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| Mets pitcher Tylor Megill firing one in against Houston's Yordan Alvarez in the first inning on Saturday afternoon. Photo by Jason Schott. |
In recent times, even in their 101-win season two years ago, the Mets have been known to have a June swoon, but in this unpredictable 2024 campaign, it was June their fans have swooned over.
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| The scene at Yankee Stadium early in Friday night's match. Photo by Jason Schott. |
New York City Football Club broke a three-game losing streak with one of their best offensive outputs of the season, as they beat Orlando City SC, 4-2, on Friday night at Yankee Stadium.
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| Robert F. Kennedy in Brooklyn on May 1. Photo by Jason Schott. |
On Thursday night, Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took part in The Real Debate, where he responded in real time to Presidents Biden and Trump in their CNN debate, and "gave Americans the debate they deserved."
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The Full-Body Fat Fix: The Science-Based 7-Day Plan to Cool Inflammation, Heal Your Gut, and Build a Healthier, Leaner You!
By Stephen Perrine
St. Martin's Press; hardcover, 272 pages; $30.00
Stephen Perrine is the co-creator of Better Man, a national health and wellness TV show, the New York Times bestselling author of The Whole Body Reset, and the co-creator, editor, and publisher of the Eat This, Not That! book series. He is the former editorial creative director of Men's Health, as well as the former publisher of Rodale Books, and he currently manages all health and wellness content for AARP Publications.
Your Caption Has Been Selected: More Than Anyone Could Possibly Want to Know About The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest
By Lawrence Wood; Foreword by Bob Mankoff
St. Martin's Press; hardcover, 288 pages; $33.00
Lawrence Wood is certainly qualified to write this definitive history on The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, as he has been a finalist a record-setting fifteen times, and won eight contests.
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| From Kennedy24.com. |
Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was shut out of the CNN debate later this week with Presidents Biden and Trump, he will be holding his own event the same night.
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| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Brooklyn on May 1. Photo by Jason Schott. |
Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign announced on Tuesday that it has submitted the signatures to gain ballot access in Illinois.
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| Yankee Stadium's vintage facade. Photo by Jason Schott. |
The Yankees today announced on Sunday that they have acquired infielder J.D. Davis and cash considerations from the Oakland Athletics in exchange for infielder Jordan Groshans.
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| Marcus Stroman pitching to Atlanta's Matt Olson in the first inning. Photo by Jason Schott. |
The Yankees had as flawless a start to the season as one could imagine, as they raced out to a 49-21 record.
The Friday Afternoon Club
By Griffin Dunne
Penguin Press; hardcover, 400 pages; $30.00
Griffin Dunne has had a storied acting career dating to the 1970s, known for producing and starring in the classic film After Hours, and recently, he played the role of Nicky on the acclaimed show This Is Us. He also directed Practical Magic and the documentary The Center Will Not Hold, about his aunt, the legendary writer Joan Didion.
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| From Kennedy24.com. |
Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign announced on Friday that it submitted over 9,000 signatures — nearly twice the required amount — to gain ballot access in Pennsylvania.
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| Aaron Judge leads the way dancing outside Yankee Stadium. Provided by New York Yankees. |
On Friday, the conclusion of HOPE Week, the Yankees made a dance video and honored Dance to Unite, a non-profit organization founded by Galit Adani, which utilized dance and guided conversations about values to teach and celebrate respect, cultural diversity, and kindness.
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| HOPE Week honorees Zachery Dereniowski and Jacob Cohan. Provided by New York Yankees. |
On Thursday, the fourth day of Yankees HOPE Week, the team welcomed Jacob Cohan and Zachery Dereniowski (MDMotivator) to Yankee Stadium for a pregame tour, a Hands on History experience in the Yankees Museum, and were honored in a pregame ceremony before their game against Baltimore.
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| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Brooklyn on May 1. Photo by Jason Schott. |
CNN announced on Thursday, not surprisingly, that their June 27 debate will be a head-to-head matchup between Presidents Biden and Trump, keeping Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. off the stage.
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| The Galaxy celebrate Dejan Joveljic's (9) first half goal. @LAGalaxy. |
New York City Football Club's hot streak has ground to a halt, as they dropped their second straight game, this one on the road to the LA Galaxy, 2-0, on Wednesday night.
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| Gerrit Cole firing one in to Baltimore’s Ryan O’Hearn in the fourth inning Wednesday night. Photo by Jason Schott. |
The Yankees entered Wednesday night’s game against the Baltimore Orioles at The Stadium with the best record in Major League Baseball at 51-24.
What makes it all the more remarkable is they did it without their ace, Gerrit Cole.
The 2023 American League Cy Young Award winner suffered nerve inflammation in his elbow in spring training, and missed nearly the first three months of the season.
