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A Connecticut police officer was placed on administrative leave following allegations that he appeared in pornographic videos posted online, according to local media reports. The officer, who was hired in 2021, was recently placed on leave after explicit videos allegedly surfaced, according to the New Haven Register. Police Chief Edward Lennon called the pornographic videos an “off-duty matter” in a statement, the Register reported. “[The officer] is the subject of an internal affairs investigation, consistent with the collective bargaining agreement,” Lennon said in the statement. “This is a personnel matter, and as such, we will have no additional comment.” WFSB began investigating the story after receiving several tips and discovered videos that were posted about 10 months ago. The station also obtained a copy of the East Haven Police Department’s code of ethics, which says that “officers will keep their private lives as an example to all,” according to the outlet. The code of conduct does not address pornography other than to say that “officers are prohibited from viewing or disseminating pornography while on duty or using town equipment,” according to the New Haven Register. With the officer on leave, an internal affairs investigation has been opened to look into his behavior, WTNH reported. The East Haven Police Department did not immediately respond to McClatchy News’ request for comment on Sept. 20. East Haven is a coastal town of about 28,000 people in New Haven County, about 40 miles south of Hartford. It should be illegal to write a story like this without pics, videos, the cop's stats...

As the bottom of the 8th began, the Yanks led 7-2, but nobody was leaving the stadium, even though 5 men had to get on for Judge to have another AB. The first 5 men got on, Harrison Bader's 2 run double assuring Judge would bat. Alas, he walked on 4 pitches nowhere near the strike zone. Gleyber Torres homered twice in the inning, the Yanks scored 7, and won 14-2. Judge sits at 60 for another day. He (.31707) went 2-4, as did Boegarts (.31666) in the Red Sox game.

Stanton tied a record, becoming the 4th man to hit three walk off slams in a career.

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Jon Hamm finally addressed “the penis thing” on Monday on “The Howard Stern Show” and whether or not the rumors that he prefers going commando are true. The 51-year-old actor was asked by Stern about whether or not he wears underwear. “I have worn underwear every single day of my life, Howard,” stated Hamm. “First of all, who doesn’t wear underwear? Yeah, I’ve worn underwear every day of my life. With a suit? Come on. I love a comfy boxer brief, thank you very much. I like a breathable cotton. Who doesn’t?” But he has also said he hopes people will stop discussing his manhood. “They’re called ‘privates’ for a reason. I’m wearing pants, for f – -k‘s sake. Lay off,” Hamm told Rolling Stone in 2019. “I mean, it’s not like I’m a f – – king lead miner. There are harder jobs in the world — but when people feel the freedom to create Tumblr accounts about my c – – k, I feel like that wasn’t part of the deal … But whatever. I guess it’s better than being called out for the opposite.” Maybe if Flo knew what he's packing she wouldn't be so immune to his charms.

WHAT A SPECTACULAR ENDING TO WHAT WAS GOING TO BE A TERRIBLE LOSS... The bullpen had imploded, and the Yanks trailed 8-4 going into the bottom of the 9th, then some guy (I forget who) hit his 60th HR off Red Ruffing's great great nephew before the Yanks loaded the bases and Stanton (mired in a horrific slump) hit a walk-off grand slam! Oh... and that guy with the 60 HRs now leads in the batting race by a point as of the end tonight's games.

I'm seriously worried that @WilliamM might have hurt himself jumping up & down to celebrate Harrison Bader's triumphant Yankee debut. 2nd at bat he hit a game-tying single, then ran around the bases on that notorious foot (actually, on BOTH feet) to score the go ahead run. Next time up, Yanks again down by 1, he drove in 2 with another single. He was left stranded at third, but not before slipping while rounding the base and landing on that prized posterior of his. There were unsubstantiated reports of a 'mature' gentleman from Pennsylvania trying to get on the field to inspect the area for bruises. The game continues... Judge has 2 weak ground outs, a walk, and a strikeout so far. He sits at 59. Probably didn't want to upstage Harrison's big night. What a nice guy!

I know people are going gaga over him in one of the 'epic' shows now streaming. I'm not interested in that stuff, so I don't know which one. He played Theo Sipowicz in ABC's 2019 NYPD BLUE pilot. His dad, Mark, who died at 36, was quite a looker, too. Google him.

The father of former major leaguer Bump Wills has died.

A new restaurant with an interesting name opened in Brooklyn recently:

Beyond Meat COO accused of biting man’s nose outside Arkansas football stadium The man obviously had a craving for real meat!

Are you saying you don't think Alvarez, Trout. or Ohtani can have a hot 2 weeks and pass him? Oh ye, of little faith! Not with the right butts. Pettitte's and Texiera's were works of art in grey.

You just want to see what that tushy looks like in pinstripes! (So do I, but Yankee butts tend to look better in their road uniforms.)

He has a 15 RBI lead so if he can gain 2 points in average over Arraez (& Boegarts), it'll only be a question of whether or not he can hold onto the HR lead to win the Triple Crown. A new AL HR record, a triple crown, $40 mil/yr for X # of years... not a bad season if he keeps up his scorching September (27-55 so far). Elsewhere in the MLB Records Dept: Framber Valdez set the one-season record for consecutive quality starts with his 25th in a row. 2 pitchers have had longer streaks over multiple seasons.

Former big league reliever Anthony Varvaro died in a car accident this morning, according to multiple media reports. The 37-year-old Varvaro became a New York/New Jersey Port Authority police officer after retiring from baseball, and the car accident took place while he was heading for duty at the September 11th memorial service today in downtown New York City. A Staten Island native, Varvaro’s pro baseball career began when the Mariners selected him in the 12th round of the 2005 draft. Varvaro made his big league debut with the Mariners in 2010, and then spent the next four seasons pitching with the Braves before tossing 11 innings with the Red Sox in 2015, his final MLB season.

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.