Day 443

• Be happy I wasn't in Yankee Stadium last night.  I'd be returning to Riker's Island.  Two white male QAnon pissants brought a "Trump Won  Save America" banner to Yankee Stadium and hung it over the edge of the second deck.  Booed vociferously, flipped off, and eventually escorted out...
• If you want to know why this is such a problem, two facts from a new Reuters/Ipsos poll:  61% of all Republicans in the poll stated the same as the banner.
• One out of four Republicans in the poll are now Q-Anon:  They believe this country is being ran by Satanist pedophiles.
• As of late May, the batting average across Major League Baseball is a paltry .237.
• On last night's special Dynamite, AEW Women's Champion Hikaru Shida was given a new women's title belt during the show, for one year with the championship.  The Spanish announce team, or at least Willie Urbina, was caught on live mic making fun of Shida trying to speak English.  For this, Urbina has been fired, effective immediately.
• Domestic violence incident for the Braves' Marcel Ozuna - arrested today on felony battery charges -- almost an exact year after his wife had the same thing happen to her...
• Bad Memorial Day Weekend so far for the In Memoriam list:  A bike crash took the life of Utah Jazz legend Mark Eaton.
• And high-profile actor Gavin McLeod and singer BJ Thomas ("Hooked on a Feeling", "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head") passed today.
• Schools may wish to reconsider firing their principals and, afterward, letting them be part of the school graduation.  Stagg High School in Stockton, CA fired Ben Nakamura by a 4-3 school-board vote, but let him finish the year and speak at the graduation.  Big mistake.  Nakamura went off on the school board at the first of three ceremonies Thursday and aired his dirty laundry, and, after he stormed off the stage, was met by two men, expelled from the remainder of the ceremonies, and escorted from the premises.
• Today was a massive event in Major League Baseball, and no one knew about it.  Josh Donaldson, by scoring a mundane run in one of the early games, actually scored the two-millionth run in the history of Major League Baseball.  
• Stark contrast to May 4, 1975, when Seiko had a promotion which would award a fan $10,000 for naming the player and the date (50 people actually did, a 10-year-old kid won the drawing), give the team $10,000, and the player himself would get 1,000,000 pieces of Tootsie Roll and a digital watch (something unheard of in 1975).  The promotion worked, as, by the end, Bob Watson had been the first run of a two-run Milt May home run -- at about the exact same instant as Dave Concepcion hit a home run in Cincinnati -- at about the same time the Seiko scoreboards around the league noted Run #999,999 had been scored.  So a race around the basepaths happened in two different ballparks...  Watson won the watch, it was believed by four seconds.  Watson's kids were allergic to candy, the Tootsie Rolls were donated to the Girl Scouts.