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I beg to differ. Oh, please... please let me differ!

Feed it a lot of chocolate cake and ice cream.

The Yanks homered on the first three pitches of the game off Nestor Cortes. No team had ever done that. They later added another for the first four-homer inning in team history. They became the first team to homer 7 times in the first 3 innings of a game. They hit 9 homers in all, one short of the record. Judge had a double, 3 homers, and 8 rbi. He's the first player to have 16 total bases in his team's first two games. Most astonishing fact... after their second game, they are the only undefeated team in the AL. Who needs Soto & Cole & Gil & Stanton? Of course, I'm sure any day now Aaron Boone will tell us LeMahieu's really close and looking really good, so that's a relief.

I'm offended you'd even ask.

The Lawrence brothers — Matthew, Joey and Andrew — took the stage at 90s Con on Friday, March 28, at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, Conn. In the panel moderated by PEOPLE’s Dory Jackson, the trio opened up about how they got their last name — and why they wish they could change it back. “It was my middle name,” Joey, whose full legal name is Joseph Lawrence Mignogna, explained. “So I was named after our dad, and our grandfather on our dad’s side.” Joey, 48, said that in the early ’80s, when he began acting, he was told, “No one can pronounce Mignogna. That’s not a name people will say.” “Today, things like that are celebrated,” he said. “In the ’80s, it was like, ‘We’re going to need to water this down. There are silent Gs.’ ” They decided to use his middle name, Lawrence, as his last name, and when Matthew, 45, and Andrew, 37, followed him into show business, it “just made sense” for them to use it too. Matthew pointed out that there was a benefit to this, as it gave the child stars some privacy in their off-screen lives. “There was an insulation factor,” he said. “Some people might check in old school ways, but it would be very, very hard to find us. That was a great thing.” However, he said, “Now I’m just stuck with two different names and I can’t travel internationally.” All three brothers agreed that they wish they could go back to their original name. “It would have made it easier,” Andrew said. “It’s really a pain in the butt, honestly, like having two names. You have to prove you’re both people.” Matthew added, “Even for a while there the government only recognized me as Matt Lawrence because I paid taxes from the time I was a toddler to 18 as Matt Lawrence. “But really my name is Matthew William Mignogna,” he explained. “So when I grew up and used my real name on my passport, there was absolutely no correlation. I didn’t exist.” The brothers starred as the fictional Roman siblings in the sitcom Brotherly Love together from 1995 to 1997. The series also starred Liz Vassey and Melinda Culea. Related: Matthew Lawrence Says Ryan Reynolds Has Matured in Years Since the Star ‘Really Upset’ Producers of Their 1998 Movie Boltneck Joey found further success in the early ‘90s with a starring role on Blossom. He also voiced Oliver in Disney’s Oliver & Company. Matthew received attention for his role in 1993’s Mrs. Doubtfire and his part as Jack Hunter, the brother of Rider Strong’s Shawn Hunter, on Boy Meets World. Andrew broke through with his role on Brotherly Love and also voiced T.J. Detweiler in the beloved cartoon Recess. In 2023, the brothers launched a podcast, also called Brotherly Love, on which they talk about their lives, careers and other pop culture topics. Andrew told Entertainment Tonight in 2023, “[The reason] why I was so excited about this podcast is because it was an excuse for me to sit around a table and talk with my brothers and get to hang out with them. It’s something I really enjoy in life.”

One of my local stores emails me copies of my receipts. Thursday night, almost exactly 5 1/2 days after I went shopping there, they sent me a receipt from Saturday. I was supposed to get a package of McCain Quick Fries for free. They were NOT free… The store paid me to take them. When looking at the receipt quickly at the store, I thought the adjustments they made to the price of the fries included my one dollar in grocery bucks, but that dollar was taken off at the bottom of the receipt. They charged me $5.49 for the fries, then took off $4.99, then took off another $1.50. As a result, I paid 549 and they reimbursed me 649, in addition to the one dollar in grocery bucks I had deducted at the end of my receipt.

