It's Finally Nicer 'Round Here

Weather has been ok. Not the warmest start of May, but we'll take what we can get.

I'm lifting a lot of weight. It's basically what I do now. No coaching on horizon; I go to YSSS' HS games...and the gym. And lift. I have a bit of a shoulder thing going on so tonight we will hit legs (again). I like #LEGDAY.

Mets are becoming what I figured they are. a .500 team at best. No speed, defense is below par and since everybody's hopes and dreams were pinned to a pitching staff, the early excitement is now tempered with cold, hard truth. They are 18-17 (after a 14-2 start!) and playing the red hot Phillies (can't believe I just typed that) this weekend. It's getting late. Not too late, but late enough.

Deadpool 2 starts next week. Love Deadpool.

The Death of 32bit

Tried to post a "HEY, HOW YOU DOING!" kind of post yesterday from my iPhone 8. Clicked on my app for this corner of the internet and I was met with this:

So apparently if I'm not sitting at my computer screen I can no longer communicate with the masses on this here platform.

So my question is:"HEY, HOW YOU DOING!"

In other news, Fear The Walking Dead killed off a main character (Nick). Carrie Mathieson has gone bat-shit crazy after being in a Russian Gulag for seven months. There are only 12 Angels powering Heaven. And on and on.

Why Not This!?

Late Winter Blues

How is a post posted on April 5th have a name like that. Well SoulSlam will tell you: we don't really have spring in spring anymore.

So far this week we had almost 8" of snow in my neck of North J. And then torrential cold rain and a windstorm that knocked out some power. Now we have conflicting weather reports about snow this weekend. Brutal.

So basically we have winter, then late winter, then spring for about 4 days, then summer.

YSSS' HS Baseball team has already had two games this week postponed. Has a game Friday and Saturday, who knows if they get played. It's like that all over in this area.

#LGM!

Fantasy Baseball Begins!

Well in a couple of days...but we drafted last night.

My Keepers:

Giancarlo Stanton

Trea Turner In no particular order:
Position Players

Christain Yelich

AJ Pollock

Jay Bruce

Miguel Sano

Whit Merrifield

Michael Conforto

Lucas Duda

Chris Iannetta

Brandon Crawford

Yuli Gurriel

Logan Morrison

Adam Duvall

Joe Panik

Joc Pederson

Addison Russell

Pitchers

Noah Syndergaard

JA Happ

Patrick Corbin

Johnny Cueto

Jose Quintana

Matt Harvey

Felix Hernandez

Ken Giles

Jameson Taillon

Vince Velasquez

Joakim Soria

Adam Wainwright

SWAGBROS IS READY!!!

The Bleak

So last time was before Nor'easter #2...we ended up with about 2' of the snow. Good news is we didn't lose power, which I can't say for everyone else. Lots of trees and limbs down (we had a 40' limb crash into driveway behind la casa but it didn't hit anything). Approximately 2 hours of shoveling and snow throwing Wednesday evening and another 2 hours on Thursday morning to get the driveway and cars cleared. We were supposed to have another Nor'easter today but the track changed and we were spared.

As for HS baseball...with the weather what it was, they've (YSSS' team) has only had 4-5 practices. He was taking SAT on Saturday so he missed that one. They are working out as we speak (or as I type).

Spring training baseball is getting down to it. We'll see how my NY Mets are in pretty short order. I think the pitching will be ok (if healthy), though most of the pitchers (except deGrom and Vargas) will be limited to well below 200 innings. You have to have the horses to pitch a minimum of 1458 innings in MLB season, so this will begin to be an issue around August 1. Figure that 567 innings are a lock for relievers...that leaves around 891 for starters. If deGrom and Vargas can go 400 that leaves 491 for the rest. That's a lot to ask for guys who will be on a short leash. Expect a lot of spot starts. Right now rotation looks like:

deGrom

Syndergaard

Vargas

Harvey

Matz

Lugo and Wheeler in pen. Wheeler only has about 70-80 innings I think so his dream of starting is just that, a dream. You can add Gsellman and Montero in there as well. We'll see.

Hitting for NY Mets will be spotty. Bet that.

As for D...I'm not in love with it. Especially with Nimmo and then, Conforto on CF. The catchers are not going to light up anybody's fantasy draft. The IF is suspect. Rosario is fine. The rest (Gonzalez, Frazier, Reyes, Cabrera, Flores) are all a bit slowed, if you catch my drift.

Nor'Easter!

We had one on Friday...nothing much happened in my neck of the woods, but power is out for some folks, and if you lived a bit north of SoulSlam, you got some accumulation. Now we have a forecast for another one mid-week here. Saying a possible 6-8". AAAARRRRGGGHHH.

NJ HS Baseball was supposed to starts practices on Friday, which for most of state became a dream. Saturday in Morris County was a series of roadblocks and power outages so YSSS' team practice was cancelled. They start today indoors. He has SATs on Saturday AM so it'll be a short week no doubt.

March is a bitch man.