Good morning. The Rays are like the Velvet Underground. Maybe only 8,000 people have seen them, but every one went out and founded their own baseball team.
The Cubs are back above .500 for the first time since Opening Day.
- I often refer to the injured list as “the butcher’s bill,” which is a colorful term from military history that refers to the cost in blood that armies pay. Baseball players don’t get killed playing the game, but they do get wounded a lot. And as Michael Baumann notes, no team in recent history has put more talent on the IL/DL than the 2019 Yankees.