Baseball’s new song is “It’s Raining Home Runs.” Albert Pujols just hit #702 for his career, and Aaron Judge tied the Roger Maris record at 61 for the season, with four games left to take the lead. Let’s avoid foul tips and go straight to newstips.

Things around the world have been busy lately, but have you noticed there are no spring training stories about your local Major League Baseball team?

Some people will go anywhere to avoid email, like the four who just returned from two days in orbit.

One resource that continues to grow and multiply is billionaires with “interesting” ideas. Go to space, like Bezos, Branson, and Musk? Old hat. Own a basketball team? Go, Steve-o. Floating city? Peter Thiel is outside your jurisdiction. Build a $400 billion city in the desert?

ChannelPro editors select Corey Kirkendoll, president and CEO of 5K Technical Services in Texas, as the winner of the yearly honor for MSPs and VARs who have shared especially powerful peer-to-peer business advice.

If your NFL team is already under water (sigh), cheer up and focus on the NBA. Trading starts today, so jump on the appropriate Slack channel. Draft day is Wednesday, the preseason starts December 11, and the 72-game season starts December 22.

Of course, there’s another hurricane heading through the Gulf of Mexico, because 2020.

It's August, it's summer, and it will be miserable outside for many, especially those in the Northeast. Get ready to pretend you're in Florida, with feels-like temperatures around 100 because of the high heat and higher humidity. Enjoy!

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