Day 532

• Interesting MLB stats for yesterday...  Yesterday, the Cubs and Rockies played 10 yesterday -- in the second game of a doubleheader.  This is a record for a 7-inning scheduled doubleheader game.
• But the more interesting one is in progress as I type just past midnight.  The Dodgers and Padres are entering the FIFTEENTH INNING -- which is, and I assume by a distance, a record for the "free runner on second" rule.  The game went to extras 1-1.  It still IS 1-1.
• The streak is over.  The Orioles beat the Angels 10-6 yesterday for their first win in 20 games.
• Venus and Serena Williams have both withdrawn from the US Open with leg injuries.  It will be the first Grand Slam tournament without both since 2003.
• Sofia Kenin has also withdrawn -- breakthrough coronavirus case.
• Illinois will reinstitute a statewide mask mandate, and order all teachers be vaccinated.
• A Florida teacher has died of the virus, probably caught it at a no-mask school, according to the teachers union.
• Bayern Munich won an early German Cup match yesterday by twelve goals to none   The opponent was fifth-tier Bremer SV.  You know, there's a reason other tournaments, like the FA Cup, don't put the top division in for several rounds.   
• And it's official -- this game is going down in history.  Dodgers get 2 in the top of the 15th -- then an intentional balk to move the runner off 2nd so the Padres can't get a sign -- next pitch is GONE (Fernando Tatis Jr.) and it's 3-3 and we're on to the 16th!!!
• Where the Dodgers hit ANOTHER home run and finally get it to stick.  5-3 Dodgers in 16!  Game ends at precisely 1 AM Pacific time.
• A charter school in California was evacuated and locked down because two siblings refused to wear masks on the first day of school.  Those siblings will be ordered to find education elsewhere.  They've been expelled.
• Chris Sale has tied a unique Major League Baseball record.  For the third time, he has struck out an entire inning's worth of batters on the minimum to do so:  Nine pitches.  The "immaculate inning" has only, on a known basis, been done three times by Sandy Koufax -- though everyone basically admits that data on this record is somewhat limited going much further back than him.
• The Pac-12 will NOT pursue any expansion in college sports.
• The demand of the Ryder Cup captain has allowed tempers to cool between Koepka and The Sham Beau.
• CM Punk's first appearance on the main AEW show, Dynamite, propelled the Wednesday night show to it's largest viewership since the very first AEW Dynamite.
• Mike Richards will remain on as the Executive Producer of Jeopardy!, with the dreaded "sensitivity training".  Show's finished.  You just opened the door to a complete sabotage job by this cocksucker.