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Stanton's on the 10 day IL with Achilles tendinitis.

The Daily Mail has reported that 33 year old Griffin is the choice. ABC says they have no announcement to make.

DESIGNING WOMEN's favorite madame (Charlene's childhood friend Monette) has entertained her last client. Her son is married to Darlene Conner.

Yankees radio broadcaster Suzyn Waldman, MLB Network and Sirius XM Radio host Chris Russo were selected Monday for induction into the Radio Hall of Fame. Waldman, 75, is in her 36th season covering or broadcasting the Yankees, her 18th as a radio color commentator. She was the first woman to become a fulltime MLB broadcaster. "Suzyn has informed and entertained Yankees fans with precision and care for 36 years," the Yankees said in a statement. "This accomplishment is the deserved result of decades of hard work and dedication to her craft, and we would be remiss to not laud her professionalism and resolve while staring down countless obstacles as a pioneering woman in her field." Russo, 62, nicknamed "Mad Dog," was hired by New York's WFAN in 1988 and gained notoriety as cohost of "Mike and the Mad Dog" with Mike Francesa from 1989-2008. Russo has been with Sirius XM since 2008 and the MLB Network since 2014. Tampa's starting catcher is out for the year. Zunino’s problem was first termed left shoulder inflammation. The team quickly thereafter revealed Zunino may be battling thoracic outlet syndrome, however. He received Botox treatment in hopes of remedying the issue without going under the knife, but that evidently proved unsuccessful. QUESTION: How would a smoother forehead have helped his condition? 🤪😁😜😇😝

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.

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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.