Cup of Coffee: July 10, 2024

Rainouts, the history of the box score, America's King Lear, more on Alice Munro and New York trash, cockroaches in coffee, Ohio, Oklahoma, and "A Fistful of Dollars"

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Craig Calcaterra
July 10, 2024

Good morning!

We had a couple of rainouts last night and my timeline was filled with Yankees fans being angry, so that was fun. Tyler Glasnow is on the IL. And, due to the lack of any really substantive baseball news, I decided to write about the history of the box score.

In Other Stuff I am being driven increasingly insane at how Democrats are continuing to defer to our King Lear. I have some more on the Alice Munro and New York trash stuff from yesterday. Also, Great Moments in Out of Context Science Writing, weirdness from Ohio, Americanness from Oklahoma, and a remake of a classic movie that, for once, I don’t care if it’s remade.

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