I finally was able to break free of my losing streak with a win yesterday.

I won’t say it didn’t have its sweaty moments, because the game ended 4-3 in extra innings. However, that still gave us a win on the under. Any time a game goes into extra innings, you have to get a little nervous, especially with the runner on second rule. We dodged a bullet there, and hopefully we can dodge another one here.

Carlos Rodón of the New York Yankees reacts following the sixth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 19, 2025. (Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)

The New York Yankees look like they are the best team in the American League, and they don’t even have their best player. The team is getting some surprise contributions from guys like Paul Goldschmidt, who I thought was done with his days of being a contributor.

The team is hitting .241 for the season, and they have one of the better pitching staffs in the game as well. They are a legitimate World Series contender. The question is if the pieces can all fit together for the whole season. We’ve seen multiple teams fall apart after a good half of a year. The Yankees can look at their National League counterpart from last year to know that a good half doesn’t assure you of anything.

Today, they turn to Carlos Rodon, who has been one of the better pitchers in the Yankees’ rotation. For the season, Rodon is 4-2 with a 3.70 ERA and a 1.28 WHIP. None of those numbers are eye-popping, but for a third starter on the team, they are very welcome. He hasn’t been quite as sharp on the road as he has been at home, throwing to a 4.26 road ERA. The good news for the Yankees is that they seem to have found him to be consistent – he will give you five or six innings and three or fewer runs. Boston Red Sox hitters don’t have a great history against him, batting just .227 in 75 at-bats.

Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Sonny Gray throws a pitch during the fifth inning against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 30, 2026. (David Dermer/Imagn Images)

If the Red Sox are somehow able to make it into the postseason, this is one of those series they will look at as the launch pad for their success. They have already won the four-game set from the Yankees, and now they are looking to get the sweep. Boston hasn’t been very good this year, and are still 11 games under .500. They only had 12 wins at Fenway coming into this series, so getting three against a good team has to feel like a step in the right direction for them.

Even on the broadcast yesterday, they were talking about trading away guys. There is still no indication of whether they are going to do that or if they will take a different course of action. As of right now, Sonny Gray, today’s starter, has to be fairly high on people’s wish lists if they are going to listen to offers. Gray has been very good this year going 9-1 with a 2.95 ERA and a 1.19 WHIP. His performance at Fenway is a major reason Boston was getting any wins there. He has a 2.61 home ERA and a perfect 4-0 record. We have bet on him multiple times at home this season, and he really hasn’t disappointed.

Boston Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras looks on after striking out against the Minnesota Twins in the first inning at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minn., on April 14, 2026. (Jesse Johnson/Imagn Images)

Gray faced the Yankees at the beginning of the month and went 6.1 innings, allowing three earned runs and two homers. This month has been a bit strange for Gray with homers because he has allowed five homers in four starts. The rest of the year, he has allowed just four homers in 10 starts. I’m not sure what is causing it or if it is just regression to the mean.

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Either way, today is a day to once again back the under. With these two pitchers on the mound, we should see the teams swinging and missing quite a bit. It would be really strange for me to see them getting a bunch of hits strung together. I think we should get a final of something like 3-1 or 4-2. Give me the under for this one.

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., warned of a “constitutional crisis” Saturday as his fellow party members turned a blind eye to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vow to defy a Supreme Court ruling reinforcing President Donald Trump’s power to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian migrants.

Appearing on “Saturday in America,” Fetterman cited prior Democratic warnings of a “constitutional crisis” under Trump, detailing his attempts to assuage fears by pointing out that the Trump administration had yet to defy court rulings.

“I haven’t seen the freak-out now that the mayor of New York is now saying I’m going to defy the Supreme Court ruling,” he told host Kayleigh McEnany.

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., speaks to reporters in the Senate subway area in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, June 2, 2026; New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives prior speaking about the fiscal year 2027 budget in New York City on May 12, 2026. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)

“Many of the members in my party are not calling him [Mamdani] out… [or they are] defend[ing] him, or just say[ing] we really actually have to follow the court rulings because… that’s a constitutional crisis, when you have the leader of the country’s largest city [saying] we’re not going to follow or honor what the Supreme Court says.”

Fetterman’s commentary came on the heels of the High Court handing the president two immigration-related legal victories last week. Both were tied to his administration’s efforts to reduce asylum claims.

In the first, Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the court held that migrants who are turned away at the border before entering the United States are not entitled to apply for asylum.

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The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

In the second, Mullin v. Doe, the court ruled that Haitian and Syrian nationals in the United States with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) could not receive judicial relief postponing the revocation of their status while they challenge the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke it in court.

Combined, the rulings afford the Trump administration a new avenue to limit asylum claims at the border and more leeway to move forward with ending temporary protections for certain migrants already in the country.

Mamdani, in a video statement regarding the latter case, stated the ruling was not something his administration “will ever accept.”

Fetterman has repeatedly warned against far-left politicians like Mamdani who have appeared to gain steam within his party.

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Others, including Maine Senate candidate Graham Planter, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, Washington, D.C. mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George and a trio of progressive candidates in New York City have sparked broader conversations about the Democratic Party’s leftward shift.

Fox News’ Robert Schmad contributed to this report.

Democrats across the country are up in arms over the Supreme Court’s decision last week, in Mullin v Doe, which allows the Trump administration to follow through on its plans to send back hundreds of thousands of temporary refugees from Haiti and Syria.

