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https://x.com/awfulannouncing/status/1944831861336748161 FS1 has overhauled its lineup again 3 shows were cancelled with the biggest news being Joy Taylor is out of the network Her show Speak is one of the three shows cancelled - the Breakfast Ball and The Facility are the other two cancelled Tangential to that - speculation is that Craig Carton will end up back on WFAN because of course that piece of shit will

Here we are again with another new Destiny year that isn't Destiny 3 At some point, JT will return and mock me

Per the Athletic - the sale of the Rays is happening

In the next day or so, Lilo & Stitch will pass One Billion in global box office thus becoming the first 2025 release to pass a billion

https://youtu.be/hm4FgA3nehs?si=ll2eS80vwGR9DQ1i SEC Football: Any Given Saturday

I am enjoying Teddy's logic of "I dont work for them so I can't be suspended" Not sure that's how it works but sure Teddy

And the next shoe to drop from this is that Louisiana Tech is going back to the Sun Belt The earliest they will join is 2026 but they still have to work out their exit with Conference USA Also apparently - some of the the Sun Belt East's schools are not a fan of the move but they got enough votes to approve the invite (it is unclear the exact reason folks are opposed to the rejoining and if it has to do with football or basketball)

Terry Francona got his 2000 career managerial win 13th person to reach that mark (2nd active - Bruce Bochy is the other)

As per usual - the draft is littered with the kids of players that will make your bones ache However - the Yanks drafted one who doesn't as they took one of Jeff Kent's kids and I was like "Jesus is the kid 32?"

Specific to the Pirates - they have a 3 year run every 20 years where they make the playoffs consistently and bank about 15-20 wins That staved things off for awhile

The Twins are approximately 700 games under .500 The Yankees are over 2600 games over .500. The Dodgers are closing in on being 1400 over .500 (they enter today 1382 games over) I haven't found a list that is updated daily so I just look at BR's franchise pages (maybe they have the full list behind their paywall)

Aaron Judge is the quickest player to hit 350 HR (in terms of number of games) He hit it in his 1088th game. Mark McGwire had previously had the record at 1280 The next active player who will reach 350 will be Bryce Harper who has played in 1720 games so far

The Pirates lost today meaning that their all time franchise record dropped to .500 (10877-10877) The last time their all time record wasn’t above .500 was 1903

Ndamukong Suh has officially announced his retirement

We have hit the stage where all the All Star pitchers are being replaced (namely because they are pitching this weekend so wouldn't be able to pitch in the ASG) The note worthy one is that the Brewers Jacob Misiorowski has been named to the NL team Misiorowski has played in 5 career games, throwing a grand total of 25.2 innings It is the fewest games ever played by someone named to an All Star team beating the record set by... Paul Skenes last year

Cody Bellinger sure seems excited to play the Cubs

Retzlaff officially announced he was leaving BYU Apparently he isn't going into the portal - he is just gonna enroll at another school (as we have seen with other players who do that - it will mean a whole different kettle of fish)

Guy Ritchie will no longer direct Road House 2 No reason was given for his leaving nor was a replacement named

I said they WOULD be playing not that they SHOULD be playing

I would say its a pretty safe bet that they are gonna be playing Jeimer Candelario at third post all star break (or Nicky Lopez if Candelario is completely washed)

New CBA has officially been ratified Starts with the 2026-2027 season and runs through 2029-2030

Nats are going with Miguel Cairo as interim manager He had been serving as the team's bench coach They actually asked him yesterday to do it but he asked for a day to think about it (It appears that Cairo wanted to run it by Davey Martinez first before accepting)

This is probably the most telling statement