May 31, 2023 News and Notes

• Riot Games has cancelled the first two weeks of the Summer Split of the North American League Championship Series.
• If no play after that, the Summer Split and North America's place in the 2023 League of Legends World Championship is cancelled.  And nothing of value would be lost.
• Midnight Eastern going into Day Four of SGDQ 2023.  Total raised for Doctors Without Borders:  $454,246
• Last year:  $536,400.
• Danny Masterson has been convicted of two counts of rape of women he met through Scientology.   Gee...  Hollywood, Scientology, Rape...  Water is wet -- film at 11!   
• Two in a row for the A's -- only the second time this year -- wins Monday and Tuesday over the Braves, of all teams...  Just over 5,000 saw Tuesday night's win.
• 12-46 now as Atlanta takes the third game of the series 4-2 this afternoon.  6,429 tickets were sold.
• The Diamond Sports bankruptcy has claimed it's first victim.  Major League Baseball themselves now has to take the broadcasts of the San Diego Padres, as Diamond could not make a payment due by Tuesday which would allow them to continue the rights.
• And now a hearing in Houston tomorrow which could have four more teams immediately join them!

May 30, 2023 News and Notes

• At least two games of Memorial Day's MLB action turned the league upside down for a day.
• Marcus Stroman of the Cubs one-hit the Tampa Bay Rays for 1-0 win at Wrigley. 
• The Cubs had three hits.
• A fourth-inning sacrifice fly won the game.
• Time of the game:  Two hours and five minutes.
• And the Oakland A's broke a 13 game losing streak with a 7-2 win over the Cobb County Barfs.
• 8,556 are claimed to have bought tickets for the game.
• At 11-45, the A's are still on pace to win only 32-33 games.
• Midnight Eastern heading into Day Three of SGDQ 2023.  Total raised:  $260,016
• Last year Midnight Eastern heading into Tuesday:  $297,355

E-Sports News: An irrelevant and archaic league has finally hit the wall.

And here may finally come the death of an e-sports league which has needed to die for many years.

The North American League Championship Series of League of Legends has finally hit the financial wall because not only does no one care, no one SHOULD care.

North America is a frighteningly distant fourth, if not fifth, among the regions of world League of Legends.  It has not fielded a world-relevant team ever.  It has won one outside match in the entire history of the World Championships in the knockout phase.  (There was one NA v. NA losers-bracket match in Season 1, the one they did win was 2018.)

And yet it has tried to present itself as a relevant top-tier league.

Until now.

It started a couple of weeks ago when seven of the ten franchises in the North American LCS shut down their second-tier Academy teams, citing losses across the board in the NALCS, after Riot Games finally laid the hammer down, tightened up importing of players (North America is largely where Koreans and Chinese who can't cut in a real LoL league steal money), and then basically fired most of the Academy players.

Leading, Sunday, to a walkout of all the players on the ten teams, four days before the start of the NALCS season.

And now it appears, for at least a week before this, the ten franchises were trying to scab it up.

To which I have one thing to say:

WHAT IS THE DAMN DIFFERENCE?

You're stealing money.  YOU SUCK!!!!

OK?  That clear enough for you?  You couldn't PAY ME to watch a North American match at this point.

You are IRRELEVANT.  You might as well have Gold or whatever level scabs on your games, because your entire region is SHIT.

The reason that your teams are losing money is two-fold:  No one cares, no one SHOULD care.

This is why they basically moved a lot of this forward from next year to the Summer Split:  The NALCS is such an irrelevancy that it is not a question of IF it dies -- only WHEN it dies.

And if this is a move by Riot to finally aid in killing it...  Some of us have been calling for the death of this irrelevancy for years.

This is what happens when you try to claim a professional football league when, frankly, you might be Texas High School level -- at best!

Memorial Day 2023 News and Notes

• Tomorrow is probably D-Day for Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House.  He has a debt ceiling deal with Biden, but his Nazi handlers won't like it.
• In an indication I've had since announcement that something is going down this summer:  Awesome Games Done Quick is going their Summer Games Done Quick event this week, about a month before every year since the first two.
• Raising money, once again, for Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans Frontieres).
• And a little over a million dollars would bring their summer lifetime total over $20,000,000 raised.
• GDQ has raised over $41,000,000 in the last 13 years.
• Since this event is being held in Minnesota, it's a hybrid event, like the last couple except the Florida cancellation because of Ron DeSantis.

May 27, 2023 News and Notes

• And the betting situation at Alabama may have taken a turn which might expand this.  The man who was talking to former Alabama coach Brad Bohannon and betting on his advice is the father of a University of Cincinnati baseball player.  Say it with me now:  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...   
• Yokozuna Terunofuji has won the May sumo tournament, one round in hand.  His defeat of Ozeki candidate Kiribayama ensured it.
• A win over hobbled Ozeki Takakeisho will leave Takakeisho at the mark he needed to get to stay an Ozeki, 8-7.
• All of the four Sekiwake got at least nine wins, so multiple promising Ozeki runs are either completed or started for July!
• Both Komusubi may go down.  Former Ozeki Shodai is headed down to at least Maegashira 1 (unless absolutely no other option exists, see below), and Kotonowaka must beat Meisei tomorrow, or he joins Shodai.
• Former suspended wrestler Abi can replace Shodai with a win tomorrow.
• But the bloodletting at the hands of the top six at Komusubi and the top several ranks of Maegashira could mean, with a win tomorrow for Nishikigi and losses by Shodai and Abi, Nishikigi could, with a 9-6 record, go all the way from Maegashira to Komusubi.
• Fuck Vince McMahon Day again.  Another Saudi blood show.
• And, for the first time (being in the tag-team main event probably did some of it), part-Syrian Sami Zayn went with the group this time.  Hoo boy...   
• Featured the long-awaited turn of at least one Uso from The Bloodline, but fuck Vince.
• 10-44 now for the A's.  6-3 losers to Houston today.
• That's ten in a row.
• 9,293 saw that debacle in Oakland today.
• 13,345 allegedly saw Friday night's loss.

May 26, 2023 News and Notes

• According to Close Call Sports, there may be a spitting allegation against Aaron Boone on a balls-and-strikes ejection against Baltimore Thursday.  It's the 78th ejection of the year, and the Yankees' SIXTH of the season.  (Same number as the rest of the division combined.)
• It's Boone's fourth of the year, third in ten days.  ANY FUCKING TIME NOW, MANFRED!!!  
• And he was, in fact, suspended for Friday's game for that 3 in 10 days.  OK, now address the allegation...
• Boone's 50th MLB ejection in 5 seasons plus.
• Pluto has announced a The Price is Right channel to complement the Bob Barker Era channel.  This one will cover the now almost 16 seasons of Drew's time on the show.
• Cool Drew story.  During the WGA strike, Drew is paying for meals at two LA restaurants, including tips, for anyone eating there who produces a WGA card.
• 10-42 for the A's now.  Swept in Seattle.
• And Houston in Oakland this weekend.
• Two days remain in the May sumo tournament.
• Asanoyama (10-3 now) lost to Yokozuna Terunofuji (12-1).  Terunofuji, as is expected of the rank, wins the tournament unless Sekiwake Kiribayama (11-2) wins one more than Terunofuji does.
• They face off in Day 14, meaning Terunofuji wins the tournament before the final day even starts with a victory.
• Those are the only three wrestlers with ten wins.
• Ozeki Watch:
• All eyes will be on the Sumo Committee on Monday and Tuesday.  Though the usual promotion requires three tournaments at Sekiwake, the Committee may decide to promote Kiribayama anyway to Ozeki.  And a win over Terunofuji tomorrow basically locks that up.  If it leads to a win in the tournament, doubly so.
• Ozeki Takakeisho's victory over Meisei today was his eighth.  That's a kachi-koshi (winning record), meaning, in his case, kadoban status is removed and he can proceed in July normally again.
• I don't care if he has a diagnosed addiction, FA.  He needs to be BANNED.  TODAY.  Word has come out that Ivan Toney bet at least 13 times that his Brentford side would lose.  And it doesn't matter if he wasn't playing.  Just like the situation in the NFL:  He has access to inside information and the players who are -- and can manipulate them under the table.   
• A late Friday adjustment has given four more days to the X-Date.  June 5th -- which, at the least, is past most of the June 2023 Social Security checks -- is the current X-Date.  Ten days from that date, no deal is on the table.

May 25, 2023 News and Notes

• Florida sweeps Dallas to head to the Stanley Cup Finals.
• Police in Memphis were called to the home of Ja Morant after a series of social-media posts crossed the threshold of belief Morant might commit suicide.
• They basically were saying that he loved his parents and his brother...  and then "Bye"
• Police are saying he's OK...
• ... and that he's leaving social media.  That may well be correct, but now I want a psych evaluation as well as an investigation into gang ties before Morant can play again after a LONG suspension...  Given his recent conduct, I can see him being painted into a corner, and that usually, for someone that deep in gang culture, ends one of two ways.
• Ah, jordon fans...  The victory lap jordon-jockers are making has one (to whom I did the whole "foolish and wretched rigged ballhog" truth bomb) saying he'll put me in a coma next March when he comes to Vegas for March Madness.  Bwahahahahahahaha...
• I told him to deck himself out in all his Jordan memorabilia and paint his mouth brown -- because he's so far up kissing jordon's ass that he knows what Michael had for lunch...
• Three days ago.  
• Back to more serious matters, to a degree:  We have our ultimate Jeopardy Master.  The tournament ended Wednesday night with a two-game total-point affair between James Holzhauer, Mattea Roach, and Matt Amodio.
• Game 1:  James and Mattea split the second-board Daily Doubles, but James won the game and had about a 10,000 point lead going to Game 2.
• Interesting stat from Andy Saunders:  13 of the 60 clues in Game One were unanswered!
• Game 2:  The Daily Doubles were kept from James in Game 2!  Mattea had a single-game runaway, but needed to get Final right to become the Jeopardy Master.
• AND SHE DID NOT.  Congratulations to the only person who should've won, James Holzhauer, the first winner of the Alex Trebek Trophy and five hundred thousand dollars to add to his prodigious game-show winnings total.
• Mattea wins $250,000.
• Matt wins $150,000
• Seattle with a 6-1 win over Oakland.  Now 10-41 for the A's, and a run differential of 183, now higher than the 181 wins they have on the season!

