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Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani joins Babe Ruth as only players in MLB history to have at least 10 HRs and 10 wins in same season
OAKLAND, Calif. — Another home run, another pitching win, another spot in the history books. Just another night for Shohei Ohtani.
The two-way sensation from Japan withstood another injury scare and pitched six scoreless innings to go with his team-leading 25th home run, reaching yet another monumental milestone as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Oakland Athletics 5-1 on Tuesday.
Ohtani joined Babe Ruth (1918) as the only players in major league history to have at least 10 home runs and 10 wins in the same season. According to the Angels, two players from the Negro Leagues also did it: Bullet Rogan of the 1922 Kansas City Monarchs and Ed Rile of the 1927 Detroit Stars.
“I feel like every time we’re out there he does something special,” Angels interim manager Phil Nevin said. “You try not to take for granted what we’re seeing every night but it’s pretty awesome to be a part of. These things don’t go by us lightly.”
Ohtani singled and scored on Taylor Ward’s three-run homer in the fifth, then connected for a towering drive off Sam Selman leading off the seventh as a throng of red-clan fans sitting behind the Angels dugout roared.
That moved Ohtani past Ichiro Suzuki for the second-most home runs (118) by a Japanese-born player. Hideki Matsui had 175.
“Obviously we’re very different types of hitters, but if I get to pass Ichiro I’m really honored,” Ohtani said through an interpreter.
On the mound, Ohtani (10-7) was mostly crisp. He had five strikeouts, allowed four hits and retired seven of his final eight batters. He has now recorded 25 home runs and 100 pitching strikeouts for the second straight year — a feat no other player has accomplished in a season in MLB history.
“After that home run today, I turned to the umpire and third base coach and was just like, ‘I don’t know how he does it,'” A’s third baseman Vimael Machin said. “Just being an elite player overall who can throw over 100 mph with nasty off speed and hit the ball the way he hits it, I can’t even describe that. I wish I could do that, too. It’s amazing what he does.”
The reigning AL MVP almost didn’t make it out of the third.
Two days after getting spiked on the top of his left foot following a collision with Mariners pitcher Marco Gonzales near the on-deck circle, Ohtani was hit near the same area by an 87 mph line drive from Ramon Laureano.
After making the play for the final out of the inning, Ohtani bent at the waist in obvious discomfort and then limped slowly off the field. He returned to the field a few moments later to test his leg, and stayed in the game.
“It hit my foot pretty square so initially I thought there was a good chance that might be it tonight,” Ohtani said. “Got back in there and it wasn’t as bad as I initially thought.”
Nevin said Ohtani’s foot got increasingly sore as the game progressed. X-rays taken afterward were negative.
“He’s good. He’ll play tomorrow it looks like,” Nevin said. “It hit him right on the instep. Those things, if you sit for a while, a little bit of a chilly night, it tightened up on him a little bit.”
ESPN Stats & Information and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Clarence Thomas says Supreme Court after leaked draft opinion is ‘not the court’ of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s era
“The institution that I’m a part of, if someone said that one line of one opinion would be leaked by anyone, you’d say, ‘Oh, that’s impossible. No one would ever do that.’ There is such a belief in the rule of law, a belief in the court, a belief in what we were doing that that was verboten,” Thomas said. “It was beyond anyone’s understanding, or at least anyone’s imagination, that someone would do that.”
The comments from the 73-year-old justice were delivered at an “Old Parkland Conference” event sponsored by the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute in Dallas. The remarks echoed those he had made earlier this month in Atlanta, when he said government institutions shouldn’t be “bullied” into delivering what some see as the preferred outcome.
Thomas was interviewed by former law clerk John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, during a dinner event at the three-day conference focused on challenges facing Black Americans.
Thomas, who was appointed in 1991 and sat on the bench with 1993 appointee Ginsburg for nearly 30 years, said, “We actually trusted each other. We may have been a dysfunctional family, but we were a family, and we loved it. I mean, you trusted each other, you laughed together, you went to lunch together every day, and I can only hope you can keep it.”
