Today’s Meta (because what good is a day without Meta?). As I mentioned yesterday both TMC and I are in meetings all day long. We were able to resolve some of our issues yesterday (we think, that’s what today’s meeting is about) which is good.
In planning the rest of the week (because it’s not like we don’t have weekly and daily story meetings, we’re very professional like that) it’s become quite clear that Thursday the 15th, Transition Day, is going to be fraught. We expect that the WordPress sites will be open for reading including our back catalog with little delay (there will probably be some).
We’ve decided that the best way to communicate with our readers is through our normal twitter activities. Information that can’t be expressed in 140 characters we will post at Corrente which is run by our friend Lambert.
There is virtually a 100% chance that there will be NO POSTING AT ALL on Thursday. We will simply be too busy. If you visit you are likely to get an Internet error. THIS DOES NOT MEAN WE HAVE CEASED PUBLICATION.
We hope to resume posting, at least ours, by Friday. User posts may take a little longer to resolve.
User accounts WILL BE RESTORED, at least for posting. Commenting may take longer and there’s a possibility that the initial commenting system will not represent a permanent solution.
That’s the best case scenario. In the worst case it may take us up to a week.
Sorry for the inconvienience.
After tonight The Daily Late Nightly Show will not be posted again until next Monday (the 19th) at the earliest.
After tomorrow we will stop Baseball Playoff coverage until functionality is restored sufficiently to do so.
We will have an Open Thread Tuesday for the Democratic Debate.
After that all regular publication will stop except for Meta announcements on progress.
I want to apologize once again to our Readers, Authors, and Commenters. We like Soapblox and are not leaving the Platform willingly, it’s just that our vendor will no longer support it.
Baseball-
There will be no live blogging of today’s games (except the Mets, c’mon).
Sunday’s Game
Top 4th Solo Shot. Royals 1 – 0.
Bottom 5th Walk. Double. 2 RBI Single. Astros 2 – 1.
Bottom 6th Leadoff Double. Sacrifice. Walk, Runners at Corners. RBI Single. Astros 3 – 1.
Bottom 7th Leadoff Solo Shot. Astros 4 – 1.
Top 9th Leadoff Solo Shot. Astros 4 – 2. Final.
Astros lead Series 2 – 1.
Analysis and Setup
Game as expected, an Astros (89 – 77) blowout. The Royals (96 – 69) must win tonight or they will hit the links and wait until next year.
The Astros will send out Lance McCullers (R, 6 – 7, 3.22 ERA) and the Royals Yordano Ventura (R, 13 – 8, 4.08 ERA). The New York Times thinks McCullers is almost as good as Keuchel though te numbers don’t agree. Ventura is the pitcher who got rocked in Game 2 and had to leave after 2 Innings, supposedly because of a stomach virus. Royals fans better hope he’s recovered because it’s win or go home.
Game time is 1 on Fox Sports 1.
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