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So is paint drying. And drying paint doesn't have Tyler Wade playing for it! BTW, as an Angels and Yankees fan, you must be enjoying the start Andrew Heaney has gotten off to for the Dodgers. Yeah, but he's 20, and deGrom is closer to 45 than to 20.

Liz Sheridan, best known for playing Raquel Ochmonek on the beloved legendary NBC sitcom ALF, has died of natural causes at the age of 93. Sheridan was also known for being one of Elizabeth Montgomery's best friends and for having boffed James Dean (the actor, not the sausage guy). She also played Jerry Seinfeld's mother in some obscure sitcom I can never remember the name of. Her death came 2 weeks after the death of another 93 year old thespian who also worked on that obscure sitcom, Estelle Harris.

The Post ranks the top 10 tight ends in NFL Draft Ooh! Are there booty-licious pics?

Tyler looks like he may be adding some facial hair. I'm sure it would look yummy! Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki, 20, throws 19-strikeout perfect game Japanese pitching phenom Roki Sasaki, 20, extends streak to 17 consecutive perfect innings Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print How do you improve on perfection? Roki Sasaki is doing his best to find out. In his first start since throwing the first perfect game in Nippon Professional Baseball since 1994, Sasaki, 20, almost did it again for the Chiba Lotte Marines, as he was pulled after eight perfect innings in a 1-0 loss to the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters on Sunday. The right-hander amassed 14 strikeouts before he was pulled from a scoreless game after throwing 102 pitches. Of note: He was taken out after he struck out the side in the eighth inning with his pitches reportedly still reaching 101 mph. Sasaki hasn't allowed an opposing hitter to reach base in an NPB-record 52 consecutive plate appearances. Through four starts this season, Sasaki has a 1.16 ERA, 56 strikeouts and has allowed seven hits and two walks in 31 innings pitched.

My sentiments exactly. I've been checking out the box scores & reading some articles, but haven't watched one minute. I'm still turned off by all that went on.

Amanda Seales left because they wouldn't let her discuss more substantive stuff. And it's just never been the same without Tam. I feel your pain, man!

The episode that's called Life, Death, and Admiral Andy on youtube us mislabeled; unfortunately, that episode ain't there.

Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki, 20, throws 19-strikeout perfect game https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33712602/japanese-phenom-roki-sasaki-20-throws-19-strikeout-perfect-game-record-setting-performance

The history behind Woodhaven’s Dexter Park Photo courtesy of Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society Dexter Park has led many lives. Located on Jamaica Avenue, near the Brooklyn-Queens border on the west end of Woodhaven, Dexter Park was a public park when it was founded in 1872. Later, as the area all around it began to develop, Dexter Park became a recreational outlet. For a while, it was a popular area for shooting pigeons. Maps of the property in 1901 show a dance hall, a bowling alley and a hotel on the grounds. Nobody knows for certain where Dexter Park got its name. One story says it was named after a horse that was buried on the grounds. Another is that it was named after a man named Charles Dexter, who owned the land for a while. As baseball became more popular, semi-professional leagues began forming to satisfy the demand for the game. Teams from all over began to play baseball at Dexter Park around the turn of the century. And that’s when Max Rosner enters the picture. As a young man, Rosner was an immigrant from Hungary who arrived here in 1892 and opened a cigar shop. He became enamored with the game, played shortstop for a while and eventually took over as manager of the Bushwicks, a Brooklyn-based team that played frequently as Dexter Park, which had become the home field for the Brooklyn Royal Giants, one of the top teams in the Negro Leagues. Dexter Park became the full-time home of the Bushwicks in 1913 and in 1922, Rosner partnered with team owner Nat Strong and became co-owners in the team. Together, they bought Dexter Park for $200,000. Almost immediately, they announced plans to build a grandstand, made completely from cement and steel, and seating over 7,000 fans. Additionally, the new stadium would also have wooden bleachers that would accommodate 5,000 spectators. The Bushwicks played other local semi-pro teams but the majority of the time they played against the famous Negro League teams of that time, including the Homestead Greys and the Black Yankees. Some of the most famous African American players of the time came to Woodhaven to show off their skills, Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige and Jackie Robinson among them. Another popular opponent was the House of David, a barnstorming team born from a religious group. The players had long hair and beards and used baseball to raise money and spread their word. Sometimes, they hired famous ball players that would either grow beards or wear false ones in order to play. And after the major league season was over, Rosner and Strong would bring in All-Star teams from the National and American Leagues, or teams called World Series Stars, meaning that many of the game’s greatest stars came to Woodhaven. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were regulars, as was Hank Greenberg, Carl Hubbell, Dizzy Dean, Jimmy Foxx, Joe DiMaggio and Casey Stengel. Many other future Hall of Famers came to play ball in Woodhaven. Two Yankee legends, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, were among the baseball greats who played at Woodhaven’s Dexter Park. The above photo was taken on Columbus Day in 1928, when 20,000 fans turned out at Dexter Park, where Ruth and Gehrig entertained the crowd prior to taking part in a game against the Bushwicks. On one memorable day in 1935, legendary pitchers Dazzy Vance and Grover Cleveland Alexander faced off against each other in the first game of a doubleheader. Rosner’s son Herman was a lawyer and an electrician and it was he who set up the light towers so that Dexter Park, on July 23, 1930, became the first stadium in the nation to regularly feature night games, five seasons before the first night game in the Major Leagues (in Cincinnati in 1935). Rosner was very generous with his stadium, giving away free tickets regularly and using the stadium for fundraisers for good causes, such as selling war bonds. He was so beloved in Woodhaven the Leader referred to him as Uncle Max. There were many factors that sealed Dexter Park’s fate. When Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, the best Negro League players went into the Major Leagues and their fans followed. At around the same time, baseball began televising games, especially the World Series. This led to increased popularity for Major League games. Attendance at Dexter Park suffered and the Bushwicks folded. In 1951 Rosner announced that Dexter would host stock car racing and for the next few years the roar of engines became a familiar sound in that part of Woodhaven. Racing gave Dexter Park a temporary shot in the arm but it was short lived. Rosner passed away in 1953 and a few years later the park closed for good. The property was sold and converted into residential housing. Today, only a marker erected by the Woodhaven Cultural & Historical Society reminds locals that there used to be a ballfield here. The Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society erected this marker at the former site of Dexter Park, noting its link to baseball history. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) My first 2 apartments were near there. https://qns.com/2022/04/the-history-behind-woodhavens-dexter-park-our-neighborhood-the-way-it-was/

