And they lost

The Red Sox could not overcome the fiasco that was the Jedixson Paez experiment and they lost to the Mariners 9-6 last night.

Based on what I saw, they would be smart to never bring that kid back up to the majors ever again. It was awful to watch. It was like watching a position player start a game and try to go 5 innings.

He didn't make it 5 innings, he only made it 3⅔ innings and as far as I'm concerned, that was 3 innings too many.

Today's game started at 4:10 and right now, the score is 4-1 Mariners after 4 innings. They need to get their shit together and start scoring some runs.

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I'm going to watch this game. Here are some links:

• Our country has gone to hell in a handbasket. The U.S. mint has released commemorative coins with Trumps booking photo on them. And by the way, they are $1.00 coins that cost $2.44 each if you buy 25 of them or $1.54 each if you buy 100 of them.



• If you are looking for a job, Tiger Woods is looking for a driver.



• If you are wondering what the impact of El Niño on potatoes is, wonder no more.



• Sometimes work is hard.

Good reset

The Red Sox beat the Mariners 9-8 last night. Story was the big hero of the game when he drove in the winning run in the 10^th inning.

Today is the day the rosters expand by two additional players so the Red Sox activated Kiner-Falelfa from his rehab assignment in Worcester. They also called up some kid named Jedixson Paez who will be the starting pitcher tonight.

All the "baseball wizards" are saying this kid Paez is great and we should expect great things from him, what with him being great and all that.

Personally, I'll be glad if he can get through 5 innings while only giving up 4 runs.

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Here are some links:

• Dementia Donny is threatening Iran with, "The biggest, bestest, greatest attack ever. It'll be a huuuuuuge attack, bigger than any attack by any president ever. People everywhere will be saying how great the next attack will be. There will be more people at my attack than any of Obama's attacks."



• I think what should worry most people is that Trump started a war and Hegseth has removed almost all of the military leadership. That might explain why Trumps war isn't going the way he want's it to go.



• Serial Butt Sniffer would be a good name for a 1970's porn movie.



• I don't understand the need to connect everything to the internet.

Time to reset

It's time for the Red Sox to reset and come into tonights game with a winning attitude!

At least, that's what I'm hoping their coaching staff is telling them because man, they sucked yesterday.

First pitch is at 6:45 and Tolle has the start.

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We had two houseguests today.

My daughter had some work being done at her house today. Rather than leave the dogs there alone to bark and panic over the strangers working in the backyard, she brought them over to our house to spend the day with us where they could bark and panic over any small sound in our backyard. The difference is we were here to say, "Hey, it's okay. It's just an acorn falling out of a tree."

They are good girls and are always welcome here.

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Here are some links:

• I realized this afternoon that we haven't gotten any recent updates on how Mitch McConnell was doing. I'm assuming he's still dead.



• Hey! Tommy Flanagan is back in the news!



• This is... different...

Two losses

The Red Sox lost last night, getting beat by the Judges 9-2.

This afternoon, they went and got their asses kicked by the Judges, losing 16-1.

Yes, you read that correctly, they lost 16-1.

They are now 4 games behind the Judges and 8 games behind the Rays

They are on their way back to Boston where tomorrow they will start a 3-game series against the Mariners.

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Today we dethatched and mowed the lawn. Man, I pulled a lot of crap out of that lawn with that tow-behind dethatcher thing.

My wife did the edges and around the trees with the push mower ao we were able to get the entire lawn done in less than 2 hours which isn't bad considering I have to stop every row to empty the bag of all the dead grass the dethatcher ripped out.

After that, I watched the Red Sox get massacred.

That means I did not spend a lot of time surfing the interwebs for news.

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Here are a some links:

• The Patriots first game is in 10 days.



• Apparently the US still has some munitions.



• Key line in this story: "One official summed up the Hegseth approach as: 'Bombs away!'"



• Seems to be a lot of floods lately.

A loss and a win

The Red Sox lost last night, getting beat 1-0 by the Judges.

The Red Won won this afternoon, beating the Judges 6-0.

Tonights game is at 7:15pm and Gamboa has the start. That means he will go as long as he can before they pull him and put Bello in.

In all honesty, I never have the warm fuzzies when Bello is pitching. Sometimes he's great and other times he sucks. I hope tonight is one of the good nights.

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Dementia Donny has lied about pretty much everything he's ever talked about. The list of things he has lied about is longer than a New York City phone book. Things like, "The economy is doing great!" or "Gas prices are coming down!" or "I did not rape that woman!" and my personal favorite, "The election was stolen! Stolen I tell you!"

He is a pathological liar and he can't help himself. It's gotten to the point where if DD says one thing and Iran says something different, I believe Iran.

Having said that, if there is one time that I really hope he is telling the truth, it's this time.

If his administration was able to put together a 100 year deal with an oil producing nation that is not controlled by a religious dictatorship, it would be great. Particularly if it's good for both us and the Venezuelans.

Unfortunately, I don't believe him...

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The little league world series is currently going on and, as is always the case, the network covering the games does a small profile on each player. As part of the profile, they usually ask a question like, "Who is your favorite baseball player?" or "What is your favorite movie?"

This year, the question they asked was, "What is your dream job?"

Daniel Huang of Canada gave the best answer:

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Here are some links:

• Key line in this story: "...deportation advocate Milo Yiannopoulos was deported Friday..."



• This is why you should always lock your doors.