I’m in Edmonton for the next couple of days, visiting my son and his girlfriend and some friends. So I’m getting the Game Thread up early. We may be light on content for a couple of days. It has been a week. We were at a funeral yesterday. Today we visiting a friend of mine whose wife is not well and has decided to do MAID in September and tomorrow visiting a friend who has been in hospital for the last mount or so. It seems like an ‘all bad news’ week. They happen now and then.
The nice part is we
are going to ‘Blowers & Grafton’ for supper with friends that I don’t get to see often enough.
Today’s game is a make up game of a rain out back on June 21st. For some silly reason they haven’t put a roof on Wrigley Field yet. You’d think with all the years they’ve had that ballpark, they’d have a roof on it by now. Oh, someone is telling me they just got lights a few years ago. Things move slow on the north side of Chicago.
It is a 2:20 Eastern start.
I see there is rain in the forecast this afternoon, hopefully they will get the game in. I’d hate it, if I was a player, to have given up a rare off-day to fly to Chicago and then not get that game in. Then fly off to Philadelphia tomorrow.
Shi Davidi tells us that Kevin Gausman didn’t ‘ask’ not to start against the Blue Jays, but to me it sounds like he did (which I can understand):
Today’s lineup, Vlad is still out.
Gausman also said nice things about what the Jays did at the deadline. He really is a class act.
Go Jays Go. I think we are going to go find a bar to watch the game.
