The New York Yankees were supposed to play host to the Cleveland Guardians on Monday night for Game 5 of the ALDS, but after two hours of delays, the game was called due to rain and postponed to Tuesday at 4:07 p.m. ET, so as not to run into the start of the NLCS later that night.
Aside from the logistical nightmare upcoming for the teams of having to play on Tuesday and then fly to Houston for Game 1 of the ALCS on Wednesday, it’s a massive change for fans that were at the stadium ready for the game on Monday night — with MLB choosing to offer nothing in the way of official updates for a solid two hours. Given that the game has now been moved from a night time start to a late afternoon start still happening during normal work and school hours, you’d think they might be willing to offer refunds on tickets and then resell them to those who are able to go — but you would be wrong.
MLB and the Yankees will not be offering any refunds or exchanges “pursuant to MLB ticket policy,” which is frustrating for fans who may now find themselves unable to go.
Tickets for tonight’s scheduled game are valid for the 4pm game tomorrow. No refunds or exchanges. pic.twitter.com/vjgkrJjBEI
Instead, those fans that might not be able to get out of work during the day to get to the Bronx for a 4 p.m. start will have to do the work themselves to try and sell the tickets on the secondary market — which is, luckily, an easier option nowadaya. I’d expect a decent number of seats hitting places like StubHub overnight, but it’s annoying to have to deal with that and the frustration of not being able to watch a big playoff game.
When Aashish Nalawade graduated from Teesside University, in Middlesbrough, England, last June, no one was more proud of him than his daughter, Shivaee. As Aashish took the stage to accept his diploma, his daughter screamed “Congratulations, daddy” and the whole auditorium burst out in laughter.
After he blew her a kiss and shouted, “I love you” she replied passionately, “I love you, daddy!” Then, the proud father accepted his diploma.
The moment has gone viral on Instagram because it’s super adorable and a bit of a role reversal. Usually, we see parents cheering on their children as they graduate, not the other way around. This video shows that kids can be just as proud of their parents as they are of them.
Aashish’s accomplishment was extra special because he moved away from his family to the U.K. to get his master’s degree at the age of 34 after his daughter was born in 2019. “I was hesitant–going back to studies after 10 years felt odd, but my wife’s support encouraged me. So I quit again, and began applying. I finally got into a university in the UK,” he said according to Tuko.
The family was reunited in the U.K. in August 2020.
Aashish was twice as proud when he received his degree. “My heart melted along with all the others present,” Aashish said of his daughter’s outburst. “Rather than the graduation award, I felt ‘being father to my daughter’ is the biggest accomplishment and achievement to me.”
The video has melted countless hearts on social media, too.
“What a precious and beautiful memory made between a father and daughter! Blessings on your family! Congratulations on your graduation!” Maritza Hernandez wrote on Instagram.
“This seriously made my day. I’m freaking teary-eyed at work. This was just Beautiful. Period,” Monica v Sanford added.
Kanye West has often flirted with going rightwing. You might remember him brandishing a MAGA cap while on SNL. Recently, though, he’s gone all-in. Earlier this month, Fox News aired a lengthy sit-down with their biggest star, Tucker Carlson, who tried to paint him as a brave free-thinker who dares to push against liberal norms. Then he started spewing anti-Semitic garbage. Thing is, he’d already done that before…while talking to Tucker. They just edited them out. The outtakes leaked, however, and the network still ain’t happy.
As per The Daily Beast, Fox News execs are “full-on freaked out” that portions of Kanye’s Tucker interview were unwittingly made public, and they’ve conducted a search for the “mole” who disseminated them.
It’s not the first time the network has sought a leaker. In 2012, a Bill O’Reilly producer handed behind-the-scenes footage to Gawker. In less than 24 hours, they’d found their man and escorted him out of the building. They’re not so quick-on-the-draw this time. It’s been almost a week since Vice published the Kanye-Tucker videos, which suggests the leaker may have learned from the previous leaker’s mistakes.
In the leaked outtakes, West spouted some out-there anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, including that Planned Parenthood is trying to “control the Jew population,” who are actually Black people. He cited the beliefs of Black Israelites, some of whom have been deemed “outspoken anti-Semites and racists” by the Anti-Defamation League. He also claimed that actors had been “placed into my house to sexualize my kids.” These bits, alas, did not make the Fox News final cut. Wonder why.
