Get ready for big electric bills...

We've had the AC running for a few days because it's hot as hell. And when it's not hot as hell, it's hot and humid. And by humid, I mean swampy.

Since I don't really sleep very well, I decided I would take some screen shots on my phone of the temperature every time I woke up.

The top was taken at 9:27 at night, just before I headed up to bed. It was 83°

The middle was taken just after 1:00 in the morning and it was 76°

The bottom was taken at 4:35 in the morning and it was 72°

Here in western Massachusetts, the summer temperatures at 4:30 in the morning should be around 55° or 60°.

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The Red Sox lost 7-3 to the Royals last night.

Pivetta did not have a stellar start, giving up seven hits and three earned runs over five innings but that was nothing compared to Darwinzon Hernandez.

When Hernandez came in in the seventh inning, the game was tied 3-3. He almost immediately gave up four earned runs, effectively losing the game for the Red Sox.

I have a feeling they'll be sending him back to Worcester in the near future...

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China is launching missiles over Taiwan into the sea to the east of the island. They are also pushing warships over the border between the two countries, effectively invading Taiwan. They are also flying fighters and helicopters over the border. This is frightening the crap out of Taiwan and they have put their military on its highest alert level.

Psycho Nancy says, "Pfft... Their just making meaningless gestures. Look at me! I did a great thing by showing those Chinese that I won't be intimidated by them."

Nancy, by the way, is not currently in Taiwan. She is in Japan, safe and sound.

That entire region is on a hair-trigger and Psycho Nancy just poked it with a stick.

If war breaks out, she should be held accountable for causing the deaths of every soldier who dies defending their island.

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Enjoy these links:

• I'm pretty sure that the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, is a whack job but I kind of agree with him on this.



• This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.



• Yes, alcohol was involved.



• Key product description: "...CRAFTED FROM UNUSED AND DISCARDED SEX TOYS FROM DOC JOHNSON."



• When I was 18 years old, I was going to community college during the day and drinking beer at The Seven Gables Bar and Motel at night. 18 year old Natalie Lucas is delivering babies.



• Only in Florida.

They are a game and half behind the Orioles

I'm not sure that Bloom made the right moves to get the red Sox into the postseason. I hope he did but there isn't anything I'm seeing that makes me feel positive about things.

I will admit to being impressed by one of the minor leaguers they got from Houston for Vasquez. Enmanuel Valdez played in yesterday's Worcester game and I enjoyed watching him. He has a beautiful swing at the plate and his fielding is impressive.

As for the pickups they traded for, Hosmer, Pham and McGuire, time will tell. Boston is a tough market for some guys. They don't handle the pressures from the fans and the media very well. A couple of good examples are Carl Crawford or Pablo Sandoval. Both of those guys fell apart when they played in Boston.

Guess we'll see how this all works out in a couple of months.

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You can visit these links if you want:

• Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you The Loch Ness Fish Worm.



• Are these the same people who get trapped on a stalled escalator? Isn't the water only about a foot deep?



• Sometimes, a banana is just a banana.



• Key entry from our favorite police log: "9:20 a.m. A woman was caught utilizing a parking lot as a toilet."



• This guy should move out of Rhode Island.



• Great fielder. Terrible hitter.

Short post.

I got to watch the Red Sox lose twice today!

We met our youngest and his fiancé in Worcester to go to the Durham Bulls / Worcester Red Sox game. The Red Sox lost that game 3-1.

After that it was a quick trip to Boston to have a late lunch/early dinner and then drop the kids off at their apartment. The restaurant we went to had the Red Sox on so we got to watch the Boston Red Sox lose to the Astros 6-1.

And that is how I got to see the Red Sox lose twice. It's also why this is a late and short post.

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Before I leave you, I want to show you a picture I ran across this evening.

It started out fairly simple: I was looking for an image of Sgt Carter from the tv show Gomer Pyle - USMC when this picture popped up.

It shows Staff Sgt. Ty Carter receiving the Meritorious Service Medal. I thought, "Wow, that guy is no slouch."

Then I looked at the picture even closer and took note of the little blue ribbon covering the knot of his tie.

That, my friends, is the Medal of Honor.

So, yea, Sergeant Ty Carter is no slouch.