When you're grabbing a bottle of Coca-Cola during a grocery run, you're likely not paying any attention to the color of the bottle's lid. Because why would you? It turns out that for soda lovers, there's a very specific reason why the color of your Coca-Cola bottle top matters, especially this time of year. Soda-loving history buffs likely know that back in the 1980s, Coca-Cola swapped out real cane sugar for corn syrup in the United States, and it's been that way ever since. Well, at least for the most part. On Instagram, Kevin Escalera (@snackeatingsnackss) shared an amazing tip on how you can get Coca-Cola made using real cane sugar, without having to hunt for a bottle imported from Mexico. This special formula is available every year—but only for a limited time. Escalera revealed that during Passover, if you spot a bottle of Coca-Cola with a yellow cap, that means it's sweetened with real cane sugar. "They do this during a very short time a year around Passover because interestingly, Kosher Jewish people can't have corn during the Passover time. So Coke makes a special real sugar edition just like the Mexican Coke version that you know and love that you pay extra for," he explained. The yellow cap Coca-Colas have even gotten the attention of Reddit, where one inquiry about the bottles has received dozens of responses. "It’s true. Corn syrup isn’t kosher," shared one person. "Is in very limited supply and usually targeted to big box stores in areas with larger Jewish populations." Each year, during the eight days of Passover, those who take part adhere to a specific diet. And because of the "limited supply" factor, one commenter on Escalera's Instagram post suggested that people take it easy on stocking up on the yellow-topped bottles of Coke if they aren't taking part in Passover. "But also can you not?" they wrote. "It’s super limited—let us Jews have like one good thing for Passover!"

Probably Pirates of Penzance... it was the only movie Linda Ronstadt made and they were still dating at the time.

Sorry, but how can any list like this not include the former governor of California's naked booty?

I didn't mean to imply that it was. It was a number that involved the whole cast and I enjoyed it so much that I have kept listening to it all these years.

Park Slope School’s Pet Chicken Dies Despite $2K in Vet Bills

I have one of the songs on my computer. I think it was the biggest production number: SMASH - 1001 Nights.wav

Chisox were shut out seven times in their first seventeen games last year. They just came within a two out solo home run of winning 8-0. BREAK UP THE SOX!

YOU'RE WELCOME!!! P.S. She broke up with him shortly after. They only dated 3 months; she calls him 'baseball boy' and said he was a hot mess and the relationship was toxic. I couldn't find a link to post it, but I saw a video in which she spoke about him sending her a package of pics of them and one of his shirts sprayed with his cologne and a note saying he'd been in therapy. She wasn't persuaded.

Tyler Wade didn't make the Padres. He needs a job. I'll give him one. Or two. Or 69.

ON THIS DAY IN TV HISTORY 20 years ago, Grey's Anatomy premiered on ABC, airing Sundays at 10 pm as a midseason replacement for Boston Legal. Nine episodes aired, with the other four saved for Season 2 once ABC realized it had a monster hit on its hands.

He was on an episode of Emergency! Then after that episode, he decided to leave showbiz and he became a paramedic in real life. He went on to become a paramedic trainer for the LA County Police Academy and then became a deputy sheriff. He retired in 2017 and started doing nostalgia shows and conventions.

Bobby Sherman has stage 4 cancer. His wife announced on Facebook he would no longer be doing conventions or Cameos. He's 81.

Queens Center Mall is undergoing a significant expansion and renovation effort as it welcomes a wave of new retailers and continues to experience increased foot traffic—part of a broader national resurgence in in-person shopping. The shopping center has added several high-profile tenants, including San Wei, Psycho Bunny, Digiso, Dave’s Hot Chicken, Poke Island, Burlington, Primark and H&M. Two additional retailers— Dossier and PacSun—are scheduled to open in the coming months. For many of these brands, including San Wei, Psycho Bunny, Dossier, and Primark, the Queens Center location will be their first and only storefront in the borough. The additions come as indoor mall visitation increased by 5.5% in January 2025 compared to January 2024, with February 2025 visits holding steady and spiking on Valentine’s Day. Alongside the new tenant lineup, Queens Center is also in the midst of internal and external renovations. Completed upgrades include new carpeting, lighting fixtures, and updated common area seating. Live greenery installations and parking garage improvements are currently underway.