The top three picks in the 2019 NBA Draft inked lucrative rookie-scale contract extensions early in the process, with Zion Williamson re-upping in New Orleans, Ja Morant securing the bag in Memphis, and R.J. Barrett sticking around New York despite trade rumblings. However, the No. 4 pick took things all the way to the extension deadline on Monday, October 17 at 6:00 pm ET. In fact, the Atlanta Hawks and De’Andre Hunter barely got a deal done under the wire, with word breaking from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski two full hours after the deadline that the former Virginia forward agreed to a four-year deal worth $95 million — with $5 million of that being reported as incentives with a base of $90 million.
At the 6 PM ET buzzer: Atlanta Hawks forward De’Andre Hunter has agreed on a four-year, $95 million contract extension, his agents Thad Foucher and Joe Smith of @Wassbasketball tell ESPN. pic.twitter.com/mDm6hZTosm
Source: The Hawks have signed De’Andre Hunter to a four-year contract. The contract is $90 million guaranteed with up to $5 million in incentives. Salaries start at just over $20 million per season and escalate from there.
Unlike the top three picks or players like Darius Garland, Tyler Herro, or Jordan Poole, Hunter has not enjoyed a full-fledged breakout season in Atlanta. He did perform at a very high level in 2020-21, boosting his efficiency and averaging 15.4 points per game, but Hunter was only able to play 23 games that season. From there, Hunter struggled overall in 2021-22 before showing flashes of his two-way potential in a playoff series loss to the Miami Heat.
While $5 million of the deal is in incentives, it is a considerable investment on the team side for a player that hasn’t strung together a full season of high-end production. At the same time, Hunter is a 6’8 forward with two-way appeal and, with every team in the NBA seeking that skill set at the position, a big season in 2022-23 could have propelled Hunter well into the nine-figure range on a restricted free agent deal.
With this move now on the books, the Hawks are pouring even more money into a core that now includes Trae Young, Dejounte Murray, Clint Capela, John Collins, and others at eight-figure annual prices. Atlanta faces big-time expectations this season after the Murray addition, but Hunter is a key to the team’s present and future plans, and he will be paid like it over the next four years.
Joe Biden hasn’t had a smooth presidency, but in the last few months he’s started to turn it around. The former VP has finally gotten some big stuff done, so much so that people were able to spin that whole “Let’s go Brandon” silliness into a positive meme for him. One of his big wins? Establishing a (watered-down but still very helpful) version of his student loan forgiveness program. It’s deeply unpopular with the usual (hypocritical) suspects (including those who never had to pay for college), but those with crippling higher education debt like it so much they’re already signing up for it in droves.
As per The Hill, on Monday, the Biden administration formally launched the program’s applications page, which promises to forgive up to $10,000 (and up to $20,000 for those who received Pell grants). A beta version of the application launched Friday, but by Monday, the Biden team said that a whopping number had already signed up: some eight million, to be exact. That figure is sure to climb in the coming days, weeks, months. (The deadline to apply is all the way at the end of 2023.)
The amount being forgiven may be but a fraction of the astronomical figures some may owe, but it’s something. In the meantime, those who wish to apply can do so at StudentAid.gov. Do it before Ted Cruz torpedoes the whole program.
Sunday saw Joey Logano punch his ticket into the Championship 4 in the NASCAR Playoffs with a win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but that was a secondary storyline for many to the on-track shenanigans between Bubba Wallace and Kyle Larson.
After winning Stage 1, Wallace got driven up the track and into the wall by Larson, and responded by driving hard down into Larson and spinning the two out. While neither of those two are still in the playoffs, Christopher Bell is and he got clipped as Larson’s car came up the track and was knocked out of the race, taking him to the bottom of the standings with a big hole to get out of, effectively needing a win in the next two races to advance.
Wallace was still hot after the race and didn’t seem particularly remorseful about his response to Larson after being cleared by the infield care center, but on Monday after a day of hearing about it from sponsors and the team, Wallace issued a formal apology for his actions to his sponsors, the 23XI team, and Christopher Bell and his team.
Notably absent from the statement is an apology to Larson, who he clearly still thinks was the one in the wrong for the move on the track that put him in the wall first, and it doesn’t seem he feels all that bad about shoving him around aside from his sponsors probably not being all that thrilled about it — albeit, it did get them plenty of air time.
