DramatistDreamer

Take heart. As bad as Sony is, Procter and Gamble is bound to be worse.

With Italy taking the Euro, nobody will care about Berrertini's loss today.

How would that work out chronologically though? Tonio would have had to have been a young teenager, like how Iva was only thirteen when she became pregnant with Lily. I mentioned Gabriel and Tonio because it would've provided an easy out to what I thought was a dumb storyline: making him Craig's. It also could have been a way to bring Bryant back with the discovery that Bryant was actually kidnapped and the "accident" staged, out of revenge for finding out that Gabriel's mother, before she passed away, convinced Sierra to protect Gabriel from ever finding out who his biological father was and Sierra, in turn, convincing Craig to go along with the ruse. Tonio finds out, summons his connections in the underground and criminal networks (with a helping hand from James Stenbeck, who still owed Tonio a favor) to take a son, to replace the son who was taken from him.

They probably wouldn't want to risk tangling with the likes of Sony. It's really up to Sony/Y&R/Bell family to make those episodes available online, the way they did other episodes during the pandemic. Showing it in a contained space is different from streaming, possibly to the world, which would likely violate Sony copyright policy. It's similar to how the WGA makes Oscar winning and nominated screenplays available in their library onsite, but not on their website. That would likely violate their own protection standards and their duty to their members. Of course, I learned in Grad school, there are other ways to procure scripts from award winning and nominated scripts. Sony is one of the strictest in enforcing their anti-piracy protections, so my guess is that the Paley Center would not want to risk running afoul of that policy.

Hey, in my fan and writer's brain, Tonio is still alive and living somewhere in the rainforest of Montega. Also, he is the real biological father of Gabriel Caras.😏

Never did I think for one second that Berrettini would win that match. Seems like Mateo put everything into eking out that first set. I'm just surprised that the match was four sets, it felt like five. Congratulations to Nolé. Other than the first set, he made Mateo dance to his tune. Also, I don't know of a player who doesn't volley who can win Wimbledon. Pliskova and Berrettini do not appear to know how to volley.

Even though it's the New York Times, this Op-ed is still worth the read. And I have the feeling that this only scratches the surface.

Does NBC own the rights to that theme music? Or did it revert to the composer? Today, I thought I saw a tweet asking that ESPN try to get the theme song. Probably unlikely that they would be able to, but when I heard that theme song, it made the tournament feel like an event, a special one. Now, it just feels workaday.

Same.

He obviously doesn't need to do more, at the moment.

This SF doesn't seem worth my time, tbh. I tried.

ESPN gets more time to further marginalize tennis through mediocre coverage and subpar commentary. Yay?🙃 ABC hasn't been good at covering tennis since the days the Miami Open was called The Lipton. They better hope they can lure Robin Roberts, or someone who knows an iota about tennis over there.

I never watch her show but it doesn't surprise me. There's always a market for shows in poor taste.

That is who Wendy Williams has always been. I'm surprised at the number of people who express shock at seeing things like this. She has made a career exploiting people on air.

Lisa was the best at weaponzing people's names, lol. Jimbo, Johnny, 'Lucky Lucy'. I think she might have even called Susan Stewart, "Suzie". Don't know why I quoted myself there. Oops.

I saw the clip. ESPN doesn't care much about tennis anymore and that clip illustrates this. Once their contracts for Wimbledon and The US Open are up, it wouldn't surprise me if they opt not to extend coverage. I can't stand what they've done to tennis with all the stupid add-ons of their bogus ESPN+ service. I hate Tennis Channel too, which does something similar with Tennis Channel Plus. I wish there were a dedicated, comprehensive streaming service for tennis that you can subscribe to, like Netflix. And then offer subscribers the option to have commentary or no commentary, and keep a few commentators and ditch the rest--maybe hire a few broadcast sports journalists that specialize in tennis and actually studied communications and sports journalism. Tennis as a sport is going to be in trouble when these world known players all retire. The sport is barely accessible, even as a longtime fan, I feel like it's become too much effort to find regular Tour matches.

I clicked on, just in time to see Kerber play an awful tiebreak, lol. I almost felt sorry for Angie (I said almost 😂) until I remembered that, had it been Venus or Serena, Angie would've been playing 'balls to the walls', relentlessly ruthless tennis. Oh well.

I just would never conflate NYC politics with what happens in national politics, NYC is an entirely different beast and that's why so many prognosticators got the primary wrong this time around. Actually, the prognosticators seem to get NYC politics more wrong than right. Adams is not typical of his party, he is often described as an iconoclast, more singular-- pundits are unsure if anyone else could have replicated what he and his campaign did because almost no one has the type of bio that he has, certainly no one in NYC political life. Also, voters clearly favored centrists this time at the mayoral level but that hasn't been the case in races for other city-wide offices. The winners in most of those races have been progressives, a few are staunchly progressive. I would say that the progressive wing in NYC is far more active than the Trump supporters in NYC. Remember, this is NYC, not New York state.

😂 The nicknames that characters gave to other characters on this show never ceased to make me chuckle.

Or as Dr. John Dixon used to call her "Julie When-Dell!"

Honestly, I don't think so. Adams is a centrist and a former cop who was never in favor of defunding the police. He spoke out against it, which did not endear him to progressives. It was rumored that he was DeBlasio's preferred candidate, but to my knowledge, DeBlasio never openly endorsed Adams. Adams has baggage and Curtis Sliwa has massive baggage, including a history of faking rescue incidents with the Guardian Angels. Also, he just became a Republican last year, after years of systematically imploding the political party he once belonged to. I guess the fact that he called Trump a crackpot could be seen as a positive but I don't see most NYers outside of SI and certain parts of Queens being willing to trust their city to a Republican. not after four tragic years of Trump.

Welp, I was trying to put a positive spin on things but I am indifferent, tbh. I think I posted that clip of Hurkacz not being asked any questions in the press conference room some time ago. It happened before Wimbledon, at another tournament, don't remember which. You can probably find it somewhere on Twitter, if you search. I'm a believer that people and players should retire when they decide. Tennis is an individual sport, so it should be the decision if that individual. Viewers can always change the channel, spectators another match, if they'd rather not see.

There have been some amazing clips of Suzanne Douglas circulating social media all day and it's been a reminder that, what a talent she was!

It'll be funny if Hurkazc wins the men's title. Actually, it might be the best case scenario. I stopped caring about this tournament last weekend but, maybe that clip of Hurkacz being utterly ignored by the press in the press conference room has been fueling his run. His journey to the final is the least yawn inspiring run of the players left in the draw, imo.

^^ Hard not to be suspicious of this.