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Kevin Kiermaier has elected to undergo surgery to address a labrum issue with his left hip, manager Kevin Cash told reporters (including Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times and Joe Trezza of MLB.com). He’ll miss the remainder of the 2022 season, but the expectation is he’ll be ready for next Spring Training.

I can't remember either of my grandfathers. Possibly because both died 33 years before I was born.

The father of the only woman Will Truman ever slept with has died.

Coyotes killed six of Martha Stewart's peacocks. She is bereft. I wonder if anyone ever tried to bring an 'emotional support' coyote on a plane...

Speaking of interesting things... Jasson Dominguez, Trey Sweeney, & Josh Breaux were all pulled from their games tonight. Big Luis Castillo trade coming? What does the adorable one and his beard 'wife' trying for a baby have to do with anything? I'm sure he and his beard 'wife' will make adorable babies (as longs as the beard 'wife' is not a troll).

And they won't have the adorable one or the favorite for NL MVP. They won't be paid for the 2 games. Arenado will lose $384,416, Goldschmidt $241,758. FOR TWO FUCKING GAMES! And they won't even notice it. 🤑🤑🤑

a time when I wasn't adorable.

The Yanks have lost Mike King for the season with a fractured elbow.

🤣😂😝

MLB's Men's Hosiery Dept. is NOT starting the 2nd half well. The Red Sox are trailing 25-3. (in the 5th!) The White Sox are losing 6-2. It's a mixed bag for the Ornithological Dept. The Orioles are losing by 4, as are the Cardinals, but the Blue Jays are the ones edging the Bosox.*** Most amazingly, in the middle of a massive heatwave, hell has frozen over... Joey Gallo just homered. *** The Jays have done all that damage with just 4 HRs & 4 2Bs. Through 5 innings, each of the 9 men in the lineup have at least 2 hits and 2 RBI. All but one have driven in a run. I CAN'T KEEP UP... their 5th HR makes it 27-3 with no out in the 6th, Still no position player pitching for the Sox. Three men have 4 runs scored. Two have 6 RBI (one has 5). OY GEVALT! (google it)

You know he deflowered Brooke Shields, right?

Unless he was the Lucky Charms leprechaun.

I thought maybe Dean Cain had made an appearance.

As it should be. Use direct terms... croaked, kicked the bucket, etc.

Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 tearjerker novel “The Kite Runner” has no shortage of terrible traumas: deaths, beatings, a rape, the disastrous takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban. To say the very least, it’s a lot. All that immense pain could prove overwhelming for the reader, yet the author’s gift for writing sumptuous imagery and tender, nuanced relationships softens the blow. It became a book-club staple for years. Onstage, of course, we don’t have hundreds of pages to let the ambitious tale breathe. We’ve got 2½ hours. So the sheer number of tragedies makes “The Kite Runner” an especially tough story to adapt without turning it into a soap opera — an emotional shellacking. That treacherous trap, however, is shrewdly avoided on Broadway, where a moving stage adaptation of the book opened Thursday night, because of the actors’ radiating warmth and the production’s generosity of spirit. It’s a straightforward, to-the-point play, but one that’s easy to embrace and gripping as it unfurls. We first meet Amir as a boy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He’s portrayed both as a child and, later, a grown-up by adult actor Amir Arison Agent Mojtabai from THE BLACKLIST , an empathetic performer who doesn’t mug or overplay youthful traits the way so many actors do. Amir’s family are wealthy Pashtuns, while his best friend and in-house servant, Hassan (Eric Sirakian), is a Hazara — an Afghan race that faces extreme discrimination at home. Bullies, including a jackass named Assef (Amir Malaklou), mock and threaten them both for being against-the-grain pals. Hassan’s father Ali (Evan Zes) has served the family and Amir’s dad (Faran Tahir), who he calls Baba, for 40 years. They consider Hassan and Ali family, but the class divide is always hovering over every interaction. The social stigmas, not to mention the macho culture around them, take a devastating toll on the friendship. All the while, the Taliban’s brutal incursion shatters their country. Act 2 is set mostly in the United States, and we learn what’s become of both boys — and their bond we root hard for. Giles Croft stages the drama speedily and without fuss on Barney George’s spare, half-pipe-style set. He’s not a showy director, and scenes are presented simply with minimal furniture and no pretentious tricks. Unencumbered, the actors are free to do their thing. Sirakian is a big talent, who at first gives us a Hassan who is so doting and sweet, and later on in another role, a tortured, trembling, distraught young man. Our concern for Hassan’s well-being — made greater by this actor’s commendable Broadway debut — is in large part what makes the show work. He’s part of a uniformly strong cast. Tahir and Zes are both affecting as proud men who, for different reasons, find themselves torn down and emasculated. Hosseini’s story, spanning three decades and two continents, is plot heavy, and so to shove it all in, playwright Matthew Spangler has Amir narrate the tale while a drummer sits downstage punctuating the speech. All that exposition, while necessary to arrive at our destination, can feel like we’re packing one suitcase for a five-month vacation. Still, as far as literary stage adaptations go — a touch-and-go genre if there ever was one — “The Kite Runner” is enormously satisfying and soulful. https://nypost.com/2022/07/21/the-kite-runner-broadway-review-a-gripping-stage-adaptation/

There's a sub chain in upstate NY called Jreck Subs. When I went to Syracuse U. eons ago, everyone pronounced it "DRECK", which is Yiddish for garbage. That always made me laugh.

