be on the call

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Here are some links:

• He does love his tariffs.



• Key idiotic statement in this story: "The president’s speech will be a combination of unifying yet vicious, and serious yet hilarious, all at the same time, if you can imagine that."



• "Explodes" is not the best word for that headline.

15-game winning streak

The Red Sox won game 1 of today's double-header, beating the Orioles 6-3 and tying the franchise 15-game winnings streak.

A win tonight will break the old record from 1946.

My hope-o-meter is past the top of the scale and is approaching "holy shit" range.

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Here are some links:

• The Yankees are upset spoiled little brats because MLB is not treating them like they are the best thing since sliced bread..



• I never understood what people saw in him and his music.



• Key line in this story: "Shanae Watkins allegedly concealed six handles of Tito’s Vodka and and at least 14 packages of Oscar Mayer Thick-Cut Bacon in her shoulder bag.."



• Fashion: I don't get it.

Extra busy day

Today was a very busy day so you get no post.

Also, there is no baseball tonight because it's raining.

Hopefully, tomorrow will be different.