After three rehab starts, Cole will be making his season debut on Wednesday night against the Orioles, who enter with a record of 47-25.
Yankees Manager Aaron Boone, in his pregame press conference on Wednesday, was asked how much adrenaline Cole would have taking the mound, and he said, “Yeah, I mean, a good bit. You know, one of the things he does very well is, you know, control that. I feel that’s something he’s done better and better over the last, you know, two since we’ve had him. I feel like that’s been an area that he’s really improved at, just managing himself, managing game situations, managing success with a bump on the road on the mound. That’s where I feel like he’s grown so much, you know, obviously being one of the great pitchers of this generation, but I feel like his maturity on the mound should put him in good position to handle what should be an exciting, emotional day getting back on the mound.”
Boone said of the feeling that he would have Cole back in the rotation, “I think it’s been building the last few days, you know, when he showed up in Boston, kind of got through that, you know, the day after pitching his last time (in the minors), and kind of that realization that he’s joining our rotation even though not fully built up yet. You know, there’s been a lot of building excitement towards that, but at the same time, I don’t want to over, like, I just want him to, you know, build properly, get off to a good start, and not, you know, overhype one start. You know, it’s a step along the way for him and for us, and I look forward to him getting back out there.”
Cole was still a part of the team in the time he was out, as he would always be seen in the dugout counseling his fellow members of the starting rotation, which performed superbly in his absence.
Boone said of the boost Cole will give the rotation, “I mean, he’s reining Cy Young (award winner), enormous part of our team, and enormous part of our culture, you know, so to have him kind of work his way back to this point, to be ready to go out and compete at this level is exciting, certainly, for all of us, but also don’t want to get, you know, too emotionally invested in all of that as well. It’s like, you know, it’s a process still here of getting him where we need to get him, but feel like he’s in a really good spot and throwing the ball really well.”
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| Gerrit Cole warming up. Photo by Jason Schott. |
LIVE COMMENTARY OF COLE’S OUTING:
TOP 1st:
1. Gunnar Henderson led off with a double down the right field line. The liner went off second baseman Gleyber Torres’ glove.
2. Adley Rutschman popped out to shortstop Anthony Volpe, who made a running grab - ONE OUT
3. Ryan Mountcastle grounded to second - TWO OUTS
4. Ryan O’Hearn doubled the other way to left field to bring in Henderson and make it 1-0 Baltimore.
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| Ryan O’Hearn connecting on his double. Photo by Jason Schott. |
5. Anthony Santander flew out to center field - THREE OUTS - 1 run on 2 hits in the frame
Bottom 1st - Yankees tied it as they loaded the bases and Gleyber Torres hit a sacrifice fly.
TOP 2nd - YANKEES 1, BALTIMORE 1:
1. #6 in lineup - Colton Cowser popped out to shortstop - ONE OUT
2. #7 in lineup - Cedric Mullins flew out to center field - TWO OUTS
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| Cole firing one in to Cedric Mullins. Photo by Jason Schott. |
3. #8 in lineup - Ramon Unrias grounder to shortstop, Anthony Volpe made a nifty backhand on the one-hop liner - THREE OUTS
TOP 3rd - YANKEES 1, BALTIMORE 1:
1. #9 in lineup - Jorge Mateo struck out swinging - ONE OUT
2. #1 in lineup - Gunnar Henderson walked, then stole second base
3. #2 in lineup - Adley Rutschman struck out looking - TWO OUTS
4. # 3 in lineup - Ryan Mountcastle struck out swinging - THREE OUTS
TOP 4th - YANKEES 1, BALTIMORE 1:
1. #4 in lineup - Ryan O’Hearn lined out to center field - ONE OUT
2. #5 in lineup - Anthony Santander struck out swinging - TWO OUTS
3. #6 in lineup - Colton Cowser struck out swinging - THREE OUTS
TOP 5th - YANKEEES 1, BALTIMORE 1:
3. #7 in lineup - Cedric Mullins singled.
That was all for Cole’s night, and as he exited he tipped his glove to the crowd.
Baltimore eventually went up 5-1 in the top of the seventh, but Giancarlo Stanton crushed a three-run homer off Yennier Cano in the bottom half of the frame to bring the Yankees within a run.
Stanton delivered again in the ninth when he laced a single down the left field line off Baltimore closer Craig Kimbrel to bring in Anthony Volpe and tie the game at 5. This took Cole off the hook and gave him a no-decision, of which he had plenty last season.
Baltimore plated two runs in the top of the 10th off Yankees closer Clay Holmes, as Cedric Mullins got an RBI single, then came in to score when he stole third base and came into score on a throwing error by Yankee catcher Jose Trevino to make it 7-5.
The Yankees got a run back in the bottom of the 10th against Dillon Tate when Ben Rice - in just his second game at first base for the injured Anthony Rizzo - got an RBI on a sacrifice fly to pull the Yankees within a run.
