Cup of Coffee: August 9, 2024

Good morning!

First, a bit of housekeeping.

Among my many issues with Beehiiv is that it does not, I am told, give people a warning email that their subscriptions are about to renew. Which, in addition to being a surprise to people who have understandably lost track, also does not give them the heads up to make sure their credit card information is up to date.

I mention that because the fourth anniversary of this newsletter is Monday and a large number of O.G. readers who subscribed early will thus have their annual subscriptions renew that day or in the days soon after. If that applies to you, and if you plan to keep subscribing to this publication (please do!), now would be a good time to make sure the card you have on file hasn’t expired or hasn’t been replaced or what have you, as that will cause your renewal to fail and will put you in the free subscriber group. Again, without you getting a heads up because Beehiiv sucks, which will in turn cause you and me to have a lot of annoying email correspondence.

Thanks for understanding. And for subscribing. And, yes, I am exploring getting off of Beehiiv, but if I do it won’t be until the dark days of the offseason so as to minimize disruption.

Now, on with today’s stuff.

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