The Real: Cancelled, No Ninth Season for Daytime Talk Show April 9, 2022. Daytime television will be a little less real in the fall. The Real has been cancelled after eight seasons by Warner Bros. Television. The syndicated daytime talk show airs on Fox-owned stations in major markets, and Variety reports that Fox stations were opting out of bringing the series back next fall. That loss of stations led to the series’ cancellation. Hosted by Garcelle Beauvais, Adrienne Houghton, Loni Love, and Jeannie Mai Jenkins, the ladies tackle current event topics of the day. The daytime series uses a panel format similar to the one seen on The View on ABC, and The Talk on CBS. The Real premiered in 2013, and it became a staple of Fox-owned stations in 2014. An end date for the series has not yet been revealed but it won’t be returning in the fall. Source: https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/the-real-cancelled-no-ninth-season-for-daytime-talk-show/ I'm so sorry @JoeMendoza!!! Just know that I am here for you in your time of grief.

I loved this show, which is unfortunately most remembered when people think of the tragic death of Rebecca Schaeffer. Diane English created it a couple of years before MURPHY BROWN, and the two shows had many writers and directors in common, as evidenced by the fact that there were at least 3 jokes used in both (in 2 of those cases, SAM's rendition was funnier). It had one of the great theme songs in TV history, sung by Kim Carnes. I don't know why, but the show's never been released on DVD and doesn't seem to be available via streaming. Every once in awhile I search for it, and last night I found something that isn't perfect but... Last summer a guy in Pittsburgh uploaded most of the episodes to Youtube. They were recorded on his VCR off the USA network. He cut out the commercials. The tapes have begun degrading, and there's the mild green tinge you get with old tapes, plus occasional minor tape damage, but the margins are sharp, and the picture doesn't jump at all, so they are eminently watchable. The sound level and quality do vary from episode to episode. Play It Again, Sam; Grand Prize; Good Neighbor Sam; Life, Death, and Admiral Andy are among my favorites and they're all there. I'm posting my favorite episode, when Sam learns to play the piano, plus a link to it... if you go to the link, all the other episodes are available on the right side of the page. https://youtu.be/W9vVnD3Hj0A?list=PLK0yGET6vkNVqaP3xY4SUkDP6qMs9TLjs

Said by nobody ever who didn't have a lot of money. Sometimes the simplest investing practices are not the best: Giannis Antetokounmpo opened bank accounts with 50 different banks — each one of them holding $250,000, his boss, team owner Marc Lasry, told Bloomberg News. The $250,000 sum is the maximum amount of cash that a depositor can hold in an account that would be covered by the Federal Despot Insurance Corp, or the FDIC. FDIC protects depositors of insured banks against the loss of their deposits if that bank fails. Lasry, the billionaire hedge fund manager and founder of private equity firm Avenue Capital Group, told Bloomberg that he gave Greek Freak and other Bucks players valuable investment advice. “I spend a lot of time with them explaining where they should invest,” Lasry told a conference in New York. “I’m like, ‘Giannis, you can’t be having accounts at 50 different banks. Let me tell you something, if JPMorgan goes under, your little dinky banks are going to go under too. Let me explain what you should buy, you should buy U.S. Treasuries, you should buy this’.” Since entering the NBA in 2013, Antetokounmpo has earned a total of $146,344,870 — and that’s just from playing basketball. His off-court endorsements are at least in the eight figures. Lasry, whose son, Alex, is a Democratic Party candidate for the US Senate seat from Wisconsin currently held by Republican Ron Johnson, became a co-owner of the Bucks after buying his stake in the team for $550 million. His private equity firm, which specializes in distressed securities, manages $12 billion in assets.