The leak, he said, had eroded trust, and “you begin to look over your shoulder. It’s like kind of an infidelity, that you can explain it, but you can’t undo it.”
The final opinion in the case — which stands as a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade’s holding of a federal constitutional right to an abortion — has not been released, and votes and language can still change before then. The opinion is not expected to be issued until late June.
“I do think what happened at the court is tremendously bad,” Thomas said. “I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them, and then I wonder when they’re gone or they are destabilized, what we’ll have as a country — and I don’t think that the prospects are good if we continue to lose them.”
Katie Couric says she has no relationship with Matt Lauer, ‘should have included’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s full anthem quote
Katie Couric said Tuesday that she has “no relationship” with Matt Lauer, her longtime “TODAY” co-host who was fired in 2017 amid sexual harassment accusations.
“You know that was really, really hard. It took me a long time to process what was going on. The side of Matt I knew was the side of Matt you all knew,” she said.
“As I got more info and learned what was going on behind the scenes, it was really upsetting,” she added. “I realized there was a side of Matt I never really knew.”
During a wide-ranging interview with Savannah Guthrie ahead of the release of her book, “Going There,” Couric talked about Lauer, the news that she chose not to use part of a 2016 interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and how she did not extend herself to some women in the news industry due to fears they might take her job.
In the book, Couric wrote that she texted Lauer after he had been fired.
“I am crushed. I love you and care about you deeply. I am here. Please let me know if you want to talk. There will be better days ahead,” she wrote, according to a copy of the book shared with NBC News before it goes on sale Oct. 26.
Lauer replied with a blowing-kisses emoji, according to Couric.
She wrote that “it felt so heartless to abandon him, someone who’d been by my side, literally, for so many years.” But she acknowledged that she had also heard “the whispers” about her co-anchor’s behavior.
“The general rule at that time was: It’s none of your business,” Couric wrote, and expanded on the thought in the interview.
“There’s always gossip in TV news,” she told Guthrie. “I think it was a very permissive environment in the ’90s, and I think permissive environments often result in serious transgressions, and I think back then, it was sort of like you felt like it was none of your business, and nobody ever came to me to talk about it.”
Couric added that “our notion of what a consensual relationship is has changed dramatically, and you have to consider the power dynamics.”
But now, she admits, she had trouble understanding why Lauer “behaved the way he did, and why he was so reckless and callous and honestly abusive to other women.”
NBC News fired Lauer in November 2017 after Brooke Nevils, a former NBC News producer, made a detailed complaint accusing him of inappropriate sexual behavior during the 2014 Sochi Olympics. In a statement at the time, Lauer said he was “truly sorry.”
In a book published after Lauer’s firing, Nevils told investigative journalist Ronan Farrow that Lauer raped her while they were in Sochi. Lauer denied the accusation, claiming his sexual encounters with Nevils were “completely consensual.” (Farrow is a former NBC News employee who now writes for The New Yorker.)
Couric has also drawn scrutiny for another part of her book. She wrote that she decided not to use a portion of that 2016 interview with Ginsburg after the late Supreme Court justice spoke in negative terms about Colin Kaepernick and other athletes who kneeled during the national anthem to protest racial injustice.
The final version of the interview, published by Yahoo News, includes Ginsburg saying she believed kneeling during the anthem was “dumb and disrespectful.” But it leaves out Ginsburg’s harsher criticism of Kaepernick and other athletes, Couric wrote.
Couric, who was a global anchor at Yahoo at the time of the interview, wrote that she cut some of Ginsburg’s comments to “protect” the liberal icon.
In recent days, some media critics have faulted Couric for editing the interview. Erik Wemple, a media critic at The Washington Post, wrote a column with the headline, “Katie Couric ‘wanted to protect’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That wasn’t her job.”
Couric addressed the criticism on Tuesday.
