The Ohtani Roadsho
🦞🥞 Vol. 2, No. 6
Did Shohei Ohtani Just Have the Greatest Game of All Time?
6-for-6, three home runs, drove in 10 runs, stole two bases. All while becoming the first player ever to cross the 50/50 mark.
Yes, that was the greatest game of all time:
No player in baseball history had hit three homers and stolen multiple bases in a game, until Ohtani did it on Thursday. No player had collected more total bases (17) in a multi-steal game, smashing the previous mark of 11 from the likes of Kirk Gibson and Braggo Roth. No player since at least 1901 had collected at least five hits, hit multiple home runs and stolen multiple bases in the same game.
How Celsius became Red Bull for women
Celsius (and others, most notably Alani Nu) have tapped the female market for energy drinks, which was previously adrift in a sea of bros drinking Monsters and Rockstars and dudes drinking Red Bull.
A cult behind the drink has emerged among wellness-minded women. For them, Celsius serves as an essential accessory for cool girls with packed schedules. The it-girl hosts of the anti-woke podcast Red Scare even jokingly referred to it as a cocaine alternative on a recent episode.
A Decade After ‘Lean In,’ Progress for Women Isn’t Trickling Down
Box Office: Revenge of the Franchises
A lot has been made about “franchise fatigue” with the latest sequels to movies like Mission: Impossible and Indiana Jones underperforming in 2023, while Barbie and Oppenheimer led the way with moviegoing audiences.
Looking at 2024 box office to date, it’s safe to say worldwide ticket sales have regressed to the mean:
Inside Out 2 - $1.68 billion1
Deadpool & Wolverine - $1.31 billion
Despicable Me 4 - $941.16 million
Dune: Part Two - $711.84 million
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - $567.65 million
Kung Fu Panda 4 - $548.89 million
Bad Boys: Ride or Die - $403.86 million
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - $397.37 million
Twisters - $369.23 million
Alien: Romulus - $332.34 million2
Who were the bad guys in '90s Dad Thrillers?
Any post with a subhead and pie chart like this is an auto-read for me, and I’m guessing more than a few of you:
An empirical look at the identity, affiliation, and occupation of the bad guys in ‘90s Dad Thrillers
Before you dive into author Max Read’s important analysis, you might want to start with his comprehensive list of ‘90s Dad Thrillers.
Netflix in Talks to Air ‘Hot Ones’ Live Shows
Building on the success of shows like The Roast of Tom Brady, John Mulaney’s Everybody’s in LA–along with the upcoming WWE and NFL live streams–Netflix reportedly plans to add some spicy live programming to their roster.
Fantasy football dispute leads to Philadelphia man pleading guilty to making fake mass shooting threat
This is what you get for drafting Deshaun Watson.
4 MILLION: The number of divorces in China each year since 2016.
Marriage separation has proven a boost for an unexpected business sector: Industrial shredders. China’s growing middle class often spends thousands of dollars on the perfect premarital wedding shoot and framed portraits, some of them up to five feet tall. But when the marriage doesn’t pan out, they are hard to get rid of: Burning them is bad luck, and municipal waste rules ban dumping them. The owner of one shredding company told The Washington Post that photo destruction now accounts for 95% of his business, and four in every five are wedding pics.
Source: Semafor
Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads
And Ford’s predictable response to the original reporting by Motor Trend:
Submitting patent applications is a normal part of any strong business as the process protects new ideas and helps us build a robust portfolio of intellectual property. The ideas described within a patent application should not be viewed as an indication of our business or product plans. No matter what the patent application outlines, we will always put the customer first in the decision-making behind the development and marketing of new products and services.
Greed, Gluttony and the Crackup of Red Lobster
The New York Times goes deep on the demise of America’s biggest seafood chain.
To my fellow LobStars, we still have Cheddar Bay Biscuits. Or you can take it to the next level with Sunday Bunch’s favorite lobster pancake recipe.
The top-grossing animated film of all time, and the No. 8 biggest film of all time, sandwiched between Spider-Man: No Way Home ($1.926 billion) and Jurassic World ($1.672 billion)
The second-best showing of the Alien franchise behind 2012’s Prometheus (not adjusted for inflation).
So many great ideas and suggestions.