Sunday Stuff
Bruce Maxwell is a 26 year old catcher for the Oakland Athletics. He's been in the news three times this year. Once when he became the only Major League Baseball Player to take a knee during the playing of the National Anthem. The second time when he accused a waiter in a Huntsville, AL restaurant of refusing to serve him because of his having taken a knee. Now, he's been arrested for allegedly pointing a gun at a female delivery driver.
The waiter denied Maxwell's version of events and says it had to do with one member of the Maxwell table having an expired ID and being refused alcohol service.
Reporter's note: I suspect, given his apparent inability to throw out baserunners trying to steal, and the controversy he is generating, his days with the A's may be numbered.
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Rose McGowan is now saying someone in the inner circle of Harvey Weinstein offered her $1 million to stay silent about sexual assault allegations against Weinstein. She counter-offered asking for $6 million but quickly withdrew that proposal through her attorney. People on her team were telling her to take the money to fund her art but she became disgusted at the thought of taking the money.
Reporter's note: Given the ever-growing number of women coming forward and accusing Harvey Weinstein of what Whoopi Goldberg would call "rape rape" it is time to move past persecuting this man in the media and start prosecuting him in the courts.
Meanwhile, Adam Sandler is being criticized for putting his hand on Claire Foy's knee during their joint appearance on the Graham Norton Show.
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A few Trump Terminology Translations:
"DO SOMETHING" - Do anything necessary to prevent me from being exposed for who I really am.
"Fake News" - News that makes me look bad, aka the truth
"Collusion with Russia never happened" - They ain't caught me yet.
"JFK files are released, long ahead of schedule" - I released them on the last date allowed by law. Not ahead of schedule.
"Transparency" - Expose everything anyone else does, but keep my shit buried deep.
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While I bleed Dodger Blue, and want them to win tonight's game, I give credit to the Astros organization for a great first pitch ceremony tonight. I only wish George H. W. Bush had been able to throw that first pitch himself instead of calling in George W. Bush to relieve him. Bush Sr. was a pretty good first baseman during his years at Yale University. Did you know he played in the College World Series?
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Jigsaw, the latest entry in the Saw horror franchise won the weekend box office battle in its opening weekend. The Square, which I hope to see this weekend was the per screen champion, bringing in $38,000 per screen as it debuted in only two theaters.
The big loser at the box office is the first film released by The Weinstein Company after the scandal involving its co-founder, Harvey Weinstein broke. Amityville: The Awakening opened on ten screens and did a total of $742 in box office. That's a pathetic $74 per screen.
Maybe they can take comfort from the Shia LeBeouf movie Man Down which sold only one ticket when it opened in the United Kingdom.
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Tim Brown is a writer for Yahoo Sports and he wrote an editorial piece criticizing the Major League Baseball commissioner, Rob Manfred for delaying the suspension of the Houston Astros' Yuli Gurriel until next season.
There is a rule in the contract between the players and MLB that mandates a suspended player get seven days after being notified of a suspension to request an appeal. That would have guaranteed Gurriel would not miss a single game of this year's World Series.
Either Mr. Brown didn't know, or more probably, he knew but wanted to generate outrage and clicks on his piece.
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ABC News reports that the Omaha, NE VA facility had a secret waiting list that kept 87 veterans from receiving psychotherapy care at the facility.
Reporter's note: They blame this on training deficiencies, and yet no one was fired?
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The waiter denied Maxwell's version of events and says it had to do with one member of the Maxwell table having an expired ID and being refused alcohol service.
Reporter's note: I suspect, given his apparent inability to throw out baserunners trying to steal, and the controversy he is generating, his days with the A's may be numbered.
* * *
Rose McGowan is now saying someone in the inner circle of Harvey Weinstein offered her $1 million to stay silent about sexual assault allegations against Weinstein. She counter-offered asking for $6 million but quickly withdrew that proposal through her attorney. People on her team were telling her to take the money to fund her art but she became disgusted at the thought of taking the money.
Reporter's note: Given the ever-growing number of women coming forward and accusing Harvey Weinstein of what Whoopi Goldberg would call "rape rape" it is time to move past persecuting this man in the media and start prosecuting him in the courts.
Meanwhile, Adam Sandler is being criticized for putting his hand on Claire Foy's knee during their joint appearance on the Graham Norton Show.
* * *
A few Trump Terminology Translations:
"DO SOMETHING" - Do anything necessary to prevent me from being exposed for who I really am.
"Fake News" - News that makes me look bad, aka the truth
"Collusion with Russia never happened" - They ain't caught me yet.
"JFK files are released, long ahead of schedule" - I released them on the last date allowed by law. Not ahead of schedule.
"Transparency" - Expose everything anyone else does, but keep my shit buried deep.
* * *
While I bleed Dodger Blue, and want them to win tonight's game, I give credit to the Astros organization for a great first pitch ceremony tonight. I only wish George H. W. Bush had been able to throw that first pitch himself instead of calling in George W. Bush to relieve him. Bush Sr. was a pretty good first baseman during his years at Yale University. Did you know he played in the College World Series?
* * *
Jigsaw, the latest entry in the Saw horror franchise won the weekend box office battle in its opening weekend. The Square, which I hope to see this weekend was the per screen champion, bringing in $38,000 per screen as it debuted in only two theaters.
The big loser at the box office is the first film released by The Weinstein Company after the scandal involving its co-founder, Harvey Weinstein broke. Amityville: The Awakening opened on ten screens and did a total of $742 in box office. That's a pathetic $74 per screen.
Maybe they can take comfort from the Shia LeBeouf movie Man Down which sold only one ticket when it opened in the United Kingdom.
* * *
Tim Brown is a writer for Yahoo Sports and he wrote an editorial piece criticizing the Major League Baseball commissioner, Rob Manfred for delaying the suspension of the Houston Astros' Yuli Gurriel until next season.
There is a rule in the contract between the players and MLB that mandates a suspended player get seven days after being notified of a suspension to request an appeal. That would have guaranteed Gurriel would not miss a single game of this year's World Series.
Either Mr. Brown didn't know, or more probably, he knew but wanted to generate outrage and clicks on his piece.
* * *
ABC News reports that the Omaha, NE VA facility had a secret waiting list that kept 87 veterans from receiving psychotherapy care at the facility.
Reporter's note: They blame this on training deficiencies, and yet no one was fired?
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posted by me at 6:39 PM
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