On The Beat- Thursday, June 25, 2026 - From Broadway to Biscayne Boulevard, from the Bird Streets to Euclid Avenue to Lark Street- Any Topic is Fair Game Until it is a Bore…
By Mr. Curmudgeon
Wall Street sees a major sell-off in the Twinkie market… The Knicks traded No. 25 pick Sergio De Larrea to the Mavericks for No. 30 Koa Peat and two second-round picks and then traded Peat to the Suns for three second-rounders and cash, which they traded to the Sabres for signed jerseys and vintage skates… Is there anything more insufferable than Youtube’s cringe ads in the middle of a timeless composition, like Mozart or Bach? The nerve of those nerds… NFL players are pushing for real grass fields. NFL owners will never spend the money to have grass fields because they are all cheap, crinkly, pot-bellied fungi spores… No free parking at MET Life Stadium to watch the World Cup. Ticket holders have to pay $98 for a NJ transit ticket to get there because you can’t walk there either… Body cam footage was released of hot dog eating champion, Joey Chestnut, talking to police after slapping a man at a bar. “I thought it was the owner of MET Life Stadium” he wasn’t reported to have said… Mars will soon debut M&Ms without artificial colors, translated to, zero sales in the south… We say Scottie Scheffler isn’t having a good year but he has made the cut in 13 of the 13 events he’s played, and has been in the top 25 in all of them including a win at the American Express. The alien engineer who created him is now a billionaire… According to Axios, the US population is down 1.8 million. Wahoo!!… Yankees first baseman, Paul Goldschmidt, says his pregame meal is a plain dry hamburger from Chili’s. The Yankees play 162 regular season games. That’s a whole lot of fatties. In 1,000 years, nutritionists studying his bones and DNA will be baffled. “He was a star baseball olayer at 38? But how?”… People are coming out of the woodwork claiming a piece of the $12.8 million jackpot. Uh. I’m pretty sure I won too, but lost my ticket… Brendan Sorsby’s request to enter the NFL draft was denied due to the thousands of bets he placed on sports while in college. There’s a Kalshi bet we all got right… Hundreds of drones will light up the harbor at Charleston, SC, for 4th of July festivities. Fireworks are so 5 years ago... Cornerback for the Detroit Lions, Terrion Arnold arrested for robbery and kidnapping in Tampa. His lawyer’s argument seems bulletproof- “My client is a moron”… Avelo airline has made new flights available starting at $47, but you have to ride down with the luggage… Intoxicated UFC star, Dustin Poirier, challenges airport police to a brawl and, as the rumor goes, was wearing a Spurs jersey… Fashion designer calls out “A-listers” who expect free clothes. Free clothes or burritos, it’s your choice… Alyssa Thomas gets 1 game suspension for trying to remove Caitlin Calrk’s head from her body. Sorsby lost that bet… Japan’s FIFA team has so many blondes I was having trouble telling them Apart from the Swedish team… We present it. You decide…