Month: June 2023

Rebecca Black is the latest Oakland Athletics fan to come out against the team’s proposed plans to relocate to Las Vegas.

This development came after the A’s official Twitter account joked about an alleged cousin of hers, who hails from Philadelphia.

“‘Gotta get down on Phriday‘ -Rebecca Black’s cousin who is from Philly,” read the tweet.

Black caught wind of the tweet, and immediately replied, saying, “I DONT HAVE A COUSIN FROM PHILLY? SELL THE TEAM.”

Black’s directive to “sell the team” comes several A’s fans chanted “Sell the team!” during the team’s 2-1 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays that gave Oakland a season-best seven-game winning streak this past Thursday (June 14), per Associated Press.

The fans, who arrived to the Oakland Coliseum en masse dub this movement as a “reverse boycott,” encouraging fans to protest the team’s planned relocation to Las Vegas.

“I saw this game and I knew I had to come because I knew it was going to be very monumental and would send a message to the owner that this is what the fan base wants,” said Oakland Athletics superfan Scott Finney. “They want the ownership to sell the team so they can remain in Oakland.”

After Black posted the aforementioned tweet, several baseball fans took to her replies, expressing gratitude for her support.

Pete Davidson leads a pretty interesting life. He has high-profile relationships. He leaves profane voicemail messages for PETA. He bought a boat. But not all news about him can be good, including word that he now has a criminal record.

As per CNN, the SNL vet has been charged with reckless driving. In March, Davidson was involved in a car crash in Beverly Hills when a vehicle he was driving ran into a fire hydrant and a home.

“We believe that Mr. Davidson engaged in reckless driving, which ultimately resulted in his involvement in a serious collision into a home,” said an official with the LA County District Attorney’s office. “Luckily, no one was seriously injured as a result of this collision. We know that reckless driving can have devastating consequences.”

Davidson faces a misdemeanor charge. He’s scheduled for arraignment on July 27.

The news comes after Davidson admitted he was “very stoned” when he, Colin Jost, and comedy club owner Paul Italia bought a disused Staten Island ferry, which they plan to turn into an entertainment vessel. Jost, however, was not only not stoned when they did that, but was “stone cold sober.” There’s no word when the ferry will be up and running, but Davidson thinks it will take some time.

(Via CNN)

Hans Zimmer puts so much thought into his musical and film scores. But this past Thursday night in London, he decided to improvise.

During his performance at London’s 02 Arena, Zimmer orchestrated performances of songs from The Dark Knight, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Dune, and several other songs from films he’s scored. Following these performances, he instructed his partner Dina De Luca to join him onstage.

Upon De Luca’s arrival, Zimmer asked her a series of questions.

“Why did I bring you up here? I was going to ask you something really important,” he said. “Did you lock the back door? Is the milk in the fridge? Do we have any sorbet in the freezer?”

He then proceeded to ask the most important question of them all.

“Will you marry me?,” he asked.

To this question, De Luca happily obliged, prompting cheers from the audience, according to the Associated Press.

After the proposal, Zimmer then shared to the audience that he had time to perform “this one little number.” He then performed “Time” from Inception.

This November, Hans Zimmer’s music will set the score of Dune: Part Two. Zimmer previously won the Oscar for Best Original Score for the previous installment of Dune back in 2022.

You can see a clip of the magical moment above.

On the most recent episode of Kevin Garnett‘s “KG Certified” podcast, Garnett was joined by former Boston Celtics teammate and noted guy who has a bit too much fun on these things Paul Pierce to discuss an issue near and dear to the hearts of many basketball players: the referees.

Any time a bunch of old NBA players get together to talk about stuff in a public forum, someone will invariably bring up something that gets everyone laughing really hard. In the conversation between Garnett and Pierce, the former NBA champions spoke about how — as Garnett put it — “old school refs used to talk crazy.” The pair went through a long list of older referees that had no problem chirping back at players who weren’t happy with them, and with seemingly every name, one of the two would crack up.

Pierce really loved Garnett talking about Hugh Hollins, while Garnett revealed that Steve Javie used to basically say to players that he wished they’d try something with him. But the best, unsurprisingly, was Garnett telling the legendary story about how Joey Crawford — who he referred to as “a gangster” — once gave Tim Duncan a technical foul for laughing at him from the bench. I sincerely hope this leads to a lengthy podcast series where ex-players spend entire episodes telling stories about how insane old referees were.

