Today's Notes 1/21/21

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of ESPN Major League Baseball was a lot of fun, as we wrapped up the hold over series with the Cardinals, and then took two of three from the Diamondbacks on the road.... man I'm glad that the next time we play this game next week we will not be seeing the team from Arizona, as I believe the Giants and Rockies are the next two series. Big highlight of as night was crushing three home runs in one game as Jim Thome. It's always nice to smack a big fly and to do three in one game as one player felt awesome. That said, I continue to do a ton of line up shuffling to try and find a balance, and I might settle on 1. Jimmy Rollins 2. Maroln Byrd 3. Chase Utley 4. Jim Thome 5. Pat Burrell 6. Bobby Abreu 7. David Bell 8. Mike Liberthal, but I'm always tinkering trying to find something that seems like a good fit, keep in mind by bench includes Tomas Perez, Ricky Henderson, Ricky Ledee, Todd Pratt and Placido Polanco.

Something that is irking me is the number of 'new accounts' I'm seeing on the PC version of Overwatch lately, as the problem with smurfing continues to plague Overwatch. Smurfing, which is a player of high skill creating a new account to avoid playing against people of a similar skill. In 2018 Jeff Kaplan said it isn't cheating, but when you see it basically having other online head to head games like Apex Legends, Rocket League and Rainbow Six Siege saying it is cheating and players caught doing it will be banned. This is why I'm eagerly waiting for Overwatch 2, because in a PVE environment it basically will cut out the frustration of dealing with people getting around the rule.

Anyway, today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was pretty light, as we didn't even have 1000 reps to do, so I had to do a bit of extra Free Exercise to add on to today's numbers after the daily routine. That said both versions of defensive combos were apart of today's daily session which I think is the first time I've ever seen that happen, normally its one or the other, but never both back to back. Also nearly had a flawless session, but one missed right duck and few okay timed punches prevented that. Dropped into Animal Crossing New Horizons today, nothing major on my island to other than I notice I can probably put together a boxing or wrestling ring if I get four blue corner pieces... well I have one, just need three more. Will need to actually cut down some trees to make some room for it.

Tonight's stream will start a little after 9 PM EST as I do have work this evening and so I'll be scrambling after it's done to get set up for The Division 2, as we'll be co-streaming with PowerThumbz (twitch.tv/powerthumbz) and FNDanteSavage (twitch.tv/fndantesavage) and playing with Iceman as we knock out the second half of this week's manhunt!

So with that said, we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!