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Robert is going to get a stead diet of fastballs boring in on his hands or just under. That’s the supposed weak spot. We’ll see how quickly he can make adjustments. Was happy he at least made contact and almost beat it out when Gyorko took an extra beat getting up and set to throw.

Don't bully us into liking him, :-). Just ask nicely...

1) Not having any fans in the stands, I think having broadcast before....psychologically, you start feeling this subconscious need to be even more entertaining or interesting/funny to make up for that ambient background noise. It's like going from a regular classroom and talking to yourself (unless students have cams and microphones on) through an online classroom, you're just getting almost no feedback and it feels just "off." 2) Benetti is much better on college basketball and even the random college FB games from the Southeast he was assigned. He's still deferring way too much, and he just doesn't have a natural feel for the sport like he does with basketball or even football. Most would argue NCAABB is his best skill. 3) The "insider-ish" stuff about being around the team and being a fanboy needs to end. He needs to have a little more professional distance. It's like he admires them too much...like the young impressionable high schooler or university student granted access to the clubhouse when he didn't/couldn't make it as a player. That's fine, some of the best broadcasters in history weren't excellent athletes, but if you grew up with guys like Scully and Harwell, or Jack Buck....I'll just say he has a long ways to go in terms of telling the baseball stories and lore behind the game that Hawk excelled at. Benetti is from a different generation, he doesn't have that fondness or reference for the 1950's, 60's and 70's that the older generation carried forth until retirement. It's ironic, because we complain about too much "sabes" and analytics, but he's the broadcasting equivalent. I'm almost to the point where I would rather hear him simply do PBP and not so much schtick. Farmer and DJ had that same problem as well, but they genuinely likely each other and had the mutual respect across two generations of MLB. Benetti is still an outsider attempting to fit or belong in the insider's club.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2020/06/05/mlb-biggest-sports-loser-during-covid-19-pandemic/3154841001/ I actually think (televised) baseball will be fine. It works better than FB and BB without massive crowd noise, and the amount of physical contact is so much less than those two sports...plus the huge number of players/coaches/staff required for football. They’re already cancelling non-conference games like Iowa-Iowa State. There’s really a huge hunger for any type of live sports now, the golf challenge with Woods/Mickelson/Brady/Manning just reinforced that. Golf is also well-suited, imo. “A polite ovation of golf claps is in order as the PGA Tour's Memorial Tournament, which won a quiet Sunday night in the ratings. The tournament, which aired on CBS, delivered a 0.5 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 5.25 million viewers.“

This Hospital Cost $52 Million. It Treated 79 Virus Patients. Brian M. Rosenthal New York Times July 21, 2020, 7:13 AM https://www.yahoo.com/news/hospital-cost-52-million-treated-121337052.html

I’ll give another example. 90% of Thais were surveyed recently and answered they prefer foreign tourists (majority are Chinese) to enter their country. Keep in mind, Thailand’s tourism sector is roughly 20% of their economy, and they have super-close (some would say incestuous) ties with China over the last five years, not to mention Belt & Road projects like a railway. Yet they are still afraid of the consequences of another shutdown. Right now, it’s not even certain we will be able to leave for October (national) holidays, and arguably many simply won’t want to deal with the increased hassles. You’ve got major airlines (Quantas) not expecting anything like normalcy before next summer, and Australia and NZ have come out of this extremely well so far. HK/Cathay have been decimated, and that’s one of the biggest Asian hubs, along with Bangkok, Seoul and Tokyo. More and more, outside of European cooperation, it feels like every country is pretty much on its own, and that’s truly unfortunate consequence for our children and grandchildren, to essentially be cut off from discovering the world for themselves . IMO, we are headed towards increasing isolation (because of our Covid response and general belligerence)...fortunately, China has overplayed its hand (and too early), so the pushback is already coming from around the world. It’s hard to imagine two such diametrically opposed superpowers being able to tolerate with each other for more than the next 10-15 years. On top of all that, international efforts to cooperate and collaborate through entities like the WHO, UN, NATO and the World Bank are at risk...not to mention key areas like climate change and global trade that are increasingly veering towards an “every an country for itself/survival of the fittest mindset”. No matter what happens in November, you’ll still have an American society increasingly at odds with itself unless bold, transformative leadership emerges to meet the challenge.

