The older I get in life the more old man grumpy I get, I admit it. However, there are still a handful of days each year where it’s darned near impossible to be grumpy. The day after Thanksgiving, the first Friday of March Madness, whenever the Falcons have a 28-3 lead and the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. I don’t care what is going on in your life, today is a good day my friends. Every MLB team is playing as they should be and the Cubs are at home this afternoon which is a great way to kick off the 3 day holiday weekend full of doing whatever the hell you want to do. I mean, if you wanna watch Nationals and Royals this weekend at your local watering hole because the Nationals are blacked out on MLB.tv then hey, go right ahead, no judgement here! Can’t be as bad as listening to the Royals on the radio while boating around on a lake on the 4th of July, who the hell would do that… *** This is a cry for help, why am I going to watch Royals/Nats at a bar on Memorial Day weekend??? *** WEATHER Next week it is going to get insanely hot. This weekend is very comfortable and nice in most places and we have just one rain concern today. Mets at Rockies – Oh, you didn’t know the Mets were at the Rockies this weekend? Hah, yeah, well, sorry, you opened the article and thus you can’t un-register those contests now… Other notables … Wind blowing out in Atlanta Wind blowing IN at Cleveland Roof closed in Arizona There’s a good amount of viable options to filter through today and unless people are smoking some heavy crack I don’t imagine we have bad chalk on pitching like we did earlier this week — although there is one $4,000 arm going which I’ll cover in a second. TOP ARM George Kirby (DK: $9300, FD: $10.6k) Not many pitchers are rolling better than Kirby right now. The Pirates aren’t among the top teams in whiffs but Kirby has also been so good at limiting damage from lefties which is the CORE of the Pirates lineup right now too that I don’t see him having any type of blow up or “i regret using him” issues today. SP2 OPTIONS Joe Musgrove (DK:…...
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