Sports highlights: MLB trade deadline, NASCAR's Kyle Busch

Is anyone surprised that I haven't posted anything about sports for 2.5 months? Well, I am. Major events that happened included NBA playoff (the local team Golden State Warriors won it all and most importantly beating the team lead by public enemy #1 in the finals), Stanley Cup (won by the Chicago Blackhawks again, who is having a SF Giants-like dynasty IMO), Tour De France (won by Chris Froome, again, without much challenges), THE Triple Crown (American Pharoah became the first horse who won it since 1978) I didn't watch much of these events except for the NBA Final Game 6 and the NHL Final Game 6 (both on the Disney Cruise ship)

Gotta admit all these traveling has shuffled my priorities a bit. And realizing I have a stack of new books waiting to be read didn't help. I do want to write about the few things I still follow, e.g. the MLB trade deadline was passed last Friday. IMO, the Royals (Johnny Cueto, Ben Zobrist), the Dodgers (Mat Latos, Alex Wood), the Astros (Carlos Gomez, Scott Kazmir), the Mets (Yoenis Cespedes, Tyler Clippard), the Blue Jays (Troy Tulowitzki, David Price) all got major upgrades. The Giants got a minor upgrade in Mike Leake who is replacing Tim Hudson. The A's was the seller, which is no surprise as they sell when they are winning anyway. The White Sox should have been selling to build for the future (this season is done for them) but they didn't. I wonder if they saw some hopes after beating up the Red Sox (and winning 7 in a row) but that's more like an illusion judging by how they fell to the Yankees.

And I still follow NASCAR (no one fought for the remote of the 65" TV at the Virginia training site while I was watching the looooooong races using the DVR!) The driver who is having a super hot streak since the beginning of my Summer break was, surprise surprise, Kyle Busch, who broke his legs at the very first race of the season and has been out for 3+ months. NASCAR made an exception for his return: if his point standing was in the Top 30 and won at least one race, he would qualify for the Chase (NASCAR's playoff) So, what has he done lately? He earned four Sprint Cup wins, two XFINITY Series victories and last Saturday's Camping World Truck win. I'm surprised that he's ONLY at #32 even with 4 wins. Some of the races he won were enjoyable to watch (like the local race at Sonoma) Even the ones he didn't win were exciting, like the Windows 10-sponsored one at Pocono yesterday, in which he got a late lead from Joey Logano because the latter ran out of gas. Then the same happened to him (who finished 21st) and Martin Truex Jr. So the next one who didn't ran out of gas won, which was Matt Kenseth! BTW, American Pharoah won again last weekend.