Getting both wasn’t completely realistic in the first place. Whoever really wants to be with the White Sox and his fellow countrymen the most will undoubtedly sign. Most signs point to Colas in terms of that.

We’re also not considering the impact of it hitting South Africa full bore at the moment and running out of control throughout the rest of sub-Saharan Africa... “While South Africa is experiencing a very, very severe event, I think it is really a marker of what the continent could face, if urgent action is not taken to provide further support,” Dr. Mike Ryan, director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, said Monday during a media briefing in Geneva. South Africa has the fifth most confirmed Covid-19 infections in the world, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Ryan said South Africa is experiencing an acceleration in Covid-19 cases, which have increased by about 30% in the last week. “Sometimes, this disease can take off very quickly,” Ryan said. “And sometimes, in other situations, it takes off more slowly, and then accelerates – and it's difficult to understand fully why that is the case.” Ryan noted other countries in the region have seen Covid-19 increases, though their total case counts are still lower than South Africa’s. In the past week, cases in countries such as Madagascar, Namibia and Botswana have increased by 50%, 69% and 66%, respectively, according to Ryan. “I'm very concerned right now that we're beginning to see an acceleration of disease in Africa,” Ryan said. “And we all need to take that very seriously and show solidarity and support to those countries who may now be experiencing increasing numbers of cases and deaths.”

Can essential child care during Covid-19 offer a model to schools this fall? https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/us/child-care-for-essential-workers-lessons-wellness/index.html

Between Oxford/AstroZeneca, Sanofi (French company), Johnson & Johnson, Gilead, Moderna, the 3 major Chinese efforts, the Gates Foundation...Abbott, Pfizer, Glaxo, etc., who's the best positioned right now? Not for investment purposes, because that's completely an overinflated/over-speculated bubble right now, but more from who's likeliest to succeed and for it to "stick"???

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/07/01/june-brought-more-layoffs-and-growing-faculty-pushback/#3aba1d61fcae University teachers/professors are being laid off across the country...and K-12 won't be far behind. There was another more recent article which quoted huge losses/consolidation at the University of Akron, smaller/private liberal arts school and larger/research-based public universities. Cuts across the University of Michigan system, Northern Arizona, etc. Can't seem to find that particular, but the general point remains. The knock on will be the increase in private tutoring/online/one-on-one instruction, with MANY K-12 teachers retiring early and/or not being replaced as class sizes increased with more and more accommodated by online instruction, which doesn't have limits like a unionized high school class typically would (let's say, 33-35 students per room without a special/emergency provision granted to increase those numbers.) Obviously, Balta has already written about this extensively. And, there's that other side of this with teachers/families losing critical health care coverage for their families as well.

Not too fun turning out to be the s-hole country...but any reasonable country in the world, whether Mexico, Japan, South Korea, the DR or Cuba would make the exact same health care decision. Why would you out the lives of thousands of citizens at risk for a sport ruled by billionaires and played by deca millionaires?

Or the broken clock is precisely correct two times per day analogy. Wonder how many others will join Dwight Howard in the “not believing in either masks or vaccinations crowd“? Kyrie Irving? Carl Everett? https://www.yahoo.com/sports/los-angeles-lakers-dwight-howard-coronavirus-covid19-pandemic-mask-nba-bubble-disney-world-antivax-vaccinations-225303804.html

There’s no incontrovertible law that says EE will still be around next season.

50 is expecting a bit too much. Let’s just go with 35 to low 40’s per season...those would still be a HoF trajectory, with all the other tools he brings to the table.

By this same argument, Tatis will be better than Acuna. How old were Pujols or Frank Thomas when they debuted? 21 and 22.

Potential. And it still took Moncada over two seasons to come into his own at the big league level...

Robert...because of CF’s critical nature, will pick up more stolen bases, and, knock on wood, likelier to stay healthy. Of course, you cringe when you see the play from the other day, where he almost screwed up that wrist again. But the confidence is just oozing with these young players...and then you have the three veteran leaders to pair with Anderson, Moncada, Robert, Jimenez, Vaughn and Madrigal.