Kanye West had a busy weekend. After coming under fire — and getting banned from Twitter and Instagram — after spewing anti-Semitic nonsense, he did what any self-respecting conservative does: He doubled down. (Oh, and he also spread some long ago debunked misinformation about George Floyd.) To cap it all off, he then announced he was buying Parler, the MAGA cesspool that’s certainly not to be confused with Gab, Gettr, Rumble or Truth Social, the latter owned by West’s favorite former president.
Speaking of, news of West buying Parler wasn’t so hot for Truth Social, or at least the company that helps keep its lights on. As per Forbes, on Monday, Trump Media and Technology Group saw its shares to tumble 8%, to $16.11. It’s more not-great news for the already scandal-plagued resort dweller, who’s already plenty busy with other headaches, including keeping his rinky-dink Twitter clone from losing all its cash.
It doesn’t appear West meant any harm. He even said he would join Truth Social, and invited Trump to join Parler when (or if) he takes over. But perhaps the two won’t be chatting any time soon. As per Rolling Stone, West ranting about going “Death Con 3 on Jewish People” was too much even for Trump, who is reportedly keeping his distance. For now.
When it came out in 1996, Twister was a game-changer — a blockbuster that favored special effects-heavy spectacle over story, character development, even its impressive cast of over-qualified thespians. The future director of Tár is even in it! What it didn’t do was inspire sequels, because franchises weren’t yet a staple of Hollywood thinking. But now, over a quarter of a century later, a follow-up is belatedly in the offing, and it has an incredible no-brainer of a title.
As per Deadline, Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment are teaming up for another round of storm chasing action. There’s a new script by The Revenant’s Mark L. Smith, which is apparently so good that Amblin’s own Steven Spielberg flipped over it, to the point that it’s being fast-tracked.
Directors’ names are already being bandied about. Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski has already dropped out of the production. They’re already meeting with such people as Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vaserhelyi, of the terrifying mountaineering doc Free Solo; with Dan Trachtenberg, of 10 Cloverfrield Lane and this year’s lean, mean Prey (another spin-off with a much more creative title); with Travis Knight, of the Laika stop-motion films Missing Link and Kubo and the Two Strings, as well as Bumblebee.
Oh, and the title, at least for now: It’s Twisters.
There’s an old, possibly apocryphal story about James Cameron’s pitch for Aliens, the sequel to 1979’s Alien. As the tale goes, Cameron simply walked up to a whiteboard, wrote “Alien,” then added an “s.” It’s big if true, but perhaps having more than one twister isn’t all that ridiculous. After all, this is an age of big, bats*it weather that destroys homes and lives, thanks in part to how badly humanity is screwing up the planet.
In the meantime, those wishing to catch up on Twister — which also features [deep breath] the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Elwes, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck, Jeremy Davies, Anthony Rapp, to say nothing of Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt and Jami Gertz — can do so on Hulu.
Fall is a great time of year for a road trip. In much of the country, the weather is fairly mild with warm days mixing with cooler, sometimes rainy days. But if you travel somewhere with seasons — specifically, the northeast — you’ll be treated to the golds, oranges, yellows, and reds of the changing leaves. We’re talking about states like Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and New York, among others.
The best thing about taking a road trip to one of these states? Not only can you enjoy the bold, bright foliage (if you’re natural beauty), but you can also stop and grab a beer (or three) at some of the best breweries in the country. Even if you’re not one of the leaf peepers in your group, you can enjoy IPAs, lagers, stouts, pale ales, sour beers, Belgian-style ales, and pretty much any beer style you can think of at some superb northeast breweries.
With the epic number of breweries in the northeast, we understand that picking the right ones to visit can seem like a daunting task. And, since we know you have enough stress with your normal life without having to worry about finding the best breweries, we did it for you. Keep scrolling to see our ten picks for the best breweries in the Northeast to visit this fall. That is, if you want a backdrop of beautiful, vibrant fall foliage to pair with your brew!
When it comes to popular New England-area breweries, it’s hard to top the fandom surrounding Tree House Brewing. What started as a brewery in a small barn in Brimfield, Massachusetts has blossomed into five different facilities in various locations (including one on Cape Cod). The main brewery (along with a coffee roastery and distillery) is in Charlton, Massachusetts. There you can sample beers like Julius, Green, Eureka, and autumn seasonal beers.
