Cup of Coffee: September 13, 2023

Today's recaps are more random than usual, the Mets get their man, the Dodgers get a new pitcher with electric stuff, how our values change as we age, and how the newsletter will run while I'm gone

Good morning!

I fly off to England today but if you think that means I’m mailing in my last pre-vacation newsletter, you’re mistaken. And that’s the case even though the very nature of a newsletter is that it is, by definition, mailed in. Or out. I dunno.

By virtue of my pre-trip excitement I woke up ridiculously early even by my standards and, as a resu…