Verlander tops Scherzer, Urías on leave, some unwelcome injury news, a potential new baseball boss in Queens, BlueSky invites, flying the fecal skies, flamingos, the Big Bang, and the Rolling Stones
Nats win?! I won’t Nats-splain other than to note Jacob Young started the season in A ball and came all the way up five levels. With the 63rd win, the Nats won’t lose 100. Dream big, kids. Nats end up going 6–7 against the Mets – which says more about New York’s season than it does Washington’s, I think.
PS The other news out of Washington is that the Nats fired six domestic scouts, and are reported to have let go four international scouts - not long after the resignation of their director of international scouting. Lots of speculation that this means GM Mike Rizzo is either in trouble or is being forced to clean house (I think these were all his recent hires) by ownership as a condition of being re-signed in the wake of a long, unsuccessful run in drafting and player development. Inexplicably, however, the same team just extended Davey Martinez by two years. Can’t predict ball.
PPS I saw those McCutchen tweets, and I had to say I related to them as a man of a certain (advancing) age. Thinking you’ll just bounce back from something and discovering that no, your body has different ideas, is sadly familiar.
I wake up. I read you and I read Heather Cox Richardson.
Don't worry about the universe. We have colleagues who do overdo it sometimes when faced with surprises. Always thrilled to see that someone is prepared to discuss physics at cocktail parties, where when I answer the question about my profession, ...I can become very lonely. I'm over it.
Sitting here watching the 10-minute MLB round up… Looks like journeyman Mike Ford is having a nice season in Seattle; he will probably get a glowing mention in an upcoming issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly - in between the guy who just got promoted to vice president at JP Morgan Chase, and the woman who just discovered a new species of butterfly somewhere in Africa.
The Cardinals winning a Hudson-Strider matchup is the dumbest most 2023 baseball season thing that could happen. Only way for that to be topped is if Wainwright threw 6 shutout innings tonight and still doesn't get the win.
Oddly, this morning, I finally got the personal Bluesky invite I requested back in July. I'm not sure it's solely a coincidence, but it came into the ol' Inbox one email ahead of Cup of Coffee.
Craigster: if you ackcherly intend to take the train from London to Manchester you really really need to read "Cloud Atlas" first. You will surely have a sense of been there, endured that at first, but by the time you get to Manchester you'll be feeling more like it is more like it is now than it has ever been.
As far as flying the fecal skies, it would not have been Delta I would've thought would turn into a winged Taco Bell. It would have been United, the Airline with the Pole Up its Ass (tm). Then again, I suppose having a passenger shitting all over your airplane would have been a nice change of pace from being reviled because your security service got videoed beating up another elderly passenger.
Cup of Coffee: September 7, 2023
Welp. It appears I'm too late already for the Bluesky invites.
Nats win?! I won’t Nats-splain other than to note Jacob Young started the season in A ball and came all the way up five levels. With the 63rd win, the Nats won’t lose 100. Dream big, kids. Nats end up going 6–7 against the Mets – which says more about New York’s season than it does Washington’s, I think.
PS The other news out of Washington is that the Nats fired six domestic scouts, and are reported to have let go four international scouts - not long after the resignation of their director of international scouting. Lots of speculation that this means GM Mike Rizzo is either in trouble or is being forced to clean house (I think these were all his recent hires) by ownership as a condition of being re-signed in the wake of a long, unsuccessful run in drafting and player development. Inexplicably, however, the same team just extended Davey Martinez by two years. Can’t predict ball.
PPS I saw those McCutchen tweets, and I had to say I related to them as a man of a certain (advancing) age. Thinking you’ll just bounce back from something and discovering that no, your body has different ideas, is sadly familiar.
too late
Ugh, hit the wrong button and lost my post. And need to do my morning walk. So just sharing this news of a tweak to the robo-umps at Triple A.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38301651/triple-robot-strike-zone-get-bigger-starting-tuesday
“You’ll play, Jackson! You’ll play!” I adore every second of John Mahoney’s performance in Eight Men Out. Recommended.
If you didn't get one of the other bluesky invites, maybe one of these will work for you:
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Seems presumptuous that the Flamingos were a result of the hurricane, maybe they are just looking for a drive-in that is showing Barbie.
I wake up. I read you and I read Heather Cox Richardson.
Don't worry about the universe. We have colleagues who do overdo it sometimes when faced with surprises. Always thrilled to see that someone is prepared to discuss physics at cocktail parties, where when I answer the question about my profession, ...I can become very lonely. I'm over it.
Really.
Sitting here watching the 10-minute MLB round up… Looks like journeyman Mike Ford is having a nice season in Seattle; he will probably get a glowing mention in an upcoming issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly - in between the guy who just got promoted to vice president at JP Morgan Chase, and the woman who just discovered a new species of butterfly somewhere in Africa.
The woman in the Stones video is actress Sydney Sweeney.
https://twitter.com/i/flow/signup
Try this place. Clean, cool, mysterious. So exclusive, it’s only known as X. Only invite I have
I feel like Oprah!
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And I'm NCDee on there, if you care.
The Cardinals winning a Hudson-Strider matchup is the dumbest most 2023 baseball season thing that could happen. Only way for that to be topped is if Wainwright threw 6 shutout innings tonight and still doesn't get the win.
Oddly, this morning, I finally got the personal Bluesky invite I requested back in July. I'm not sure it's solely a coincidence, but it came into the ol' Inbox one email ahead of Cup of Coffee.
Craigster: if you ackcherly intend to take the train from London to Manchester you really really need to read "Cloud Atlas" first. You will surely have a sense of been there, endured that at first, but by the time you get to Manchester you'll be feeling more like it is more like it is now than it has ever been.
As far as flying the fecal skies, it would not have been Delta I would've thought would turn into a winged Taco Bell. It would have been United, the Airline with the Pole Up its Ass (tm). Then again, I suppose having a passenger shitting all over your airplane would have been a nice change of pace from being reviled because your security service got videoed beating up another elderly passenger.
Please ppl, I am imploring you to post your @‘s. I need to know who to follow!!! Thank you!