This Blog Should Not Exist: Part 3.01: The Republican Nazi Pig You Need To Worry About

One of the things "nobody" spoke of was me telling people if they didn't like what I was saying, they were going to have to shoot me.

Threats are one issue of the whole thing, but quite another is both economic and political, as I said to him.

And that leads us to Elmo's World, where Elon Fuck...  err, Musk, held a Twitter Spaces moment for the Republican Presidential Candidate launch you SHOULD be afraid of.

Trump is bad enough.  The last seven or so years speak for themselves in that regard.

But there is a certain cowardice in the Fat Orange Fuck, although Nikki Haley made the "If you're not going to disagree with Trump, they're going to vote for Trump."

That's fine, if you have any expectation Trump is going to carry through a damned thing -- and then you have to answer why he didn't in the four years he was President.

Trump, at least to date, has been a lot of talk.

Ron DeSantis, the Governor of Florida who announced his candidacy on Elmo's World tonight, you have to worry about.

Because this fucker MEANS IT.

With some of the Kool-Aid drinking Nazi fucks I've read and tried to communicate with (to do so would require a universal translator -- human being to blithering idiot), one thing is clear:  They want the order to Open Fire.

Trump won't give it.  He had the chance to, as well -- especially given the personal stake of Trump in the 2020 election.

DeSantis has taken center-stage in attempting to dismantle the entire educational process of this country (at least that which does not involve sucking dick as first-period -- with however literal that statement is depending on who you are, what you are, and what legitimate purpose (if any) you have in DeSantis' world...).

If he's not the most powerful transphobe in America, he's in the top five.

He's gone after Disney for pedophilia and all of that -- but it begs the question that, if he and his believe that Disney is "Pedo World", then why has he not authorized the immediate destruction of all Disney properties in the state -- with fire, explosions, etc.

His state may become (if it not already is) the first state in the nation to factually ban the Democratic Party.

I could go more numerous -- but the choice may come down to "Talk vs. Action" -- and I do believe (and have for some time) that the first relevant Republican candidate who says he will give the order to Open Fire and kill the opponents in the Culture Wars, etc. -- and MEAN IT!! -- will win the nomination and the Presidency.

I don't think Trump will, even with what he's said in early comments.

DeSantis well could.

The regular May 24, 2023 News and Notes

• I urge you to read the two posts below.
• And we lost Tina Turner today in Switzerland.  She was 83.
• We may be headed for violence at Dodger Stadium on Pride Night.  It appears a number of White Right fuckers have scooped tickets to cause trouble.  Mark this down -- one news analyst is already stating they may try to fire this as a "false flag" and blame the Left.
• Angry Dallas fans "treated" their team to a hail of debris Tuesday night during a 4-0 Game 3 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights, making the Western Conference Final 3-0 in Vegas' favor.
• The NBA Conference Finals will go at least one over the minimum.  Boston beat Miami last night in Florida for the first win of the series -- they are down 3-1.
• The A's are now 10-40, run differential -178 (meaning they are losing by over 3 1/2 runs a game on average), and have only scored 180 runs (meaning they've almost given up twice as many as they've scored!).
• The racist taunts against Real Madrid's Vinicius are so pronounced, La Liga, in an unprecedented move, declared them sufficient mitigation to revoke the automatic suspension a red card usually gives.
• The Jeopardy Masters Finals are set:
• Monday Game 1 (Mattea gets the bye):  James gets both Daily Doubles in Double and wins.  A very common refrain.  He was actually deep in third after the first board.  Andrew gets the one point.
• Monday Game 2 (Matt gets the bye):  Mattea gets both Daily Doubles in Double!!  BUT MISSES FINAL and James gets the three and the first finals spot.  Mattea gets the single.
• Tuesday Game 1 (Andrew gets the bye):  Runaway win for James, meaning only one error keeps James from being 9-0 in this tournament.  Mattea gets the single again.
• Tuesday Game 2 (Andrew (1), Mattea (2), Matt (0)):  For the other two spots.  Matt gets both Daily Doubles in Double and runs away for the three points and the second spot in the finals.  Andrew gets the single, and we have a tie.
• Mattea wins the third spot in the Finals with a superior Coryat Score.  Good luck hoping you can get stupid mainstream America to understand the Coryat Score.
• Tonight:  Two games, regular scores count, standard finals:  James, Matt, Mattea.  Total points winner gets a half-million and the Alex Trebek Trophy.

This Blog Should Not Exist, Part 3.001: A response to precisely "nobody"...

 And now, I get to address "nobody".

For those not following along:  Whoever this person is, made a claim I lied in everything I said in Repeat Attenders about *checks watch* two weeks ago(?).

And I said I would answer him in a Part 3.001.

So here it is.  Two important disclaimers:

What he says is the common "reasonable person" response.  So he probably would be declared correct under the relevant flavor of the law.

Secondly, as such, I have a very reasonable charge for this idiot.  Anyone who knows of Deborah's immediate career would understand that by this reasonable person test, if this guy believes half the shit he posts, he needs me out of the picture by no less than tomorrow.  And that is without joke or hesitation.

And remember, what I really believe and what I really will do has no bearing, vis-a-vis the law.  So does this idiot have the nutsack to get it done?  I have no intention of doing anything in that regard -- I believe the arrest was God telling me I was needed elsewhere, by force (and that force continues to this day that I not be violent against those who almost-certainly DO deserve it!).  But the law has no merit in that regard.

So let's see what he responds with.

"You saw her as the perfect star above all else,"

It is about here that I almost start laughing.  If there were two reputations I had among the fanscape, the OTHER ONE was that I was known, as one Deb-friend said it, not to have a cow -- but to have the whole damn dairy farm!!!

Now, to tie this over to more endemic matters to this blog, to say this would actually require the same degree of ignorance as a normal sports fan is required to have to enjoy anything in sports.  Because...  Let's be kind about it and say Deborah is not that bright with respect to the intelligence of the general American moron.

I can count numerous times where she actually would do something that was, on surface, completely reasonable and above-table, except for the fact that it would completely invalidate her work in every feasible respect.  Happened on her third album and her fourth -- and she hasn't been on a major label since.

And it is also not something other fans, even those she trusts, haven't said as well.  Some of the invective regarding her 2005 Playboy shoot (and it's aftermath) would be quite eye-opening.

Do not confuse the person with the conceptualization.

"yet the moment she changed formats from what you believed made her perfect, and after you looked at other stars' career paths similar to what you believe she was going down, you became obsessive over saving her from herself,"

This is probably about the most correct statement he makes, except for two problems:

It wasn't "format".

And second, even before the change in "format", there were weeks, when she was touring theatre productions, where actually getting her to the stage door (something she would do, on default -- because she very highly enjoyed it, and still does (at least to the extent she understands it is now a for-pay situation!) was, at best, about a 50-50 proposition.  And, many times, it was, in fact, because of what I called the "horror stories" like the guy who, as I said, really felt he was going to going to marry Deborah, scoop her (and the rest of us!!!) up, and we would all live in a happy little enclave in the Rocky Mountains.

I am deathly serious.  That was a guy who showed up at the stage door in San Diego the Sunday night I was down there to see Deborah in the production of "Grease" in January of 1996.  He might want to be thankful I was neither there nor identified him, but I did find out about him afterward.

I wish I had one of the tools I've gained in dealing with the few people I choose to have contact with -- the concept of "It is not you I do not trust..."  Deborah, even before this situation, would tell us to trust her infrastructure to take care of things.  All it takes is one.  I learned that in the joint.  Had I had the temerity, the desire, and the willingness to do as it is believed I would have wanted to do, I would have done it, and only a bullet would've stopped me, which is why that bullet needed to be expended, for the very reason I told you.

"and it reached the point where you decided to confront her after numerous attempts to get you to stop."

The only efforts I was made aware of before "Mr. Falkner, put your hands against the wall" were from the fans.  Fans I hated, did not trust, and did not have any regard for their motives -- with respect to either myself or her.

Most of Deborah's fans, at least of that vintage, should've been chucked into the ether, even if it meant Deborah were forced to retire as a direct result. Not only as a function of stories like the above, but it was clear there was a general idea that she was on their beck and call.

And do not think for 15 seconds I did not try to get official word, even if it was to stop.  To stop me, you were either going to have to shoot me or get one of the three people I _would_ trust on the situation (and they were all named "Gibson" -- and one of them is, regretfully, no longer with us).

I don't take hints very well, bitch.  (See much of the content of Part Three, including much non-Deb material.)  At this point, about the only hint which MIGHT take would be lethal.  That's why they should've killed me 25 years ago -- because not only did that mean the belief had passed the reasonable person test, but it also invalidated all antecedent acts, within or outside of the Deborah situation.

I felt Deborah was a rape (from somebody else) waiting to happen.  And the only wrong I now believe with respect to it is that I believe that the media, etc. would've feasted on it -- in the same vein as they literally feasted and tap-danced on the grave of Amy Winehouse.  I gave the world too much credit:  They wanted a spectacle, no matter who it hurt!

And a lot of people weren't happy when I didn't give them one on Court TV.

"You aren't the hero you thought you were being, and ever since then you embraced being the heroic villain with tendencies and ideas that criminally insane people get shocked by."

Oh nonononononono, shithead.  There's nothing heroic left of this.  It's one of the reasons I've even told my family, to great sense of alarm, that God has to literally choke me out to keep me from doing the most monstrous of acts.  He has purpose for me here, but, to carry it out, He has to make damn sure I don't exercise either free will or freedom.

The last heroic act I felt I made was the instant before the two plainclothes cops showed up.