Killer Mike and Andre 3000 have been collaborators and friends for decades. As members of Atlanta’s Dungeon Family musical collective, the two have maintained a musical chemistry that’s hard to come by.

On Michael — Killer Mike’s sixth studio album and his first solo album in 11 years — Andre is featured on a track called “Scientists & Engineers,” which has quickly proven to be a fan favorite. But according to radio personality Charlamagne Tha God, Mike and Andre have several other collaborations in the vault.

Earlier this week, Mike stopped by The Breakfast Club for an interview with Charlamagne, where the host recalled hearing a really special track of theirs at some point in the past, that has since remained unreleased.

“I’m not even joking, this is one of the greatest Hip Hop records, just musical records I’ve ever heard in my life,” said Charlamagne. “It’s phenomenal. I can’t even describe what y’all are doing on this record.”

Mike replied, noting that the pair has an even longer collaboration in the vault — on which, Mike raps for five minutes and Andre raps for seven.

“When you handsome and all the girls like you, you get to rap longer,” explained Mike.

According to Mike, the collaboration may see the light of day as earlier as next year, provided that Michael reaches No. 1.

You can check out the full interview above.

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Fox News has been feeling a bit like CNN does these days. Ratings at the once mighty conservative-leaning news network have been down ever since they canned Tucker Carlson, with the MAGA crowd moseying on over to the likes of Newsmax. It might be all Donald Trump’s fault. It was he who aired 2020 voter fraud nonsense, which they parroted on-air, leading to a pricey settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, which may have been the reason they tossed Tucker. And guess who’s gloating over their misfortune? Donald Trump.

Last week, MSNBC beat Fox News both in total viewers and in much-coveted 25-54 age demographic, ending a nearly two year reign on top. The feat did not go unnoticed by Trump:

MSNBC averaged 1.52 million total viewers across prime time, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., and 172,000 demo viewers, which was enough to beat Fox’s 1.5 million total average viewers and 139,000 demo viewers. CNN landed in third place with 677,000 total average prime time viewers and 131,000 demo viewers.

This was only the fourth time in MSNBC’s 27-year history ending a week at number one in prime time in total viewers, the last time being the week of Feb. 8, 2021. Moreover, this was only the second time MSNBC has ever won prime time in both total viewers and in the demo for a week. The only other time was the week of Dec. 17, 2018.

Trump then called himself “king”:

Well, it’s happened, just as I predicted. The Golden Goose that was so beautiful is being slaughtered by Fools. MAGA has left Fox for more promising “prairies.” Long live the King. The only solution for Fox News is to bring back Trump Allies and MAGA—Backing No Personality Ron DeSanctimonious has been a disaster….

….Also—Do not broadcast negative ads against Republican and Conservative Candidates by Perverts and Misfits like the Failing Lincoln Project, and others. Roger Ailes never allowed that—And neither should a new and less successful Fox. Big turnoff! MSDNC and Fake News CNN will never allow positive Republican ads or hit pieces on Crooked Joe Biden. Fox must get smart fast before it’s too late. Only “TRUMP” can save Fox News. It is in freefall!

Thing is, Fox News did break back Trump: He did a town hall with Sean Hannity on a couple weeks back.

(Via Mediaite)

One of the more consistently great bits of content that pops up every offseason is “a regular person tries to play basketball against someone who is in the NBA.” Every year, a professional basketball player shows up at a park or in a gym, plays at about 20 percent speed, and cooks some random person like they’re a well done steak.

The first player (at least that we have seen) who has given us an entry into this genre is Houston Rockets guard Jalen Green. A video began making its way around social media of Green showing up on a court and getting guarded by a dude who was part of the game. While the fan tried their very best against him and did about as good of a job as a person playing pickup can do, Green was able to get to his jumper and knew it was good from the moment it left his hand.

Again, this is a pretty good job by the fan considering that Green is a professional basketball player who averaged more than 20 points per game last season and is known for his ability to play 1-on-1 against defenders, but, well, Green is a professional basketball player, so he can just do stuff like this.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been through a lot the last few years, including partially breaking up with the Royal Family and, recently, getting into some kind of chase with the paparazzi in Manhattan. Thursday brought another headache: The Sussexes are parting ways with Spotify, for whom Markle did a podcast. Apparently their relationship with the streamer did not end well.

