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.