Tuesday Bird Droppings: Where there won't be an eclipse today

Hello, friends. Another day has dawned with the Orioles in third place in the American League East. They're now 10.5 games behind the division-leading Red Sox. More importantly, though, they are 3.5 games behind both the Twins for the second wild card spot, with a total of five teams still to pass. Monday's triumph over the Athletics helped the O's pull a little closer. If you missed some or all of the 7-3 win, make sure to read Donovan's recap of the game, and don't forget to vote in the MBP poll. Nothing so cool as a total solar eclipse will be happening today, although there will be a Summit of the Boogs that possibly includes as many as three Boogs. That sounds remarkable in its own way,

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  Rockies, Royals meet with eye on wild-card races (Aug 22, 2017)

  FOX Sports
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  The side-slingin’ lefty closer that's helping Texas in jumbled AL wild-card race

  Yahoo Sports

Donald Trump Learns The True Risks Of Staring At The Sun During An Eclipse

President Donald Trump may not have suffered any eye damage from his brief glimpse of the sun during Monday’s solar eclipse. But he faced another, in some ways bigger, risk. This one came not during the eclipse itself but in the hours after as photos

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  Melania Trump wears midnight black dress to view solar eclipse at the White House

  Express.co.uk
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  Of Course Donald Trump Looked at the Eclipse Without Glasses

  Spin

Phoenix Suns with quality solar eclipse joke on Twitter

With the cooler-than-I-expected solar eclipse on Monday came a lot of bad solar eclipse jokes on Twitter. Because that’s what Twitter does. Especially the NBA Twitterverse. We knew a lot of “where on the flat earth will Kyrie Irving watch the eclipse