They got rained out last night

Freakin' Buck Showalter decided to start the game even though he knew it was going to start raining before they made it through one or two innings. They ended up playing two innings before the rains hit hard and washed the game out.

This means the five runs they scored don't count, the three home runs they hit don't count and the innings that David Price pitched doesn't count.

As for tonight, they are in Boston to play a four game series against the Twins. It looks like they might get the game in since the front that brought them rain this afternoon has now moved offshore.

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Time for some Information Security stuff.

Exactis "accidentally" exposed it's 340 million record database to the internet last month.

You may be saying to yourself,  "So? I never heard of Exactis. What's the big deal?"

The big deal is that Exactis is a marketing/analysis firm that has been actively collecting all kinds of data about us for the last several years. They know all kinds of things about you. Things like your favorite beverage, how many kids you have, your phone number. what sports you like, your spouse's name, what kind of shoes you wear, how old you are, what your favorite tv show is, etc....

You get the point - they know everything about you.

And those 340 million records?

Well, they are the data repository that Exactis kept on all of us. And by all of us, I mean the 326 million residents of the US and the 36 million residents of Canada.

Here's what I want you to know -

I expect you may start to see "personalized" spam and scam emails. Things like, "Hey Bob. How's Jean? Hope all is well with you and your two kids, Timmy and Lester. Sure would be a shame of little Timmy had a bad accident. How about if you send me a couple of bitcoins so Timmy doesn't accidentally slip on a loaded gun or something like that..."

This is the world we live in now and we all need to be vigilant. Scammers are good at using social engineering to get you to do what they want. Your goal is to be as skeptical as possible and just delete the emails.

In the meantime, I'm hoping this breach gets Congress of it's ass and we get a law similar to Europe. They have a law called the GDPR which basically says, "My information is my information and unless you have my permission, you can't use it. You can't collect it, you can't sell it and you can't analyze it unless I say you can."

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While you are being skeptical and stuff, try these links out:

• Yes, alcohol was involved. Also poor dental care.



• Pffftttt. We call this kind of  thing "Tuesday" on the Mass Pike.



• Mom of the Year.