But the fact of the matter is, if that's invalid, so is everything else.  At that point, there's no "heroic villain" at all -- and it's just someone you need taken out.

If there is a first flaw I will admit to, it is that I see no good in the world at all -- it all comes from the outside.

I also do not believe in bullshitting people -- and the problem is that it appears life itself in America (and far more than just here) is reliant on not only the ability to bullshit the fuck out of people, but to accept being bullshitted and turn off your damn brain and be the ignoramus you (and most of America) is required to be to be functional or enjoy anything!

"No wonder you frolic on a message board with dozens of Nazis and history remembers you as nothing more than an obsessed stalker who most likely wanted her dead."

I could ask you "Which one?", but I've been banned from them both.  (Are we talking Market Ticker, Zero Hedge, or both?)

Let's address both of these points:  Unlike the likes of you (and this basically relates to any stripe of Americana at this point -- again, the reliance on stupidity and acceptance to enjoy anything), I want to carry out research as to my personal and otherwise opponents.  I want to know what Karl Denninger is thinking, and not be blind-sided should (and, I will freely admit, WHEN) I believe his side gets sufficient power.  (Which I give 3-24 months...)

I do not believe in freedom, not in the way America falsely views it or the rights Deborah appears to conflate with the concept.  Neither is true -- you have to be of "legitimate purpose" to even think of getting the first (and, even then, that requires that legitimate purpose not destroy your freedoms in the first place) and you have to be "acceptable" to have the freedom to be who you are (which see much of the marginalized demographics of this country -- many of whom, it is believed, they don't even have the right to be who they are, under pain of no less than death!).

On the second, if I wanted her dead, I'd have tried it -- and we wouldn't be talking.  The fact is, that is what people believed I was going to do, and, because solely of that fact, the NYPD failed her safety, their safety, and that of not only their citizenry, but the one in my then-hometown by not killing me outright as a direct result of that belief.  And that I didn't want to has no bearing on that result.

The MOMENT that belief passed the actionable threshold, they needed to open fire, even by sending their compatriots in my then-hometown to do it for them.  And no other result would've been sufficient.  They wanted the double-spectacle -- and they only got one.

In what you say on the back side of this, you get to the core of why This Blog Should Not Exist.  Both as a function of the protection of law enforcement AND a lifetime of acts for which there can be no Earthly recompense.

"You've been relegated to nothing more than a Talkin' Broadway post, and a small footnote on Debbie Gibson's wikipedia page, and it's all you've been, yet you act like you're some hunted down renegade, daring anyone who doesn't like you to shoot you."

Pretty much, but that goes far beyond the simple concept of Gibson.

That alone would be sufficient, but it is no longer a necessary condition, for two reasons.

First, the classic question I love to ask morons like you:  Who the fuck are you to expect any better?  And, please note, that's universal.  If I'm going to be seen as you say, then the fact remains that (and people have told me this since) I am a threat to anyone I come into contact with -- on an a priori basis.

Second, the very real economic reality, especially if you are a Conservative (going double if you're a Libertarian, since personal responsibility can only come from shooting those who refuse) that, to actually deal with the debt and deficits, every person of my like MUST die.  And now.  I realize this doesn't fit your narrative, as it especially relates to the specific post -- but the fact of the matter is, if you don't like what I'm doing, I don't take hints very well.  You pretty much have to put a gun to my head and be prepared, then, to pull the trigger.

If you don't believe me, cost me my home by cutting off the Federal spending and see what happens pretty quick.  And you CAN take that as a threat -- many claims to some of the programs I get take years.  Mine took maybe 3 - 3 1/2 months.  It was because even they know it's a bribe to keep me on the straight and narrow.

"You're the homeless guy people give Jack Links to for some good karma, quit acting like you're the savior of the world. You lied so people could think you changed,"

The author and the creator of the documentary, Mark Dooley, would beg to sorely differ with you.

About 24 or so months ago, he was at a showing in the country of New Zealand, and was, correctly, queried by a female viewer of the film as to my continued danger.

He (and I apologize to him if he ever reads this -- he asked me not to respond to trolls, and it's clear you are one, but this is for more than your edification) told me to my face he watered it down.

He knows.  Trust me, he damn well knows that the only way to get rid of the threat is to put me in the ground.  He's just more tactful about it than I am.  And he treated me well and fairly, thank you very much.  Both to my face and to the media and any viewer who asked the question at a post-showing Q&A.

If anything, I've changed for the worse, realizing every positive act I have ever committed in my life has been, on some level, a criminal act.

I'm actually genuinely shocked that the other superfans chronicled in the movie didn't shoot me -- and you'd think they had cause, given that putting me in the movie ties them down to the same extent, in a number of viewers' eyes.  Putting us in the same movie factually endangers them.

So what's your excuse?

(PS:  Said Federal benefits have kept a roof over my head pushing 16 of the 25 years.  So let's get the facts right.)

"when in reality, the only change that happens around here is your profile from "54, opinionated, and not usually very happy," to "55, opinionated, and not usually very happy." Think about that while you shitpost on that Nazi College Football board of yours"

rec.sport.football.college?

You do realize I am openly calling on several former correction officers and military who post to the site to do exactly as you've said -- not only on a "threat prevention" level but on a very economic/political level.

But if you think that place is Nazi, the two I mentioned before would be even worse.

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"nobody":  You best have me out of the picture.  I don't think I have to tell you the reality of what's going on here -- even though I am well-tasked here and am willing to remain here and on-task.

You got a set of balls, or, like the rest of the Nazis, do you just love to talk and think you know what you're doing?

Remember, son, and this is no exaggeration:  It took a literal New York Police Department All Points Bulletin and at least nine NYPD cars to shut me up for about a year, add a couple months before I started posting again on the Net after release...

Again, what's your damn excuse?

This Blog Should Not Exist: Part Three

And now, for the long awaited Part Three, and a full exposition of why This Blog Should Not Exist, and neither should I.  I could see this blog terminated because of one or both of these posts.  Not only that, but I have a suspicion of the previous flags.  They may be coming from Team Gibson...

Twenty-five years ago tonight -- May 24, 1998 -- I was arrested for stalking Debbie Gibson in New York.  And the New York City Police Department failed in it's duty to protect and serve her, her family, her workplace, and the general public.

The New York City Police Department had one and only one duty:  To eliminate me with the rightful lethal force of law and make an example of it so that others would not go down the same path.

There is no question at all that I should've been killed that night, and that everyone from Gibson to my own family should sue the Hell out of the NYPD for not doing so.

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And now we get to an extended part of the "Why?" -- which goes both backward and forward, and involves far more than Gibson.

1) As I am probably going to tell "nobody" when I get to his response two weeks ago as to how I lied in Repeat Attenders:  Stalking/Harassment/Menacing/etc. is a crime given a "reasonable person test" of what a person is going to do.  Once you gain the power to make that degree of an assumption as to what a person does, there is, then, no limit to that power.

A little Inside Baseball:  The judge who sentenced me, Judge Sackett -- and he was one of the more lenient ones -- laid the belief that I was a walking Mark David Chapman.

Yes, I was likened to John Lennon's murderer.

So, at that point, I have three questions for you:

* What has changed in 25 years?  In short, nothing under the law, and a general feeling that things have gotten worse personally (I'll explain that later).  A reasonable person would assume (wrongly, but remember -- my thoughts have no merit in this discussion!) that the course of conduct continues and something is in plans.  (To which I remind "nobody":  Deborah's third tour in a year starts tomorrow night in Niagara Falls, NY!)

* Would this not mean that the "reasonable person" result is that (it is believed) I am not only going to kill her, but most anything else I care about as well?  If you read "The Gift of Fear", there is a full chapter about the stalker of the first person Gavin de Becker had to put into a safehouse.  Why?  Because the person was believed to have actuated his plans to sufficient point by killing his parents.

People who walk this path DO kill their families.  Regretfully, my brother and his family now have been told this.  I had spent the best part of the last 25 years incommunicado with the family, and, given political and personal difference (and the concept that there is no Earthly sufficient remorse I can give, for two reasons I will, again, get to), it may be time to make that arrangement permanent.

* If I'm going to be seen as that degree of a threat to roughouse, disrobe, rape, and then murder someone I cared about more than most anything, who is anyone else -- from the metaphorical King of England to the bum on the street -- to think they're going to get better?  I've even had to play this card on said brother.

2) It shouldn't have gotten that far.

* Since an unwanted hug is a fourth-degree sexual assault in Wisconsin, I think it safe to say that I committed enough such crimes in the University of Wisconsin-River Falls alone to be put in prison for the rest of my life.

* But it took literal Title IX lawsuits, alleging no less than either rape or the belief I was, to finally get me expelled.  So much so, the county sheriff banned me from even walking in most parts of the town.

* By the time I was allowed (wrongly) to re-enroll after being thrown out of same college at another college in Eau Claire a year-plus later (a year-plus during which my whereabouts were very carefully monitored and restricted, for the belief that I was prowling for a serial-rape victim at most every turn, and that I am now banned from that entire community!), I became the first person ever to be banned from the basketball arena, because they thought I was going to do that same thing to the pompon squad -- the only reason I selected Eau Claire in the first place.

* And, when I so re-enrolled, a Campus Security officer from River Falls transferred (and I would give a real chance she WAS transferred with me in mind) to Eau Claire.

* When the campus found that out, they had to go to the local TV station (who did about four or so home games a year) and rework their halftime coverage as a student-conduct and student-safety issue.  Up until the 1991-92 season, their halftime coverage began with the pompon squad.  1992-93, welcome to the WEAU studios and "The Ken Anderson Show" instead.  (I know neither what they do 30 years on, or it's format.)

* And one more thing Eau Claire has not actuated yet:  My degree from them is now null and void.  My arrest, since the Course of Conduct went back through Eau Claire (and used University resources both there and Milwaukee), violated the agreement I made not to get thrown out of my second school after the above incidents occurred.  So that degree is void.

