If We Took a Holliday

<p>We come away from a Bowie Baysox game with stars in our eyes for Jackson Holliday’s bat and water repellant gear in the form of giveaway Hawaiian shirts. Pottymouth catches us up with Nats BF <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/chas-mccormick-cj-abrams-named-players-of-the-week">CJ Abrams</a>, and the surge of the other side of that trade, Juan Soto. <a href="https://www.si.com/fannation/mlb/fastball/history/boston-red-sox-rookie-triston-casas-becomes-first-rookie-in-history-to-hit-two-home-runs-in-same-game-off-max-scherzer">Triston Casas</a> homers twice off of Max and <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/teoscar-hernandez-cal-raleigh-shine-mariners-comeback-win">Cal Raleigh</a> contributes to a SEA win rivaling the Taylor Swift concert across the street for excitement. Jarred <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/20/mariners-jarred-kelenic-breaks-foot-cooler/">kicks a water cooler</a> and it ends exactly as badly as you’d think. We crosstrain with Messi’s debut and the departure of the <a href="https://wtop.com/gallery/dc/dan-charged-us-double-fans-react-to-commanders-sale-enjoy-free-beer-from-new-owner">Commander’s messy ownership, with beer.</a> Those LSU boys continue to make <a href="https://theathletic.com/4701027/2023/07/18/paul-skenes-pirates-record-signing-bonus/">draft history</a> a week later. The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/19/atlanta-braves-publicly-traded/">ATL Hammers</a> become the first publicly traded MLB franchise (does that open up an opportunity to  influence a name change?), and we prep you for that other kind of trade as the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2023/07/23/mlb-trade-deadline-2023-10-biggest-questions-top-players-available/70452707007/">deadline approaches</a> next Tuesday. It’s <a href="https://womeninbaseballweek.org/">Women in Baseball Week</a> and we celebrate the Twins and <a href="https://www.phillygirlsbaseball.com/events">Philly Girls  Baseball</a> participating in style as we