The trade deadline was fun and all but I am extremely excited that monkey is off our backs and behind us now. We are in the dead heat of the Dog days of Summer with underdogs winning, Burnes walking Pirates and all. RIP to the legend Vin Scully. We have a short 5 game slate on the MAIN slate later tonight and so you can check back in for my full tribute to the most legendary person in Sports in my lifetime and I cannot help but write today without hearing Scully’s voice read my entire article as if he was broadcasting a game. For now we look at the Afternoon/Day game slate(s) today and look at this, we have FanDuel taking the lead with the better slate including the two Hangover games in Tampa & Atlanta in the 12pm EST window. DraftKings then follows with the other 6 games as their early afternoon slate. So that is 8 games early for the Blue DFS players on FanDuel and 6 games early for the Orange DFS players on DraftKings. Of course, scholars know that if you mix Blue and Orange together, you get brown. Which is hopefully not the color that we will be thinking of when we check our lineups this afternoon. [spacer height=”10px”] WEATHER All games play. [spacer height=”10px”] The four pitchers who are FD only include Yusei Kikuchi — who I wish Vin Scully had been broadcasting his games, there would have been gold in those broadcasts — Jalen Beeks, Zach Wheeler and yes, Charlie Morton. Arizona will be starting rookie Tommy Henry, who makes his debut in Cleveland. Henry is a former college pitcher who is a big lefty. His best could be Jordan Montgomery and his worst would be just another guy out of the bullpen for the Diamondbacks. I would expect he walks a good amount of hitters today and does not make it through the 4th inning. Luis Castillo will make his Mariners and American League debut in Yankee Stadium. There’s a little bit of Felix Hernandez in Luis Castillo and if you know, you know. Okay fine, I’ll share. King Felix was the master of dominating the Yankees in New York, he loved pitching there and with the Yankees passing on trading for Castillo I could see him having a couple dominant innings. But no, I am not gonna trust him just…...
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