First impressions can be deceiving. Speaking of first impressions, Sean Manea was removed from his first Padres start after 7 hitless innings and 88 pitches. The reliever promptly blew the no-hitter.

I think they're having a harder time than they thought they would replacing Meghan. The women the other hosts seem most comfortable with seem too much like Ana Navarro in that they are only too willing to bash Republican politicians, so there is no debating much of the time. As annoying as many found Meghan to be, she had her contrary opinions and was always willing to push back against the other hosts. They may not have liked it, but it made for good TV. These are the three I'd consider: Tara Setmayer argues back fairly well, and is often still going when the Whoopster is trying to throw it to commercial. I don't know if they like that about her. I think Stephanie Grisham has pulled into the lead this week, with her willingness to spill inside dope on the Trump administration and also talk about personal things. Alyssa Farah Griffin has also been palatable to me, though I've preferred the other two.

Scientists discover ancient cemetery of flying reptiles in Chile’s Atacama desert Geez... can you imagine the amount of poop on the headstones?

I'd say it's the other way around. He's more 'attractive' than 'handsome', but definitely sexy.

Dear Abby: I am a 47-year-old gay man. I’m well-educated, but there’s something I can’t figure out. Why do straight guys NOT want to be friends? I never hit on them, I enjoy a lot of the same pastimes like games, working on cars, etc. I want to be transparent, but when I tell them upfront, they disappear. Sometimes it gets back to me that they thought I was asking them on a date if I invited someone to go to a ballgame, for example. I have plenty of female friends, but what I really want is a male best friend or, hell, just a male friend, period. Of course, everyone has their own opinions on what I should do — “join a meeting, a group, social activities and blah blah.” I have done all of those things, and I can’t figure out what’s wrong. I have now learned to just keep my mouth shut and not invite anyone to do anything. Any suggestions would be welcomed, but I have pretty much tried everything, including seeing a counselor. — Curious in Oklahoma Dear Curious: The problem you’re having with straight men may be that they are nervous about being perceived as “gay by association” if they are friendly with you. Some may also find the concept of being friends with a gay man to be threatening. Taking part in group activities and outings is certainly a way to connect with others regardless of sexual orientation. Eventually, you’ll meet people and form friendships. In the meantime, appreciate those female friends of yours and ask them for some input, too. Try wearing something other than a jockstrap and leather harness when you speak to them.

I came late to the party as far as God's Own Country is concerned. I don't get out much, so I missed it during the nanosecond it was in theaters, and I didn't have premium cable channels, so I never had the chance to see it. A couple of years ago I actually found it on a porn site & downloaded it and it sat unwatched on my computer until this past Stupor Bowl Sunday, which is, of course, the most boring day of the year, when I decided "what the hell?" and watched it and fell in love lust with Alec Secareanu. [A couple of asides here... I have since found it for free on HULU without commercials and the same combination of reasons why I hadn't seen it apply to Call Me By Your Name. I've been looking for a place to watch CMBYN for free recently without success, then last week I found it on a different porn site & downloaded it. Maybe I'll watch it next Stupor Bowl Sunday.] ANYHOO... I've been looking for other content starring the lovely and talented Mr. Secareanu ever since, which has led me to watch a meh horror film called Amulet (also on HULU with no commercials) and the first episode of an English-dubbed Romanian series called Ruxx on HBOMax, which he turned out to be in for one minute, 43 minutes into the episode. (He's second-billed, so he'd have a bigger part in other episodes.) I didn't have high hopes for either (and I was right), but I was curious to see his 2020 film The Bike Thief. (Yes, it's a remake.) It recently became available on Tubi. The ad situation: one ad before the movie, then a fairly long way into the movie there's a break for 4 ads, then a short while later, 2 ads, then a bit later one final ad. So, not too bad as far as ad breaks go. But the movie is a disappointment. He's good, and there are good moments, but... It's about 78 minutes, yet it is feels longer (and not in a good way). It takes a pretty long time to get to his bike (a moped, actually) being stolen, then everything afterward seems a bit rushed, and the ending is too convenient. Also, 2 of his co-workers resent him because he took the place of a friend of theirs (Momo) who was just 'here one day, gone the next.' He asks a co-worker he's friendly with what had happened to Momo and gets an evasive non-answer, and we never find out what happened. So why pick that particular scenario as a reason for problems with the co-workers if you're never going to explain it? And worst of all... he's married to a woman in it. [SHUDDER!]