Day 173, or should I say 50, Version 2....

• Houston and the A's were postponed yesterday due to the coronavirus concerns.  More word to come today.
• Today is the trade deadline for the abbreviated MLB season.  San Diego is trying to make up the ground with the Dodgers with some early moves.
• The Chicago Bears have disavowed Brian Urlacher's pro-White anti-protest rant about the wildcat strikes of sports -- partially using Brett Favre's playing after his father died as an example of why Black players should "shut up and play".  Gee, and you think the fact that Urlacher was one of only about 30% of the NFL who was White may have had something to do with that?     
• And we lost John Thompson today.
• The NFL has taken over the cheerleader-harassment scenario in Washington.
• And, with that, we are at September callups in Botball.  The season-long charity stream has finally hit the pennant races.  Hopefully some more people will be watching, but here's where we stand come September 1st:

1. AL:  The Orioles, Tigers, Royals, and Mariners have all been eliminated.
2. AL East:  Yankees (85-52), 6 up on the Rays (79-58). 
3. AL Central:   Twins (95-43, best record in baseball by a MILE), 8 1/2 up on Indians (86-51), 18 1/2 up on the White Sox (76-61)
4. AL West:  A's (79-58), 4 up on the Astros (75-62), 7 1/2 up on the Angels (72-66)
5. Wild Card:  Rays at Indians.  White Sox 3 back, Astros 4 back, Angels 7 1/2 back.  Indians 7 up on the Rays.
6. Twins #1 seed by 9 1/2 over the Yankees, who are 6 further up on the A's for the #2.
7. So not that much to play for in the American League.
8. NL:  The National League, however, is another story.  It's basically 3 by 2, 6 teams for 5 spots, someone's going home and a lot to play for in the Senior Circuit.
9. Only the Pirates have been mathematically eliminated, but the Giants, Padres, Mets, Marlins, Brewers, and Cardinals are all within about a week or so of joining them.  This is, truly, basically a six-team situation.
10. NL East:  Braves (85-52) have actually overtaken the Nationals (85-53), and, as a result, now have the best record in the National League.  The two have a series this week.
    
11. NL Central:  Cubs (82-55), 2 1/2 up over the Reds (80-58)  The two have a series this weekend.
    
12. NL West:  Dodgers (81-58), 1 1/2 up over the D-Backs (79-59).  The two have another series this week.
13. Wild Card:  Reds at Nationals.  D-Backs 1 game back of the Reds, the next team down is Philadelphia (68-69), 11 1/2 back of the Reds with 25 to play.
14. Braves 3 up on the Cubs for #1, Cubs 2 up on the Dodgers for the #2.
15. Twins are 9 1/2 up on the Yankees and Braves for the best record in Botball.

• There is a post I want to make today (and today would be the only appropriate day for it).  The problem being, if I make the post, anything I say damn well (for about 100 different reasons, and only 1 of them probably has to do with the post's subject matter -- the other 99 are non-related current events, politics, election, riots, etc.) probably can and will be used against me in a court of law at some point, probably early 2021, the way the world wants to fuck with things.
• I'll give one hint:  My alternate name for Day 173...