“I think what people don’t realize is we make editorial decisions like that all the time,” she said. “And I chose to talk about this and put it in the book for a discussion.”
She said she didn’t completely understand what Ginsburg had meant by the excluded comment, but should have asked for clarification.
“I ultimately I think I should have included it, but I think it’s really important to look at what I did include,” Couric said.
Couric, who also anchored “CBS Evening News,” said that “early on, I encountered a lot of sexism.”
“It was a very male dominated industry run by men,” and there were “very few positions for women.”
She said the climate caused her to be “territorial” and “insecure,” preventing her from mentoring or providing guidance to other women, in fear they might become a threat.
“I think I just wish I had extended myself more and showed people the ropes a little bit more,” Couric said Tuesday. “But I think when people are outwardly kind of vying for your job, it is hard to be generous.”
Shohei Ohtani already better than Babe Ruth, World Series champ says
Los Angeles Angels slugger Shohei Ohtani’s prowess from the plate and on the mound have led people to compare him to only one Hall of Famer – Babe Ruth.
But one World Series champion said Monday that Ohtani is already better than the famous New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox great.
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“He was better than Babe Ruth,” David Justice TMZ Sports on Monday. “Babe Ruth played against farmers. They pitched the whole game back then. You see the gloves they played with back then? Not only that, they didn’t have specialty players — he didn’t have no Mariano Riveras. There wasn’t no Randy Johnsons back then.
“Oh, and by the way, you only played against one race. You didn’t play against any of the Negro League players. You didn’t play against any of the Asian players. You didn’t play against any of the Latin players. So you only played against this population of players.”
STANTON, YANKEES WIN 10TH STRAIGHT, COOL OFF BRAVES 5-1
Justice, who won World Series titles with the Yankees and Atlanta Braves and was a three-time All-Star, is right in this instance.
Ruth played between 1914 and 1935. He won only one MVP award and finished his career with 714 home runs, a record at the time. He didn’t play against Black or Latin baseball players nor did he play against those who committed to baseball all of their lives.
Ruth won the American League MVP award in 1923. He was the highest-paid player in baseball with a salary of $52,000, according to SABR.
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Ohtani is leading the majors currently with 40 home runs. On the mound, he has a 2.79 ERA with 120 strikeouts.
Some People Shy Away From Restaurants as Delta Variant Spreads
Some consumers are rethinking their return to dining out, according to executives and industry data, a shift that threatens the U.S. restaurant sector’s rebound.
Restaurants that survived waves of closures last year had headed into the summer with rising optimism as most of the country ended dine-in occupancy restrictions. Bigger delivery and online ordering business boosted sit-down chains in recent months, including Ruth’s Hospitality Group Inc. and Outback Steakhouse owner Bloomin’ Brands Inc.
However, individual operators and recent industry data now point to a more mixed picture, particularly in U.S. markets hit hard by Covid-19 outbreaks and renewed coronavirus-related advisories. Recent consumer surveys show the Delta variant prompted Americans who say they are the most restricted in their activities to start pulling back their activities again late last month.
Chris Downs, a 32-year-old mechanical engineer from St. Louis County, Mo., had returned to dining out at restaurants in May after getting vaccinated, allowing him to celebrate his dad’s birthday and see friends again. Now, with Delta, he’s stopped dining out for fear of getting the virus.
“I am back to mostly cooking all meals at home,” Mr. Downs said.
Thea Ruth White, Voice of Muriel on ‘Courage the Cowardly Dog,’ Dead at 81
Thea Ruth White — the voice of Muriel on “Courage the Cowardly Dog” — has died.
Her family shared the sad news over the weekend, saying she’d passed Friday following a surgery to remove a cancerous mass from her liver … which her nephew, Brad Zitzner, says resulted in her catching an infection shortly thereafter.
By all accounts, she fought hard … but lost her battle to cancer. Right before going in for the procedure — Thea’s brother, John, posted a video of her asking for well-wishes from fans (young and old) which she said would help her in her recovery. She seemed to be talking in the Muriel voice, too, from the famed Cartoon Network show that she’s most famous from.