The debate over temporary protected status for refugees hinges on that first first word, “temporary,” and it is reasonable for Americans, who bear the brunt of caring for these refugees, to ask what it actually means.

For his part, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who appears to be the communist leader of the national Democratic Party these days, had this to say: “The Supreme Court just sparked one of the largest attacks on immigrants in modern American history. In one fell swoop, thousands of Haitians and Syrians now risk losing the right to live and work in the country they call home.”

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Setting aside the question of whether any of us could just suddenly call Gracie Mansion home and move in with Zo and Rama, what exactly does “home” mean here?

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a Ramadan Iftar hosted by his team at the New York Taxi Workers Association, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, in New York. (Angelina Katsanis / AP)

What is vital to understand in thinking about these questions is the core difference between a refugee and an immigrant, and the very different impacts that these two groups have on the native populations they come to live with.

For immigrants, the desire, and even need, to assimilate into American culture is paramount. After all, their children and grandchildren will be living here. But for refugees, there is always the possibility they will return home, hence the word “temporary.”

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The upshot of this temporary status, as I have seen on the ground in Springfield, Ohio, and in Minneapolis, are populations of thousands of Haitians and Somalis, respectively, who are basically given license to live as they did at home, all with taxpayer benefits.

Of course, business owners who employ the Haitians in Springfield, along with the Chamber of Commerce and the libertarian Cato Institute, think this is wonderful. They get a taxpayer-subsidized workforce, which they claim is superior to employing native-born workers.

Haitian migrant families head into a T station in Quincy, Massachusetts, on July 26, 2024, as they begin the hour-long journey back to Logan Airport to look for a place to sleep after being dropped off by the Quincy Family Welcome Center. The families, including a group of six who immigrated from Haiti, had spent several hours searching for shelter. (Kayla Bartkowski/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

But according to the people of Springfield I spoke with in 2024, what they actually get is an influx of 20,000 foreigners into their town of 50,000. Native-born students told me the public school became pointless for them, as they tried to accommodate the mostly French-speaking Haitians.

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Meanwhile, the parents of young adults in Springfield decried the lack of housing stock now, as Haitian refugees rent the houses where they would otherwise visit their grandkids.

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, who has been a champion for these invaded communities, explained on X how the problem is even worse than we thought.

“By the way, many of the Haitians who were given TPS under Joe Biden did not come from Haiti,” Gill wrote. “They were living in nations like Brazil and Chile and came here to take advantage of Biden’s open border. They were sent, not to Martha’s Vineyard or Sherman Oaks, but to blue-collar, midwestern towns like Springfield, Ohio. And the people there were called racist for objecting to the culture of the town they built being fundamentally changed overnight.”

This really is the problem in a nutshell. Temporary status that lasts for years, or even decades, is bad for the refugees, because it discourages assimilation. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Harrisonburg, Virginia, has been an official refugee relocation site for decades and it works because they take in about 200 a year, not tens of thousands. They also offer language and job training. It is a system and it works.

Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

In Springfield, we see not a system, but a deluge, and not for nothing, the native folks had almost no say over this drastic change to the place they call home.

Sadly, under President Joe Biden and the Democrats, temporary protective status simply became a backdoor for amnesty, but with far more government goodies. These are not, for the most part, people fearing death or punishment in their homeland. They are simply seeking a better life in ours.

It is absolutely regrettable that the Biden administration, allowed over 10 million illegal immigrants and thousands of refugees into the country, because in so doing, it made common-sense immigration reform impossible until that mess is cleaned up.

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The Supreme Court was right to rule that the Trump administration can remove these temporary migrants, and Trump should act forcefully.

In Springfield in 2024, there was great anger from citizens who believe their local politicians and officials sold them out to keep the flow of cheap Haitian labor coming. They knew they had one recourse: voting for Donald Trump, which they and millions of frustrated Americans did. Now, Trump can fulfill his promise to them.

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If you’re on the fence about whether to bring the bear spray to a wedding or not, you might as well bring it. Even if the location is unlikely to have any bears in the area, you never know when you might need to use it on an out-of-control family member.

I think that’s the lesson to be learned from an incident at a wedding venue last weekend. A Missouri man, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, was involved in multiple altercations with family members and guests at a “wedding-related event.”

WSAZ 3 reported that deputies were called last Saturday to Sunset Bluffs wedding venue in Washington, Missouri, after witnesses reported that Benjamin J. Reeders, 28, had assaulted several people, including a photographer who suffered minor injuries.

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He also allegedly pushed his mother to the ground and was on the receiving end of a family member’s bear spray prior to deputies arriving on the scene. The use of the bear spray didn’t stop him and, according to police, he was combative and resisted arrest.

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Reeders was arrested and charged with fourth-degree assault, third-degree assault and resisting arrest. His cash bond was set at $20,000.

The wedding venue released a statement about the incident, which they said took place “while a small group of the wedding party was getting ready.”

A Missouri man had bear spray used on him by a family member prior to a wedding. (Getty)

“An invited guest arrived early in emotional distress and became involved in a physical altercation with his family and a photographer. We are relieved that everyone involved is OK,” Sunset Bluffs said.

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They thanked law enforcement, pointed out that safety for all involved in the wedding is their top priority and were happy to report that the wedding went on as planned.

That warms the heart, doesn’t it? A little family bear spray and the police on the scene are no reason to cancel a wedding.

A Missouri man was arrested after an incident prior to a wedding where he was sprayed with bear spray. (Getty)