Cup of Coffee: July 22, 2024

Good morning!

Today we talk about the Hall of Fame inductions, Max Fried's injury, Clayton Kershaw's return, some truthful anti-Yankees smack talk, and the Oakland A's layoffs.

As for Other Stuff: I had written 3,300 words on the movies “Twister” and “Twisters” — yes, seriously — and planned to run it today. I even teased it a bit on Twitter and, weirdly, many of you said you were eagerly awaiting it. Probably because I’ve been depressing as hell lately and you’re getting tired of it. I get it.

But, as you no doubt saw, Joe Biden wrote a letter yesterday that was kind of a big deal. Given that the newsletter creaks and groans if you go past 5,000 words — and that, if I ran the “Twister” stuff, talked about Biden, and did the usual baseball stuff, we’d be over 7,000 words, I decided to just bump “Twister” until tomorrow. I promise, though, that none of my trenchant commentary on a 28 year old movie and its sequel will suffer for your having to wait 24 hours to read it.

So let’s hold off on entering the suck zone until tomorrow and get on with the big news today.

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