Nestor Cortes is my favorite mustached Cuban baseball player. He’s also one of two players on the Yankees worth watching this year, and is maybe the only player on that team having any fun. They’re a bunch of underperforming, unfun players to watch. Ohtani is the exact opposite and I’ll watch an Angels game just to see him play. Thank god for Jomboy because MLB sucks at marketing the game.
Cortes caught covid fully vaxxed: If anyone with it went to the All-Star game, uh ohhhh :|. MLB's high quality contact tracing could give us some insight into what sort of interaction(s) is enough to spread whatever variant this turns out to be through a vaccinated population. And insights into the sensitivity thresholds of the testing, etc. Bummer, tho.M.L.B. postponed the game because three Yankees pitchers — Nestor Cortes Jr., Jonathan Loaisiga and Wandy Peralta, each of whom is vaccinated — had tested positive for the coronavirus. General Manager Brian Cashman said three other players had tested positive through multiple rapid tests, and that the team expected those players’ laboratory test results to also come back positive.
Yeah there were multiple people at the AA minors game I overheard say "Jomboy". If you're below 50 and you watch baseball, you know who he is. I don't even really watch baseball, but I played a bit, growing up, so I know almost every rule. Edit: Well, I know the basics, and enough to know that there are a bunch of hella obscure rules that don't ever require consultation but for once every few years because they govern incredibly unlikely scenarios. Ohtani just knocked his 32nd out of the park this afternoon. Guy's seriously one of the nicest players in the league, too: