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I'm once again bumping my Opening Day sale

March 31, 2023

Hello! It’s your old friend Craig again, once again reaching out to free subscribers of Cup of Coffee.

I just wanted to give you another reminder that I’m running a subscription sale between now and the end of the day on Sunday:

That’s 20% off either an annual or a monthly subscription for a year.

If you get Cup of Coffee every day, you get the daily game recaps, “And That Happened” which are a fun way to catch up on all of the previous day’s action that, with the exception of the game you watched, you almost certainly missed. Like this morning’s edition:

Yankees 5, Giants 0: Yankees pitchers tossed a combined four-hit shutout with Gerrit Cole leading the way with six shutout innings and 11 Ks. Each pitching staff had 16 strikeouts, in fact, so that whole “there will be more contact this year” thing is still a work in progress. Gleyber Torres hit a two-run shot. Aaron Judge, on his first swing of 2023, hit one over the damn fence against the team that tried its damndest to sign him last winter. You can’t predict baseball Suzyn! Unless you’re Grant Brisbee, of course:

It was actually the second pitch he saw. I’m sure that makes Giants fans like Grant feel much better.

Atlanta 7, Nationals 2: Yesterday I said that the Nats calling on Patrick Corbin to be their Opening Day starter was a less-than-amazing idea. His outing: 85 pitches, 48 strikes. Woof. Not that it was all great for Atlanta as their starter, Max Fried, left in the bottom of the fourth with a hamstring strain after covering first base. The outcome of the game was far better than its implications for Atlanta, with Travis d'Arnaud collecting four hits from the DH slot and and Austin Riley walking three times, once with the bases loaded. There were five errors in this game — three from Nationals shortstop CJ Abrams alone — and a lot of misplays that weren’t counted as errors due to bright sunlight vexing everyone. I knew this experiment of playing daytime baseball was a bad idea. Games should only be played at night, as was always intended.

It’s hard to watch 15 games a night and it’s time consuming to spend a lot of time each morning reading game stories and box scores. So I do it for you and, I think anyway, we have a lot of fun in the process.

But it’s not all just recaps. Every day Cup of Coffee gives you a rundown of the major baseball news of the day and spends some time sharing non-baseball stuff, including human interest stories, political garbage, and items about all number of things including media criticism, bourbon, “Columbo,” hiking, cats, raising kids, music that washed middle aged people like, trends washed middle aged people don’t understand, and whatever else seems fun. I guarantee you that you can’t read a week’s worth of newsletters without finding a half dozen things you wouldn’t have otherwise seen or thought about. Or a half dozen things that piss you off in all the best ways.

So how about giving it a try? Come join the thousands of subscribers who already start every weekday morning with a Cup of Coffee. I think you’ll be glad you did. And it’ll never be cheaper to do so.

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