75. 6/10/17

B8 YANKEES PUSH TANAKA'S NEXT START BACK BY A DAY

$155 million.

That's how much they paid Masahiro Tanaka to come to the Bronx and pitch for the Yankees.

$22 million per season for seven years. Opt-out clause after this season.

And so they're giving him an extra day of rest. The Yanks -- 3 games up as we speak -- don't sound like they're panicking just yet ...

"'Whenever you don't do something well for a while, it's human nature to question yourself,' said Girardi."

Take a look at the numbers:

2014 / 13-5; 2.77 ERA

2015 / 12-7; 3.51

2016 / 14-4; 3.07

And this season?

4-1 with a 4.20 going into May -- then came 4 disasters in the next 6 starts:

1. 6.1 inn. / 4 ER
2. 7 inn. / 3 ER
3. 1.2 inn. / 8 ER
4. 3 inn. / 6 ER
5. 7.1 inn. / 1 ER
6. 5.2 inn. / 7 ER

He's now 5-6 with a 6.55 (yikes!) ...

But if he doesn't come through on Monday against a Trout-less Angels team ...

A4 IRANIAN KURDS IMPLICATED IN DUAL ATTACKS IN TEHRAN

"While evidence that this weeks' sieges were carried out by Iranian Kurds is becoming irrefutable, the Iranian authorities are typically reluctant to admit to having homegrown terrorists or to reveal their ethnic backgrounds. Both would indicate a degree of instability and tensions that the leaders would rather not acknowledge."

Once again, an entire group of stateless people get slandered by the actions of a few sub-humans. This Wikipedia article on the Kurds is informative and thorough.

A10 BRITAIN'S YOUTH, OUTRAGED OVER BREXIT, HELPED TO TURN TIDE AGAINST MAY

"About 246,480 young people registered to vote on the last day in May that they were eligible, a significant increase from the 137,400 who did so on the cutoff date in 2015 ..."

IOW, if these "outraged youth" had registered and voted in the referendum, the U.K. might have avoided "Brexit" altogether.

B3 CNN SEVERS IT TIES WITH A HOST AFTER HIS VULGAR CRITICISM OF TRUMP

" ... [H]e described the president as 'an embarrassment to humankind' and compared him, using profanity, to a piece of excrement'."

And? ... why didn't CNN make him their prime-time anchor?

Seriously, I saw his show a few times and it was definitely freaky-deaky stuff ... but I'd rather hear the news. I'd even rather watch Anthony Bourdain eat.

A23 COMEY MOVES THE PENDULUM (by Roger Cohen)

"What was Trump's motive [re: Russia]? It's hard to see an innocent one. His actions look like a corrupt attempt to interfere with the due administration of justice -- that is, the independent F.B.I. investigation. Given Republican control of Congress, it's very unlikely there'll be any move to impeach until Mueller completes his inquiry. But if Mueller suggests the president could be indicted, impeachment proceedings will be hard to resist -- and then ... 'obstruction of justice' might be deemed a high crime or misdemeanor even if it would not violate federal criminal law'."

Last night on CNN, Alan Dershowitz kept forcefully pointing the fact that Trump might not have violated federal criminal law.

So here Cohen gives us the "nevertheless" ...

A16 DERIDED AS A "LEAKER," BUT IS THAT THE CASE?

"'He's a leaker,' Mr. Trump said ..."

My wife giggled.

Kasowitz: The Trump administration was being undermined by 'selective and illegal leaks of classified information and privileged information.' He added, 'Mr. Comey has now admitted that he is one of these leakers.'

But Mr. Comey specifically testified that he did not include classified information in the memos he shared."

A1 BRITAIN'S REBUKE OF ITS LEADERSHIP UPENDS E.U. EXIT

"Mrs. May called the snap election three years early -- and her decision backfired. So did the decision by her predecessor, David Cameron, who called the referendum on European Union membership in the first place.

'I thought surrealism was a Belgian invention' ..."

Surreal is the word.

"The British public have not at all been prepared for having to pay a large check to Brussels to settle our debts in this divorce ..."

Yet, the divorce lawyers were on TV every night for weeks before the referendum telling the people exactly that.

A11 WASHINGTON REMEMBERS BRZEZINSKI, AND A LOST ERA

"One after another, the mourners filed into the stately Cathedral of St. Matthew ... President Trump was not one of them. His name was not spoken from the dais.

It did not need to be."

Two things I remember about "Zbig."

I remember thinking how cool it was that Carter hired this Pole with such an amazing high-count Scrabble® score!