Now am I proud of any of this?  Absolutely not.  But it was only when I combined a statement I made during Repeat Attenders ("nobody", I'll get to you and all that in a bit!), conflated that with the political realities (and societal ones as well), and came to a very disturbing conclusion...

3) Since Deborah and her message were, factually (at least three times (post-Feb. 1989, 1990, and post-Feb. 1992 onward) -- and people can believe my arrest prevented a fourth if so chosen!), the only things which prevented me from being the serial rapist two Wisconsin college campuses would've sworn in court I was, the only real conclusion I can draw is that I should've been said serial rapist, and that I would've had a better chance at societal success by finally actuating the terrorist threat I was on those two campuses.

(And anyone who think I'm lying and that I _did_ actually rape quite a few women at those two colleges -- the only evidence I can state otherwise is that they took my DNA in New York.  You can bet money it was crosschecked with any information those two schools had on any unsolved event in the relevant amount of time.)

And, worse, the only reason I haven't since is lies and delusion as well.  That being that level of a monster was the only correct end result of my previous conduct, and might (given our toxic masculinity fetish) have actually allowed me to, in the eyes of society, amount to something -- which, in many men's eyes, would grant that right in the first place!

(Which see two serial rapist pedos who've been made no less than President -- the other being Billy Bob Blow Job!)

And note:  In 2) and 3), we're still over two years from when I laid eyes on Deborah the first time, face to face.

So the only realistic conclusion is I never should've been given the chance in the first place.

But, bluntly, she sustained me for the better part of the four years between Oheka Castle and my arrest.

Which eventually led to my arrest 25 years ago today -- from which I should've been shot and killed instantaneously, without mercy, and with great ceremony.

Because, had one ounce of due diligence in the minimum two weeks (but, let's be frank, there's a Broadway website who flagged down the NYPD over two MONTHS previous to Broadway Bares 1998) between what it was believed to be when it flipped over to criminal conduct and when I showed up, there was only one correct outcome:  My death.  With neither mercy nor compassion.

Because the belief was that my actions that night would be no short of fatal.  So much so that reports were coming in that night from the fandom to each other that I had a firearm, and was prepared to shoot the Palace Theatre up.  (No such firearm existed, but the "reasonable person" test was met.)

I said, and it stands, that I wanted to carry a lethal weapon -- a knife -- on my person that, in the event I was approached to sufficient belief I was a threat to Deborah, to carry out that threat (instead) on them.  And the only reason I didn't was exactly what happened.

And the New York Police Department uncategorically FAILED to protect and serve Deborah, their community, or the public in general in not doing so.  They needed to shoot me and throw my body into a woodchipper -- or, as one of the bigots on "The Market Ticker" has on his signature to his discussion responses, to put my head on a pike for the next ten generations to know some favors carry too high of a price.

And also note:  None of this even gets into the mountain of charges which were put against me by the Gibson fan community.  (But it was that mountain of e-mails, contacts to Team Gibson (many put in the "Whacko File" -- No "H", Karen (and no, that's not a current usage of the term -- the main person monitoring such contact was in fact Deborah's sister Karen, who had a management role in Deborah's career at one point or another)...)

And that mountain of charges _alone_ was sufficient under the law at the time.

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I implied earlier that I would tell you the identity of the only person who could earn the mantle of actually being hated by Deborah.  It IS me, as anyone intelligent could probably have suspected.

It is not only that I have turned profoundly (if not poisonously!) negative over the last 25 years (especially over the last six with the Orange Fuck!).  And Deborah has said, her entire career has been a rebellion against negativity.

Well, there are several realities I've learned:  Through therapy, observation, and introspection:

* There is no right to life.

* There is no right to liberty.

* There is no right to pursue happiness.

The last two are contingent on one of two things:  I've always said that they are privileges of the state -- and, in most cases, that's exactly what they are.  Because they can not only declare what you are going to do (even if you aren't going to do it -- and I'll address THAT with "nobody" as well, if I remember to do so.), but they can enforce it.

To say:  "You'd have it if you didn't if you didn't violate the rights of everyone else." is not only denial of reality, but also the fact that certain of us exist as violations of the rights of everyone else.  Take away those violations, and I die.  Period-end.

The second is simply taking it by force, and having the societal power, force of will, whatever you want to say about it to enforce THAT.  You see that in the likes of the BLM movement.

But, factually, it does come down to who you are and are not, and who the victim is or is not.  THAT is now the extent of the law.

* Down here, evil and violence win, and often dictate the terms.

And if you don't believe that now, just wait 18 months (if you get that far!!!).  Hell, unless the debt ceiling is raised or otherwise subverted, you won't have to wait two or three.

I do believe that the next President will be Trump or DeSantis -- and, this time, the White Right gets the blood they want.

* Stupidity also wins.  You see it every day in this blog, with what you have to believe to actually be a sports fan today.

And to be immune to this, especially on a positivity level, you have to take nearly a cult-like view of that positivity and basically ignore everything which is actually going on.  And, yes, I do believe Deborah is guilty of exactly this, on such a syrupy level that I had to realize, on a fundamental level, that the very concepts and personage which led me to not be a serial rapist, even if true, were something I was not entitled to and that it would have been better for me to be said serial rapist -- and if I end up in prison for life at age 20, then I wasn't going to amount to anything in the first place and, unlike what really happened, I didn't waste another nine years trying to delude myself differently, or another 25 trying to hold the line when it really never should have been held.

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So what from here?

I don't know.

I would like it to become a goal to start getting banned from all the Nazi Republican states -- Florida and Texas being at the top of the list.

I do not see myself making the 2024 election without getting arrested.  And, as I will state to "nobody", he probably has an interest in seeing to it I'm arrested in the next 24-36 hours.

I have literally had it with trying to explain to a nation of idiots what is about to happen -- and then see at least half these idiots actually want it.

It is a nation to which I never should've been born.

Keep fucking with what little I have left to lose, and the intersection of Fuck Around Boulevard and Find Out Avenue is coming.

Update on a previous story: Late afternoon PDT 5/22/23

 

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— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 22, 2023

May 22, 2023 News and Notes

• At least three more MLB ejections Sunday -- 75 now for the 53 days of the MLB season.
• Both NBA conference finals are 3-0.
• Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr. was sent off after a melee -- the first red card of his career.  The bigger story may be the racial abuse he's received from Spanish fans, which may have precipitated it.  Everything is getting ugly now.   
• Juventus has been re-expelled from European football next year by Italian authorities.  The 15-point deduction has been retried after an appeal wiped it out, and the authorities have imposed 10.
• And there may be more.  Fresh charges last week as to COVID irregularities!
• Carmelo Anthony has retired after 19 NBA seasons.
• Racist incident after the NASCAR All-Star race when someone from the outside hijacked Bubba Wallace's radio feed and told him what we all know most White fans believe:  "You're not wanted in NASCAR..."  The league is investigating.   
• Look for another round of NFL disposables to be suspended soon -- appears to be more gambling violations being investigated.  Brian is right -- we won't know the truth (or, as I told him, it's extent).  But more teams can be scratched off the list as time goes on.  Do not look for any Eagles or Chiefs, for example.   
• As widely speculated here, Glen Kuiper has been fired from the Oakland A's broadcast team for a racial slur on the air.
• It's Owners Meetings time in the NFL.
• The NFL owners will now allow Thursday night games to be flexed out.
• A proposal to allow a limited third emergency quarterback has been reinserted into the sport, after it pretty much kayfabe-felled the NFC Championship Game.
• Super Bowl LX (yes, SIXTY) goes to Levi's Stadium in the Bay Area.
• This year's Super Bowl LVIII is in Las Vegas.
• Next year's Super Bowl LIX will be back in New Orleans.
• Green Bay may never host a Super Bowl, but they will host the 2025 NFL Draft.
• Next year's Draft will be held in NFC North rival Detroit.

May 21, 2023 News and Notes

• Social media furor has felled the son of legendary Michigan coach Bo Schembechler.  Glenn had to resign, three days after taking a post with the university, due to various social-media situations coming to light.
• Manchester City officially lifted the English Premier League title yesterday after Arsenal fell.
• Oakland A's now 10-37 after a 3-2 loss in Houston Saturday.
• Dodgers now 1-2 since rejecting The Sisters:  Losses to St. Louis on Saturday and Sunday.
• And another horse died at Churchill Downs as well.  In just 24 days, nine horses have been euthanized at the track.
• And the PGA Tour's nightmare is 18 holes from reality.  LIV Golf's Brooks Koepka, second at The Masters, leads the field by 1 at the PGA Championship after a masterful 66 at very difficult Oak Hill on Saturday.
• The Sham Beau is alone in fourth, three back.
• AND THE NIGHTMARE IS REAL.  LIV Golf's Brooks Koepka has won the 2023 PGA Championship. Two shots over Hovland and Scheffler, six over Cam Davis, Kurt Kitayama, and LIV whore The Sham Beau.
• PGA Tour pro Michael Block made history twice on Sunday.  Aced the 15th for the only ace of the competition -- and his final score of 281 finished tied for 15th, meaning he has automatic placement in the 2024 PGA.
• The three-way tie for 15th should net Block a little over $288,000.
• The hole-in-one itself increased his prize money by six figures.
• The record for a tour pro is tied for 11th.
• A lesson in the trouble the WGA is in with the writers' strike.  This is an AI comparison a fan did between the actual cast members of the old improv-comedy series Whose Line Is It Anyway?  Many of these (though not all) are quite uncanny.

