Get the No-Doz ready! Donald Trump is sleeping in court

 This is the price Donald Trump is paying for waking up in the middle of the night, or staying up all night, take your pick, and whining on Truthless Social.

Four times now, since the current trial began in New York, Trump, who will be 78 in June, was caught napping in the courtroom, and has had to be awakened by attorney Todd Blanche. Most men in Trump's age group usually go to bed at a decent hour, somewhere between 7 & 10 pm, but we've read reports of Trump posting on his site anywhere between midnight and 4 am.

Farron Cousins fills us in.

This is becoming a serious health problem for Trump, even if he doesn't recognize or realize it. And. remember, he constantly has accused current president Joe Biden of being in cognitive decline, and nicknamed him, "Sleepy Joe".

Karma will have the last laugh on Trump before this is over.

What Might've Been: Grand (1990)

 Marcy Carsey & Tom Werner's television empire was rolling as we moved into the 90's. With 2 hit series on NBC, the couple were asked to develop a 3rd sitcom for the network.

Grand began as a mid-season replacement in January 1990, lasting the customary 13 weeks, then getting renewed for a 2nd season, which was also 13 weeks, save for 1 episode that never aired here in the US.

Perhaps the biggest name in the ensemble was Michael McKean (ex-Laverne & Shirley), who had moved on to dual careers in movies and music, the latter as part of Spinal Tap. However, due to other commitments, McKean left the show after the 1st season. Co-star Bonnie Hunt would move on to better things, including her own self-titled sitcom.

Check this sample episode:

Rating: B-.

Sports this 'n' that

 The Zach Wilson era is over for the NY Jets.

Sources are reporting this afternoon that Wilson, after 3 seasons, is heading to Denver for a 6th round pick in this weekend's draft.

For Wilson, it's a chance at a fresh start after coach Sean Payton ran another Wilson---Russell---out of town after last season. Russell Wilson is now in Pittsburgh. Jests GM Joe Douglas fumbled the ball. He had a chance to rid the team of the right wing drama that is Aaron Rodgers and his conspiracy theories, and opted instead to send the underachieving Zach Wilson, a BYU grad, packing.

Look, I get that controversy creates cash, which the Jests are hoping translates into ticket sales if Rodgers can play the season. He's already tarnished his legacy, so, why not?

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When fans go to the ballpark, some will carry gloves in the hopes of catching some foul balls or home runs.

A Colorado Rockies fan, however, mistimed his attempt at precisely the wrong time on Sunday, in the first game of a doubleheader against Seattle. You'll see what I mean in the highlight reel.

Luckily, Colorado won the game, but I feel sorry for the fan, who likely lost his privileges for the rest of the season.

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Less than 24 hours later, another fan caused some havoc at Yankee Stadium in the 1st inning of today's matinee between the Yankees & Oakland.

While umpires have a reputation of having "rabbit ears" when manning the plate, Hunter Wendelstedt, a 2nd generation arbiter who should know better, should've adjusted his antenna, if you will, placing the blame for a fan's verbal abuse against him on Yankee manager Aaron Boone, and Boone suffered the quickest ejection of his career.

Umpires do have the authority to eject fans. Bob Davidson famously did that during his career. Wendelstedt, at least, owes Boone an apology before tomorrow's game.

What Might've Been: The Associates (1979)

 Following the success of Taxi, its producers sold another series to ABC in 1979, another ensemble sitcom, but without the same results.

The Associates was another workplace comedy, this time in a law firm. Oh, the prospect was there for a crossover with Taxi, but, insofar as I know, it didn't happen. What did happen, however, since the series came from the pen of John Jay Osborn, Jr., author of The Paper Chase. John Houseman reprised as Professor Charles Kingsfield for a 1-shot.

As for the cast, most of them went on to other things after the series ended.

Wilfred Hyde-White joined the cast of Buck Rogers in The 25th Century in season 2.

Martin Short (ex-SCTV) moved on to I'm a Big Girl Now the very next year before embarking on a modest movie career and appearing on Saturday Night Live. He currently stars in Only Murders in The Building with Steve Martin and Selena Gomez.

Tim Thomerson (ex-Quark) would later return to television in Sirens & Land's End after he, too, made some movies.

Joe Regalbuto took the guest star route, including a villainous role on Mork & Mindy in season 4 before landing the role of his career on Murphy Brown.

BB King performed the title song for the show. Right now, here's a sample episode.

No rating.

