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- John Kruk Suggests He’d Been Drinking Before Comically Horrendous At Bat Again...
Philadelphia Phillies play-by-play man John Kruk suggested on Thursday that he had been drinking before his comically inept at bat against Randy Johnson in the 1993 MLB All-Star Game. During the game at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Kruk, a left-handed batter, faced the flame-throwing southpaw for the first time in his career. On the first pitch, Johnson whizzed the ball over the head of Kruk, who strolled away from the batter’s box, tapped on his heart, and breathed a heavy sigh. On the next pitch, Kruk took a fastball for strike one. On pitches three and four, he waved at two sliders on the outside part of the plate, doing so half-heartedly with one hand while spinning around in some sort of poor man’s pirouette. During Thursday’s NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast of the Phillies-Mets game, Kruk and play-by-play man Tom McCarthy spoke with Hall of Famers Mike Schmidt and George Brett, the latter of whom brought up Johnson and told Kruk, “I saw your at bat against him. I had to face him.” “I could’ve been a little tipsy that day,” Kruk replied. “You could’ve called in sick,” Schmidt replied. “I thought I was gonna call in dead,” Kruk deadpanned, suggesting he had been partying the night before the game. “I could have been a little tipsy that day” – John Kruk on his infamous All-Star Game at-bat against Randy Johnson [image or embed] — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing.bsky.social) June 18, 2026 at 7:36 PM Not surprisingly, Johnson, a lefty who stood 6’10 and regularly hit 100 miles per hour, was extremely difficult to hit against, especially for left-handed batters. Four years after the 1993 All-Star Game, Larry Walker, another left-handed batter, faced Johnson. During the plate appearance, Walker put his helmet on backward and switched around to bat right-handed. He ended up walking.The post John Kruk Suggests He’d Been Drinking Before Comically Horrendous At Bat Against Randy Johnson first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Mike Florio Says GOP Official Was ‘Only Off by 117.4 Million’ With White Hou...
AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson In a Thursday Pro Football Talk article, NBC Sports’ Mike Florio noted that RNC Chair Joe Gruters was “only off by 117.4 million” in his prediction that President Donald Trump’s UFC Freedom 250 event was more watched than the Super Bowl. Per Paramount stats released on Thursday, 8.2 million watched Sunday’s event, in commemoration of both the 250th anniversary of the United States and Trump’s own 80th birthday, on Paramount+, making it the company’s largest live exclusive event to date. Seven million viewers hailed from the U.S., and 1.2 million from Latin America, with the UFC releasing stats from outside the U.S. and Latin America next week. As Variety explained, the event reached 17 million total viewers, “which refers to the number of unique people who tuned in for at least a minute at any point in the broadcast.” Puck’s Matthew Belloni wrote on X of the figures, “A good number for a Par+ exclusive but a fraction of marquee sports and less than half of what MARSHALS or TRACKER rates on CBS/Par+.” Paramount says UFC Freedom 250 averaged 8.2M viewers. A good number for a Par+ exclusive but a fraction of marquee sports and less than half of what MARSHALS or TRACKER rates on CBS/Par+. — Matthew Belloni (@MattBelloni) June 18, 2026 However, during an appearance this week on Fox News, Gruters, also a Florida state senator, outlandishly claimed that more viewers tuned in than to this year’s Super Bowl. As Florio noted, Super Bowl LX had an audience of 125.6 million. Additionally, during an early June interview with TNT, UFC President Dana White shared a similar prediction, saying, “For UFC fans all over the world, this is a very unique experience for everybody; and, you know, we’re expecting Super Bowl-type numbers for this fight.” “Joe Gruters was only off by 117.4 million,” wrote Pro Football Talk editor-in-chief Florio in his piece. He continued, “But who cares about the truth? The truth is an annoyance. An impediment. A pesky little thing that gets in the way of preferred narratives. No matter how outlandish those narratives may be.”The post Mike Florio Says GOP Official Was ‘Only Off by 117.4 Million’ With White House UFC Viewership Claim first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘It’s Literally What Happened!’ Tarlov Erupts on Watters Over False Claim ...Fox News’s Jessica Tarlov went off on co-host Jesse Watters after the latter denied a demonstrable fact about the lenient deal a child molester received in Texas. Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas, has come under fire after his office agreed to a plea deal for former Waco attorney Adam Hoffman. In June 2025, Hoffman went on trial for first-degree felony continuous sexual abuse of a young child. A friend of Hoffman’s son testified that the ex-lawyer sexually assaulted him multiple times over three years, starting when the child was in the third grade. The trial ended with a 7-5 hung jury. Hoffman was facing a possible sentence of life without parole. After the mistrial, Hoffman reached a plea agreement with Paxton’s office and was sentenced to 60 days in jail. He ended up serving 29 days. During Thursday’s edition of The Five, Tarlov defended Paxton’s opponent, Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, and brought up the Hoffman plea deal. As she spoke, Watters interrupted and falsely claimed that the plea agreement story was “debunked.” Co-host Greg Gutfeld also insisted the story was fake: TARLOV: …James Talarico [was] standing outside Paxton’s office asking about how this admitted child molester Hoffman got a deal where he was only in jail for 29 years. Someone who literally said, “I molested a child.” And he didn’t have to register as a sex offender. WATTERS: That’s been debunked. TARLOV: It hasn’t been debunked, actually. WATTERS: We’ve been debunking it for weeks. TARLOV: No. GUTFELD: Yeah. TARLOV: It’s literally what happened! The guy admitted to doing it! Listen to the mother talking about it. WATTERS: We don’t have time to explain it to you. Paxton defeated Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican primary after receiving an endorsement from President Donald Trump. Watch above via Fox News.The post ‘It’s Literally What Happened!’ Tarlov Erupts on Watters Over False Claim About Child Molester first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- White House Staff Reportedly Monitored Trump’s Trash Because ‘He Was Sometim...
