- Some
teams need Major League Baseball’s All-Star break more than others. The
Cincinnati Reds may be hosting this year’s All-Star Game, but most of the team
will use the four days off to get away from the game and relax with friends and
family. That’s definitely a good thing given how the team’s final game before
the All-Star break transpired, with its best pitcher going MMA on a water
cooler and its manager dubbing the last two games of the first half of the
season “disastrous.” On Sunday, the Reds were b*tch-slapped by the terrible Miami
Marlins for the second day in a row by a count of 8-1 and they turned in a gem
by going 1 for 11 with runners in scoring position, committing two errors that
led to three unearned runs and suffering a severe defensive lapse that saw them
fail to cover third base. To top that off, ace Johnny Cueto threw a temper
tantrum when he was pulled for a pinch hitter in the sixth inning and attacked
a water cooler in an unprovoked hit job that sent ice scattering across the
dugout floor. After the ugly loss, manager Bryan Price held a 30-minute
clubhouse meeting. His team lost three of four games in the series and was
outscored 22-4 in the final two games before he sent his team shuffling off
into their four-day break. "The last two games were disastrous,"
Price said. "It was just not good baseball, and not the way we want to go
into the All-Star break." Cueto, who was apologetic about his tirade after
the game, has been the subject of constant trade rumors and even his manager didn’t
have his back on this one. "It was not the right way to handle it,"
Price said. "We've discussed that, and he knows that.” Use the time off
wisely, guys………
- Thieves
with a conscience are either a great sign that the world isn't a total lost
cause or a sad reminder that the corrupt among us don’t even have the courage
to stick to their convictions…your call. It’s a debate woth having after an anonymous Israeli robber left two 2,000-year-old Roman
sling stones at a museum with a typed note saying the stolen artifacts
"brought me lots of troubles,” leaving Israel's Antiquities Authority to
wonder who this person is and how this all went down. An employee of the Museum of Islamic and Near
Eastern Cultures in Beersheva, Israel, found the artifacts in a bag in the
museum courtyard last week and the tale behind them should definitely add to
the legacy of what were otherwise uninteresting relics of a distant past.
According to the note left by the robber, he or she stole the artifacts 20
years ago from ancient Gamla, a Jewish town in the Golan Heights that was the
site of a Roman siege in the first century, but made the decision to return
them because of the ill fortune the items brought. The robber ended the note
with the message, "Do not steal antiquities!" This person also
thoughtfully included a map of the site in the bag with an "X'' marked on
it, possibly marking where the stones were stolen. The fact that this
individual had these stones for two decades and didn’t manage to monetize them
at all is sad, so maybe it’s best that he or she gave them back because being a
criminal isn't for everyone……….
- International
concerts don’t seem to agree with Lauryn Hill of late. First, the pop singer canceled a concert in Israel due to her inability to book
a corresponding gig in Palestine and while entering that part of the world
successfully and uneventfully is difficult for anyone, getting into the United
Kingdom really isn't tough for anyone. Getting boots on the ground at Heathrow isn't
exactly invading Antarctica, yet Hill has been forced to cancel an upcoming gig
in London because she claims she is unable to enter the United Kingdom for
legal reasons. Hill was to perform at London's O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on
July 15, but the show will not go on and in a post on her Facebook page, Hill
wrote that t her "past legal situation" prohibits her from entering
England. "I’ve been informed that I
won’t be able to enter the UK for a period of time due to my past legal
situation,” Hill wrote. "For this
reason I have to cancel my concert on July 15th. Know that I was looking
forward to performing in London this summer, and that I appreciate all of my
fans and supporters both in London, and throughout the UK. I look forward to
seeing you again as soon as I'm able to." Back in 2013, hill spent three
months in prison for failing to pay taxes on more than $1.4 million in
earnings, but she then performed a series of shows in London last September
following her release from prison. The former Fugees
member hasn't released a studio album since 1998 and hasn’t been reliable as a
live performer in recent years, including biting social media criticism for her
London shows last year. She was nearly an hour and a half late to the stage and
performed barely recognizable takes on her best-known songs, so maybe it’s best
that this new show isn't going to happen………..
- Another
hell of a weekend at the ye old renaissance fair, y’all. Any time you get a
bunch of giant dorks of losers whose idea of fun is voluntarily transporting
themselves back in time a couple of centuries to a time when the king’s English
was the language of the land, electricity was still years away and corsets were
just part of the wardrobe for ladies and jam them into the middle of some rural
field where they try in vain to recreate the past - all while slamming massive
amounts of mead and other vintage alcohol - things are going to get
interesting. Think of it as Medieval Times only everyone is dressed in a
ridiculous outfit and acting like they live in the shire and are under the
protection of their local lord, making it a great setting for a drunken ass hat
to face theft and assault charges for allegedly
crashing a jousting performance and
trying to steal a sword. Meet Connor Ward, an attendee at the Colorado
Renaissance Festival in Larkspur who slammed one too many mugs of mead and
apparently became inspired to abscond with some kind of replica sword, at which
point - no kidding at all - he was chased down by a woman dressed as a wench. Only
at the ren fair does a woman unironically dressed as a wench serve as a de
facto cop making a citizens arrest and holding a would-be thief in a headlock
until Douglas County sheriff's deputies can arrive. Sheriff's office
spokeswoman Deborah Sherman said that witnesses told deputies that one of Ward's
friends tried to stop him from leaving with the sword, but it was the wench who
made the save. Now it’s off to the stockade for Ward, who has officially found
the most effective way to quadruple the normal shame a person would feel for
attending a renaissance fair………..
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