So I did a thing & turned the Cast of Whose Line is it Anyway into AI Characters 😂 AI did a pretty decent Job for the most part. It's pretty cool stuff ❤️ @GregProops@GaryAWilliams@colinmochrie@JeffBryanDavis@DrewFromTV@Mangum1@TheBradSherwood@WayneBrady@WhoseRyanStiles pic.twitter.com/BCzh1LY57r

— 𝐾𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦𝑛 ❤️‍🔥Ｓｕｇａｒ Ｍｏｎｋｅｙ❤️‍🔥 (@KatelynAGreer93) May 21, 2023

• There will be four Monday Night Football doubleheaders this season.
• Week 2, one game at 7:15 Eastern (PHI/TB), the other at 8:15 (LAR/CIN)
• Week 3, same (SEA/NYG)
• Week 14, both games 8:15 Eastern (TEN/MIA, GB/NYG -- as of 2022, the flexing schedule policies do not apply to Monday Night games.)
• And, for the first time in years, Week 18 will have MNF.  And it will also have two games, TBD on times.  (And the games)
• It's not out of the question, in future years, to go back to the 7 and 10 Eastern starts.
• Sad news from the Jeopardy Masters:  Mattea Roach's father has died of a brain aneurysm about two weeks ago.  He was 57.  The tournament was all but certainly pre-taped, so there should be no impact.  Would not be shocked to see something edited in in post-production for this final week.
• They (yes, Roach is non-binary) is one of the four semifinalists in the tournament for the first Alex Trebek Trophy.
• Middle Sunday of the sumo tournament:
• Asanoyama was beaten for the first time.
• As was Meisei.
• And now Meisei has to face the sole undefeated wrestler left, Yokozuna Terunofuji.
• Takakeisho is two wins from retaining Ozeki rank.
• All four Sekiwake are now 6-2, and now begin to face each other.
• Phil Mickelson has met with the Justice Department on behalf of the Saudi blood lords of LIV Golf and in opposition to the PGA Tour.

May 20, 2023 News and Notes

•  Two follow-ups to the Dodgers post:
• The ACLU is out of the event if the franchise does not reverse course.
• And the Los Angeles LGBT Center has demanded that, should this stand, the entire event be cancelled.  And the door just got opened...   
• The 6th hole at the PGA Championship is the most difficult hole in 30 years of the PGA Championship (as far as hole-by-hole stats go back).  Three-quarters of a shot over par.
• The veterinarian has scratched 5-2 second choice First Mission from Saturday's Preakness Stakes.  Sounds like only seven will run horse racing's second Triple Crown jewel.
• And another horse euthanised on a Triple Crown day -- jockey also hospitalized.
• There is now apparently a second 2022 positive drug test against former world #1 Simona Halep, tennis anti-drug watchdogs are reporting.
• Halfway weekend at the May Sumo Tournament:
• Asanoyama is perfect at 7-0.  The former suspended Ozeki, finally back in the top tournament at Maegashira Rank 14, has run the first seven off the board.  A zensho-yusho (perfect record) could jump him all the way to Komusubi.
• Meisei, at Maegashira 6, is also 7-0.  He zenshos, and that could be all the way through to Sekiwake.
• Ozeki Watch:
• Sekiwake Daiesho is 6-1 in his first Sekiwake tournament since September.
• Sekiwake Hoshoryu is 5-2, two of his wins through forfeit of injured opponents.  Probably cannot naturally gain the Ozeki rank (as he only had 18 wins in the last two tournaments)
• Who largely believed he COULD, with a small tweak, if above results make it necessary, is Sekiwake Kiribayama.  The March tournament champion is 5-2, another five wins and a necessary situation could promote him for July.  But as many wins as he can will make a natural promotion easier if he matches it for September.
• And Sekiwake Wakamotoharu is 6-1.  They'll all face each other in critical matches later in the tournament.
• All eyes are on Ozeki Takakeisho, who, after a major knee injury, sat out the March tournament and went kadoban.  Needing eight wins to retain the full Ozeki rank (and not force an interesting promotion scenario -- as, apparently, there must be two at all times Ozeki and above), he is 5-2.
• And, as with the expectation of the rank, Yokozuna grand champion Terunofuji, several tournaments off with a knee injury of his own, is 7-0.

The Cowardice Of A Once-Proud Franchise: Deal With The Devil??

I can't believe the franchise which signed Jackie Robinson actually would have the nerve to largely (if not completely) invalidate the move by reversing a long history of upstanding for civil rights.

It's become one of the biggest stories in all of sports the last 48-72 hours, and it may cost the Dodgers a number of fans -- including a long-suffering Dodgers soon-to-be-ex-fan who also serves as my anonymous baseball historian friend.

I believe it was Wednesday night when it was announced that the scheduled June 16th Pride Night of the Dodgers actually had the franchise disinvite a performance group which was going to get a major award for advocacy to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, etc. communities.

I used to live in San Francisco -- and I know of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence quite well.

They are a male group who dress up (quite flamboyantly and without pretense) as nuns and do various good works throughout the LGBTQ+ community.

And the Dodgers were going to honor their Los Angeles chapter with an award.

Then, enter these two cucks.  First, Keith Olbermann would like you to meet Bill Donahue (not Phil, thought he was right-wing, he is not!), the head of a group called The Catholic League, and a letter he sent to Commissioner Fuck Rob Manfred ordering the pulling of The Sisters from the event:

So Bill Donohue, who for 30 years has blighted America posing as the one-loudmouth band that calls itself "The Catholic League," tells @AlexNBCLA that HE got MLB Commissioner Manfred to censor @Dodgers pride night.

Manfred needs to resign. He just folded to a hateful bigot pic.twitter.com/QLpmt443vI

— Keith Olbermann↙️ (@KeithOlbermann) May 19, 2023

This JACKASS actually believes The Sisters to be the religious equivalent (on an absolute basis) of BLACKFACE.  Let that moronic nature process.

The reason he's trying to override the current news regarding Rob Manfred and the Dodgers pulling the Sisters is because, as of the time the announcement was made disinviting The Sisters, that Florida Nazi Congressman Mark Rubio had gotten to Manfred FIRST:

Sent a letter to @MLB Commissioner Manfred regarding the @Dodgers’ decision to promote a woke far-left anti-Catholic agenda.

Drag queen performers should NOT be celebrated for their disgraceful imitation of Roman Catholic nuns.https://t.co/GV6NHlW6yw pic.twitter.com/8rHot8n7pD

— Senator Marco Rubio (@SenMarcoRubio) May 15, 2023

And the Dodgers have folded to this bullshit.

There is some discussion of compromise, though I cannot source it to a source which would be considered credible at this time.

But there's something else which stinks here.

Don't hold your breath on Manfred resigning because of all this.  It is absolutely and abjectly NO SECRET that Rob Manfred is MAGA.  He's right-wing, and he's trying to position baseball as the lead sport of a Nazi Republican America.

(Which see the championships of the cheater Astros and the racist Braves.)

But something has disturbed me since the news:  Could the ownership of this once-proud franchise actually be bending, understanding championships (especially the likes of MLB) are won off the field and that they are trying to score political points with the Commissioner -- jettisoning their LGBTQ+ fans in the hopes of lifting the Commissioner's Trophy in October?

And, doubly:  Could the involvement of Rubio mean that Tampa is doing the same???

Stay tuned.

May 19, 2023 News and Notes

• Kane's favorite day.  Fuck Glen Jacobs.  
• We lost Jim Brown today.  He was 87.
• At least one family of West Ham United players was attacked by angry AZ Alkamaar sore losers after West Ham won their way to play in the third-tier European club tournament final.  West Ham won a two-legged semifinal over Alkamaar, the second leg in the Netherlands.  And this appears to be retaliation for a similar reversed incident after the first leg!
• And now Bills fans, or the rape victims (or, I guess, both!) are going to get REAL PISSED.  San Diego State has no findings against Matt Araiza, the probable reason the NFL was not going to allow the Buffalo Bills to go anywhere last season.
• Oof.  Next year, Jeopardy! is going berserk.  The Season 39 Tournament of Champions will take no less than TEN WEEKS!!!  Every champion on the show for the season will be somewhere in the tournament, plus a Second Chance tournament.  This was actually announced almost two months ago -- two days before April Fool's Day.  The "The Jeopardy Fan" April Fool's joke was that Mayim and Ken would alternate clues on every show.  THIS, however, appears legit, for now.   
• Sports Illustrated believes Brett Favre is going to prison as a "central actor" in a massive welfare-fraud scheme in Mississippi, an investigation by the magazine has concluded.

May 18, 2023 News and Notes

• Former World Wrestling Federation Heavyweight Champion Superstar Billy Graham was removed from life support late Wednesday afternoon and passed away soon after, after a long battle with many health issues.  He was 79.
  
