I'm done playing around!  Remember the post about Koli not counting calories?  Well, that's been me lately, and it doesn't work.  I can tell you from experience.

So today I logged into fitday.com, put in my current weight, my goal weight in 2 months (Sept. 8th), and started logging in everything that I ate... And it surprised me!  I would have thought that I'd be more aware of what's going in my mouth.

I thought that I was doing good, and when we got home from a lunch out and a matinee movie, I'd have a little snack to finish my great day (calorie wise).  But as I sat down and logged in every single thing that I ate, I soon realized that there wasn't room for anymore, except a few (8) fresh strawberries (45 calories = great calorie value). 

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...=== Getcher Red Hots ===

Excerpting HQ from time to time, least we can do is link you to their ordering page :- ) so here it is again.  We'll give our own two cents later, but on the run tonight, we'll just pass along others' in Exec Summaries.

Taking a few of their assessments, though not their text, they've got:

• Grade 9B prospect
• Plus PWR
• Plus AVG
• Minus SPD
• Plus DEF

From a detail standpoint, they've got:

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...=== Sense of Proportion ===

There were eleventeen packages reportedly out there, and only two of them were reported to have ML-ready difference-makers of Montero's and Smoak's magnitude.

It's like arguing about the difference between Joey Votto and Mark Teixeira.  That's what the 14-year-olds argue about before Draft Day in roto:  which first rounder can reallllly carry your ballclub.

The biggest difference in baseball is between safe and out.  :- )   The biggest difference in Zdurencik's options was whether he got a player he could count on to make an impact.

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