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Jesse Williams will exit GREY'S ANATOMY next week. He wants to focus on other projects. He will be in a revival of Take Me Out, which was scheduled to open last year, but will instead open in 2022. http://topnudemalecelebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Jesse-Williams_topnudemalecelebs_com-2.jpg

The Dodgers have won the bidding war for Alfred Pujols.

A father-to-be proved himself the biggest baby at his future child’s gender reveal. A viral TikTok video from this spring has captured the moment a dad learned that his unborn kid will be a girl — a fact he seems not very happy about. While the rest of the crowd present erupts in cheers as a pregnant woman pops a balloon covered in question marks — that proves to be filled with smaller pink balloons, revealing that the woman will be having a daughter — the father has quite a different reaction. “Son of a bitch,” he appears to scream, throwing down the balloon’s strings in frustration and turning away from the party guests, all smiling but him. I can't wait until the daughter sees the video. The video, which was posted on April 25, has racked up over 566,000 views on the platform. SEE ALSO The biggest gender reveal fails ever: 10 parties gone terribly wrong

The Yankees received the J&J shot, which I believe many baseball teams did, just because it was easier to vaccinate a large # of people with a one-dose vaccine. BTW, Gleyber caught covid last winter, so he's really snake-bitten. While the J&J vaccine is considered to be as effective as the Phizer & Moderna shots in preventing serious illness, it's only supposed to be 65% effective in stopping Covid infections from happening, so... Yankee announcer (& Danny Aiello's nephew) Michael Kay brought up a good point today on his radio show... The Yankees are tested EVERY day, so you're getting all these positives. Only one (Phil Nevin) was symptomatic, and he's now asymptomatic. So if none of these positive Yankee cases are having bad experiences, perhaps there are many more "breakthrough" cases happening in the vaccinated population at large, but we just don't know about them because they're not being tested everyday, and they are asymptomatic, so they don't know they've caught it.

What makes you think anyone who participates in this forum lives life normally??????

Alfred has cleared waivers and is now officially a free agent. LET THE BIDDING BEGIN!!!

She's probably a New England Patriots fan. (The NY Jets are owned by one of the Johnsons.) BTW, did you know that Ennis Del Mar's daughter is an heiress from the family that owns the Giants? And speaking of heiresses... the actress who plays Kim Burgess on CHICAGO PD has been fighting for years to prove she's the illegitimate daughter of a deceased wealthy businessman, so she can claim part of his estate as her inheritance. If she proves it, one of her half-siblings will be Maggie Wheeler (Chandler's on-and-off girlfriend Janice from FRIENDS).

The Yankees received the J&J shot, which I believe many baseball teams did, just because it was easier to vaccinate a large # of people with a one-dose vaccine. BTW, Gleyber caught covid last winter, so he's really snake-bitten. While the J&J vaccine is considered to be as effective as the Phizer & Moderna shots in preventing serious illness, it's only supposed to be 65% effective in stopping Covid infections from happening, so... Yankee announcer (& Danny Aiello nephew) Michael Kay brought up a good point today on his radio show... The Yankees are tested EVERY day, so you're getting all these positives. Only one (Phil Nevin) was symptomatic, and he's now asymptomatic. So if none of these positive Yankee cases are having bad experiences, perhaps there are many more "breakthrough" cases happening in the vaccinated population at large, but we just don't know about them because they're not being tested everyday, and they are asymptomatic, so they don't know they've caught it.

I would've liked (but wasn't expecting) a better finale. And after seeing Charlie Harper's neighbor and Mike Biggs' mother in law guest-starring, I was half-expecting Mary Ann Thorpe to be the judge officiating the wedding.

You (& Wendy Williams) must be disappointed that's been cancelled.

She worked a lot in 70s & 80s TV, and still fairly regularly after that. The roles seemed to start drying up about 15 years ago. She was in ROOTS & the sequel.

I think the first part of the season may have been stretched out one episode too long, while the Kleinsasser storyline seemed rushed and left me with a 'is that all there is?' feeling. (Cue Peggy Lee...) Still enjoyed it, though.

