Braves trade for reliever Luke Jackson and World Series hero Jorge Soler. Not exactly Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle, but let’s see any other team do better. Yankees gave up 3 prospects for the Marlins star. This could be the Yankees year. I still won’t be able to see the Braves on my TV.
On the Braves radio broadcast Ben Ingram said that the Blue Jays had traded a catcher to the Red Sox. Earlier this season the catcher had played for the Jays in a game against the Red Sox that was suspended due to rain. This game will be completed in August. If the catchers plays in the game for the Red Sox, it will be the first time in over 238,500 games played that one player played in the same game for both teams.
Back over 30 years ago Joel Youngblood played in an afternoon game for one team, then was traded and played in the night game for a second team – in a different city (Chicago and Pittsburg, I think). Youngblood collected base hits in both games. I think there have been cases of players traded between the first and second game of the doubleheader, the players passing each other between the home and visitor clubhouses. On May 30, 1922 Cliff Heathcote traded for Max Flack. Both players played for both teams that day. During batting practice Ralph Kiner and Joe Garagiola were traded from the home Pirates to the visiting Cubs as part of a 10 player trade.
https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/june-4-1953-pirates-trade-ralph-kiner-to-cubs-just-before-game-time/
Greg Maddux won 194 games in his eleven seasons in Atlanta. Might have to compare his prime with other great pitchers of his generation: Clemens, Martinez, Pettite, Smoltz, Glavine, Randy Johnson. An old Sports Illustrated cover story.
Braves won their second straight last Sunday. Another starter got hurt, but Lopez’ MRI was negative. Now 6 starters are out. Snitker’s fault! Ynoa is back rehabbing from his injury, which may give the Braves a much needed arm for the stretch drive. Fried returned today. Things are looking up. Helps that the Phillies are struggling.
Thursday night the Braves won their third straight, and 4th out of five. Won again on Friday. Olson is back to hitting home runs. Looks like SS Arcia is heating back up again as well. Also Riley. Wednesday the Braves had Soler batting leadoff. Better than Duvall, I suppose.
Freddie Freeman’s young son Maximus was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, with a rare disease. Freddie was with the Dodgers in Arizona but flew back to be with his family. Sounds like Max is out of danger now, but it was touch & go there for a while. Freddie’s wife Chelsea said they believe in the power of prayer, and asked for continued prayers.
Thursday: left work at 530 after signing up for Medicare. Ceil cooked a teriyaki stir fry, steamed broccoli, and tossed a salad. She had also made me a big batch of homemade cinnamon rolls, sort of an early birthday present. Good stuff.
Matthew had been wanting to get a piece of metal to use as a grill for his meat smoker. We had discussed several options, and I had inquired with my fabricators about cutting a piece. Them M sent me a picture of a piece of metal that had fallen off a truck passing his house. It was perfect to use as a grill. The Lord provides in mysterious ways.
Got hit with a series of hard to resolve emails. Plenty of work to do. Customer may be 35% off last year's pace, but there's just as much work to process 65 pieces as there is to process 100.
Wednesday: worked past 530 trying to finish up month end. In July all overtime was cut out since our customers were extra slow, plus I used up a week of vacation time. Got caught up on some of my work, but not all the extra stuff that I was asked to do.
Traffic was gridlocked in Peachtree Corners, so I didn’t get home until 645. I quickly cut the grass before supper. C cooked lemon chicken, grilled potato medallions, and spinach.
Tuesday night at men’s Bible study my prayer request was for God’s help in loving and communicating with Ceil, so of course that’s the exact area where Satan attacked.
Getting out and moving around cutting the grass didn’t lessen all the pain I’ve had the past two days. I’ve really been uncomfortable. Last night I slept on the couch, which helped. Forgive me for having my days out of order. Seemed to make sense at the time.
Friday night: patty melts, sour cream potatoes, and tossed salad.
MONTE IRVIN [SABR Bio] was born on 25-Feb-1919 in Haleburg AL, graduated from Orange HS in Newark NJ, and attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. In first inning of the 1st G of the 1951 WS, Irvin stole home off Allie Reynolds and Yogi Berra, scoring the 2nd run of a 5-2 win over the Yankees. On 27-Nov-1955, Irvin was drafted by the Cubs from the Giants in the 1955 Rule 5 Draft. He played 111 games for CHC in 1956 before retiring.
DENISON: as the Israeli national anthem played at the Paris Olympics, individuals holding the Palestinian flag in the stands gave the Nazi salute. Such atrocious antisemitism in support of terrorism against Israel actually makes the case for Zionism by demonstrating that Jews aren’t safe without a homeland.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issues order for Iran to strike Israel (denisonforum.org)
Muslims in Indonesia stormed a Christian house church worship service. The government regrets that the video got released.
Ceil is getting fancy with her sourdough bread, Used a razor blade to get the design. this will be on the quiz.
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