Day 94

• Last night's Olbermann:

#Thurbercast No. 61 featured the inconvenient fact that we are pretending there’s no more COVID-19, the owners’ moves towards killing baseball, and his story “Back To Grades” (actually a recurring nightmare if mine) and “How To Write An Autobiography.”https://t.co/UZ67FoOCD2

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 13, 2020

• In preparation for the 30 For 30 on his and Sosa's record chase, Mark McGwire was asked if he could've broken the record clean.  He was sure he could.  Fucking bullshit...  Fucking bullshit... 
• Turner has signed a new billion-dollar deal with MLB to continue to broadcast the playoffs.  If there's an MLB at all by the point this is done.    
• Huge riot in London today.  Atlanta looks as another possible hotspot.
• On Monday, ESPN will hold a two-hour roundtable at 9-11 PM Eastern with the commissioners of the major sports in the country regarding their return.
• A judge in New York City has ruled that the Yankees must release to The Athletic a minimally-redacted letter about a 2017 investigation into sign-stealing by their organization.  The publication believes they've been reporting the Yankees being involved in sign-stealing since 2015, but 2017 is when MLB cracked down on the electronics being used.  Please, just cancel this fucking season and try to save the next one.     
• Aussie Rules returns tonight.
• Well, the NFL can now move to end Antonio Brown's career:  After pleading no-contest to a January battery and burglary incident, he got two years probation, 100 hours community service, a psych evaluation, and 13 weeks of anger management.  If that had been any "normal" person, much less any normal Black person, that's a decade or so in the slammer!     
• NBA players are not only looking into raising money for Black Lives Matter through their restart, but young players are looking to the league to back insurance policies to ensure their livelihoods.
• Napoli drew Inter 1-1 today in the Coppa Italia to face Juventus in the final before Serie A relaunches next week (2-1 aggregate).
• Australian and New Zealand rugby has also relaunched.  The virus is minimal in NZ, and 20,000 were drawn to a match today in NZ. 
• And here we go to the brink in MLB:   Jeff Passan has reported that not only has the MLBPA rejected the owners' latest offer, but that they will not counter it, want to know how long the imposed season will be, and when they are expected to report.  Season cancellation/strike in 3...  2...  1...     
• Olbermann:

Tonight’s #Thurbercast No. 62 consisted of his admission of Writer Self-Loathing: “The Porcupines In The Artichokes” and it’s features my self-fulfilling prophesy that the standing light would blow over in the gusty windhttps://t.co/m8BRfqgob6

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 14, 2020