May 28, 2024

Way overdue, but good news. It sounds like MLB used $$ to push him into 'retirement'...

... Various articles note something like this:

Hernández and the league have reportedly been negotiating terms of his retirement over the past two weeks. (From Yahoo Sports)

I assume that umpires normally retire under the terms of existing contractual pension arrangements and don't require any negotiations.

He sued the league for discrimination awhile back claiming he was not chosen to work the World Series due to his Cuban ethnicity. The case was thrown out, and subsequent appeals failed as well. He last worked the WS in 2005.

February 12, 2024

When the KC Chiefs visited the White House last spring, after winning Superbowl LVII...

Travis Kelce described the visit to his older brother Jason on one of their podcasts. Jason plays center for the Philadelphia Eagles, the team that the Chiefs played/defeated in that game. (Dr Jill was rooting for them, I believe.) There's a bit of silliness early on, but he was clearly delighted to be there. (He had yet to meet Ms Swift at this point.)

Two players, Kelce and quarterback Pat Mahomes, along with coach Andy Reid and the team president Mark Donovan, met with President Biden in the Oval Office. The ceremony with the entire team took place in the usual area facing the South Lawn. (Joe has already invited them to visit again this year.)

February 9, 2024

It might be in their dna by now!

There's an excellent documentary on them and that performance that's about an hour long:

The one shame is that there isn't a better quality video of the performance in circulation, unsurprising given when it took place, but still a shame.

January 2, 2024

Wikipedia has a good article on this case...

It goes back to 2018, when several individuals sued Trump/Trump Org and the Trump-spawn, for recommending a product without disclosing that the product company was paying him several million dollars to do so. (ACN, the company, isn't being sued.)

Since it was filed, Trump has made numerous attempts in various jurisdictions to have the case referred for arbitration, rather than trial. Each court ruled against him. They finally took depositions from the lot of them in 2022; the plaintiffs dropped the spawn from the suit in 2023 to focus on Trump alone.

The trial is scheduled for January 29, 2024 in the SDNY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_et_al._v._Trump_Corp._et_al