Day 785

• Every out-of-market MLB game this weekend is free on MLB.com -- Mother's Day.
• Here is the attendance figure for each of the last six home games of the Oakland A's -- all of which they lost:

1. Wednesday:  4,838
2. Tuesday:  2,815
3. Monday:  2,488
4. Sunday:  14,945
5. Saturday: 6,707
6. Friday:  12,910

• That 46,663.  52,203 saw the Dodgers -- two nights ago against the Giants.  We aren't talking about if they fail payroll or other vital expenses, but when.   
• The exodus from the Raiders is continuing.  Team President Dan Ventrelle is out, and it does not sound as if the parting was nice.  It will be the third team president the Raiders have had in just over a year.  Sounds to me like something was found out about him Mark Davis does not want us to know about.
• Hostile work environment concerns, ignored, got fired for it.  No surprise at all, given the team employed Gruden until it had no choice but to do otherwise.  Lawsuit forthcoming.  
• Speaking of, Fred Savage is gone from the "Wonder Years" reboot.  Inappropriateness, etc. and so forth.  Wonder if, given the content (the reboot is a Black group from the 1960's), race had anything to do with it.
  
• SIX Eastern games were rained out today and tonight from the MLB schedule.   Games postponed in Cleveland, 3-23 Cincinnati, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.  Most games postponed in any game in four years.
  
• Todd Boehly, a co-owner of the Dodgers, has backed the successful bid to take Chelsea Football Club.  Looking at somewhere in the $5,000,000,000 range.
• It appears Dan Bellino HAS, in fact, been forced to admit he baited the ejection of Madison Bumgartner.  Suspend him.    
• Earl Thomas has had an arrest warrant put out for him today. 
• It's not the one we feared -- still a sacrifice to the altar of football.  After several months of speculation, the father of Georgia high-school quarterback Robbie Roper revealed his son died of a rare condition, a complication after Robbie had shoulder surgery.  One of the main reasons the father finally spoke up was everyone thinking it could be mental health/CTE related.