This Brooklyn apartment complex was built like a Lego set The building will be affordable housing for seniors; it was designed using passive house principles and was constructed from modular units. When construction started on a new affordable apartment building in Brooklyn, most of the work on the site happened very quickly. Instead of typical construction, cranes lifted giant modular units into the air—each made up of two separate apartments, plus the corridor between them—and set them into place. Trucks delivered nearly four dozen 60-foot-long “mods” from the factory where they were built in Pennsylvania, staging them next to a nearby cemetery in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East Flatbush. Then, each day for two weeks, construction crews stacked together as many as six of the units to build the complex, called Bethany Terraces. (The massive size of the units made them more challenging to transport than a single modular apartment at a time, but the configuration helped shrink the time for installation on site.) The apartments were essentially 100% complete inside. (Appliances were strapped to the corridors and just had to be slid into place.) The crew only had to weld the units together and connect wiring and plumbing from each apartment to the hallway. After all of the units were attached, the crew added continuous insulation to the outside and finished other elements like the roof. A project of this size, with 57 apartments and four stories, could have taken 30 months to build, says Yolanda do Campo, director of construction at RiseBoro, the nonprofit developer behind the project. Instead, it took only 22 months. A shorter timeline means significant savings. “Less construction time means fewer months of interest payments,” do Campo says. Interest payments for the project average around $100,000 a month. It also means, of course, that residents can start moving in faster. In this case, the apartments are limited to seniors in New York City’s affordable housing lottery, with a percentage of the units reserved for seniors who were previously homeless. The process has still taken time, in part because of the bureaucracy involved with the housing lottery. The building was completed last fall; the first residents started moving in in January and only a handful live there so far. But faster construction helped. As builders gain more experience in modular construction, it could happen even more quickly. “I really do think that we do this a couple more times and we’re seeing a building come in 15, 16 months, which is somewhat unheard of for something like this,” says Grayson Jordan, principal at Paul A. Castrucci Architects, the architecture firm behind the building’s design. While modular apartment buildings are starting to become more common in cities, the project went a step further with a “passive house” design, meaning that it has ultra-low energy demand. The building is well-insulated and airtight. The hot water system runs on a heat pump. The apartments are all-electric and designed to run on solar power, so the building can get as close to net zero energy use as possible. “RiseBoro pays for some of the utilities of the tenants,” says do Campo. “So being passive house and saving energy is critical to the business model—besides contributing to sustainability, we lower the monthly bills.” RiseBoro has pioneered energy-efficient design in other projects, including adding sleek new facades to aging apartment buildings to help them shrink energy use by 80%. Outside, the south side of the building has stepped terraces instead of a flat wall, creating a series of outdoor community spaces for residents and more space for solar panels. There was a learning curve to using modular construction; since the local construction crew didn’t have expertise working with modular units, Riseboro had to help coordinate between the factory and the crew on the ground. But it will get easier in the future, Jordan says. “I see a way forward where this becomes just normal construction,” he says. “It does not seem like rocket science. It just seems like, OK, well, you did this the first time. Let’s work out the kinks.” There are some other potential cost advantages to doing most of the work in a factory offsite. Labor in the Pennsylvania factory is less expensive. And crews can build the modular units year-round without delays because of bad weather. Jordan hopes that it also will become standard for larger affordable apartment buildings. “I think it really makes a lot of sense,” he says. “It’s just a matter of really getting the people who make the decisions comfortable with the idea of building a little bit differently than they’re used to . . . I think we all know that there’s a great need for affordable housing, and this is one of several tools that I think could be powerful in meeting that challenge.” fastcompany.com WWW.FASTCOMPANY.COM

I can't believe I just noticed that Oz on high potential is played by the same actor who plays Chris on ghosts.

I can't believe I just noticed that Oz on high potential is played by the same actor who plays Chris on ghosts.