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No beach today. It was dark and cloudy for most of the day. There were a few five or ten-minute breaks in the cloud but as soon as it got nice, it was dark again.

It was really humid again while not being hot. I wound up turning on the AC around 8PM because the apartment just felt weird.

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Today’s long reads:

LL Cool J Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop. (Why Would He?) - nobody was better to work with for promotions at the BMC was LL Cool J. Tireless.

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This is frightening. Ricky Pearsall, the San Francisco 49ers wide receiver/2024 first-round draft pick, was shot in the chest during a robbery in Union Square at 3:30PM. He was going to an autograph signing event.

According to the San Francisco police department, Pearsall fought with a thief who was trying to steal his Rolex watch. Things devolved to Pearsall and the thief struggling over a gun. Pearsall, 23, is in serious but stable condition. There is video of him walking to the ambulance holding his shirt on the bullet wound.

In August of 2022, Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. was shot in DC by two teenagers trying to rob him.

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The Yankees lost today to the St. Louis Cardinals, the first time the Cardinals had a win in Yankee Stadium since the 1964 World Series. Now, from 1965 to 1996, there was no interleague baseball except in the World Series so if the Yankees didn’t play the Cardinals in the World Series (they did not in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1996), there was no chance for a win or loss. But in 1997, interleague play began and while the Yankees and Cardinals didn’t meet up regularly, in the last near 30-years, the Cardinals played a few games at Yankee Stadium and the Cardinals were mostly good teams during those years.

Today, the Yankees put out a Triple A pitcher – everyone thinks Will Warren will be a good pitcher but he wasn’t supposed to be in the big leagues until next season. He’s learning on the job and so is Jazz Chisolm learning on the job playing third and not being positioned correctly for a possible pickoff move. The Yankees lost 6-5.

The Yankees playing the Cardinals is a historically big deal – the two teams have the most World Series wins – 27 from the Yankees, 11 for the Cardinals.

August in Aaron Judge:



I think that’s pretty good.

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Today’s moment of happiness: Beach buddy.



Off to bed!

Take Care
Mara
marakara: (Ipod:  Pink)
Things are going so well: Vicious duo who pummeled elderly woman on NYC street freed without bail — despite arrest history: cops. The Bronx DA’s office asked for bail but the judges said no.

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Sorry to see about Phil Donahue. He was always one thing – interesting.

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I’m so old. I remember staying up on Fridays to watch The Midnight Special. YouTube has a The Midnight Special channel with some amazing performances.

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FBI casting news )

Will Trent casting news )

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Disney Plus canceled The Acolyte after one season.

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ESPN is thinking of reviving The Sports Reporters as a YouTube series. The Sports Reporters ran on Sundays between 1988 to 2017, largely lead by either Dick Schaap until his untimely death in 2001 and John Saunders until his untimely death in 2016.

The Sports Reporters would have either Schaap or Saunders sitting with three or four sportswriters from different parts of the country with different expertise. Mitch Albom, Dave Anderson, Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilbon, Mike Lupica John Feinstein, Bob Ryan, Ralph Wiley were regulars. ESPN thought Kornheiser and Wilbon could do Pardon the Interruption based on their Sports Reporters appearances (where they were not on together).



I don’t see how this works 30-years later. Every sportswriter who wants to be on TV, winds up on TV. ESPN has them all. What made The Sports Reporters different was looking at that clip, Anderson wrote for The New York Times, Kornheiser wrote for The Washington Post and Lupica for The New York Daily News. None of them were TV personalities outside of The Sports Reporters. Wilbon and Kornheiser stopped doing the show the minute they got their own. There’s nobody new to put on.

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Today’s moment of happiness: The Midnight Special




Off to bed!

Take Care
Mara

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