Box Score 4/5: Keeping up with the changes in baseball

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Good morning and welcome the the YB Box Score, what we're reading while trying to get past the Mets being more popular than the Yankees in New York.

Happy birthday to Matt Bonner, Stephen Jackson, Tony Banks and Tim Jacobs. On this date in in 1993, the Rockies played their first baseball game. They lost to the Mets 3-0.

Daily brain workout

QUIZ: Name the 24 winners of the Silver Slugger award in Colorado Rockies franchise history

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• Way too early college hoops top 25 for 2017-18. 

Around the league

• Are the Yankees becoming more family friendly in the face of declining ticket sales? [NYT]
• Some NFL owners are the upset over the size of Goodell's paycheck. [Deadspin]
• Chapecoense fans give touching tribute to those who died in plane crash during cup final rematch [Fox Sports]
• The Undefeated interviewed boxer Andre Ward about growing up biracial. [The Undefeated]

More true than we all would like to admit