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Happy 50th Anniversary NY Mets
Fifty For the Flushing Flash
A rain delay forced the NY Mets to start their first season in the big league a day late on April 11, 1962. 1st Basemen Gil Hodges set himself in the team’s history by hitting their first home run. The team would lose opening day to St. Louis with a score of 11-4. The team would eventually get their first win 9 games later with a great pitching by Jay Hook. Led by Frank Thomas’ hitting, the Metsies finished the season with a 40-120 record.
Check out the history of the Mets by logging onto Mets.com
Ping Golf to Sell Bubba’s Pink Driver
The Power of Pink
– Via ESPN –
Two days after Watson won the Masters on the second extra hole, Ping said it would sell 5,000 limited-edition G20 drivers with the pink shaft and head. The drivers sell for $430, and Ping said it would donate 5 percent to a fundraising campaign called “Bubba Long in Pink. Driven by Ping.”
As part of the campaign, the Phoenix-based company donated $10,000, along with $300 for every drive Watson has hit this year. To date, the campaign has generated $61,600 for charity.
Watson, meanwhile, launched “Bubba & Friends Drive to a Million” in January with hopes of raising $1 million for charities this year.
“Even prior to his win at the Masters, golfers were requesting pink G20s,” said John Solheim, chairman and CEO of Ping. “Through word of mouth, social media and phone calls, the interest was extremely high. We want to satisfy that demand while bringing even more visibility to Bubba’s goal of raising $1 million.”
Watson won his first green jacket by defeating Louis Oosthuizen. The 33-year-old from Bagdad, Fla., in the Panhandle, won for the fourth time in his career and moved to No. 4 in the world, making him the highest-ranked American in golf. He became the fifth left-hander to win the Masters in the last 10 years.
“I’ve never had a dream go this far, so I can’t really say it’s a dream come true,” Watson said Sunday.
Two & a Half Men In Danger??
No 10th Season In Sight
– Via Huffington Post TV –
Is “Two and a Half Men” in danger of being canceled? The show hit a series low in the Nielsen ratings on Mon., April 9 and has yet to receive an official go-ahead for Season 10.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Two and a Half Men” got a 3.5 rating in the coveted 18-49 demographic, a low for the popular series. Its competition included “Dancing With the Stars” (2.9 rating), “House” (2.0 rating) and “The Voice” (3.9 rating).
However, many shows on other networks barely crack a 2.0 rating, making “Two a Half Men” still a powerhouse player for CBS. The last new episode of “Men” from March 2012 had a 3.8 rating and 11.5 million viewers.
“Two and a Half Men” kicked off its current season (Season 9) with a bang: A whopping 28.7 million viewers tuned in when Ashton Kutcher joined the cast in September 2011. Series stars Kutcher and Jon Cryer have been in ongoing negotiations with CBS and Warner Bros. for what many are assuming would be the 10th and final season.
During a panel honoring the series in early March 2012, Kutcher said he was unsure if his time with the show would continue. “I haven’t heard from the powers that be yet,” he said. “Right now, I want to work with these guys.”
The fate of “Two and a Half Men” is still up in the air, but networks have already started renewing and canceling shows. Click through the slideshow below to learn the fate of your other favorite shows.
Bride Fakes Cancer for Lavish Wedding
Who Fakes Cancer?
– via Fox News –
GOSHEN, N.Y. – Authorities say a former New York woman pretended to have terminal cancer so she could have a lavish wedding reception and honeymoon.
The Times Herald-Record reports an Orange County Grand jury has indicted 25-year-old Jessica Vega, a former Montgomery resident, with grand larceny and scheme to defraud.
According to the indictment, Vega accepted thousands of dollars in donated services and goods after claiming in 2010 that she was dying of leukemia. The newspaper ran a story on Vega’s wedding wish to be married to the father of her young daughter before she died.
The community reportedly came together, contributed thousands and donated services to provide her with the dream wedding. She married Michael O’Connell in May 2010 and the couple spent their honeymoon in Aruba.
Four months later, O’Connell told the newspaper that Vega was faking the illness.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman told the paper that Vega “took advantage of the community’s hearts and minds.”
“Our office will hold this individual accountable for fleecing the public through lies and deception,” he reportedly said.
The couple divorced over the incident, and O’Connell moved to Virginia. Vega later joined him. They have two children.
“She’s a good mom, and that’s all that counts at the end of the day,” O’Connell said, according to the report. “I want my kids to have their mother back.”
Help Catch 1 Of The FBI’s 10 Most Wanted
Child Pornographer on the Run
The FBI added an alleged child pornographer to its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives.
Eric Justin Toth was 26 and a third-grade teacher in a Washington, D.C. private school in 2008 when authorities accused him of possession of kiddie porn.
Another teacher at Beauvoir, an elite school, discovered graphic photos and videos of students on a school camera issued to Toth. The school put Toth on administrative leave and contacted police. But he immediately went on the run, an FBI spokesperson told The Huffington Post. He’s also wanted in Maryland where he’s accused of child porn production.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to Toth’s capture. He traveled across the country after warrants were issued for his arrest nearly four years ago.
First, Toth drove to Indianapolis where he visited his parents, according to the FBI. They were unaware that he was suspected of any crime.
The FBI traced his movements to the Twin Cities where in August 2008 his car was found parked at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Agents allegedly found additional pornographic images of children in the car. Evidence also suggests that he visited Wisconsin and Illinois.
A tipster claimed he saw Toth living in a Phoenix homeless shelter in 2009, but the fugitive took off again before law enforcement could catch him. That was the last reported sighting of Toth.
Toth is 6’3”, weighs about 155 pounds and has brown hair and green eyes. He’s worked as a camp counselor and tutor.
Toth is “well educated, charismatic and likable,” an FBI spokesperson told Huff Post. He’s a computer expert and may have advertised his services as a nanny or tutor. It’s possible he used his deceptive personality to trick parents and get close to children again, the spokesperson said.
Toth, who’s used the alias “David Bussone,” takes a spot on the notorious most wanted list that became empty after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan last May. The capture of alleged mobster James “Whitey” Bulger last June created another opening on the list that bureau officials said they would fill soon