Day 883

• As of this point, sans the force of habit or any real flare ups, this might, actually, be one of the, if not THE, last numbered day post.
• And not for a good reason:  The CDC has just dropped the quarantine and social distancing recommendations, for the most part.  We've lost.  Seriously.  We've lost to the fucking "Freedumb Fighters" to this thing, and that virus will now have to run it's course.   
• OOF!!!  Fernando Tatis Jr. has been given an 80-game PED drug suspension!!!  It appears it's medication Tatis wasn't careful with, by his own admission.  How -- as a professional athlete -- can you DO THAT?? You need to know what's going into your body, especially with all the drug things?  And this happens ALL THE TIME!!!  My anonymous friend takes it even a step further:  Minor League Baseball does not fuck around with drugs.  You think you're going to get away with all that on a rehab assignment, Fernando??? 
• Clostebol, a synthetic anabolic steroid.  Tatis claims he was using a medicine containing this to treat ringworm -- on himself!
• 48 games of this season, all of the playoffs, and the rest next year -- so at least a month of 2023 as well before he returns.
• The NIT is leaving Madison Square Garden and is traveling.  The final three games will be in Vegas next March and April, Indianapolis following that.
• Kirk Cousins misses a preseason game with COVID.  *snore*  Who cares?  (Not the COVID -- preseason!)   
• DeShaun Watson played in the first Cleveland preseason game -- in fact, he started!
• A Federal judge has actually approved equal pay for the US Men's National soccer team and the Women's...
• Tyson Fury, citing lack of challengers, has retired.  Good.  Fucking.  Riddance.  
• Frank Gore, arrested in New Jersey for a July domestic violence incident.
• Aaron Judge hits #46 tonight in a 3-2 10-inning loss to Boston.
• 11 in a row for the Dodgers as the insane run continues in Kansas City on the start of a 7-game road-trip.
• After what appears to be an impaired fiery crash in California, we are about to add Anne Heche to the list of passed celebrities.
  
• Rory Sabbatini can thank the LIV Tour for keeping his PGA card.  When the PGA Tour redid the rankings for who got to keep their card, Sabbatini, who last year used his Top 50 career money-winnings list one-time exemption at #29, failed to do much this year at age 46 and would've been off the Tour...
• ... except, now, the Tour has to keep two lists:  A full list, and an "eligibles" list.  And, after doing all the figuring, Sabbatini, #31 now on the all-time list, benefits from no fewer than NINE of the top 30 all-time money-winners quitting the Tour or being suspended from it, and hence, at Eligible #22, can now use his Top 25 for one more trip around the Tour.
• Bubba Watson's resignation from the Tour opens up four more spots in the Korn Ferry Finals as well.