The rally was short-circuited when Oswaldo Cabrera was thrown out at second base on a stolen base attempt by Baltimore catcher Adley Rutschman, and they held on for the 7-6 win.
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| The Yankees and children from Experience Camps took part in a sharing circle. Provided by New York Yankees. |
On Wednesday, the Yankees HOPE Week event honored Experience Camps, a national no-cost program that transforms the lives of grieving children who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling, or primary caregiver through summer camp programs and year-round initiatives.
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| Jon Becker and Mike Sole throwing out the ceremonial first pitches on Tuesday night. Provided by New York Yankees. |
On the second day of the Yankees annual HOPE Week, the team honored Jon Becker and Mike Sole, two former Yankees minor league athletic trainers who formed a strong bond while both served as intake testers for the team at Yankee Stadium during the pandemic.
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| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Courtesy of the campaign. |
Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Monday that the We the People party will nominate him in Mississippi, and Tuesday afternoon came the news that his campaign sumbitted the required signatures to make the ballot in Nebraska.
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| Carnesecca Arena, the home of St. John's basketball. Photo by Jason Schott. |
St. John's announced on Monday that it has mutually agreed to part ways with Director of Athletics Mike Cragg, who has been with the school for six years, and he will be serving until June 30.
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| Provided by New York Yankees. |
The Yankees inaugurated the latest edition of HOPE Week on Monday by honoring Rehan Staton, who rose up from being a trash collector to graduating from Harvard Law School, and he currently works for a New York City law firm.
Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
By Susan Seidelman
St. Martin's Press; hardcover; $30.00; available this Tuesday, June 18th
Susan Seidelman graduated from NYU Grad Film School, and she began her career in the 1980s when "Smithereens" became the first American Independent film to be accepted into the Cannes Film Festival. Her next movie, the inspiration for the title of this memoir, was "Desperately Seeking Susan," which starred Madonna and Rosanna Arquette, and was a critical and commercial success. She is also known for directing the first four episodes of "Sex and the City," which stand out for how different they were than the rest of the landmark series.
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| Kennedy24.com. |
On Saturday, Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. premiered a new documentary, “Recovering America,” that offers solutions to America’s drug addiction crisis, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Kiva Auditorium.
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| The scene at 6:40 at Yankee Stadium, as the tarp protected the baseball infield. Photo by Jason Schott. |
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| Two hours later, the game was on. Photo by Jason Schott. |
New York City Football Club suffered through a one-hour thunder delay before playing their game with the Columbus Crew on Friday night at Yankee Stadium, and then they succumbed to a 3-2 defeat.
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| Courtesy Kennedy 24. |
Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign announced on Friday that it has submitted the signatures to gain ballot access in the state of Washington.
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| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Brooklyn on May 1st. Photo by Jason Schott. |
The campaign of Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that it has submitted the signatures to gain ballot access in Tennessee and Alaska.
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| David Peterson finishing his windup on this strike to Bryan De La Cruz in the third inning. Photo by Jason Schott. |
The Mets had one of their most complete games of the season on Wednesday night at Citi Field, as they romped past the Miami Marlins, 10-4. They got solid pitching from David Peterson and Dedniel Nunez, and a trio of home runs from Harrison Bader, Starling Marte, and Francisco Lindor.
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| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Queens on February 17th. Photo by Jason Schott. |
Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has scored a victory, as the Federal Election Commission (FEC) issued a recent statement regarding CNN’s presidential debate that makes clear CNN will violate federal law, absent the inclusion of him in their debate planned for June 27.
Horror Movie
By Paul Tremblay
William Morrow; hardcover, $30.00; available today, Tuesday, June 11th
Paul Tremblay is one of the leading writers in the literary horror fiction genre, as he has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book Awards, and he is the author of The Beast You Are, Growing Things and Other Stories, The Cabin at the End of the World, The Pallbearers Club, and Survivor Song. He has also written the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland.
Tremblay's new book is set in June 1993, centering on a group of young guerrilla filmmakers who spent four weeks making a notorious, as well as disturbing art-house horror flick called Horror Movie.
The strange part is that only three of the film's scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has built a rabid fan base. Now, Hollywood is pushing a reboot, with a huge budget, three decades later.
The only surviving cast member of Horror Movie is the man who played "The Thin Kid." He vividly remembers all the secrets buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events that happened during filming, and the dangerous lines that were crossed on set, and the tragedy that resulted.
The thing about disturbing memories is that, when they resurface, the boundaries between reality and film, what's past or present, begin to blur. Nevertheless, he is determined to remake the film, even if it requires him navigating a morass of cynical producers, egomaniacal directors, and surreal fan conventions.
