Hey:
Back when I was on the Track and Field team in high school, one of the events I would always get a kick out of watching was the Steeplechase. It was a 3000 meter run where you had to clear four stationary hurdles. Unlike the hurdles you have to clear as a sprinter, you can step on the top of these hurdles and push off. That comes in handy when one of the hurdles is in front of a pit filled with water.
I was always convinced by long legs and big feet would get caught on the hurdles and I would fall flat on my face, so I never volunteered to do any of that. But Tim said he wanted to try it so his coach put him in this past Saturday. Since it was a fresh/soph event, it was 2000m. Tim took 4th place but more impressively (at least from my perspective) he did a great job clearing the hurdles. I had a good spot right at the water pit, and he was able to just about clear it with both feet.
Good times.
Onto the week that was. And it wasn’t a good week for those who think Captain Orange won the 2020 Presidential Election (he didn’t BTW)
LAWSUITS: Dominion vs Fox.
Last Tuesday, just as the defamation trial was about to begin, the judge announced the Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle the case.
Though part of the deal stipulates that Fox is not admitting guilt in this matter, make absolutely no mistake….Fox wouldn’t have paid this money if they thought they could win this case. Not only that, but many of the hosts and senior executives admitted in private that Orange and his minions were full of crap. Tucker Carlson, arguably the biggest blowhard on the network, sent a message to fellow host Laura Ingraham “Sidney Powell (Trump lawyer) is lying…I caught her”
Tucker knew, Ingraham knew. Even the head honcho himself, Rupert Murdoch knew, calling Trump’s claims “really crazy stuff.”
Fox settled because they didn’t want to see Tucker, Sean Hannity or Murdoch have to take the stand, which they surely would have had to do. And again, they wouldn’t have shelled out over 3/4 of a billion dollars if they thought they had a prayer of winning this case.
Also last week, the crazy My Pillow guy, Mike Lindell, was ordered to cough up $5 million to a software engineer who challenged Lindell’s nonsensical claims that the voting machines were manipulated to favor Joe Biden.
Lindell had launched the “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge back in August 2021 offering $5 million reward for anyone who could prove that his theories and data were not valid.
Software engineer Robert Zeidman entered his own 15 page report that in essence called BS on all of Lindell’s so called data. The panel of judges one of whom was a Lindell attorney declined to declare Zeidman the winner, so under the guidelines of the challenge, Zeidman filed for arbitration.
The three arbitrators ordered Lindell to pay Zeidman.
"He proved the data Lindell LLC provided, and represented reflected information from the November 2020 election, unequivocally did not reflect November 2020 election data," the arbitrators wrote. "Failure to pay Mr. Zeidman the $5 million prize was a breach of the contract, entitling him to recover."-NPR.com
Lindell of course is refusing to pay, saying he has even more data to back him up, and says that he expects this dispute with Zeidman to end up in court.
Both Dominion Voting Systems who just took the Murdochs for $787 mil, and Smartmatic, who has a pending suit against FOX, have also sued Lindell. If FOX’s lawyers thought they couldn’t fight these lawsuits, does Lindell think his team of legal eagles has a chance? $5 million is a drop in the bucket compared to what these two companies are looking to take Lindell to the cleaners for.
I hope Kari Lake is paying attention to all this down in Arizona. She keeps insisting she got cheated out of being Arizona’s governor, she may have a few lawsuits on her hands too.
THIS JUST IN-Good thing I held off publishing this, as Tucker Carlson and FOX news have “mutually agreed to part ways.” Translation-You just cost me $787 million, and even your ratings can’t justify that.
BASEBALL: Scherzer’s sticky situation
Last Wednesday, Mets starting pitcher Max Scherzer was ejected after umpires deemed that his hands were too sticky. Recall that a couple of years ago, MLB began outlawing spider-tac, and sticky substance that pitchers were using to get a better grip on the ball.
Scherzer was insisting that he wasn’t using anything except the rosin bag that is on every big league mound. That is there to help pitchers dry their hands from sweat. Apparently, and I never knew this, you are only allowed to use a certain amount of rosin. If the umpire deems that you used too much, he can toss you from the game. That appears to have been the case here.
Scherzer had been warned at least once to wash his hands.
ON WFAN, Boomer Esiason and Greg Giannotti seemed adamant that Scherzer was in the wrong. Giannotti especially was going on the theory that Scherzer was convinced they weren’t going to check him again, so he got his hands all stickied up again.
Here’s my issue….. as I said, I had no idea there was a limit as to how much of the rosin bag a pitcher can use. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who wasn’t aware of any limits. I feel like this has to be made clear, and at best it’s confusing.
More Baseball…. I had heard last weekend when the Mets were in Oakland, that the Mets TV announcers had to leave the booth because there was a foul stench in there. I didn’t find out till someone sent me a video of Chris (Mad Dog) Russo ranting on about it on ESPN that it was possum poop. ESPN show a video of a possum living the wall of the TV Booth in Oakland Coliseum.
Lo and behold the A’s announced they had purchased land in Las Vegas with the purpose of building a 35,000 seat baseball stadium there, joining the Raiders as another team from Oakland moving to Sin City. Is it just a coincidence that a day or so after Russo exposed the possum living in the stadium walls, the team said “that’s it, we outta here”? Should those living in Vegas hoping to land an MLB team be grateful for the possum that drove the A’s 550 miles southeast? You be the judge.
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One of the reasons this is late is that every time I got to publish something else happens. First Tucker Carlson got fired, then Don Lemon got fired from CNN and then Aaron Rodgers officially became a Jet.
We’ll discuss all that next weekend.
For now
Stay Safe
and Have a Great Week
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