Cup of Coffee: July 31, 2024

The trade deadline has come and gone. Another Trout setback. Prodigal GMs. The GOP is lost and William Calley is dead.

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Craig Calcaterra
July 31, 2024

Good morning!

The trade deadline has come and gone! I run down all of the trades that happened yesterday and, brother, there were a lot of them. I think the Marlins alone traded away 57 players. How they didn’t forfeit last night I have no idea.

Elsewhere: Mike Trout has experienced another setback, we hear from another prodigal GM, we look and see how the GOP is lost, and we shed no tears for the fact that Lt. William Calley, the mass murderer of My Lai, is dead. Sorry that that makes for some depressing reading at the end of today’s newsletter, but it’s just as important to mark the death of the infamous as it is to mark the death of the beloved.

Let’s get at ‘er.

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