Girls In The House

The girlies arrived today.

Question of the day was how to fix the Braves, and the experts on social media offered mostly stupid, off base answers. It is unfortunate when the Braves were picked to be one of the best teams in baseball. They’ve been missing four all stars: Strider and the other starter, Acuna, and the free agent leftfielder. They’ve lost their last 7 one-run games. Their record in one run games is 9-17. Turn that around and no one is complaining.

Braves released Blewit, the pitcher who blew it yesterday. No confidence in the closer, who may now be replaced by former all star Craig Kimbrel. The Braves are making personnel moves almost every day, but little seems to be helping. GM AA says that there may be major moves at the trade deadline and offseason. Braves are still a much better team than the Falcons, Hawks, or Atlanta United.

GT is getting new artificial turf at Grant Field. Seems like they just got new turf a couple of seasons ago. GT QB Haynes King is being touted as one of the nation’s best QB’s. He’ll have to compete with Clemson’s Klubnik for All-ACC first team.

I pulled a Reid Whitaker and took Friday off from the gym this AM. Yesterday out in the sun for so long drained me, wore me out. After cutting the grass I had in nearly 13000 steps. Went to bed shortly after ten and slept hard for an extra hour, but still tired.

The long walks in the heat wore out Matthew as well. When we got home he took a long nap. C was busy getting ready for the girlies, and made at least 3 trips to the store. She never got around to fixing dinner, so I made myself a couple of chicken & rice quesadillas.

Looking out the office window today, you'd think we sold wood.

HERMAN FRANKS [SABR Bio] is the only Utah native to become a major league manager. He was born in the mining community of Price, UT on 04-Jan-1914. He managed the Giants for 4 seasons (1965-1969) and the Cubs for three (1977-1979). He managed four Cy Young Award winners, four Rookies of the Year, seven MVPs, seven Hall of Famers, and the first Japanese-born player to play in the majors. He was one baseball’s most infamous sign stealers. It was Franks in the center field bleachers with a telescope during the 1951 NL pennant race.