Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 2:00 a.m. in "The City."
I hadn't planned on being up.
I went to bed early and promptly fell asleep listening to my beloved, 71- 33, 1st place in the AL East Red Sox, only to awake to the announcers telling me that the Sox had lost to the 2nd place in the AL Central, 48 - 53, 2nd place in the AL Central, Twins, 1 - 2. Ouch! Once again, the Sox fell to a team that they should beat, easily. The Sox play the Twins again tonight @ 7:10 p.m.
On the other hand, earlier in the day, I got to hear the 60 - 42, 1st place in the NL Central Cubs, win their game over the 56 - 48, 2nd place in the NL West D'Backs, on a walk-off home-run by Anthony Rizzo in the bottom of the 9th. Rizzo's home-run followed a two-run blast from newly recalled David Bote. Bote was recalled from Triple A Iowa because, once again, Kris Bryant is back on the DL with a sore shoulder. I can identify with that. The Cubs are off to St. Louis tonight to face their rivals in the NL Central, the 4th place, 51 - 51 Cardinals tonight @ 8:15 p.m.
Worthy of note is that the Cubs made a deal late yesterday for starting pitcher, Cole Hamels, from the TX Rangers. Hamels is 34 years old and has always pitched well in Wrigley Field. Hamels was a teammate of Yu Darvish on the Rangers. Darvish, if you remember, is the pitcher who has made only eight starts for the Cubs this season following a much-ballyhooed, $126,000,000, six-year deal in the off-season. Darvish has yet to help the Cubs win games in a tough division that was supposed to be made easier by Darvish's signing.
Hamels' acquisition is an admission by Cubs President, Theo Epstein and Exec.V.P and GM Jed Hoyer, that the current starting rotation is not the answer. If I were current rotation member, Tyler Chatwood, I'd be worried. Chatwood can't seem to throw strikes.
The Tigers had the day off before they welcome the 1st place in the AL Central, 55 - 46, Cleveland Indians to Comerica Park @ 7:05 p.m. tonight.
The 49 - 53, 7th place Caps, can't seem to beat anybody lately. They lost their MWL East game to the 45 - 57, Lake County, OH Captains, 0 - 2. The Caps and the Captains play again tonight @ 7:05 p.m.
We have a current temperature of 67° under mostly cloudy skies. The NWS is forecasting a high later today of 70° with a 40% chance for showers later this morning. The sun will rise @ 6:30 a.m. and set later @ 9:11 p.m.
I got a lot of things done yesterday. I watered our newly planted parkway plants along with the balance of the lawns and gardens on the PE. In addition, I used the weed-wacker to mow down the only things that seemed to grow following the recent rains, the grasses and weeds in our shared driveway, after which I mowed the vast lawns. Mary was off to the local purveyor of all things vintage, Vintage Green, to purchase a small cart for the front porch that we will use to display the potted plants that we picked up later in the afternoon. The cart needs some painting, but it should look nice.
We walked the fur-children before we went out. My plans to get into the kitchen were put on hold by my outdoor chores, so I hope to get in there today before I go to The Camera Store, in Muskegon for two classes. Since we purchased our camera there, we get these classes, "Free." Ciao.
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