• Bruce Miller -- five years in the NFL with the 49ers, then four years out and the COVID year with the Jaguars.  Probably headed to Federal prison now for wanting to execute Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell.
• A Wisconsin teenager was charged with six Federal counts of hacking and cyberattacks against DraftKings, and apparently 70,000 accounts and $300,000 were involved.
• Brentford's Ivan Toney has been banned by the Football Association for at least eight months.  Placed at least 300 illegal bets on matches.
• We may finally be seeing the beginning of the end of the North American League of Legends situation.  After basically consecutive 3-0 defeats by Cloud 9 in the Mid-Season Invitational, now six of the ten fixed second-tier teams (including Cloud 9's) have disbanded between the Spring and Summer splits.
• At least four went yesterday.
• And another Pride Night debacle:  This one in MLB, with the highest-attendance team in the league:  The Dodgers.  The Dodgers had scheduled California drag group The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (a large-scale charity group which performs a lot in San Francisco, and there's no pretense or illusion involved of any kind!) to appear on their Pride Night June 16th.  
• Enter Nazi Shithead Marco Rubio (Fucktard-FL).  He threw a fit.
• They caved.
• Many Dodgers fans unhappy!
• Could they be trying a Deal With The Devil??  Knowing MAGA-LB, I would not rule it out!
• Rafael Nadal will not be playing the French Open this year -- and, as a result, he will fall to the point in the rankings where he might start needing wildcards to play the weekly events!
• Neither will Nick Kyrgios.  Injured his knee during the robbery of his mother 2 1/2 weeks ago.
• Montana has officially banned downloads of TikTok, as of January 1, 2024.
• And the quarterfinals of the Jeopardy Masters Tournament concluded Wednesday night.
• Game 1:  Mattea (8), Matt (6), Sam (eliminated in 6th place unless he wins and Amy finishes third).  Matt with a lockout, eliminating Sam and Amy.
• Game 2:  Nothing to play for.  For the record, James schooled Andrew and Amy to the tune of the total question values on both boards ($54,000) by the end of Double, and Amy laments why the soccer league rules had to be used.
• Semifinals two days next week, scores reset:  Mattea, Matt, James, and Andrew.
• Amy wins $75000.  And two for a win would not have saved Amy -- Matt and Mattea would've had six points each.
• Sam wins $50000.
• But, barring something shocking, I think we can just hand the half-mil and the Trebek Trophy to James now.  Save one Final Jeopardy shocker, James swept the field.  Had he gotten that Final, James would've gotten all 18 points.  The only remote prayer the other three players have is if a similar thing happens in the finals.
• To the surprise of few (except her identity) fans of the likes from Grandmaster Flash to Debbie Gibson, The Medusa was named the winner of the ninth season of FOX's The Masked Singer.  However, those (earlier in the season) who believed said Medusa was Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas were in for a shock:  The winner, instead, was British singer Bishop Briggs.
• Guesses, even to last week, included Ke$ha, Ellie Goulding, Lorde, Imogen Heap, but Nicole Scherzinger actually passed over Briggs' name on the list last week in naming half a dozen British singer moms.  (which was a clue that stumped a number of the above names off the list).  Ashlee Simpson and the lead singer of Evanescence were also listed in a confab of informal guesses.
• The final guesses:  
• Robin Thicke finalized on Canadian singer Grimes, on a clue of an alias.
• Ken Jeong completely whiffed it again (as he did on Gibson, who, when it sounded like he was going to go triple-threat, then took the wrong turn to Sarah Jessica Parker) called Medusa one of the best winners ever, then said Susan Boyle (??????).
• Jenny McCarthy (who correctly immediately identified Gibson because her husband is Mark Wahlberg of NKOTB (FKA The New Kids On The Block), and Gibson toured with the New Kids several years ago) went with Fergie.
• Nicole Scherzinger correctly identified Briggs by a similar manner McCarthy identified Gibson, remembering Briggs toured with Chris Martin.

May 17, 2023 News and Notes

• One week to Part Three...   
• If I don't get arrested before then.  
• A near-replay of the Princess Diana tragedy in New York today, as paparazzi almost got Harry and Meghan killed. 
• The San Antonio Spurs have won Victor Wenbenyama, the #1 pick in the 2023 Draft.
• And the talk is that the #RaceForSeis (the sixth San Antonio NBA Championship) is a three-year project with him.
• Adam Silver was shocked at the new Ja Morant video.  We'll see what he does about it.
• At least #64 so far tonight - Domingo German will be suspended 10 games.  He's been caught with the sticky stuff!  I had a feeling that was what they caught him with against Minnesota, and Close Call Sports notes it's the same umpiring crew from the Minnesota incident.   
• And various altercations regarding the Aaron Judge situation from last night!
• And again, after three perfect innings from German.
• The suspension was announced late Wednesday.
• Oakland won their 10th game last night, with 34 losses.  Beat Texas 9-8 in 12.  3,261 tickets were sold.
• And 4,159 for their 35th loss of the year Wednesday, 5-3.  Not even 9,500 for the three games.
• Voters in Tempe soundly rejected all proposals to move the Coyotes there -- it appears Houston is the first candidate now.
• We have our Final Four in the Jeopardy Masters, sans a shocking result to keep Amy over Matt (Amy must win, but she faces James, who is one Final Jeopardy mistake from a clean sweep of the first round.)
• James, Mattea, and Andrew have made the semifinal.
• Matt should join them tomorrow night.
• Amy will be eliminated barring beating James and winning her match (Matt wins the tiebreak at 6 points otherwise)  (Amy will get $75000), Sam already has been ($50000).
• Suggestion of change in format for Year Two:  You must win a first-round match to advance (I think it's math impossible for four not to), tiebreaker is wins, then seconds, then the other statistics.  No points needed, at least for the first round -- especially if you get six second-place finishes and get eliminated cleanly.
• Four rounds complete in the May Sumo tournament.
• Suspended former Ozeki Asanoyama is 4-0.
• As are Wakamotoharu and Daieisho at Sekiwake.  And the other two, Kiribayama and Hoshoryu, are both 3-1!
• Ozeki Takakeisho lost to Komusubi Kotonowaka, but is 3-1.  He needs to go 8-7 this tournament, or he loses his rank.
• Yokozuna Terunofuji is 4-0.
• Maegashira #6 Meisei is also 4-0.
• It looks as if the high Maegashira are taking the brunt of it:  The Maegashira #1s are a combined 1-7, as are the Maegashira #3s.  And the one competing Maegashira #2 is 0-4.
• 65, 66, and 67 as of Wednesday's day games.

You mean to tell me I actually made it to post #5,000...

I'll save a larger discussion on it all to when I get to why This Blog Should Not Exist in it's purest form in about a week.

May 16, 2023 News and Notes

• Two more jacks for Aaron Judge as the Yankees win again.
• But they come with a possible charge of sign-stealing.  The Toronto broadcaster cameras caught Judge looking repeatedly toward the first-base dugout where the Yankees are for the series in Toronto.  This is what happened just before his second jack of the night...

Aaron Judge hits a home run as the Blue Jays broadcasters wonder why he keeps glancing toward the dugout pic.twitter.com/ZrOY7grbYV

— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 16, 2023

• You be the judge, no pun intended.   Judge claims he was hearing something from the Yankees dugout.  I do NOT believe him.  
• As most anyone would've predicted with these playoffs, the 76ers fired Doc Rivers today.  Makes you wonder if the only coach left will be the one of the champions...  
• And there is talk that if the Nuggets do not reach at least The Finals, their coach is gone...
• Pitcher and manager of the Diamondbacks are #63 and 64 last night.  Check-swing -- and the A's could've added to that total.  Eight in two days, if I have this right?
• The Las Vegas Aces have lost their coach and their 2025 first-round pick.  Becky Hammon, banned two games for "Respect In The Workplace" violations and impermissible violations...  Something tells me we have our next firing!
• At least one notable member of the Crips gang wants Ja Morant to knock it off -- or else ride with him and actually meet up and see what being a Crip is like!  Bricc Baby, no uncertain terms...  If he doesn't step up to you and take you up on your offer (which might well be better for him and the NBA if he does), you might have a real problem on your hands.
• A New York lawsuit accusing Rudy Guiliani of just about everything short of murder has also uncovered a possible pardons-for-pay situation -- that Guiliani asked a woman he was effectively raping if she had any friends who might need a pardon from then-President Jabba The Trump.  Cost?  $2M, split between Rudy and Shithead.
• Yep, the fun has started in earnest in Oakland with the D-Backs series.  Announced attendance:  2,064.
• Night 5 of the first round of the Jeopardy Masters Tournament.
• Game 1:  Amy (3 pts), Matt (3 pts), Mattea (7 pts).  Probably a must win for the first two, Amy on the bubble, at this point, for elimination.  
• Matt gets a Daily Double in Double, Amy misses hers.
• Matt gets the 3 points, Amy does score the single when Mattea misses the Final, but it doesn't help her.
• Game 2:  Sam (2 pts), Andrew (8 pts), James (9 pts).  A tall order, and a must win for Sam, as Amy now has 4 points.
• James is now advertising himself as a "self-described game-show villain", playing off his time on The Chase.
• James gets the three points by finding both Daily Doubles in Double (creating a lockout and more jokes at host Ken Jennings' expense!), but Sam and Andrew are drawn for second.
• Andrew forces Sam to get it right, he does not.
• Results on five of the seven rounds:
• James Holzhauer 12 points (his four wins in five games puts him in the semifinals)
• Andrew He 9 points
• Mattea Roach 7 points
• Matt Amodio 6 points
• Amy Schneider 4 points (is eliminated if she finishes third tomorrow)
• Sam Buttrey 2 points (must win out to advance)
• Michael Davies' taking from soccer tournaments for 3 points for a win has major implications.  Amy Schneider has four second-place finishes in five games.  She is out of the tournament completely unless she gets at least one win, and may need them both! Amy faces Matt and James tomorrow. 

This Blog Should Not Exist, Part 2.12 -- TSHTF, Sports Edition

You get the sense that it's all coming apart at the seams?

Yeah, me too.  And we can do this in both sports and non-sports editions (the anti-trans bigoted blabbermouthing by the White Right, I will consider non-sports) either today or in the next few days.

But one has to wonder if we have much of a future as we've gone on with all this happening:

• The explosion of legalized sports betting has had predictable results.
• A gambling ring exposed on the Detroit Lions (causing four suspensions and three firings on the roster and any number of firings of the team staff)
• At least three others this year banned from the NFL for betting outside parameters.
• The exposition that it appears that the coach of the University of Alabama baseball team may have thrown multiple games, and given inside information (at minimum!) to bettor friends while doing so.
• Major betting scandals with at least two other schools (both in Iowa, no less!), one which could possibly involve over a hundred current and former athletes!
• An XFL quarterback briefly fired for the belief he had actually given the team's playbook to the other team!  Literally!!
• An MLS player suspended for illegal betting...

And the worst part of all this is that all of these actions COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN PREDICTED.  It's one of the reasons that the liberal state of California (which could otherwise use the money!) rejected the entire concept of sports betting by a factor of no less than 3 to 1 in the November, 2022 referendums -- regardless of whether the betting was limited to Indian casinos and racetracks or not!

• Unsportsmanlike conduct has exploded across the breadth of American sports.
• As of the writing of this post, Close Call Sports has chronicled no fewer than fifty-two MLB ejections in the 2023 season so far -- a pace that, which kept, would result in over 200 by the end of the season.
• Reports across the country of injurious incidents, including catchers intentionally accused of trying to bean batters in softball, sucker punches in the handshake lines...
• It appears that a number of the major sanctioning bodies are in full support of this, with either badly-minimized penalties (NHL!) or none at all (NASCAR!!).
• At least one incident involving an MVP candidate vs. the owner of the other team in the NBA.  Which has thankfully been resolved -- the two were clowning with each other pre-game of the next game.   