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Enjoy these links:

• Soon to be a movie starring Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman.



• Let's get some things straight:
  • Einstein's theories dictate that the faster an object goes, the more its mass increases. As a matter of fact, once it reaches the speed of light, its mass will be infinite.
  
  
  • The Milky Way is 52,850 light years across.
  
  
  • That means it'll take the aliens 53,000 years to reach us and they'll be so huge, they won't be able to move.



• Good job, there North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Marine Fisheries. Good job...

Mixed emotions

The Red Sox won last night, beating the Astros 3-2, which is way better than I expected from them. However, just before the game, they traded Vasquez to the Astros for a couple of prospects.

Vasquez has been part of the Red Sox organization for more than 15 years and to see him wearing a different uniform will be very weird. But baseball is a business and trading a guy who is about to become a free agent is a way to get something for him instead of just letting him go for nothing at the end of the season.

The Astros also picked up another guy who spent his whole career with one team when they acquired Trey Mancini from the Orioles.

Gotta be honest with you, neither one of them look thrilled to be wearing an Astros uniform.

In other moves, the Red Sox acquired Eric Hosmer from the Padres (not sure at what cost) and they traded reliever Diekman to the White Sox for a catcher name McGuire. They also picked up Tommy Pham from the Reds for "cash or a player to be named later"

As for the game itself, no, I did not stay awake for all nine innings. I made it to the seventh inning before going to bed. Not sure I'll do any better tonight.

With last night's win, they moved back to .500 but they remain half a game behind the Orioles in the ALEast.

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We got some much needed rain the other day and then again today but that doesn't seem to be helping us get out of the drought.

I was kind of hoping my lawn might start to turn green again but I don't see much change. The crabgrass and weeds are green, the real grass, the stuff I planted, the plants I want to grow, is brown...

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Enjoy these links:

• I'm starting a death watch for this guy. I give him less than a year before a CIA drone turns him into hamburger.



• If you own a motor vehicle, you might want to root around in the glove compartment every once in a while.



• I wonder what she'll say to the people of Taiwan when China starts launching missiles and hurling bombs prior to their invasion. I bet China has been paying special attention to the worlds reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.



• I usually use a rolled up newspaper...



• Add this to the list of things I don't care about.



• Another reason I drink Bud bottles. They never run out of gas.

Late baseball

The Red Sox took their one-game winning streak down to Houston to play the Astros this evening. Since they are no longer in the same time zone as I am, the game will start later than normal. Specifically, the first pitch is at 8:10 tonight.

The Astros are a really good team so my hopes are not high for the Red Sox to win the series. As a matter of fact, I'm going to be happy if they win one of the three games.

After that, they head over to Missouri to play a four-game series against the Royals. The Royals are not a good team so my hopes are high that the Red Sox will win that series.

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The key phrase in this story is, "My father’s name wasn’t on all the flags that were there that day, that everyone was carrying".

That ass-clown needs to go to jail but his daughter has a valid point: All those idiots were doing what they were doing because that douche bag, The Donald, encouraged them to do it.

He continues encouraging those idiots to this day. Every time he gives a speech and says, "Democrats created the narrative of January 6th to detract from the much larger and more important truth that the 2020 Election was Rigged and Stolen", he feeds their tiny little brains a nugget of a lie that they turn into a "truth".

I've sat in bars and talked to people who are flat-out convinced that the democrats rigged the election. They will tell you over and over about how certain electronic voting machines created fake votes or that more than 10 million mail-in ballots were never counted. They will go on and on about the state of Georgia and hidden ballots.

I usually go home or go sit somewhere else when that shit starts up. Booze and Trump don't mix.

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Tonight is pizza night followed by a few innings of baseball.

Here are some links:

• Farts will no longer be a problem for you?



• If Goofy Joe gets us into a shooting war with China because of Psycho Nancy, I'm gonna be pissed.



• This is why I won't vote for democrats. I won't vote for republicans either but for an entirely different reason.



• I've said it before and I'll say it again: You will never see an attractive person at a public nudist event.



• I'm not convinced Goofy Joe knows how to tie his own shoes which means he probably has no idea what a recession is.



• Key thing no one really needed to know: "He'll hang out with me while I poop."



• Maybe she's one of them unwitting scorpion smugglers...