Today’s Leaders and Look-A-Likes

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June 23, 2018

“We Represent – the Back-To-Back-To-Back Guild!
And….
We Wish to Welcome You To – Minute Maid!”

2018 American League Batting Average Leaders

Through Games of 6/22/2018:

#	Leaders	Team	G	AB	H	BA
1	Jose Altuve	Astros	77	306	106	.346
2	Mookie Betts	Red Sox	58	225	77	.342
3	Jean Segura	Mariners	71	296	99	.334
4	Mike Trout	Angels	75	259	86	.332
5	JD Martinez	Red Sox	73	278	90	.324
6	Matt Duffy	Rays	59	234	75	.321
7	Eddie Rosario	Twins	71	282	89	.316
8	Michael Brantley	Indians	63	258	81	.314
9	John Jay	Royals	73	293	91	.311
10	Andrelton Simmons	Rays	65	238	73	.307

Astros Above shown in bold type.

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LOOK-A-LIKES

Actor Ed Harris

New Rice Baseball Coach
Matt Bragga

Matt Bragga is the new Rice baseball coach. Proving yet again, in spite of our seemingly almost infinite capacity for looking differentially separate from one another, that there are still only a relatively few archetypes from which all these variations we occupy all evolve. Then along comes a face, smile, body type, and language/speech pattern that is DNA-remindful that Matt Bragga may be somehow related to a generationally older, but still working actor named Ed Harris.

If Bragga is anything as a coach that is remindful of a typical Harris movie character, Rice baseball foes better prepare to take a few slugs to the gut in seasons to come.

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People watching. It’s still our most popular universal pastime, but that’s also another reason why baseball is so big and now growing as an international sport. More than any other sport we know, baseball offers the observer a better long-time look at both the face and character of its players through the unfolding of each three-act play we fans call “the game.”

It even helps us survive games like the 1-0 Astros loss to the Royals last night. The Astros didn’t simply lose a winnable game at MMP Friday night. More accurately tuned to the way the whole contest played out, from the start of an Astro fan perspective, in the end, the Astros failed to win a losable game. They just played their part through 27 outs as a team that was on its way to losing until that final result was the one they reached – in spite of a gazillion aborted chances they failed to grasp as happier ultimate alternatives.

Today’s another day. We won’t begin to see today’s game script face until somebody throws the next pitch that counts.

When we do see it, it will not be the first time we see its ugly to handsome archetype configurations, while it is also establishing itself as like no other game we’ve previously ever seen.

Baseball. Gotta love it.

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