JAL’s How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Morning Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTQiT58AbE0

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart  Bee Gees  Number 1 on August 7 1971

GENERAL UPDATED BASEBALL SITES

1- MLB Transactions

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/transactions

2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/pittsburgh_pirates/

3 PBC Asylum Recipe Collection

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8jN0zO-DxI0eVkyazRFY2IzLU0&usp=sharing

4 BFFL’s Pirates Stats Spreadsheet and Prediction Contest

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19zg6X5VUHUBW_0QTsTMLdNcgTYSq-hZIKvzLFmhwPjU/edit#gid=775822168

BLOGS and such

5 Wall Street Journal

The Baltimore Orioles Are Baseball’s Slowest Team in Decades

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-baltimore-orioles-are-baseballs-slowest-team-in-decades-1470261727

6 Rumbunter

Ryan Vogelsong Has Been A Good Starting Pitcher For The Pirates This Year

http://rumbunter.com/2016/08/06/ryan-vogelsong-has-been-a-good-starting-pitcher-for-the-pirates-this-year/

7 Viva El Birdos

8.6.16 Recap: Cards Lose Against Worst Team in Baseball

http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2016/8/6/12395600/8-6-16-recap-cards-lose-against-worst-team-in-baseball

8 Green Weenie

Pirates Hold Off Reds 5-3 In Nova's Debut

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2016/08/pirates-hold-off-reds-5-3-in-novas-debut.html

9 Red Reporter

Ivan Nova as cherry as a '68 SS, overpowers non-Brandon Phillips Reds

http://www.redreporter.com/2016/8/6/12395000/ivan-nova-as-cherry-as-a-68-ss-overpowers-non-brandon-phillips-reds

10 Bleed Cubbie Blue

Cubs 4, Athletics 0: Throwing Back

http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2016/8/6/12394812/cubs-athletics-recap-jake-arrieta-addison-russell-mlb-scores

11 Pirates Breakdown

Pittsburgh Pirates Takeaways & Throwaways – Nova’s Debut

http://piratesbreakdown.com/2016/08/06/pittsburgh-pirates-tnt-8616/

12 Call to the Pen

Pittsburgh Pirates: The Rise and Fall of Andrew McCutchen</b>

http://calltothepen.com/2016/08/06/pittsburgh-pirates-rise-fall-andrew-mccutchen/

13 Pittsburgh Sporting News

Tony Watson closes to his own tune

http://www.pittsburghsportingnews.com/pirates-tony-watson-hughes/

14 National Pastime Museum

THE BIZARRE DEATH OF LEN KOENECKE

http://www.thenationalpastimemuseum.com/article/bizarre-death-len-koenecke

15 St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Cardinals notes: Center field not so super for Cards this season

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-notes-center-field-not-so-super-for-cards-this/article_a23643d1-f73d-5b47-a080-c2641c21ed5d.html

16 USA Today

Yankees, Alex Rodriguez to address future; is he done in New York?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2016/08/06/alex-rodriguez-yankees-future/88352192/

17 SB Nation   

Everyone is mad at the Padres

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/8/6/12391212/everyone-is-mad-at-the-padres

18 CBS Sports

The positives and negatives of the seven NL teams fighting over three playoff spots

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/the-positives-and-negatives-of-the-seven-nl-teams-fighting-over-three-playoff-spots/

19 Fangraphs

The Best of FanGraphs: August 1-5, 2016

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-best-of-fangraphs-august-1-5-2016/

20 Sports on Earth

ROCKET HAS A BLAST IN BRIDGEPORT

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/193970496/roger-clemens-brideport-bluefish

21 Fox Sports

Miami Marlins OF Giancarlo Stanton hits mammoth 500+ foot home run

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/miami-marlins-of-giancarlo-stanton-hits-mammoth-500-foot-home-run-080616

22 Baseball Prospectus

Raising Aces: All Aboard the Skaggswagon

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=30053

23 Pittsburgh Post Gazette

On The Pirates: Performance forced tear-down of rotation

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/pirates/2016/08/07/On-The-Pirates-Performance-forced-tear-down-of-rotation/stories/201608070089

Game Time 1:35

Dan Straily  3.80 ERA  Gerritt Cole  2.73 ERA

Media Notes

http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/documents/2/0/2/194161202/game_notes_7xo43yis.pdf

Reds Lineup

1. Billy Hamilton (S) CF

2. Zack Cozart (R) SS

3. Joey Votto (L) 1B

4. Adam Duvall (R) LF

5. Brandon Phillips (R) 2B

6. Scott Schebler (L) RF

7. Eugenio Suarez (R) 3B

8. Ramon Cabrera (S) C

9. Dan Straily (R) P

Pirates Lineup

1. Josh Harrison (R) 2B

2. Starling Marte (R) LF

3. Andrew McCutchen (R) CF

4. Matt Joyce (L) RF

5. Jung Ho Kang (R) 3B

6. John Jaso (L) 1B

7. Jordy Mercer (R) SS

8. Eric Fryer (R) C

9. Gerrit Cole (R) P