#Angels transactions:
•Selected the contracts of INF Donovan Walton (#35) and OF Wade Meckler (#53)
•Placed INF Yoán Moncada (right knee inflammation) on 10-day IL
•Optioned OF Josh Lowe to Triple-A Salt Lake following last night's game
•Transferred LHP Yusei Kikuchi to 60-day IL
News: the Mets will call up 13th-ranked prospect Zach Thornton to pitch Wednesday in Washington.
Left-handed, strike-thrower, had just two starts at Triple-A Syracuse but performed well in both of them.
Amid the plethora of RPI-based midweek cancellations around college baseball, #OkState coach Josh Holliday called for the system to be patched.
“That pisses me off, and if we’re gonna let people (and teams) manipulate a system, then the system sucks, and it needs to be fixed.”
The Royals are absolutely NOT an economic driver. 50 years of research shows that stadiums are inadvisable public investments. To suggest otherwise is akin to arguing that smoking does not cause cancer.
This is quite a striking chart from the Economist.
Millennial fathers spent only marginally less time caring for their children than Baby Boomer mothers of the same age.