It's not only the fact that a lot of this is increasing, but the fact that it appears nothing is willing to be done.  Some people believe, for example, that the MLB situation cannot be resolved (I've proposed a unilateral increase in the fines by the Commissioner under Best Interests Of Baseball -- many have replied that would be a CBA issue!).  But it's clear that there's a definite uptick in this type of conduct.

• At what point do some of these ownership/going concern questions in the major sports get answered?
• The A's are 9-33 on the season so far.  The current site for their Las Vegas move has been scuttled and two more are being examined.
• Attendance last night for the 4-0 three-hit loss to the Rangers?  TWO THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED FORTY NINE.
• It appears a bill to approve some site in Las Vegas for a new A's stadium is going to be put up in the next 24 hours.
• In 19 home games, the A's are the only MLB team to average less than 10,000.  Only Miami, otherwise, has averaged less than 15,000.
• At the present rate, the A's would not reach the current home fan total of the Dodgers (the #1 attendance team -- and it isn't close!), even if another 10-15 games were added at the stadium.  And that's a total of the Dodgers in less than 20 games of their own!
• The continuing saga of the Washington Commanders and whether we will actually ever get Dan Snyder out of the NFL...
• What is the eventual fate of the Phoenix Coyotes -- run out of their own arena and now having to play in a college arena?  There is apparently a special election which might move them to Tempe, word on that coming next week.

How much more before a complete *SNAP* moment, and that's just in sports?

May 15, 2023 News and Notes

• Texas Rangers won Saturday and Sunday over the Oakland A's, putting the A's record to 9-33.
• Saturday:  5-0.  8,230 are purported to have bought tickets.
• Sunday:  11-3.  7,793.
• And the real fun begins Monday, the D-Backs are in town.
• Three more ejections in the Phillies/Rockies game yesterday.  Bryce Harper enhanced a bench-clearer the Rockies pitcher started by trying to go after the Rockies bench.
• I get the point, but...  Ladies and gentlemen, one of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition cover models for 2023 is...  EIGHTY-ONE YEAR OLD MARTHA STEWART???
• If you want to see how much is invested in manipulating the NFL, etc.:  The Saturday Night "Super Wild Card Weekend" game is, at least for the 2023-24 iteration, going to be exclusively streaming to Peacock (and on the local-market NBC stations).  Cost for ONE GAME, ONE YEAR of this experiment:  $110,000,000!
• On December 23, a regular-season game between the Bills and Chargers is also exclusive to the streaming service -- that is part of the new rights deal going into effect this year.
• This now makes TEN (eleven?) different outlets for NFL games this year.
• All four major networks
• ESPN outside ABC, including + (not counting 2 at this point, so we might as well make that 11)
• Amazon
• NFL Network
• Peacock's two games (above)
• And the Sunday Ticket Package for 300 or so on YouTube
• I've estimated it might well take a thousand dollars to properly watch the NFL this year, between streaming and cable.
• Ejection total, as of Sunday (we think Close Call Sports is finally done with Sunday):  Sixty-one.  At least FIVE on Sunday.
• Eight will contest The Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico.  Kentucky Derby winner Mage from post position 3 is the early 8-5 favorite.
• Not among them is Forte.

May 14, 2023 News and Notes

• The May tournament in sumo has begun, and the two biggest pieces of news are:
• Yokozuna Terunofuji and Ozeki Takakeisho are both wrestling, at least to start the tournament.  Both are suffering major knee injuries (and Takakeisho needs an 8-7 to maintain his rank of Ozeki).  Both won their openers.
• And former Ozeki Asanayama has returned to the top tournament after a six-tournament suspension and a demotion deep into the boy ranks.  He also won his opener.
• I should do a post on the uselessness of regular seasons these days, but few will match what happened in the inaugural tournament for the championship of XFL version three.  The Arlington Renegades went 4-6 in the ten-game regular season.  But since they finished second in the division, they went to the playoffs and beat two teams with a combined record of 17-3, including a 35-26 win over the DC Defenders to become the inaugural XFL V3 champions.
• ANOTHER gun video starring Ja Morant has surfaced on social media last night, and the Memphis Grizzlies have banned Morant from all team activities as a result.
• The NBA needs to ban him from the league and investigate him for gang ties.
• In a continuing showing of "Championship Or Bust", the Phoenix Suns fired THEIR head coach for failing to win a title, as Monty Williams was fired instantaneously upon elimination.
• According to ESPN's research, the Suns are the winningest NBA team the last three years.
• Matt Ishbia, the main owner of the Suns, never wanted Williams -- he was a carryover from the previous regime which was forced to sell the team.
• Ishbia, according to reports, has seized the material control of basketball operations, spearheading the trade for Kevin Durant once he became owner.
• Probably meaning the team's GM is fired as soon as Monday...
• Manchester City are EPL champions again.  Will be made official in the next round or so, but a 3-0 win over possibly relegation-bound Everton and a 3-0 loss by Arsenal to Brighton and Hove Albion has all but clinched the title.
• Their third consecutive championship, fifth in six years, sixth in ten.
• Only twice in the last decade has the team not finished first or second.
• And it is no coincidence that the EPL has charged Man City with over 100 breaches of Financial Fair Play (this after Man City got a two-year European ban thrown out by the CAS -- which has no jurisdiction in this second situation, this one purely domestic).
• Given that these actions were 2009-2018, these actions perform the backbone of the entire run that Man City has been on, see above.
• Possible penalties include expulsion from the EPL.
• The independent commission hearing the charges will be kept private until a decision is made, at which point a second domestic appeals commission will have to confirm it.
• And Man City is looking at an EPL/FA Cup/Champions League treble.  It would be their second treble, having won the EPL/FA Cup/League Cup treble four years ago.
• Luis Aguilar just made football history in the USFL.
• Philadelphia defeated New Jersey 24-21.
• Aguilar got all 24 points.  EIGHT FIELD GOALS.
• 22, 42, 56, 36, 27, 51, 49, and a 55 yarder at the gun make him the first professional football kicker in any league to kick eight field goals in a game.
• Three from beyond 50 AND a 49...

This one's probably going to surprise abjectly NO ONE...

... but we've got a blatant boxing fix tonight.

Tony Weeks was the official for what probably will go down as a blatant fix in Las Vegas tonight, as Ronaldo Romero "won" the WBA super lightweight title by TKO late in this Round 9, shown in it's entirety on YouTube, including a push, ruled a knockdown, of Ismael Barrow about 90 seconds before a very questionable stoppage.

Barroso was winning on all three scorecards, though Romero was winning some of the more recent rounds:

Romero-Barroso Official Scorecards: Barroso Ahead on All Three Cards https://t.co/Z5I9IRbf5q pic.twitter.com/HgRIYd2CNN

— BoxingScene.com (@boxingscene) May 14, 2023

May 13, 2023 News and Notes

• While the rest of the world is playing the Mid-Season Invitational, League of Legends in the Baltics needs another professional team -- stat!  XTreme Dominators was expelled from the Balkan top league for, as sanctioning body Fortuna Sports announced, "due to not fulfilling the minimum requirements of EBL".
• Fortuna, in it's final comment on the matter (and I think they need the authorities involved in whoever scammed a place in the EBL for this outfit), stated that a team in the EBL needed at least to be a legal entity and have an acceptable social media presence, as well as other factors.
• They said it was NOT a competitive decision, though I would have to wonder:  The team was completely swept, 0-14, in the Spring League, including two losses to the team next above them, those being THEIR two only wins!
• Major League Baseball mourns one of it's "name" umpires, as Don Denkinger passed away yesterday.  Stellar career, marred by one possible bad call in the 1985 World Series which sent the Cardinals into hysterics.
• My anonymous baseball-historian friend notes Denkinger made the same error which cost Armando Gallaraga his perfect game:  The crowd was too loud, and the umpire was down the line, so he was calling ball hitting glove on sound, rather than sight.

This Blog Should Not Exist, Part 2.11: Victory Day For COVID And Those Who Support It

Today, the Republicans should be out in the streets celebrating.

They have won, and COVID will kill (often suddenly) at God's own Will and Discretion -- eventually offing the probably about 15% of the population that the Republicans wanted to die (only without the apparent discrimination that it kills the useless and fat) -- as an endemic disease going forward.

Not only that, but the American White Right has succeeded in near-fatally discrediting the entire American medical industry.  To be blunt, the anti-transgender bigotry of the American White Right will do the rest, with the eventual goal being that anyone requiring ongoing medical treatment for any reason will be seen as of insufficient genetic stock to be allowed to continue in Nazi America.

To say this is a sad day for our nation is an understatement.

To say this is no surprise, sadly, is an even larger one.

We are probably, as I will demonstrate over the next couple "unscheduled parts", weeks -- if not days -- from completely losing control.