Horror Movie is one of the most compelling psychological thrillers you will read, and the way the book is produced, complete with red-stained pages, only adds to what is an immersive experience.
Tremblay writes in the voice of "The Thin Kid," and in this excerpt, he talks about getting the production off the ground: "Our little movie that couldn't had a crew size that has become fluid in the retelling, magically growing in the years since Valentina uploaded the screenplay and three photo stills to various online message boards and three brief scenes to YouTube in 2008. Now that I live in Los Angeles (temporarily; please, I'm not a real monster) I can't tell you how many people tell me they know someone or are friends of a friend who was on-set. Our set.
Like now. I'm having coffee with one of the producers of the Horror Movie remake. Or is it a reboot? I'm not sure the correct term for what it is they will be doing. Is it a remake of the original film, shot more than thirty years ago, was never screened? 'Reboot' is probably the proper term but not with how it's applied around Hollywood.
Producer Guy's name is George. Maybe. I'm pretending to forget his name in retribution for our first meeting six months ago, which was over Zoom. While I was holed up in my small, stuffy apartment, he was outdoors, traipsing around a green space. He apologized for the sunglasses and his bouncing, sun-dappled phone image in that I-can-do-whatever-I-want way and explained he just had to get outside, get his steps in, because he'd been stuck in his office all morning and he would be there all afternoon. Translation: I deign to speak to you, however you're not important enough to interrupt a planned walk. A total power play. I was tempted to hang up on him or pretend my computer screen froze, but I didn't. Yeah, I'm talking tougher than I am. I couldn't afford (in all applications of that word) to throw away any chance, as slim as it might be, to get the movie made. Within the winding course of our one-way discussion in which I was nothing but flotsam in the current of his river, he said he'd been looking for horror projects, as 'horror is hot,' but because everything happening in the real world was so grim, he and the studios wanted horror that was 'uplifiting and upbeat.' His own raging waters were too loud for him to hear my derisive snort-laugh or see my eye-roll. I didn't think anything would ever come from that chat.
In the past five years I've had countless calls with studio executives and sycophantic producers who claimed to be serious about rebooting Horror Movie and wanting me on board in a variety of non-decision-making, low-pay capacities, which equated to their hoping I wouldn't shit on them or their overtures publicly, as I and my character inexplicably have a small but vociferous, or voracious, fan base. After being subjected to their performative enthusiasm, elevator pitches (Same movie but a horror-comedy! Same movie but with twentysomethings living in L.A. or San Francisco or Atlanta! Same movie but with an alien! Same movie but with time travel! Same movie but with hope!), and promises to work together, I'd never hear from them again.
But I did hear back from this producer guy. I asked my friend Sarah, an impossibly smart (unlike me) East Coast transplant (like me) screenwriter, what she knew about him and his company. She said he had shit taste, but he got movies made. Two for two...
Listen, I'm a nice person. I am. I'm honest, polite, giving when I can be, commiserative, and I'll give you the white T-shirt off my back if you need it. I can even tolerate being buried in bullshit; it comes with my fucked-up gig. But people lying about being on Horror Movie's set gets to me. I'm sorry, but if you weren't there, you didn't earn the right to say you were. It's less narcissism on my part (though I can’t guarantee there’s not a piece of that in there; does a narcissist know if they are one?), and more my protecting the honor of everyone else’s experience. Since I can’t change anything that happened, it’s all I can do.
Our movie did not feature a crew of hundreds, never mind tens, as in multiple tens. There weren’t many of us then, and, yeah, there are a lot fewer of us still around now.”
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| Teoscar Hernandez getting greeted at home plate after he hit his grand slam in the eighth inning. Photo by Jason Schott. |
The Los Angeles Dodgers, after winning the opener of their three-game series with the Yankees, 2-1, in 11 innings, pulled away late for an 11-3 win on Saturday night at Yankee Stadium.
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| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Brooklyn on May 1. Photo by Jason Schott. |
Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign announced major news in its quest to make the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia this November.
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| Aaron Judge coming in to score on Gleyber Torres' third-inning double. Photo by Jason Schott. |
The Yankees completed their sweep of the Minnesota Twins with an 8-5 win on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium. This gives the Yankees an eight-game winning streak as they run their Major League-best record to 45-19, their second-best start since 1999.
I Have Your Back: How an American Soldier Became an International Hero
By Tom Sileo
St. Martin's; hardcover, 256 pages; $28.00; available today, Tuesday, June 4th
Tom Sileo has authored or co-authored six military non-fiction books about heroes of the wars the United States fought in Afghanistan and Iraq after the September 11, 2001, attacks, which includes Three Wise Men, his 2021 collaboration with combat veteran and Gold Star brother Beau Wise. Sileo is also a contributing senior editor of The Stream and a recipient of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's General Oliver P. Smith Award for distinguished reporting.
