Saturday 22 April 2017

BREAKING: Toronto Blue Jays Place Entire Roster On Disabled List

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ leaves his last start with an elbow injury.
Los Angeles

When it rains it pours for the lowly Toronto Blue Jays. Mere hours after consigning shortstop Troy Tulowitzki to the 10-day disabled list with a hamstring injury, the team announced that they are going ahead and placing their entire major league roster on the shelf.

The Blue Jays, with 4 wins and 12 losses going into Saturday night's action against the Los Angeles Angels, had previously placed all-star third baseman Josh Donaldson (calf) on the disabled list, along with pitchers Aaron Sanchez (finger) and J.A. Happ (elbow).

"With the way our players have been going down, and considering our atrocious start to the season, we talked it over and decided it's in our best interest to place the whole club on the DL," said general manager Ross Atkins. "Jose Bautista has a bunyan on his left foot, Ryan Goins had a significant sneezing episode last night, and Justin Smoak has a bit of a sore throat." Asked what the issue is with catcher Russell Martin, Atkins replied, "Oh, him, he's just awful."

Jays president Mark Shapiro has announced that the team will continue to play games with fill-ins from their minor-league affiliate, the Buffalo Bisons. Pitcher Casey Lawrence starts his first major league game against the Angels tonight.

From Our Toronto Bureau


Friday 21 April 2017

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Truly Awful Katherine Heigl Film

Unforgettable was  produced by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Los Angeles

The Islamic State has successfully carried out its second terror attack in as many days, releasing the truly awful movie Unforgettable, starring Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson.

A day after French assailant Karim Cheurfi shot and killed a police officer on Paris' Champs-Elysees, the terror group unleashed the 1 hour and 40 minute assault on movie-goers in America, the UK, Ireland, and Cambodia, with further plans to do so worldwide.

The movie, sporting a tagline of "When Love Ends, Madness Begins" was directed by Denise Di Novi, and produced by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It features Heigl as Tessa Connover, a deranged woman who is jealous of her ex-husband's new relationship with Julia, played by Dawson.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone writes that "Unforgettable is definitely the wrong title for a movie you want to erase from your memory the second it ends." He goes on to call the $12,000,000 film "sexist, exploitative trash." Gary Thompson of the Philadelphia Daily News says "One day (very) soon, folks will be watching it on cable, downing pints of pinot, and groaning at (its) lurid, eye-popping tactlessness."

Unforgettable currently has a 24% rating on RottenTomatoes.com.