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I prefer to see the glass half full. Or in this case 2/19 full. They did have 2 clean innings.

Someone explain to me why they play 2 OT periods and it isn't just sudden death.

I assume so, but what I have been told by friends with older kids is that school sports are secondary to travel.

Healthy or not, this bullpen isn't it.

I still subscribe to there being benefit to playing multiple sports, but that is soooo hard to do in the current landscape of youth sports. My 9 year old son really enjoys baseball. He has rec baseball in the summer, travel baseball year round, individual hitting sessions, individual pitching sessions, other camps, etc. The problem is, all those activities don't leave room for much else. He plays rec soccer in the fall and has occasionally played indoor in the winter when the schedule allows, but there isn't time to dedicate much to soccer outside of games and practices. He has expressed interest in playing basketball, but I just don't know how to fit that in. None of the sports ever really end and everything overlaps/conflicts with the others. You can play everything casually or you can play one sport seriously, but it's hard to find any balance in between.

I know I should get over it, but it is insane that PCA is not starting the All-Star game.

Belgium has a population less than the state of Illinois. Kind of crazy to be so thoroughly outclassed by them in the first half.

My uneducated observer comment for the night: Is Belgium on a game-long power play?

I've never heard Kendall Gill do anything outside the studio, but if you're looking for a guy who "kind of" checks the same boxes as Stacey King, he might be it. Former Bull, long-time NBA veteran, fun personality, positive vibe. Obviously nobody can compete with Stacey, but I could see Amin and Gill working.

I will never not hate this. Pitching is so fragile now that a possible 115-120 pitch perfect game is off limits. And maybe it's still the "right" thing to do, but it is also another symptom of the baseball disease that has no cure.

Opinion from an uneducated soccer observer: Red cards are stupid. Having to play a man down based on a subjective ruling from a referee puts way too much power in the ref's hands to completely change a game.

How long before Trump takes credit?

This bold experiment of batting the worst hitter 2nd every day needs to end.

Golden State is at -500 to land LeBron, so I guess it's happening. Who knows if it will work out. LeBron is a freak of nature, but sooner than later he is going to break down physically. The only question is when.

Man, the trade deadline is going to be fascinating. The Cubs are in such an interesting position with seemingly insurmountable injuries but somehow being able to hold things together.