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin An excerpt from The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s upcoming book, published on Thursday by the Daily Mail, revealed that White House staff allegedly needed to monitor President Donald Trump’s trash after it was discovered that “he was sometimes throwing out” sterling silver utensils. The snippet came from Swan and Haberman’s new book on the first 14 months of Trump’s first term, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. According to them, staffers responsible for maintaining the president’s private quarters were dealing with a variety of unusual housekeeping challenges. “A nighttime snacker, the President would frequently leave an array of empty potato chip bags, Starbucks wrappers, and ice cream cartons in the trash, or on the floor,” they wrote. That habit reportedly prompted closer scrutiny of the trash after aides realized valuable White House items were disappearing along with the food waste. “The staff had to begin monitoring the trash after it was discovered he was sometimes throwing out White House sterling silver utensils,” Haberman and Swan added. Also in the Daily Mail exclusive, the pair describe his intense interest in redecorating his private living space — at times competing with First Lady Melania Trump — and recount concerns among staff over a carpeted bathroom that allegedly required frequent attention. “Once, when staff gently reminded the President that he was taking things from the Center Hall his wife had personally selected, he made clear he didn’t care,” they wrote. “He seemed almost to be competing with her – determined to have the better room.” The journalists added, “The President’s redecorating generated such a flurry of activity that staff often felt caught between the two Trumps, who were the only presidential couple to regularly use and maintain separate bedrooms since Richard and Pat Nixon.” Of his required carpeted bathroom, Haberman and Swan detailed, “The portion nearest the shower would often be soaked through; the staff was never quite sure why, but they worried about mold growing underneath.”The post White House Staff Reportedly Monitored Trump’s Trash Because ‘He Was Sometimes Throwing Out’ High-End Silverware first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Trump Reportedly Bragged About Being More Powerful Than Hitler by Citing ‘Hist...On Wednesday, CNN’s Jamie Gangel discussed new reporting from The New York Times’ Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman that detailed an instance in which President Donald Trump allegedly bragged about being more powerful than Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin — citing a “historian” who turned out to be former professional golfer Gary Player’s caddie. The snippet came from Swan and Haberman’s new book on the first 14 months of Trump’s first term, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. “In March, Maggie and Jonathan Swan go to the Oval Office for a formal sit-down interview with the president,” explained Gangel. “He’s very proud that some presidential historian has given him this document, which he says shows he’s more powerful than Hitler and Stalin and Attila the Hun — I’m not sure why you’d want that comparison.” She continued: And he’s proudly reading it and showing it to them, and they can’t figure out who the presidential historian is. And they start searching. Name doesn’t show up. But the president had said that this historian was a friend of former Hall of Fame golfer Gary Player. So, they search Gary Player, the historian. The “historian” is Gary Player’s former caddie and confidant. Also revealed in the upcoming book and discussed by CNN on Thursday are new details on Trump’s Oval Office makeover. Reading a quote from the novel, CNN’s Phil Mattingly recited, “One morning, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt walked into the Oval Office and found Trump ‘clutching a tube of superglue and attempting to affix gold decorations to the marble fireplace mantel.'” Gangel added another quote, reading, “As he was known to prefer his own aesthetic handiwork to anyone else’s, the sight of the president squeezing glue onto gilded appliqués and mounting them on the wall himself surprised no one in his inner circle.” Watch the full clip above via CNN.The post Trump Reportedly Bragged About Being More Powerful Than Hitler by Citing ‘Historian’ Who Turned Out Be Gary Player’s Caddie first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- Trump Claims He Got ‘Unconditional Surrender’ From IranPresident Donald Trump told Marc Caputo of Axios on Thursday that the U.S. had bombarded Iran into “unconditional surrender.” His remarks came a day after he signed a memo of understanding meant to end the current war. Pundits and politicians from across the political spectrum have panned the deal as being too lenient on Iran. Some of the loudest criticisms have come from the right. Fox News host Mark Levin called it “unthinkable,” while his Fox colleague Trey Gowdy said the deal will make Iran “richer.” Meanwhile, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Trump is getting “very poor advice.” The arrangement, which could ultimately end the war, contains 14 provisions, which require Iran to allow ships to travel freely through the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. to cease its naval blockade of the country, and Iran to have access to at least $300 billion in financing. In the interview, Caputo asked Trump what he had learned about presidential power: CAPUTO: What have you learned about, not just the exercise of power, but the limits on your power as a result of the conflict? TRUMP: There are no limits. CAPUTO: No limits? TRUMP: No, none. I haven’t learned that lesson yet. I know there are. But you know, there are no limits. We defeated them totally militarily. […] CAPUTO: At the beginning of the conflict, you had talked about, you only wanted unconditional surrender. And– TRUMP: Well– CAPUTO: The [memorandum of understanding] doesn’t look like unconditional surrender. TRUMP: Well, it really probably is unconditional surrender. CAPUTO: It is? TRUMP: I think so. Unconditional surrender is when one or more parties in a war surrender without receiving anything in exchange and fully submit to the other side. On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance, who helped negotiate the deal, offered a stinging rebuke to the agreement’s critics, particularly those in the Israeli government, which launched the war with the U.S. in February. “Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time, Vance said. “And he happens to be the head of state of the world superpower. If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.” Watch above via Axios and CNN.The post Trump Claims He Got ‘Unconditional Surrender’ From… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
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