Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 5:00 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 60° under clear skies, but it feels like 57° with a wind blowing out of the south @ 15 mph. The overnight low is forecast by the NWS to drop to 52° before we rise to today's high temperature of 63° under partly-cloudy skies. Later tonight, the low is forecast to drop to 52°. The rain is forecast to fall from Thursday through Sunday, but I'm not holding my breath, as that forecast is often inaccurate. 

The NWS is showing a barometric pressure of 29.88" of Hg and steady, while my own DTWS is showing 29.30" of Hg and also steady. The sun will rise this morning @  7:17 a.m. and set 13 hours later @ 8:17 p.m.

Baseball news was mostly good yesterday, as the 3 - 1 Cubs defeated the 1 - 3 Brewers at the Friendly Confines, 5 - 3, behind a great pitching effort by 1 - 0 RHP Trevor Williams, with a stellar closing effort by Alec Mills to get the save. 

The Cubs and the Brewers take the field again this evening @ 7:40 p.m. EDT, when young RHP Adbert Adzolay takes the mound for his 2021 MLB debut. Long gone, are former Cubs pitching stalwarts, Jon Lester and Yu Darvish.

My beloved 1 - 3 Red Sox finally won their first 2021 game, 11 - 2 over the visiting 2 - 2 Tampa Bay Rays. The Sox gave starting and winning RHP Nick Pavetta, 1 - 0, terrific offensive support, including a four for five day at the plate by the X-Man, SS Xander Bogaerts. The Sox and the Rays return to the field tonight @ 7:10 p.m. EDT when LHP Martin Perez goes for the beloved.

The now 2 - 2 Tigers came back to earth yesterday, as they fell hard to the 3 - 1 Twins, 6 - 15. Rule 5 acquisition, Akil Baddoo, continued his torrid pace at the plate, with a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth. However, that was much too little and much too late, as the only other runs scored by the Tigers came on solo home runs by Victor Reyes and Wilson Ramos. If the Indians could stay at Comerica Park for every game, the Tigers would lead their division from start to finish in 2021.The Tigers and the Twins play again today @ 1:10 p.m. when Detroit fans get their first MLB look at rookie phenom, RHP Casey Mize.

Elsewhere in the Tri-Cities area news, I made it to my eye doctor's appointment yesterday with time to spare. Mary was right, I was overly concerned with the traffic tie-ups being caused by the annual repairs to the bridge on US 31 over the Grand River. At any rate, I will have new glasses today or tomorrow and new lenses for my current glasses at the same time. 

Mary took a late night walkabout after letting our fur-children out for their final visit last night. She tells me that it was a beautiful night for a walk. I had gone to bed by that time to listen to the end of the Cubs win over the Brewers.

Today is indoor chores day and I'd like to read more too. Is music ever far from my thoughts? We will try to watch another episode of Legends this evening and also listen to more from Heather McGhee's The Sum of Us, as read by the author. Ciao.