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Goldy & the adorable one (sounds like a Disney movie) were off today. Mr. Poo Holes hit # 697.

Is he related to that insurance duck?

I'm rooting for him to do it, but Schwarber's 2 HR ahead and the HR & RBI leaders are bunched close together. Freddie Freeman has passed him in average. (4-4 tonight got him to .330) Plus he (and the adorable one) had a fairly quiet week. But you know who could win the Triple Crown? Judge is 4th in average, 1 point behind 3rd, and 11 points behind leader Xander Boegarts. He's considered the favorite to lead the league in HR & RBI.

Yes. And I misspelled her name. It's Carey. She is a former model who played ADA Jamie Ross on Law & Order for a couple of years, then in guest appearances a few times since.

He was wrongly imprisoned for 15 years in the show, so he shouldn't look young and beautiful like the former Mr. Cary Lowell did in the original.

There is actually a rain delay in San Diego right now. Can they move the wildfires to Petco Park?

Nov. 4 on Roku The new “Weird Al” Yankovic movie, which premiered Thursday at midnight in the Toronto International Film Festival, is called “Weird.” It’s the most accurate title of anything since “Cats.” For finding a stranger, more deranged, even a just-as-peculiar biopic will be a tall order. Damn near impossible. You can hardly believe it’s real — because it isn’t. Almost nothing in this hilarious story of the pop music parody legend, who became famous with songs like “Yoda” and “Fat,” is remotely true. Wikipedia fails to mention, for example, Weird Al’s rocky romance with Madonna, who then became a Yoko Ono-esque wedge between him and his band. Michael Jackson definitely did not release “Beat It” after Yankovic wrote “Eat It.” Was cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar a Weird Al superfan who offered him 1 billion pesos to perform at his birthday party? Who’s to say? What Yankovic and director and co-writer Eric Appel have done, brilliantly in spots, is parody Yankovic’s own life while sending up the whole biopic genre. In a messed-up way, the maneuver is kinda poetic. And so very funny. Daniel Radcliffe (left) plays Weird Al and Rainn Wilson is Dr. Demento in “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.” It’s a riot when a teenage Al rebelliously sneaks out of the house to attend a cool-kids polka party, and gets peer-pressured into playing the accordion. Or early on when, as a little kid, he begins to sing “Amazing Grapes” at the dinner table. “Those aren’t the words!” his cruel father shouts at him. “I know,” says Little Al, who secretly plays accordion in the closet. “I made them better.” Later on, Adult Al (Daniel Radcliffe), after creating the tune “My Bologna” from The Knack’s “My Sharona” while making sandwiches, proclaims his life’s dream: “I’ll be the most famous accordion player in an extremely specific genre of music!” Lush orchestral music swells throughout as though cueing us to cry. And we do, but for a different reason. Yankovic’s career success is slightly bigger than we remember it in “Weird.” Daniel Radcliffe (left) and “Weird Al” Yankovic attend the film’s premiere during the Toronto International Film Festival. Radcliffe dons the frizzy wig and thick-framed glasses, and the role fits him like a size-large Hawaiian shirt. Real Radcliffe and Weird Al share an inherent likability, an innocence really, and Radcliffe’s persona elevates the film. We really care about what happens to his Al, even though everything is fake and a 100% joke. And he’s joined by a stacked cast of actors. Evan Rachel Wood plays a gum-chewing ‘80s Madonna and Rainn Wilson takes on the role of radio personality and Weird Al mentor Dr. Demento with the silly seriousness of Tom Hanks in “Elvis.” Best is Toby Huss as Al’s father Nick. He channels every disapproving dad in creative-genius biopic history, and wrings laughs out of each sucker punch and grunt. There are a ton of celeb cameos that I won’t mention. They’re all fantastic. Weird Al fans, like yours truly, will not only recognize this brand of outrageous humor from his songs, but also his other forays onto the screen. Sendups of movie scenes from “Boogie Nights” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” harken back to what he did in the under-appreciated 1989 comedy movie “UHF” (“Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers!”). And the pace and dryness of the gags is a dead ringer for the reedited celebrity interviews he used do on “The Weird Al Show” on CBS. But what will folks who did not attend AlCon when they were 11 and do not own an autographed “UHF” LP make of this movie? Appel’s film, after all, is co-produced by Funny or Die, so there is a skit-like quality to it even though it exceeds 90 minutes. The movie is a smidge too long. Yet there’s something appealing here for anyone who enjoys the absurd comedy of Amy Sedaris’ “Strangers With Candy,” or the violent living room antics of “Family Guy.” You don’t have to know all the words to “The Saga Begins.” Any teenager today would have a swell time watching “Weird” in his basement at 2 a.m. And some of us who were teenagers 20-40 years ago will pull up a chair. https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/weird-the-al-yankovic-story-review-the-craziest-biopic-ever-made/

