8/19 Gameday Thread: Double The Fun in Florida, Again. Maybe

pfffft, and people make fun of my global wetting theory.

GCL Sox totaled three hits in their doubleheader but still managed a split.

Rays down 7-1 in the 2ND !

4 unearned runs.


Erasmo a mess vs. Scranton.
61-29
1 1/3 inn. 7 ER

Robinson Leyer, who we picked up as a minor league free agent in June, was throwing 97 in Portland tonight. He is a thinnish, tight muscled, wiry guy now 26 who went 2.1 innings and struck out 3 lowering his ERA to 2.41.

I've been in the Philippines 12 years and this is by far the wettest year I've seen. Wet to the point that for about a month, I've been looking at the weather around SE Asia, something that I'd never thought about. I've never done that so, I have no reference points but I find it difficult to believe that what I'm seeing is an ordinary year.

Last night was the longest sustained heavy rain I've seen here. Yesterday, we emptied the cement pit and this morning it was overflowing, about 5 inches deep. We're digging a trench next to the house where my wife will have a flower garden after we add topsoil, the waterline was about 15 inches deep.

Mixed blessings because everything is lush and green. On the other hand there are a lot of dengue cases this year, our insurance agent's daughter died from it, she was only 4 years old.

ADD: Generally it's been light rain almost every night, not heavy rain. Today, it's noon and 86F with very few clouds, my flat roof is already dry and the garden waterline has already sunk into the limestone.