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I have some interesting news about baseball. The MLB already planned on having a 60-game season. However, though, all the baseball players want to have more games. So, the MLB decided to change the season to 70 games which may start on July 19-September 30. Spring training is expected to begin on June 26-28, they expanded the playoffs to 16 teams in 2020 and 2021 seasons. Now if the 2020 season comes via mandate and not an agreement, the players union would retain its right to file a grievance, with that group likely alleging the league did not try to play as many games as possible. In terms of the agreement, if they start the season without an agreement, it would also eliminate the possibility of expanded playoffs, keeping the field at 10 teams not 16.
In other news, there is also news that the MLB season may be considering ties for 2020 season as part of a modified extra innings plan. Major League Baseball and the players union are considering the possibility of having games end in a tie for the first time in the sport’s history, and at the very least, will change the format of extra innings except for the playoff games if possible. Here is something that interests me. The runner on second base would be the last out of the last inning unless that player has been substituted. The pitcher will not be charged an earned run if the runner on second base scores which will start on the 10th inning. It would be deemed by the official scorer that he reached by a fielding error. This could become permanent, but the union agreed to change the rule for only 2020.
Stay tuned for more MLB updates.
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The death of Rayshard Brooks added more fuel to the fiery protests that have been taking place since the death of George Floyd. After he was shot by then Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, more protests broke out in Atlanta and the Wendy’s restaurant where he was shot was burned down. No one was more hurt by his death than his wife and mother of his three children, Tomika Miller. As she grieves the loss of her husband, Miller received a few unexpected gracious gifts that will lighten a few burdens of being a single mother.
Two Atlanta restaurant owners, Pinky Cole and Derrick Hayes, came together to gift Miller with a brand new car, three life insurance policies for her children and three scholarships to Clark Atlanta University for her children, TMZ reports. Brooks, 27, left behind his children eight-year-old Blessing, two-year-old Memory and one-year-old Dream. Cole, who owns Slutty Vegan, and Hayes, who owns Big Dave’s Cheesesteaks, have taken care of all the costs.
Brooks was shot and killed by Rolfe last week after police were called because Brooks was sleeping in his car in a Wendy’s drive-thru. In a few videos of his final moments, Brooks, Rolfe and the other officer present, Devin Brosnan, are seen talking calmly but after he failed a sobriety test and they began to arrest him things got hostile. In another video, Brooks is seen resisting arrest and taking one of their tasers as he escaped from their grip. As he ran away, Rolfe fired and shot him. Rolfe has since been fired from the police department and has been hit with 11 charges including felony murder and aggravated assault. Brosnan, who is on administrative duty, is charged with aggravated assault and violations of oath.
After reviewing 41 minutes of footage, Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard Jr. said shooting Brooks was not a justifiable act.
“Mr. Brooks never presented himself as a threat,” Howard said during a press conference last week according to the Washington Post.
In surveillance video, it appears that Rolfe kicked Brooks after he shot him, which Miller tearfully addressed last week at a news conference.
“I don’t know what I would have done if I saw that for myself,” she said. “But I felt everything for myself just by hearing what he went through. And it hurt. It hurt really bad.”
Here’s what we reviewed in comics this week that you might want to check out:
Batman & the Outsiders #13
Batman & the Outsiders #13 starts the beginning of a new arc after the action-packed finale of issue #12. The Outsiders faced Ra’s Al Ghul and his depleted reinforcements and kind of gave him an ass-whooping. But that wasn’t before he was able to use a mysterious new weapon that could have serious implications on the state of the world.
Dark Nights: Death Metal #1
Death Metal is both a follow up of everything Scott Snyder has touched over the past few years, while also being DC’s next big event. In addition to that, it’s yet another combination of DC’s favorite tandem of Snyder and Capullo. The story takes place in the aftermath of the Justice League’s fight with Perpetua back on Scott Snyder’s run on the Justice League series.
Strange Adventures #2
But before we get to that Terrific and unexpected news, we need to get into this series as a whole. For one, it is a reunion of Tom King and Mitch Gerads, the team that brought us a melancholy reimagining of Mister Miracle. That comic was what everyone was talking about for the entire year that new issues were released. It was an inevitability that these two would work together on a book again. And lo and behold, we’re getting a new melancholy reimagining, this time following the hero of Rann: Adam Strange.
Don’t fret about the short list. Go enjoy Juneteenth!
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