Day 772

• Ugly night last night in the first Dodgers-Padres game of the season.  At least one fan threw a beer can at center fielder Cody Bellinger of the Dodgers, and appeared to throw it from several rows back.  It missed, probably due to the amount of beer the moron had already consumed.
• At least one Padre-Dodger fan fight in the concourse was also found on video last night.
• 7,012 at the A's game last night in Oakland.
• In contrast, 44,482 attended in San Diego last night -- more than the first five A's home games COMBINED (35,395).
  
• In a situation which I can believe is of zero surprise:  The man who threw the water bottle at and got decked by Mike Tyson on the airplane this week is a habitual felon.  So, one question...  WHY WAS HE ALLOWED ON AN AIRPLANE?  ANY AIRPLANE?    
• Several days after a Boston Celtic was fined $50,000 for flipping off courtside fans of the Brooklyn Nets, Chicago White Sox player Tim Anderson has been suspended a game for Le Finger du Middle as well.
• A number of anonymous NFL executives are saying to avoid this year's quarterback draft class like the plague.  This is what happens when the entirety of relevant college football can be distilled down to Alabama and maybe one or two other schools...    
• Miguel Cabrera has become the seventh MLB player to reach 3000 hits and 500 home runs with his 3000th today.  He is only the fifth, and the first since Pujols in 2018 (still waiting on the Jack Clark words -- if Pujols was on roids, then the clean list is just Cabrera, Murray, Mays, and Aaron, and the last one to do it clean was Murray in 1994), to do it without steroids.
• ESPN+ was covering the game, and had technical difficulties at the game's start -- right up until the VERY PITCH Cabrera hit #3,000. 
• Interesting stat from the Detroit/ESPN+ broadcast:  Cabrera has recorded a major-league hit in a now-impossible forty-one different ballparks.
• Another week, another extension of Trevor Bauer's leave.
• In another example of the complete out-of-control nature of the young MLB season...  Yankees fans pelted the Cleveland Guardians with debris after a walk-off win for the Yankees today.  There was also at least one face-to-face confrontation at the fence, and another fan throwing obscene gestures.  It's about to go off.  Hard.  To the Yankees' credit (or, alternately if you are a cynic like me, to prevent this or tomorrow's game from being forfeited...), they went out to try to stop the situation.    
• In a semi-related note, the new head of the NBPA has demanded Adam Silver stiffen the penalties against misbehaving fans at NBA venues.
  
• I'd make a comment about the Cubs' 21-0 win today, but that would require it being a Major League Baseball game, and not against the Pittsburgh Pirates. 
• 9,120 today in Oakland for the 2-0 Texas win over the A's.