Old friends

When the first pitch is thrown in tonight's baseball game, it will be thrown by old friend Eduardo Rodriguez.

Rodriguez is one of those folks who did not fair well with covid. When he contracted covid in 2020, it led to myocarditis and he missed all of the season.

In 2021, he missed a fair chunk of the season with various maladies and at the end of the season, he decided to pass on the Red Sox qualifying offer and he elected free agency.

In 2022, he joined the Tigers where he pitched for a few weeks and then went on the DL for "personal reasons". In June, the Tiger placed him on the restricted list, stopped paying him and he disappeared. There were rumors that he was having family issues but since he did not stay in contact with the team, the Tigers didn't know what his status was.

The one thing I do know about him is he was a pretty damned good pitcher.

Tolle has the start for the Red Sox and I'm hoping he brings the heat. The kid has a fastball that is in the upper 90s, touching 100 occasionally.

The Red Sox need the win because the Judges won last night and are now 1/2 a game ahead of the Red Sox.

Also, the Judges are playing the Blue Jays tonight. That means if the Red Sox win, they pick up a game on either the Judges or the Blue jays, depending on who wins that game.

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Like I said yesterday, the lump sum might be over a billion by Friday night.

I still think $2.00 is a lot of money to throw away because the odds of winning are 292,000,000 to 1.

I figure the odds of finding a winning lottery ticket on the street are about the same as buying a winning lottery ticket...

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I watched some of the Eagles / Cowboys game last night because there was nothing else on.

The NFL has a new rule in place that basically says unsportsmanlike conduct now results on an immediate ejection from the game.

Jalen Carter didn't even play a single snap because, well, Jalen Carter is an idiot.

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Here are some links:

• Speaking of the NFL, seems that Bill Belichick is not happy with Robert Kraft.



• Key line in this story: "He’s just got a lot to say!"



• Apparently firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics didn't fix The Very Stable Genius's decline in jobs.



• Brainworm Bobby is no longer convinced that vaccines cause autism and instead he is now claiming that Tylenol causes it.



• That is a very big fish.