Major League Baseball Brushes Off Doubts, Schedules Giants-Dodgers & Yankees-Nationals For Delayed ‘Opening Day’

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerIn a much-loved Saturday Night Live skit, Garrett Morris’s take on veteran infielder Chico Escuela once noted that “Baseball been berry, berry good to me.”Fox Sports is saying much the same today, as the return of Major League Baseball has proved to be a ratings bonanza.

Will Thorne Staff WriterMajor League Baseball returned to our screens on Thursday night, and boy did fans miss it.ESPN’s coverage of the game between the New York Yankees and the defending World Series Champion Washington Nationals struck a huge home run, drawing the network’s largest ever audience for an opening night game.According to Nielsen fast nationals, an average audience of 4 million viewers tuned in for the rain shortened affair, which saw the Yankees emerge victorious by a score of

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe heavens opened up on Major League Baseball’s opening day in more ways than one last night.With Biblical rain coming down on National Park on Thursday, the long awaited and coronavirus delayed face-off between the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals was cut short.

Rudy Giuliani on Friday morning criticized MLB players who took a knee in protest of racial inequality during the National Anthem on Opening Day Thursday night. The former New York mayor specifically blasted the Yankees.

Major League Baseball started its 2020 regular season Thursday night with a pair of games. First, the New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals squared off, and then the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers took center stage.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is a scientist, not a professional baseball player.

Every player from the New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals took a knee on Thursday night (July 23) ahead of Major League Baseball‘s season opener game in Washington, D.C.

Bruce Haring, Tom Tapp The New York Yankees and Washington Nationals staged a brief tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement in the pregame ceremony on baseball’s opening day. Both teams held a long black ribbon while a BLM video made by the Players Alliance was screened, then stood for the national anthem.The Players Alliance is a group of current and former black players formed in the wake of the George Floyd death.

Dr. Anthony Fauci throws the ceremonial first pitch prior to the opening game of the 2020 MLB Season on Thursday (July 23) at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerIt’s almost time to play ball for Major League Baseball, as the American and National leagues are poised to embark on what promises to be the strangest season in the game’s long and storied history.The regular season finally gets underway on Thursday with the New York Yankees against the defending world champion Washington Nationals, and the Los Angeles Dodgers versus the San Francisco Giants.

Tenet has now been removed from Warner Bros’ calendar.The anticipated sci-fi, which stars John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, was slated to hit cinemas worldwide on August 12 having already been moved back twice amid the coronavirus pandemic.However, the studio has now confirmed it has been delayed indefinitely although it plans to share a new release date “imminently”.“We will share a new 2020 release date imminently for Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s wholly original and mind-blowing

We won’t be getting to see Tenet for a long time.

Alex Rodriguez would have a tough time playing this season of professional baseball.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAlex Rodriguez is one of the bidders of the right to purchase the New York Mets.

NEW YORK -- The late Sargent Shriver, the Peace Corps' founding director and an architect of President Lyndon Johnson's “War on Poverty,” left behind at least one unfinished project. RosettaBooks announced Tuesday that it had acquired Shriver's memoir “We Called It a War,” which he worked on in the late 1960s and was only recently rediscovered.

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Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorCalifornia, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia broke records for daily new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, according to the New York Times. That — among other things — had the mayor of America’s second-largest city worried about a new COVID-related crisis.“We’re going to see across this nation a testing emergency,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in response to a question from Deadline.

The Toronto, New York, Telluride and Venice film festivals, knocked sideways in their planning by the coronavirus pandemic, have unveiled a joint statement that commits the long-time rivals to cooperate and not compete for film titles and awards-season bragging rights in the fall. "This year, we’ve moved away from competing with our colleagues at autumn festivals and commit instead to collaboration.