I'd rather see he & the Mrs. swap suits in that pic. I've always admired his butt.

Late-emerging Cy Young candidate Greg Weissert had quite an appearance in game one today. He entered in the 12th with the anemic-hitting Yanks already down 4-3 & the bases loaded with Carlos Correa & cousin Jose 'samhexum keeps calling me Juan, who used to be a Yankee' Miranda due up. He threw 3 pitches & got both out, then got his 3rd win in his last 5 appearances when they rallied in the bottom half. Or... they played great and built a big early lead, then played mostly solidly through a long run of pitching injuries, and were finally caught by a red-hot team that obviously has a blackmail tape to hold over the god of rookies. And that's said by a guy that's rooting for the Braves.

The plumber is talented, but whoever designed that place should be shot.

Marilyn Loden, who coined the phrase 'glass ceiling,' dies at 76

This kinda struck me as weird… Herb Kohler, billionaire heir to the faucet fortune & 3rd generation former CEO of the company, died today. He was from Wisconsin. Former Senator (& Milwaukee Bucks owner) Herb Kohl, heir to the department store fortune (though he hasn’t been involved with the company for 50 years), is worth $400 million and is from Wisconsin. HERB KOHL & HERB KOHLER?!?!? Can’t wealthy families in Wisconsin afford to give their sons unique names?

Megan Hilty is mourning her pregnant sister, brother-in-law and niece after they died in a floatplane crash Sunday. The “Smash” alum’s family members were three of the 10 passengers on board the aircraft that went down in Puget Sound in Washington, the US Coast Guard confirmed Tuesday. It is unclear what led to the crash. Lauren Hilty’s husband Ross Mickel’s family told a local news outlet that their “collective grief is unimaginable.” The statement continued, “We are deeply saddened and beyond devastated at the loss of our beloved Ross Mickel, Lauren Hilty, [their daughter] Remy and their unborn baby boy, Luca.”Enlarge Ima The Washington State Wine Commission honored Mickel with a statement of its own, as he had owned Ross Andrew Wineries since 1999. “Ross had an incredible impact on the Washington wine community, and he will be greatly missed,” the statement read. Megan, 41, has yet to publicly react to the tragedy.

@WilliamM's baseball crush should start a rehab assignment within a week. Guess who's tied for the lead in winning percentage among all MLB pitchers (minimum 2 decisions).

Laurie Metcalf won her first guest actress in a comedy Emmy, 28 years after winning her 3rd straight supporting actress Emmy for ROSEANNE.

With his seventh nomination for guest actor in a comedy, Nathan Lane finally got his Emmy.

