Season ticket fans don’t get too excited about the MLB coming back just yet.
You probably still won’t be at the games.
This comes after the San Fransisco Giants commit to not allowing fans inside the stadium this year. Instead they plan to use cardboard cut outs.
The Giants have told season ticket holders that they won’t have fans at games this year. They will have a Fan Cutout Program, allowing them to submit an image to be placed in the stands during home games.
A story in the Trib got our attention with the partial headline “Employers brace for a ‘PTO bomb.” Personal time off, or vacation time, has gone largely unused this year. The numbers cited in the article say the percentages come out to 25% to 30% fewer days used than usual.
That in itself isn’t surprising. Who wants to burn vacation time when there’s nowhere to go? And then there’s that nagging fear of getting infected while in public. Beyond that, a vacation day might feel like a waste to those employees who are lucky enough to be working from home and already physically detached from their places of business. Then there’s the self-preservation perspective: As we’ve all watched people around us lose jobs because of the pandemic, there’s that added concern of not appearing to be “all in” during a time of crisis. Perception is reality in a lot of workplaces.
This all means that requests will likely stack up over the next few months. Experts tell the Tribune that a wave of “time off” requests is almost surely coming, since most companies have a “use it or lose it” stance on PTO.
A new trailer for Jordan Peele’s take on horror classic “Candyman” is out, and it looks suitably distressing. Maybe stay away from mirrors for the time being.
With new information coming out ever day regarding the continues spread of the coronavirus people are always looking for good ways to sanitize things coming into their house.
Microwaving books however is not one of them.
Reminder that KDL will quarantine returned materials for 72 hours. The pictures below show what will happen, when you…
Ford announced that they were set to unveil their new line of Broncos on July 9th, but they didn’t realize that was the same day as OJ Simpson’s birthday. So they decided to avoid the jokes and push back the unveiling until the 13th.
UPDATE: The reveal of the all-new Ford Bronco lineup will now happen on Monday, July 13. The previous targeted date of July 9 unintentionally coincided with O.J. Simpson’s birthday. We wanted to be sensitive and respectful of this concern.
The Dixie Chicks did not debut a brand new song last Thursday, rather, The Chicks did.
The country band decided to make a change to their name as a statement of their support for the Black Lives Matter movement going on across the country.
The group explained the name change in a statement on their website.
The announcement came with a timely released protest song titled ‘March’
This is a huge statement if anything, their band was a household name!
Here’s how this endless loop works: Every 3:40, the music video restarts — with all new fan videos put into the mix. If you want to be a part of it, all you have to do is submit yours. Be creative and cross your fingers — you might end up being internet famous. — [eric]
When you are stuck in quarantine spending a lot of time around each other, you are bound to get on each other’s nerves or in this case, annoy the heck out of your partner by randomly singing Alanis Morrisette’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’ to them for a month. Yes, a month. That is what happened in this hilarious video from actress and singer Lisa Riefel who pestered her husband with lyrics, sometimes randomly in conversation or while he was doing chores. This video above was from a few weeks ago, but back in 2018 was when the we ought of known this was going to keep happening with grand results.
In 2018, Lisa drove Johnny nuts with the song for over a month.
My poor, poor husband. I “Morissetted” him for over a month. But let me ask you this, how the hell could I ever stop? pic.twitter.com/R6UVdjmHuL
Lisa and her husband Johnny are in the dance alt band KIllola who have been touring since 2003. If you like groups like Blondie and Garbage, this is right up your alley. Also give her other project, H. Kink a listen. They have some ridiculous music videos that have a real Tim & Eric vibe.
The Riefel family’s penchant for humor in music has already hit genuine viral fame earlier this year when young Jolee Dunn struck a chord with a seen-by-millions video in which she asks what is inside our butts. Inside Edition covered the story here.
It’s not looking good for the place “where a kid can be a kid” as the parent company of Chuck. E. Cheese is filling for bankruptcy due to economic hardship from the COVID-19 pandemic. CEC Entertainment, which owns the pizza/arcade chain, says it will close 34 locations that were open when the pandemic started as it files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They hope to shed some debt and come through serving good times for kids who don’t need smart phones to be entertained. USA Today reported that Chuck lost a lot of cheese recently, specifically 90% of its revenue, even as it tried to adjust to carry-out delivery food orders.
Yes, the pizza at Chuck E. Cheese has never been the biggest selling-point of the experience but there was a lot of mixed info online about the company using a completely different name on food delivery apps like GrubHub to get people to order food. Internet Today covered the ridiculous story of ‘Pasquali’s‘.
With Season Two of “The Boys” officially set to launch on September 4, the cast got together in a streaming chat earlier today moderated by Patton Oswalt.
Cartoon Network has evolved a weird alternative brand of humor since the late 90’s with it’s Adult Swim block which now has a ferocious fan mob behind it with ‘Rick & Morty’ but back in the early 2000’s, the awkward whatever-happens ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’ with a floating box of fries, a wad of meat, and a foul-mouthed milkshake with a middle-aged junk-food fanatic neighbor. The show ran from 2001 to 2015, and even got a movie in 2007.
Cinemassacre does a joyously entertaining retrospective in this video on the show’s wild take on 2000’s pop culture and how it became one of the most unique dark comedic shows in TV history.
Muppets Statler and Waldorf gave James Corden a hard time over a Zoom monologue last night. It was a little cringey, but we tend to cut Muppet-related content some slack.
Cubs fan may be able to see this year’s Opening Day at Wrigley Field in person, except it will be across the street on rooftops. NBC Sports Chicago is reporting today that in a radio interview with Crane Keney, the team’s president clarified how the team hopes to work with local government officials and health experts to have a safe 2020 season. The rooftops will be implementing limited capacity and encourage social distancing.
“Even now with the mayor’s phasing of the city’s reopening, we would be allowed to open the rooftops,” Kenney said.
“We’re fortunate to have some of the best medical professionals in our city helping us — both from Advocate and Northwestern — and I’ll give credit to the city and the city’s health department as well. And there was always a path to bring fans back into Wrigley, obviously a much smaller group that would normally attend games.”
There is some conflict on attending sports with new Illinois state with new COVID-19 regulations kicking in today with Governor JB Pritzker’s new plan allowing 20 percent capacity for live sports, but the city of Chicago will not yet allow stadiums to open.
“And we’re working with the city, having great conversations with the mayor’s staff on this topic. We know our fans, if safe and if it can be done with the right precautions, would love to come back to the ballpark, and so we do see that happening this year.” said Kenney in the interview.
Kenney also noted that masks would have to be worn at the hypothetical games with limited capacity inside Wrigley.
