- 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.
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