Bottom Line: A booming beer brand in one of the most scenic states in the nation this time of year. Get there quickly before the cold settles in!
You don’t have to book a flight to Europe to enjoy a well-made, authentic Belgian-style beer. All you need to do is travel to Cooperstown, New York (home of the Baseball Hall of Fame). The beautiful, idyllic, straight-out-of-Belgium-inspired Brewery Ommegang has been crafting amazing beer surrounded by beautiful natural wonders (especially in the fall) since 1996. The reason for the traditional Belgian-style farmstead is the fact that it was built by Belgian breweries Duvel Moortgat, Affligem, and Scaldis, along with importers Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield.
Bottom Line: Ommegang is a massive brand but this look into its home base adds a certain texture to the experience of enjoying their beers.
What began as an interest in home brewing became a brewery in 2009 when brothers Daniel and Davis Kleban opened Maine Beer Company in Freeport, Maine. The aptly named brewery began with one beer (Peeper Pale Ale) the duo believed they made particularly well and progressed from there. Today, with beers like Lunch IPA, Dinner Double IPA, Zoe Amber Ale, Post Ride Snack Session IPA, and others, Maine Beer Company is one of the most respected breweries in the country.
Bottom Line: A smaller operation where you can really access all the buzzing energy of the brewery. If the aromas inside get a little heady, step outside and draw in a few breaths of crisp air!
Can you imagine a better setting for a fall road trip than the White Mountain town of Littleton, New Hampshire? That alone and the guaranteed fall foliage is worth the trip. But what if we told you that not only could you visit a quaint mountain town, but you could also enjoy European-inspired beer? Well, you can do just that at Schilling Beer Company, makers of Belgian-inspired ales, Czech-style lagers, German-style beers, and many other European favorites without having to fly across the Atlantic.
Bottom Line: A European experience here in the United States — with beautiful scenery to boot!
Other Half is a big name in the craft beer world. So big that the brewery branched out and opened a brewery in New York’s Finger Lakes Region in 2018 (along with a few other locations since). Located a half hour from Rochester and a few minutes from Canandaigua Lake, Other Half Finger Lakes is situated on eight acres in the town of Bloomfield.
Bottom Line: You can find many of your favorite Other Half beers as well as beers only available at the Finger Lakes location, all while you sit at one of their many outside tables and take in the changing of the seasons in Western New York. It’s a joy!
In the hierarchy of American craft brewers, it’s pretty difficult to top the acclaim of Greensboro Bend, Vermont’s Hill Farmstead Brewery. This farmhouse brewery is known for making classic European beers like Saisons, bier de gardes, barley wines, lagers, and more. Many of which are named after found Shaun Hills relatives and ancestors.
Bottom Line: Not only is this one of the most popular breweries for beer fans to visit any time of year because of the beer alone, but it’s also serene and beautiful during the fall months.
If you only visit one state for beer and fall foliage, make it Vermont. We don’t even have enough space to list all of the iconic breweries you can stop by on a Vermont-only road trip. But one that can’t be missed is Lawson’s Finest Liquids. Founded in 2008 by a husband and wife duo named Sean and Karen Lawson, the brewery makes amazing IPAs, like the hugely popular Sip of Sunshine, but it also makes a crisp pilsner, a maple ale, and many limited-edition special brews and seasonal offerings that are worth the trip alone.
Bottom Line: Vermont is one of the nation’s most prominent beer states and almost certainly its most prominent state for fall foliage.
The home state of Stephen King (and the setting for many of his stories) is a hot spot for craft breweries. One of the best is Oxbow Brewing Company. This farmhouse brewery is situated in rural Newcastle, Maine. Surrounded by all the fall foliage your eyes can handle, you can visit the tasting room that features many of the brewery’s classic beers as well as taproom-only beers and fall seasonals.
Bottom Line: If you’d rather sit outside with a light jacket, they’ll even bring the beer out to one of the many picnic tables for you. That’s like the whole point of this piece distilled into one activity combining beer and scenery.
