August 14, 2023 News and Notes

• Wander Franco of the Tampa Bay Rays is either being investigated or is the subject of social media posts being investigated by MLB.  He did not play Sunday and was out of the dugout by the fifth inning.
• It appears the social media posts are claiming an underage relationship between Franco and a 14-year-old girl in the Dominican Republic -- and authorities there are investigating.
• Franco is not making the trip to San Francisco for the next series while the investigation goes on.  I hope this is only a question of due diligence at this point.
• Uh oh.  The Rays have put him on the Restricted List and is out at least for the current length of the road trip.  He's still getting paid...
• Can we put this canard to bed now?  Four days after a 30+-person mob took a Glendale store for $300,000, another mob, this one of 30-50 people, took an LA Nordstroms for the better part of, if not, $100,000...
• A Kansas town is in shock, as the owner of its newspaper died of a heart attack after the 98-year-old woman had her house raided by the local police.  It appears the paper was investigating a DUI by the town's police chief, according to reports.
• We are at 199 MLB ejections, and it's only August 14th.
• So the Patriots get Ezekiel Elliott.  There's a career that's over, then.