Mom nearly busted at Six Flags — after guard says her shorts were too short A Colorado mom says she nearly got arrested at a Six Flags amusement park — when a security guard claimed her shorts were too skimpy. Bailey Breedlove, who says she has autism, wrote on Facebook that her family’s vacation to Frontier City Six Flags in Oklahoma City, Okla., on April 30 was ruined by the horrific “body shaming’’ experience. “I was terrified I was about to go to jail over a pair of shorts,’’ she said. Breedlove said the family trip went off the rails after “my daughter was yelled at by a park police officer for rolling down a hill on her heelies right next to me, I was holding her hand. “Then [the guard] proceeded to follow me and grabbed my shoulder to turn me around and proceeded to tell me my shorts were ‘too short,’ ” Breedlove wrote in the May 2 posting — which included now-viral video of part of the encounter. “I committed no crime and proceeded to walk to my boyfriend as I am autistic and have a hard time talking to officers,’’ the mom said. “She followed me yelling and calling for backup. “Then your incompetent manager showed up and began body shaming me. I was told I needed to go buy new shorts which I am not obligated to purchase anything I don’t want to. “Then I was threatened with criminal trespassing when I agreed to buy new shorts so my family could enjoy their vacation,’’ Breedlove said. “I was then pushed and escorted toward the entrance. Accepting this, we were about to leave and were blocked by your female officer from leaving and she pulled out her cuffs and demanded my ID,’’ said the woman — whose 11-year-old daughter can be seen in the footage sitting next to her mom crying. “When we asked for probable cause their answer was ‘because they are the police,’ ” Breedlove said. It appears the mom was eventually released without being cuffed or arrested — although she writes in the post that she has been banned from the park for five years. It’s not clear what dress-code policy Breedlove may have broken. According to Six Flags’ website, “In keeping with our family-friendly environment, and for safety reasons, Six Flags enforces a dress code. “Proper attire must be worn in the park at all times, including shirts and appropriate footwear. Clothing or tattoos with offensive language or graphics are not permitted at any time.” The mom was wearing a yellow Pokemon T-shirt. A Six Flags spokesperson told The Post in a statement that Breedlove “was initially stopped because her shorts exposed a significant portion of her buttocks.” But, the spokesperson said, the mother was escorted from the park “because of her behavior towards the police, our team members, and other park guests. “Six Flags does not body shame and did not remove this guest from Frontier City because of the length of her shorts,” the spokesperson added. Six Flags conducted an internal review of the encounter. Based on their findings, Breedlove “was given multiple opportunities to change or cover up, but refused. Instead, she responded with profanity and offensive conduct, including further exposing her buttocks,” the spokesperson said.

Lumbar radiculopathy (combined with spinal stenosis-- which I have in my neck AND lower back) has destroyed my life, though I haven't helped things by continuing to be very overweight. I also don't exercise because of the catch 22... exercising would help me, but it hurts to do it (and I'm lazy), so I don't. I've turned myself into an invalid at age 58. I've gone from walking with a cane to using a walker, just for the extra support. It hurts so much to walk (sometimes my back, sometimes my leg, sometimes both) that I have to psych myself up just to walk down the hall to take out the garbage. I barely left the house even before covid. I'm a hermit now, which makes me even more grateful for the work that has recently been done to save this forum. (I still grieve for the loss of ATKOL.) It's my lifeline to the outside world. The stenosis has also contributed to my lifelong ED, as it's been explained to me that the lower half of my body doesn't get all the 'signals' at full strength. No need to respond offering solutions; I know what I need to do. I just needed to whine for a minute. ☹☹☹

LIVING The 2021 Michelin star restaurant ratings are utter BS By Steve Cuozzo The Michelin Red Guide, the only restaurant “bible” published by a tire company, needs to be retired. Its New York City book — which released its star ratings online Thursday — has meant near zilch to anyone except Michelin-mad foreigners and ego-inflated chefs since it launched its hilariously error-strewn first edition in 2005. The 2021 book is all that, and worse. Announced eight months later than the customary September or October release, its star ratings for 68 eateries are as out of date as a Howard Johnson’s paper placemat menu — and about as useful. Michelin should have waited until this coming fall to bless Big Apple diners with its imperious, anonymously compiled twinklers. Instead, it plunged ahead with star rankings that might not reflect reality after the most tumultuous restaurant-industry upheaval in history. Michelin’s three-star winners are exactly the same as in the 2020 guide, which came out in pre-pandemic October 2019. The two-star roster is mostly the same as in 2020. The three-star galaxy consists of exactly the same five Manhattan places: Eleven Madison Park, Le Bernardin, Masa, Per Se and Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare. But of course, Eleven Madison Park will be a completely different restaurant than it was when Michelin last visited when it reopens on June 10 with an all-vegan menu after a 15-month shutdown. Even without 180-degree concept reversals, no restaurant in town has been reopened long enough to properly critique as they grapple with unprecedented upheavals to the dining scene. Take with a grain of sel Michelin’s claim that some inspections were done since recent indoor reopenings. One-star Bâtard wasn’t likely among them: It reopened exactly two days ago on May 5. Certain other important places on which the guide bestows stars actually remain closed — among them, the Modern, Le Jardinier, the Clocktower, Le Coucou and Blanca. The restaurant world hasn’t been normal since March 13, 2020. Most places served only outdoors, if at all, until two months ago. The tire-testers likely couldn’t have experienced many menus since February of 2020. Often chaotic and improvised outdoor service doesn’t count. Among those back in business, few can be their former selves after mass staff turnovers, ever-changing state and city rules, and the loss of many customers to the Hamptons and beyond. Since the March 2020 shutdown, major publications have held off on giving star ratings for a simple reason: It’s unfair both to readers and restaurants to subject places to unforgiving micro-scrutiny when chefs and employees are doing their best just to get by in extreme circumstances. But to Michelin, all’s fair in a pandemic. Bon appétit!