Apparently, President Trump was operating under the mistaken assumption that the Democratic National Convention, which wrapped last night with Joe Biden accepting the nomination to run for President, was actually taking place as scheduled in Milwaukee.
Now, this is a little weird and awkward at the same time, given how Trump whined about former First Lady Michelle Obama's speech on Monday being pre-recorded, when she was actually at a remote location. That should've been the first clue to the current President that this was a virtual convention, just like the one he'll preside over starting on Monday.
Speaking of whining, he had son Eric go on Spam Hannity's Fox News show Thursday to do just that about Biden. Some people never learn.
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Given how ye scribe has felt that Citi Field has been cursed since it opened 11 years ago, it then comes as no surprise that the Mets are the latest team to fall victim to coronavirus.
An unnamed player and a team staff member tested positive, forcing the postponement of Thursday's game vs. Miami, and at least tonight's Subway Series opener vs. the Yankees. The Marlins will make one final visit to Citi Field next week before the Mets head to the Bronx, and one gets the feeling that there'll be doubleheaders a'plenty if the entire Yankee series at Citi is iced this weekend.
If you don't look for trouble, it finds you.
Update, 1:06 pm (ET): The entire weekend series vs. the Yankees has been postponed, which likely leads to split doubleheaders at both Citi Field & Yankee Stadium, which has been done before, next week.
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WWE superstar Sonya Deville (Daria Berenato) testified on Thursday at a hearing against Philip Thomas II, who broke into her home Sunday morning. Turned out in the interim that her best friend and former tag team partner, Mandy Rose (Amanda Saccomanno), was the houseguest she had to rush out of the house after running into Thomas, a week before the former -partners are to meet in a match at Summerslam.
Reddit was abuzz with members calling for Thomas to be sent off to prison. However, given the fact that his actions were spurred on in all probability by mental illness, prison is not the best place for him. He needs psychiatric help, preferably at a state mental hospital in either Florida, where he was arrested, or in his home state of South Carolina. To go from being a fan of Deville to operating under the delusion that she has to be with him sounds as though Thomas, who's likely lost his job at Applebee's as a result of this, is more in need of therapy than getting raped himself in prison. We'll see.
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Second generation announcer Thom Brennaman, long a football & baseball announcer for Fox, won't be working Fox NFL games this season.
This comes after Brennaman, who inherited his father Marty's long time gig as the voice of the Cincinnati Reds, committed an audio gaffe the other night, in which he used a gay slur on a hot mic, thinking he'd turned the mic off.
Brennaman then took the time to address the issue and apologize, like so:
Officially, Brennaman has been suspended despite the apology, and, as noted, won't be heard on Sundays this season. In today's cancel culture climate, that means he has one foot out the door at Fox, where he's often been used as a sub for Joe Buck during football season while Buck calls the World Series.
Would that same cancel culture do the same to a certain Washington bloviator........
2 comments:
Brennaman should have been more careful, but I hate it when guys like him make a mistake and even after they apologize, they're still fired and/or blackballed professionally. These days, I'm of the opinion that they shouldn't apologize unless they have a guarantee they won't be fired.
It's the times we live in. The cancel culture is dictating corporate policy.
Let me give you another example. A young mother is playing her guitar for change in order to pay the rent on her apartment because she lost her job, just because she took part in a Black Lives Matter protest. This is corporate cancel culture, but the basic idea is the same.
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