May 12, 2023 News and Notes

• The NHL does not give a shit.  Pietrangelo got ONE GAME for that 12-to-6 hack job, which probably precipitated the fight which got the other team's player suspended!!
• The future of the Professional Fighting League is in danger.  The Nevada State Athletic Commission has banned nine of their fighters, it appears for drugs.  Four of the 10 light-heavyweights and three of the 10 heavyweights all dinged hot, allegedly.
• The National Religion released their mass schedule Thursday night:
• Chiefs-Lions is the trophy game to open the season September 7.
• Chiefs-Bengals, the last TWO AFC title games, is rematched in KC Week 17 on New Year's Eve.
• Eagles-49ers, last year's NFC title tilt, rematched Week 13 in Philly.
• The Jets get FIVE prime time games, including a match against the Bills on the first Monday Night Football of the year.
• The Packers also get five primetime games.
• The top two picks in the draft, quarterbacks for the Texans and Panthers, scheduled to meet Week 8 in Carolina.
• Christmas:
• Raiders at Kansas City
• Giants at Eagles
• Ravens at 49ers
• First ever Black Friday game:  3:00 PM Eastern the day after Thanksgiving, Dolphins at the Jets.
• Thanksgiving:
• Green Bay at Detroit
• Washington at Dallas
• Commanders at Seahawks
• Winning has it's privileges:  Jacksonville gets it's first Sunday Night game in 15 years and it's first Monday Night game in 12.  They are also in two of the five foreign games this year (they do get one advantage -- it's the Falcons in Week 4, the Bills in Week 5).
• And losing has it's penalties:  For the first time in a number of years, the NFL will no longer require every team to get a prime-time game.  And four do not:
• Houston (which will play every game in the early window except for a trip to Denver in Week 13)
• Indianapolis
• Arizona
• and Atlanta
• And with the schedule now out, Caesar's has it's initial win totals up for 2023-24.
• Double-digit AFC
• Buffalo 10.5
• Cincinnati 11.5
• Kansas City 11.5
• Lowest AFC
• Houston 5.5
• Indianapolis 6.5
• Double-digit NFC
• Dallas 10.5
• San Francisco 11.5
• Lowest NFC
• Arizona 5.5
• Tampa Bay 6.5
• Couple of interesting ones
• Detroit is the pick to win the NFC North and it's total is 9.5  The person doing the preview thinks the Bears will go worst to first.
• Green Bay's total:  7.5.  That's two of the easiest monies on the board.  Under them both.  Detroit for the gambling ring, Green Bay for the transition.   
• 28 of the 32 teams are 7 and up.  23 are 7 to 9.5 -- meaning there's a lot of belief there's going to be a lot of shit football next season in the NFL.

May 11, 2023 News and Notes

• My original note was correct.  Scherzer was scratched from his turn against the Reds, and has also been scratched from his turn the next time around, against Washington. I think he's done.   
• Linden Labs has reclaimed the Second Life Fantasy Faire sims, putting a final end to the 2023 Fantasy Faire, with an apparent final total just short of 30,000,000 in-world Lindens, or a reported cash total of $119,536.
• Plainview, TX up in arms:  A six-year-old girl was forced to perform a sex act, recorded on one of the school's iPads.  The teacher was in the room, and associated threats with the event closed the elementary school for the better part of a week.  Parents are now reporting this has gone on for quite some time, with the girls beaten by the boys in the class should they deign to refuse.  Close.  That.  Fucking.  School.  NOW!   
• Mauricio Garcia, the Right Wing Death Squad Nazi goon who killed eight at a Texas mall, self-identified as an "incel".  Way to pump THOSE stereotypes some more, shithead!   
• The A's need another new stadium site.  The site just west of the Las Vegas Boulevard area down by the football stadium has fallen through!
• After being swept by the Yankees in New York this week, losing all three games by a minimum of five runs each, the A's at 8-29 -- a pace for 34 wins, six fewer than the record for futility.
• Max Alves of the Colorado Rapids, suspended for part in an illegal-gambling probe.  Eesh...   
• The PGA Championship is next week.  18 LIV Tour golfers will join the field.
• A Texas high-school softball team is under investigation.  Their catcher threw to third several times without there being a runner there -- it is believed she was trying to injure the batters by hitting them with the ball in the head.
• The NHL has elected to enforce one of it's rules to try to keep the series from getting out of hand between Edmonton and Las Vegas.  If you instigate a fight in the final two minutes of the game, you can be suspended.  Edmonton's Darnell Nurse has been banned for Game 5 as a result.
• But that might pale in comparison to the fate awaiting Alex Pietrangelo.  A vicious illegal two-handed slash in that same sequence will actually get him a hearing with Player Safety, which indicates the minimum he's looking at is probably the remainder of the series, and, if it's in-person, into the Western Conference Finals or next season, depending on outcome.
• They finally adjudicated the failed drug-test of scratched Kentucky Derby favorite Forte.  He has been disqualified from the Grade I Hopeful Stakes victory he had last year (the first of five such wins), and his trainer has been banned for 10 days and fined $1,000.  Now go after his spot in the Breeder's Cup Juvenile -- which he also won!   
• Forte is currently banned from racing until the day of the Preakness Stages near Baltimore.  He must complete a blood test and a workout before being cleared.

Night Three of the Jeopardy Masters (this is Wednesday night):

• Game 1:  Sam (6th - 1), Amy (5th - 2), James (T-2nd-3).  James with the runaway, putting Amy and Sam (1st and 2nd in last year's ToC) further behind the 8 ball.  No need for Final for any placement.  Sam joins Amy at 2 points, James now has 6.
• Game 2:  Matt (T-2nd - 3), Mattea (T-2nd, 3), Andrew (1st - 4).  Mattea snags the three, Andrew gets one.
• No games Thursday, the standings at the end of three of seven league rounds:
• Mattea leads with 6
• James is tied with her with 6
• Andrew 5
• Matt 3
• Amy 2
• Sam 2
• Amy and Sam are currently in danger of elimination.

This Blog Should Not Exist: Prelude To Part Three In Two Weeks

More as an instructive function, I'm bringing forward "nobody" again.

He had this to say today, tangentially to the May 10 Daily...

"Finally got around to that documentary you never told us about. Tell me, how easy was it to lie about everything you said in the interview?"

First, let's get the rest of the group up to speed...

I know there are any number of ways you can see this documentary (most are a function of some degree of subscription service, either Broadway-related or documentary-related), but, a number of years ago, an Australian documentarian (Mark Dooley) did a documentary on Broadway superfans entitled Repeat Attenders.

Coulda sworn I've mentioned it before, but...

The first interview (and, to date, last) I have done on the Gibson arrest 25 years ago was the main "hook" of the documentary, probably much to the chagrin of the legitimate theatre superfans otherwise chronicled therein.

(Though I will say that it is good evidence of the situation I spoke of when I talked about the Chiefs superfan headed to prison for robbery:  The only difference between "superfan" and "stalker" being the permission of the entity the person is a fan of.

And don't get me started on the new parlance of "stan"...)

But I think "nobody" has dropped into what will probably be a quite instructive exercise.

So I asked him the following in the comments, and we'll see if/when he responds.  I am interested in what he says, this is not rhetorical:

If you believe everything I said in Repeat Attenders was a lie, then what is (your version of) the truth with respect to the Debbie Gibson incident?

I have a couple theories, both of which would go a long way to explain why This Blog Should Not Exist, but I want to hear you say it...

I also have a theory on several posts rendered "Sensitive Content", and at least one action taken against my social media accounts...  If this theory is correct, it could well be an official act, ifyouknowwhatIamsaying...

UPDATE:  You can read his answer below.  I'll respond as either part of Part Three in two weeks or in a 3.001.

May 10, 2023 News and Notes

• It is now official.  To at least the civil "preponderance of the evidence" standard, Donald Trump is an adjuged rapist -- liable for defamation and battery in the E. Jean Carroll rape case.
• It is now ALSO official...  NASCAR likes these fights.  After a late-race altercation led to a punch-fest between Ross Chastain and Noah Gragson after the race on Sunday, NASCAR levied no penalty -- finding no rule broken by either driver.
• The Justice Department has also formally charged controversial Republican Representative George Santos with SOME federal crime in New York -- he will appear today.  The charge was filed sealed.
• Fraud, money laundering, tax cheat...  Some of us are still not convinced he is George Santos, or that a George Santos even exists!   
• 13 charges in all, out on $500,000 bail and the fact he's important.
• John Anderson should be looking for a new job after he quipped that the last name of a Las Vegas defenseman would be better suited for toilet paper.
• Zach Whitecloud is part-American Indian.
• And it looks like the Max Scherzer story is getting worse.  Scheduled to pitch on Tuesday.
• Neck spasms.  Shyeah and fucking RIGHT.
• He is now scheduled to start today and then Monday.  We'll see.
• Tommy Kuhl, a senior at the University of Illinois, set a course record at a local US Open qualifier by shooting 62.  However, when realizing how difficult others had it to putt, he told a rules official something he did, and he was disqualified.
• Kuhl was repairing some of the aeration marks on the greens.  The greens were aerated, and the Rules of Golf the USGA is governed under makes that an illegality.  Aerated greens make the holes on the greens part of the course, and Kuhl was improving his position by repairing some of the marks.
• Yeah, and I don't think the USGA would've wanted that as a Qualifier course if it wasn't that difficult.   
• Bob Huggins has been fined $1,000,000 of his salary for the homophobic slur he made against Xavier fans.
• And before anybody else thinks he got off easy, one question:  This is West Virginia.  You don't think a lot of people...  agree with that slur and it's usage?  
• Well, THIS just got far more interesting.  Scratched Kentucky Derby favorite Forte just had an unadjudicated failed drug test leak out from last September.  He then won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile two months later.
• As of the end of last night, we have had fifty-one MLB ejections this year, two more last night.
• It was June 7th before we got #51 and 52 last year.
• And May 20th two years ago for #51.
• At this rate, we're looking, by May 20, at about 75!

Day 2 of the ABC Jeopardy Masters first round:

• Game 1:  Mattea, Amy, and Sam.  Mattea and Sam found and converted the Daily Doubles in Double, Sam got Final wrong.  Mattea gets the three points as a result, Amy gets one.
• Game 2:  Andrew, James, and Matt.  Matt under the eight-ball, Andrew and James won the first two games.  Matt got a Double Daily Double off of James, and tied him after the two boards.  Matt played for at least one point, and got all three when James scrubbed out the correct answer in Final and gets nothing!  Andrew, who was locked out, lucks into a point.
• Standings:
• Andrew leads with four points.
• Mattea, James, and Matt have three.
• Amy has two.
• Sam has one.  Amy and Sam are on the bubble.
• And they face each other, and James, in the next round of games tonight.  Andrew, Mattea, and Matt try to solidify their semifinal positioning in the other game.