The teenage son of an Upper East Side apartment superintendent allegedly snuck into a tenant’s bedroom — then masturbated using her underwear while sniffing another pair. Jared Magana, 19, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court Saturday night on charges of second-degree burglary as a sexually motivated felony. Magana allegedly entered the victim’s bedroom while she was not home Thursday and rummaged through her underwear drawer unaware he was being filmed on a home-security video, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office. He returned about a half hour later and pleasured himself using one pair of underwear while holding another pair “up to his nose and face,” according to prosecutors. A roommate who noticed the apartment was in disarray checked the footage with the super and the super identified Magana as his son, the court heard. Magana — who does not have a prior criminal record — was arraigned and held on $15,000 cash bail by Judge Michael Gaffey. Prosecutors had requested a bail of $100,000. “The defendant also lives in the same building as the complainant and as the son of the super, has a concerning amount of access to the victim’s home,” Assistant District Attorney Katherine Sullivan stated in a bail application. I hope his good time was worth the legal fees & his father possibly losing his job.

Guess who got the win with 2 scoreless innings last night. 16 of 21 pitches were strikes.

Season 3 awaits! The former was delightful, and the latter was stupid and annoying... the worst part of season 2. I binged it yesterday and enjoyed season 2 a tad more than season 1, which I loved. I won't discuss the reasons why, so as not to give anything away. Loved them both this season.

In what is sure to be a devastating blow to fans of the show, DJ will not appear in the upcoming season, though his daughter will remain a recurring character.

A scoreless inning for Weissert yesterday.

No need to thank me; just send $.

And I'm supposed to care? why? THIS is a much more important story: Matteo Berrettini, the model tennis player bringing his good looks to New York https://nypost.com/2022/08/27/meet-matteo-berrettini-the-model-tennis-player-bringing-his-good-looks-to-new-york/ I'D LIKE TO KISS HIS TROPHY The Roman native made history as the first Italian male to make it to the quarterfinals of all four Grand Slam events. His runway career took flight when a Hugo Boss exec saw him being interviewed after losing at Wimbledon in 2021. “I think one of the reasons why they chose me is also my personality. I hope it is, that’s what they told me,” he said. “So I’m glad this thing is coming out when I play.” As far as the topic on hand is concerned, I'm so sick of vaccine politics, I couldn't care less. I will say that I think it's different for an individual in a non-team sport to make the decision for himself than for the Kyrie Irvings, Nolan Arenados, & Paul Goldschmidts who are paid million$ to play a TEAM sport and then force their teams to play short-handed whenever they're in an area that won't allow unvaccinated people to play. Selfish, much?

You're a dirty old man who is just having PTSD reactions to the car wash extravaganza you observed the other day.

Adrienne Bailon had a perfectly good reason for why she kept her baby news a secret from friends, family and fans — her mental health. The former “Cheetah Girls” star — who secretly welcomed her son, Ever James, earlier this month — said that after she learned her surrogate was pregnant, she only told the exciting news to six people in an attempt to keep her anxiety at bay. “It was important to me for my own mental wellbeing and for my family,” Bailon, 38, told People. “I was just like, ‘I’m just not going to say anything.’ It was actually very peaceful that way. You didn’t have other people’s opinions.” While the former talk show host wanted to share the happy news with her friends and viewers, she managed to keep the secret for nine months. “Honestly, everyone was shocked,” she told the outlet. “Even my sister, who watched ‘The Real’ throughout the whole last season, literally said to me, ‘Adrienne, I am impressed.’ She’s like, ‘I am so proud of you. You are really holding this.’ I did that because it was really sacred to me.” “We have quietly prayed while sitting on this most magnificent secret for the last nine months,” she continued. “He is worth every tear, every disappointment, every delayed prayer, every IVF cycle, every miscarriage. Everything.” Bailon and Houghton decided to try surrogacy after the actress went through eight failed in-vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles and one miscarriage. Although the couple used surrogacy for their last pregnancy, Bailon has yet to give up hope when it comes to expanding their family once again. “That’s the ultimate dream for me,” she told People. “I’m not giving up on that dream. Maybe I will carry one day and I can’t wait for that. I’m still hoping for that.” Fans and followers of the new mom — including Khloé Kardashian, her former sister-in-law (?????) — were quick to congratulate the singer on the surprising news. So, what are you sending her for a gift?