If Drew Anderson's a 30 man guy for anything but the 2nd swing man for the last spot of the bullpen, we're in trouble. Also, for those no tuning in until now, what are the top headlines from summer camp? Besides Moncada being out and the battle for 2B between Mendick/Garcia/Madrigal? What happened to Rutherford/Adolfo/Gonzalez? Does Collins have a legit chance at making the team? Yermin? Which bullpen guys have stood out the most (noticed Herrera was up to his usual tricks the other day)?

"You're not even a pimple on your daddy's #$^."- Ozzie to MLB umpire Harry Wendelstedt Apparently, Carlos Lee was called out trying to steal second base (which in itself should have upset Ozzie) by Wendelstedt. Ozzie, not liking the call, got into it with Wendelstedt dropped this nugget on him. Wendelstedt claims Ozzie spit tobacco juice on him, but Ozzie says it never happened.

“But, sir, testing is up 37 percent,” Wallace said. “Well, that's good,” Trump responded. Wallace: “I understand. Cases are up 194 percent. It isn't just that testing has gone up, it's that the virus has spread. The positivity rate has increased.” At that juncture, Trump resorted to claiming that the coronavirus isn’t actually all that bad: “Many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. They have the sniffles and we put it down as a test. Many of them — don't forget, I guess it's like 99.7 percent, people are going to get better and in many cases they’re going to get better very quickly.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield said last week, “I do think this fall and winter of 2020, 2021, are probably going to be one of the most difficult times that we’ve experienced in American public health.” “I don't know and I don't think he knows. I don't think anybody knows with this. This is a very tricky deal,” Trump said. To support his dismissal of scientific expertise on the pandemic, he cited misleading speculation, early in the pandemic, that it might disappear in the summer. “Everybody thought this summer it would go away and it would come back in the fall,” said Trump. “Well, when the summer came, they used to say the heat — the heat was good for it and it really knocks it out, remember? And then it might come back in the fall. So they got that one wrong.” The first prominent person to make that claim was Trump himself, back in February, when he said, “Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-interview-fox-sunday-chris-wallace-coronavirus-biden-151605902.html

Fauci early in the pandemic had asked the public not to go out and buy the N95 masks because they were needed by health professionals. He has now strongly advocated for people to wear some type of face coverage, and last week urged governors and mayors to "be as forceful as possible" to get people to wear face coverings. During the Sunday interview, Trump ultimately admitted that he himself had made some mistakes in the coronavirus response but said he would "be right eventually." When host Chris Wallace asked if Trump's errors discredited him, the President said he didn't think so, claiming he has "been right probably more than anybody else." https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/politics/trump-fauci-alarmist-coronavirus/index.html and Trump stuck to what he had said back in February — that the virus is “going to disappear.” On Fox, he said, “I'll be right eventually.” The United States tops the global death toll list with over 140,000 and confirmed infections, with 3.7 million.

Grade 1 6/7 Grade 2 7/8 Grade 3 8/9 Grade 4 9/10 Grade 5 10/11 Grade 6 11/ turn 12 Guess I was off by a year. We have three years of full time KG starting at age 3, Primary is Grade 1-6, Middle School 7-9 and High School 10-12. So glad we spent 6-8 wasted weeks on hydroxychloroquinine!!! In Florida, another state that is seeing surging case numbers, hospitals say they are in desperate need of remdesivir — a medication that has been shown to shorten average hospitalization times — to treat the coronavirus patients who are filling up beds. In response, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced 30,000 vials of the drug were being shipped to the state — enough to treat about 5,000 patients. On Saturday, Florida reported more than 10,200 new cases of the virus and 90 additional deaths, while Missouri recorded a pandemic-high 958 new cases in one day. Arizona, which conducts periodic reviews of death certificates, reclassified 106 deaths as having been from COVID-19, bringing the number of fatalities reported Saturday to 147. Confirmed coronavirus cases around the world have surpassed 14 million, and deaths rose above 600,000, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. On Saturday, the World Health Organization, which also tracks the virus, reported a single-day record of new infections — over 259,000 worldwide — for the second day in a row. The true toll of the pandemic is thought to be even higher, in part because of shortages in testing and shortcomings in data collection. The United States, Brazil and India top the list of cases, and South Africa — with more than 350,000 cases, roughly half of all confirmed infections in Africa — entered the top five this weekend.

Just across the border, pretty sure its their AAA affiliate. Used to be Syracuse.

3rd or 4th...so pretty much middle school/high school/university will lead to continuous spread, too.