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John posted yet another video on Facebook, which seemed to indicate this is something Thea has been dealing with for a while — apparently, she’d gone in for an initial surgery just a week ago … and he has a video up of her talking following that procedure.
Her nephew writes, “Thanks Feefer for your leadership of your family. The role you have taken with my kids and all your family sadly can’t be replaced. I can see hundreds of fan tributes already online so your love was shared far and wide.”
Brad adds, “You loved life and even know I know the final outcome I love your decision to go for it and to try to win.”
Thea hadn’t gotten into acting until later in life — it seems her first major role was on ‘CTCD,’ on which she starred for four years. She’s also lent her talents for shows like “Pecola” and ‘Scooby Doo’ … but it looks like she’s been faithful to portraying Muriel in a variety of forms.
She was 81.
RIP
Google will spend $7 billion and add 10,000+ jobs in 2021: CFO Ruth Porat
Tech giant Google (GOOG, GOOGL) on Thursday announced it will spend $7 billion this year on an expansion of its U.S. facility footprint, adding at least 10,000 jobs across a host of cities, among them Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and New York.
The investment defies concerns over a potential tech pullback in 2021 as widespread vaccination allows Americans to spend more time outside their homes, and it positions Google as a major private sector contributor to the economic recovery from the COVID-19 downturn.
Plus, the move pours funds into diverse metropolitan areas beyond Silicon Valley, helping the company hire a more inclusive workforce; all while reaffirming its commitment to California, where Google will invest $1 billion, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
“We’re investing aggressively in the U.S. in 2021,” Ruth Porat, the Chief Financial Officer of Google’s parent company Alphabet, told Yahoo Finance in a new interview. “We’re both building on our existing major centers, as well as expanding across the US.”
“We’re not only increasing the number of jobs across the U.S., but in particular, we’re bringing more jobs and investment to diverse communities across the U.S.,” she adds.
The investment will allow Google to establish a workforce in New York in 2028 twice as large as it was 10 years prior, the company said. More broadly, the company will spread the funds across 19 states, including data center expansions in Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia, Nevada, and Texas.
‘It’s a journey’
Even as she praised the announcement’s potential benefits for Google’s diversity, Porat acknowledged that the company still has a lot to improve in that area.
A diversity report released by Google last year found that Black employees make up just 3.7% of the overall workforce and 2.6% of leadership positions; meanwhile Latinx employees account for just 5.9% of the workforce and 3.7% of leadership slots.
“There’s quite a bit of work to be done,” Porat says. “We’re continuing to ensure that we’re putting all the elements in place, so that we can steadily grow a workforce that reflects the world around us.”
“It’s a journey and one that is of the highest priority for us,” she adds. “We’re continuing to work at it.”
Google enjoyed strong performance in the second half 2020 due in part to a rebound in ad revenue from search and YouTube with hundreds of millions of Americans stuck at home on digital devices. The company capped the year with staggering revenue in Q4, pulling in $56.9 billion, which marked a 23% increase over the same period last year.
But the company also faces three antitrust lawsuits, including one from the Department of Justice and another from 38 attorneys general.
Porat spoke to Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer in an episode of “Influencers with Andy Serwer,” a weekly interview series with leaders in business, politics, and entertainment.
She joined Google as CFO in 2015, after more than a decade in senior banking roles at Morgan Stanley. While helping Google navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, Porat has drawn on her background in managing crises.
To start her career, she took a role at Morgan Stanley weeks before the October 1987 market crash; and she later advised the Treasury Department on the takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the New York Federal Reserve Bank on AIG during the 2008 financial crisis.
Speaking with Yahoo Finance, Porat said the surge of investment in the U.S. will not detract from Google’s plans to expand operations abroad.
“We definitely are continuing to grow globally,” she says. “I would underscore that we’re just very proud of the ongoing growth that we have here in the U.S.”
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