If you slept on the Mets, it's on you

 Entering today's game at Dodger Stadium vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Mets sit 2 1/2 games behind Atlanta in the National League East. Both the Braves & Mets have won 6 straight entering play today. 2nd place Philadelphia almost has to win to keep pace, and hold on to their position, with the Mets 1/2 game behind the Phillies.

The Mets have gone 12-3 since a 0-5 start. That includes taking 2 of 3 from Atlanta, and the Phillies haven't played the Mets yet this season. However, consider what has happened of late to Mets opponents.

The Kansas City Royals, 2 games behind Cleveland in the AL Central entering play today, won 2 of 3 from division rival Chicago after leaving Citi Field last week. However, barring a late rally, they could lose 2 of 3 to Baltimore. You can argue the Mets cooled them off, taking 2 of 3 last weekend.

The Pittsburgh Pirates came to New York Monday in 1st place in the NL Central. Today, they're in 4th place, and in danger of getting swept again, this time at home against Boston. Yep, the Mets cooled off the Pirates.

The Dodgers have dropped three straight after losing the first two games of this series vs. the Mets. Struggling Tyler Glasnow gets the call today after getting strafed by Washington in his last start, while the Mets counter with Adrian Houser. New York has kept Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, and company in the ballpark, though there's no guarantee that'll still be the case today, to be fair.

And, here's the scary part. Former Dodger JD Martinez is getting ready to be called to Flushing, to give Pete Alonso, Francisco Lindor, DJ Stewart, et al some backup. Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez is on the IL with a torn thumb ligament, prompting the return of fan favorite Tomas Nido. 

After today, the Mets go to San Francisco, where the opportunity exists to abuse Blake Snell yet again. No wonder Mets fans on Reddit are giddy. But, then, they're also fickle, and as soon as things go south, they'll go back to whining.

Enjoy the ride, kids. It's a long way to October, after all.

What Might've Been: Meego (1997)

 After CBS acquired Step by Step & Family Matters from ABC for the purpose of creating their own Friday comedy block, the producers added a new series that borrowed concepts from three other shows.

Meego, however, ran into trouble almost from the beginning. Bronson Pinchot (ex-Perfect Strangers) had the lead as a shape-changing alien who takes on the job of acting as a babysitter/housekeeper for a single dad (Ed Begley, Jr., ex-St. Elsewhere) and his three children. 

The familiar factors?

1. Alien crashes his spaceship in the backyard of a common Earth family, and moves in (think ALF).

2. The domestic job (similar to another Miller-Boyett bomb, Out of The Blue, which the producers developed for Paramount & ABC 18 years earlier, though the lead there was an angel).

3. Miller-Boyett tried to duplicate the success of Mork & Mindy, but they did not give Meego a love interest. Robin Williams would've known what to do with the character of Meego. We think.

Erik von Detten ("Toy Story") appears in the pilot, but was replaced by Will Estes in the next episode. Not sure why. Michelle Trachtenberg (ex-The Adventures of Pete & Pete) & Jonathan Lipnicki are the other children. Family Matters co-star Jaleel White made a pair of uncredited cameos early on, not as Steve Urkel, but as other characters. It was almost as if the producers were reluctant to add Meego to the same shared universe as Matters & Perfect Strangers.

Check the opener:

I've always felt a show like this belonged on Saturday mornings. ABC tested Out of The Blue one Saturday due to delays with their cartoon lineup.

Rating: C.

Forgotten TV: Home Free (1993)

 ABC did its level best to keep its Friday TGIF block relevant from top to bottom in the mid-90's, but not everything that made the lineup clicked.

Take, for example, Home Free, a spring replacement series in 1993. An ensemble comedy built around the staff of a newspaper.

Matthew Perry, about a year and a half away from Friends, top-lined. The ensemble also included veteran Marian Mercer, Alan Oppenheimer, who hadn't had a live-action series gig since season 1 of The Six Million Dollar Man, where he was replaced by Martin E. Brooks, and spent the 80's and early 90's as a voice actor, Brooke Theiss (ex-Just The Ten of Us), and Dan Schneider (ex-Head of The Class). I think part of the reason Oppenheimer stopped getting live action gigs might've been because casting directors kept confusing him with Gavin MacLeod, but that's just me.

Following is a sample episode:

As everyone knows by now, Schneider later became a producer at Nickelodeon, and wound up losing that gig a while back due to allegations of sexual harassment/abuse, which forms the basis for the current Investigation Discovery series, Quiet on Set.

No rating.