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It will rain tomorrow, so today let’s play two!

Freshman Keegan Thompson threw his second consecutive complete game, striking out 10 and scattering four hits while allowing two runs. (So it was a disastrous 5th inning by his standards.) He threw 121 pitches. His 111th pitch was clocked at 91 mph. The kid is unbelievable. I hope they don’t break him.

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Auburn won the first game 5-2 to take the series from the visiting Aggies. Thompson came out in the second game and played first base for a while. Auburn was put away easily in the last game of the series, falling 9-0.

So let’s talk fans! This group includes two of the four new Aggie friends we made today. Scroll beyond the photographs. There are things to read below the pretty pictures.

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Things to read … because today hasn’t been all about baseball.

International news: Venezuela is likely more important to us than Crimea, though whatever Putin is doing in the home office is interesting. Meanwhile, just common sense suggests that of all the places you could cut the military here, slicing off parts of the navy is an inherently risky strategy.

Venezuela’s foreign minister calls Kerry ‘murderer’

While the West Watches Crimea, Putin Cleans House in Moscow

Obama, Navy Lying To Congress On Carriers: Seapower Chair Rep. Forbes

Journalism items of interest: The lengths people will go to try to prevent reporters from doing their jobs often borders on the absurd. Here are two examples, and correspondence from Great Britain, which has been milling about on the wrong, lost, broken path for a while now, it seems.

New York Police Department Says Its Freedom of Information law Manual Is Confidential

You Can Photograph That Federal Building

Britain is treating journalists as terrorists – believe me, I know

Just stories: The first one is just strange, the kind where you know you don’t know the whole story, where maybe the whole story doesn’t matter so much, so long as the person is OK.

Vestavia Hills woman found alive in trash compactor off U.S. 280

Good Samaritan meets mother of man rescued from burning truck

That last story makes you think “Yeah, sometimes you just need a Marine and two Army veterans around.”

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