- Very interesting lottery story today. A Tarzana, CA woman wanted to spend $40 on the lottery. A "rude man" bumped in to her, causing her to purchase a $30 ticket of a game she didn't wish to play. But, as the rules go, she's stuck with it, so she scratched the ticket...
- ... A TEN MILLION DOLLAR WINNING TICKET!!!
Some more Thursday Opening Day attendance numbers:
- 35,052 (supposedly) in Washington. After a 1:16 rain delay, there may have been about 500 people left by the time the Mets won the game.
- 44,723 in Anaheim to see Ohtani pitching. We'll see what tonight holds...
- 35,508 in Arizona.
13 games today, the full slate starts Saturday.
- Ronald Acuna has already started the feud with ex-teammate Freddie Freeman, now with the Dodgers -- saying Freeman was a clubhouse problem... Hoo boy...
- It appears the sanctions are in for Will Smith: He is banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years, but will keep the current Best Actor Oscar and will be allowed to be nominated and win, should he do so. No word on what happens as far as the presenter of next year's Best Actress Oscar. (The tradition is that the previous year's Best Actor presents that year's Best Actress, and vice versa.) I guess the Academy is so fucking attached to Harvey Weinstein, John Wayne and Roman Polanski that it can't do the right thing regarding any of these men!
- Yes, The Duke gets included. When Marlon Brando won a Best Actor Oscar many years ago, he sent -- in protest -- a Native American woman to accept it. John Wayne nearly stormed the stage to physically take her out -- once and for all! Brando never attended the Academy Awards afterward.
- We have our first MLB ejection, and it's apparently a pitcher for the Nationals, who beaned a Mets batter -- the fourth such beaning of the young season, which caused the benches to clear.
- Luka Doncic will be suspended from the Dallas Mavericks' season-closing game on Sunday -- he has reached the Rasheed Wallace Rule of 16 technical fouls. Karl Anthony-Towns of the Timberwolves has also been recently suspended for reaching his 16th technical. Two players have 15 entering the final weekend, four have 14.
- Scottie Scheffler may save us all this weekend. He has a five-shot lead through two rounds of The Masters -- take him out, however, and Tiger would be in striking distance at +1 -- second place is -3. So the +110 on the cut actually cashes.
- Dabo Sweeney of Clemson has basically said to get ready for a Power 5 Division in football -- that the problems of the Power 5 are not solvable by the NCAA. I think it's too late for any such national sanctioning body of any kind, given some states' bigotry and Federal law, myself.
More Opening Day numbers, as more teams open for the first time on Friday:
- Of course the Yankees got 46,097 -- and it was against the Red Sox. Which means you damn well know what ESPN's game Sunday night is...
- Detroit drew 43,490
- Philadelphia, 44,232
- Tampa... 25,025. That experiment is deceased, people. It is time to move that team. And far past time.
- Colorado got 48,027
- 35,462 for the Twins opener in Minnesota
- And the Giants got 40,853
So most of the Friday openers look to be half-decent.
- And Florida Man strikes again! A middle-school teacher was arrested for disrupting his class taking their state exams in junior high with loud music, ripping off his shirt, and yelling. It makes me wonder what else this teacher was doing this school year!
- He apparently was protesting the state exams, but made the stress on the kids worse with his actions, including eventually invoking security procedures and putting the school on lockdown!
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