Prison City became a well-known craft brewery a few years ago when its Mass Riot IPA was named by Paste as the best IPA in America. But the Auburn, New York-based brewery, which opened in 2014, only sells its beers at the brewery itself. So, to try Mass Riot and its other amazing brews, you have to actually travel there. It helps that the town of Auburn is located in the heart of the Finger Lakes Region at the top of Owasco Lake.
Bottom Line: This is a true “beer drinking experience” and one that you have to have at the brewery’s very scenic location.
Jack’s Abby was founded in 2011 by brothers Jack, Sam, and Eric Hendler. In the ten years plus, it’s become of the best lager makers in the country. That’s because, instead of opting to make IPAs and other beers, Jack’s Abby literally only makes lagers. Its Copper Legend is one of the most sought-after Oktoberfest-style beers every year. That beer, the various other lagers available, and the beer hall and kitchen alone are worth the trip to Framingham. As a bonus, the offshoot Springdale Beer (which makes more than just lagers) is also there.
Bottom Line: Beer in Mass with some great flavors and plenty of natural beauty? It’s a win.
Do you ever step back and marvel at the miraculous things human beings have figured out how to do?
Less than 200 years ago, no human being had ever played a saxophone, there was no such thing as anesthesia and if you had even a simple brain tumor, you were just out of luck.
Now, a team of doctors in Italy has successfully performed a highly complex, nine-hour brain surgery on a man while he was awake and while he played the saxophone. Not only that, but the patient reported feeling “tranquility” during the surgery and only spent a few days in the hospital after the surgery before being discharged.
According to CBS News, a 35-year-old male patient had a brain tumor removed at Paideia International Hospital in Rome, Italy, on October 10. The surgery was led by Dr. Christian Brogna, a neurosurgeon who specializes in complex cancer surgeries and “awake surgery,” in which patients are not put under general anesthesia. According to the Mayo Clinic, certain brain surgeries actually require a patient to be awake and responsive during the procedure to lessen the risk of the surgery damaging areas of the brain that could affect vision, movement or speech.
Dr. Brogna told CBS News that this particular surgery was located in “a very, very complex area of the brain” and also pointed out that the patient is left-handed. “This makes things more complicated because the neural pathways of the brain are much more complicated,” he said. Recent research shows that left-handed people differ in brain asymmetry from right-handed people and that the right and left hemispheres of the brain tend to be more connected in people who are left-handed.
The team of 10 who successfully completed the surgery was made up of neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, neuropsychologists, neurophysiologists and engineers from around the world. Though other awake craniotomies that included a patient playing a musical instrument have been done before, the level of complexity and cutting-edge technologies used in this surgery made it a notable accomplishment.
Why the saxophone? The man had told the surgeons that retaining his musical abilities was of the utmost importance to him.
“Awake surgery makes it possible to map with extreme precision during surgery the neuronal networks that underlie the various brain functions such as playing, speaking, moving, remembering, counting,” Brogna said in the hospital’s news release. Playing music during the surgery gave the surgeons a visual of where those functions were in the patient’s brain and helped them ensure they were keeping them intact.
Several times during the surgery, the patient played the theme song from “Love Story” by Francis Lai and the Italian national anthem on his saxophone. (You can watch him playing in the video below shared by Voice of America.)
“To play an instrument means that you can understand music, which is a high cognitive function,” Brogna told CBS News. “It means you can interact with the instrument, you can coordinate both hands, you can exercise memory, you can count — because music is mathematics — you can test vision because the patient has to see the instrument, and you can test the way the patient interacts with the rest of the team,” he said.
Such surgeries require intense preplanning and familiarity with the patient’s normal functioning, and the team met with the patient six or seven times in the 10 days leading up to the surgery.
“When we operate on the brain, we are operating on the sense of self, so we need to make sure that we do not damage the patient as a person — their personality, the way they feel emotions, the way they get through life,” Brogna told CBS News. “The patient will tell you what is important in his life and it is your job to protect his wishes.”
As amazing as surgery like this is, Brogna reminds us that there’s still so much we don’t know about the way the brain works. Prodecures like this one help doctors learn in addition to helping patients.
“Each operation in awake surgery not only allows to obtain the maximum result in terms of removal of the pathology, but it is a real discovery,” Brogna said in the hospital’s news release. “Each time it offers us a window into the functioning of this fascinating, but still in many ways mysterious organ, which is the brain.”
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