As per Insider, on Friday Bill Simmons, Spotify’s podcast head, trashed the couple on his own podcast, The Ringer. After guest Joe House described the host as someone who “does a lot of business deals,” Simmons responded sarcastically.

“I do? I wish I’d been involved in the Meghan and Harry leave Spotify negotiation,” Simmons said. “The f*cking grifters. That’s the podcast that we should’ve launched with them.”

Simmons also teased some dirt that he probably won’t be making public any time soon. “I gotta get drunk one night and tell the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to try to help him with podcast ideas,” he said, adding, “The grifters.”

Before the couple’s split with Spotify, Markle hosted the podcast Archetypes, which was not renewed for a second season. Its termination was reportedly mutual, though details remain thin on the ground. It’s also unclear if Markle will take the podcast elsewhere.

And so it appears Harry and Meghan have another enemy to add to their list, alongside such folks as Piers Morgan and Harry’s brother Prince William and his spouse Kate Middleton.

(Via Insider)

Sarah Palin is partly responsible for today’s lunatic GOP. After becoming John McCain’s running mate in 2008, she helped inspire the Tea Party, which paved the way for Donald Trump. None of this has helped her career. She’s hopeless at getting elected to government gigs and she tries to defend the MAGA sect, she only makes them seem worse. Heck, she’s even been “cancelled” by Fox News, at least according to her.

As per The Daily Beast, Palin went on Newsmax, which has been peeling off Fox News viewers after they canned Tucker Carlson. She and host Eric Bolling discussed the network’s controversial chyron, which called President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator” before being quickly taken down. Bolling claimed “the old Fox” would have stood by that label, arguing that they’re “pushing away real conservative values.” Palin agreed.

“As a matter of fact, Eric, thanks to you, I lost another gig,” Palin told Bolling. “I was on your show and you had asked something about Fox…and I was, as usual, quite candid and off the cuff. And I told you what I thought about what Fox was doing. Well, I had been booked on Fox for the next day.”

She added, “I got cancelled from Fox and haven’t been invited back.”

Palin is perhaps referring to an appearance she made on Newsmax’s The Balance, in which Palin agreed with Bolling’s assertion that Fox News has “started to move left.”

“Right, and you know it’s not just Fox News of course,” Palin said. “It’s these corporate-owned, woke disconnected elites who call the shots in lamestream media and they look at us as just the peons, just the subjects.”

(Via The Daily Beast)

Fox News has been trying to play it at least a little cool since their pricey Dominion Voting Systems settlement. They even got rid of their biggest star. But they didn’t shake him off entirely. Indeed, the new Twitter guy is claiming that one of his producers is responsible for calling Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator” in a controversial chyron that briefly popped up last week.

As per The Daily Beast, Fox News parted ways with Alexander McCaskill, a longtime producer at the network whose credits include working on Tucker Carlson Tonight. In a private Instagram post, McCaskill sounded bittersweet, calling it “the best place I’ve ever worked,” but saying “the time has come” for him to leave. He ended his message by telling “all my friends there” that he “will miss you forever.”

But as per sources — and as intimated by Carlson in one of his Twitter videos that may put him in legal jeopardy — McCaskill was the one who slipped the chyron, which accused Biden of “having his political rival arrested onto the network,” on Tuesday after Donald Trump was arraigned, again.

“First they scolded the producer who put the banner on the screen,” Carlson said on his video, not naming McCaskill. “Less than 24 hours after that, he resigned. He had been at Fox for more than a decade. He was considered one of the most capable people in the building. He offered to stay for the customary two weeks, but Fox told him to clear out his desk and leave immediately.”

Fox News honchos have been terse about the chyron, which immediately gained attention on social media. In a statement they said the message “was taken down immediately and was addressed.”

Carlson was clearly proud of his former producer. “Of course Joe Biden’s not a wannabe dictator,” Carlson sarcastically said. “Just because he’s trying to put the other candidate in prison for the rest of his life for a crime he himself committed doesn’t mean he has a totalitarian impulse. That’s absurd! It takes a lot more than jailing your political rivals to earn the title of ‘wannabe dictator.’”

Biden, meanwhile, has said he had nothing to do with the Department of Justice prosecuting a former president who allegedly broke the law.

(Via The Daily Beast)