As a person who came of age in the 80s I had some incredible acts of velour.

Indiana passerby rescues five children from burning home, including baby An Indiana man who was driving by a burning house sprung into action and rescued five people trapped inside before first responders had the chance. Nick Bostic, 25, entered a Lafayette house in the early morning hours of July 11 and saved four occupants (an 18 year old and three of her siblings) before going upstairs to grab a 6-year-old girl. The heroic passerby then reportedly jumped out of a second-floor window while cradling the child to escape the fully involved fire. Police body cam video captured the moment a cop took the crying girl from the wheezing man’s arms. “I need oxygen!” Bostic said as he sat on the curb. An officer then helped Bostic get up and took him to the other side of the street where a tourniquet was applied to his bleeding right arm. “I can barely breathe,” Bostic is heard saying as he lies on the ground panting furiously. “Is the baby okay? Please tell me that baby’s okay.” The officers reassured Bostic that the child was fine. She suffered only a minor cut on her foot, according to the report. “You did good dude,” a cop was heard saying. Bostic was reportedly hospitalized for smoke inhalation and his injured arm. He was set to be honored by officials during next month’s National Night Out, when local communities celebrate their police departments. Ticket sales from a Lafayette Aviators baseball game on Aug 2. would be donated to a fundraising campaign for the hometown hero, the article said. The fire was reportedly started by ashes dumped in a bucket on the front porch, according to the newspaper. Bostic’s cousin, Richard, created a GoFundMe page to help raise funds for the heroic pizza delivery driver’s recovery after he suffered cuts, burns and blisters on his legs and arm. The page has raised $453,509 as of early Wednesday. “This kid is the real deal,” Richard wrote on the page. “Sadly, he has some serious injuries and will need help during his recovery.” Bostic, who delivers pizza around Lafayette, suffered the injuries around 12:30 a.m. on July 11. While he was able to lead the teen and three of the children out of the burning home, Bostic ran back into the flames and fought heavy smoke to search for a 6-year-old child who was still inside. He eventually found her and carried her out through a window. His injuries required treatment for several days at a hospital. Bostic appeared Monday on “America’s Newsroom” and recounted what happened after he spotted the flames and ran inside. “Before I was halfway into the door, I started hollering if there was anybody in there,” Bostic said. Bostic said he started to think the house was empty until four people heard him and ran to him. He then led them outside and asked if anyone was left. “They said there’s a 6-year-old left in there. So, I went back inside,” he said. Bostic described searching for the child without success and how smoke began to fill the home. “It scared me a lot,” he said. “But then I started hearing Kaylani’s cry.” That is one deliveryman who earned a HUGE tip!

We're living in a sick world... An Oregon father of two was gunned down in a suspected road-rage incident last week after he accidentally splashed windshield wiper fluid on a passing BMW, according to his partner. Dennis Anderson, 45, and Brandy Goldsbury, 46, were traveling from the beach in Lincoln City on the Oregon coast back to their home in Tigard around 8:30 p.m. July 13 when they spotted a black BMW 3 Series trying to pass them, according to reporting in The Oregonian. Goldsbury told the paper that her partner sprayed wiper fluid on the windshield of their car, and that some of the liquid may have landed on the BMW. “I was just like, ‘Ignore him, he’s just having a bad day,'” she recalled telling Anderson of the other motorist. The BMW sped away, but a few miles later, at a rest area near Otis, Goldsbury said, she and her partner spotted the same car parked on the side of the road. Anderson drove by the BMW, which then started following him, according to Goldsbury, driving close to the rear of their car as if trying to hit it. After several apparent attempts to drive Anderson off the road, Goldsbury said, she told him to pull over and call 911 for help, which he did as he got out of the vehicle. That is when, Goldsbury said, the driver of the BMW stopped parallel to them and opened fire on their car. “The last thing that [Anderson] said was, ‘Oh my God, they shot me,'” Goldsbury said. Goldsbury unbuckled her seatbelt and got out of the car to get help. “By the time I got to him, blood was coming out of his mouth,” she said of her mortally wounded partner. She said a good Samaritan who stopped to help did CPR on Anderson and didn’t stop until paramedics arrived. Despite all the life-saving efforts, Anderson was pronounced dead at the scene. By then, the driver of the BMW had fled. Anderson is survived by his partner, his two teenage daughters and an adult stepson. Goldsbury met Anderson online while he lived in Massachusetts. The couple operated a soap company together, and the man also worked part-time as a pizza deliveryman to support his family after quitting a pharmacy job to spend more time with his kids. https://nypost.com/2022/07/21/dad-shot-dead-after-splashing-windshield-fluid-on-bmw/

The Nasty One proposed after the All Star game. The 27-year-old Yankees pitcher broke the news to his 140,000 Instagram followers on Wednesday, sharing several pics of the week’s festivities alongside heartwarming photos of the two. “All Star week made 2 of my dreams come true,” Cortes wrote. “Pitch in a all star game. And propose to my bestfriend. With my parents along my side. I had to make us official.” With these magical moments both on and off the field now behind him, Cortes will look to add another ring to his collection with the Yankees in October.