Then came great admiration, watching his commitment to human rights and his peacemaking role in the Camp David accords.

This man embodied everything a public servant should aspire to be and everything that our current president is not and could never be. RIP, Zbig.

C5 ALAN GILBERT LEAVES, HIS VIOLIN IN HAND

"Alan Gilbert is stepping down, at 50, as music director of he New York Philharmonic, leaving an elder statesman's post without actually being an elder statesman."

" ... Mr. Gilbert held his violin casually. He chatted with Cynthia Phelps ... he looked over his music. He tuned his instrument.

He seemed not like a man holding one of the major -- not to say mythical -- positions of its kind in the world, but like just another working musician, surrounded by colleagues, playing a gig."

Yep, he's a certified homo sapiens. And he is just another working musician. A really really good one (despite Zachary Woolfe's rather tepid review of his Mahler Seven). The decision to fire him has got be completely political. You New Yorker's are losing a real good one.

But it won't be for the first time.

A1 TRUMP ACCUSES COMEY OF LYING TO THE SENATE

Shall we take a closer look?

1. Trump says he'll "gladly provide sworn testimony disputing Mr. Comey's charge that the president forced him out because of his handling of the investigation into the Trump campaign's possible collusion with Russia";
2. Trump says Comey's comments "had proved that there was no collusion between his campaign and Moscow, nor any obstruction of justice by the president";
3. He hints again that he might have tapes;
4. "That was an excuse by the Democrats, who lost an election ... blah blah blah"
5. "'I didn't say that,' Mr. Trump said of the request regarding the former national security adviser [and soon to be completely thrown-under-the-bus, and future convict], Michael T. Flynn. 'And there'd be nothing wrong if I did say it'."
6. "I would be glad to tell him [Mueller] exactly what I just told you."
7. The tapes again: "I'll tell you about it over a very short period of time ... you're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer." (what can that mean? We would not be "disappointed" if there are tapes {unless Comey is a liar and Trump is telling the truth, |hmphx, hmphxzz|} -- so it must mean that there are no tapes;
8. Meanwhile, Congress subpoenas the tapes, if they exist!

You couldn't possibly make this shit up.

A8 HOW BRITAIN VOTED

Because I love maps! These details really explain the vote and implies future trends.

Right now, things are rather a mess, wouldn't you say, old boy?

B1 PANDORA GETS NEW PARTNER IN SIRIUX XM

You couldn't blame Sirius XM for being leery of making this investment:

"Pandora has made a number of strategic missteps, including buying the ticket seller Ticketfly for $335 million ... selling the division for $200 million."

That's nearly a third of the $480 Sirius investment. Not to mention the $22.5 million Pandora had to pay KKR -- their previous investment firm -- as a termination penalty for what amounted to one month of work.

The good news is that despite all this, Sirius seems serious. [sorry]. I imagine the new Sirius XM Beatles station isn't exactly depressing their bottom line. My wife and I listen to it all the time -- in the car and at home!

TIME MACHINE
June 10, 1968
49 years ago

Page 37 ONLY NEGRO FAMILY IN DEARBORN WILL MOVE BACK TO DETROIT BECAUSE OF "HARASSMENT"

"The only Negro family in this Detroit suburb of 112,007 -- the Rev. Arthur Knight, his wife and their four children -- is going to move out after two and a half years."

Note that the 1960 census figure quoted is the high in "historical population" figures!

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1860	355		—
1870	530		49.3%
1880	410		−22.6%
1900	844		—
1910	911		7.9%
1920	2,470		171.1%
1930	50,358		1,938.8%
1940	63,589		26.3%
1950	94,994		49.4%
1960	112,007		17.9%
1970	104,199		−7.0%
1980	90,660		−13.0%
1990	89,286		−1.5%
2000	97,775		9.5%
2010	98,153		0.4%
Est. 2015	95,171	[14]	−3.0%
U.S. Decennial Census[15] 2013 Estimate[3]

Today, 30% of Dearborn's population is Arab-American.

Page 1 HUMPHREY SWEEP APPEARS ASSURED BY KENNEDY VOTES

"Vice President Humphrey stands to inherit such a large share of the national convention delegates left unattached by the death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy that his nomination for the Presidency seems assured."

But here's the nugget:

"The removal of Senator Kennedy from Presidential competition had virtually no impact in the South. Although a number of favorite-son candidates are in the running, the great majority of the delegates were expected to support Mr. Humphrey before the assassination and still are."

Wanna bet? Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia (46 electoral votes) all went for George Wallace in November.