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Students will go to
school in person only
2-3 days a week in the
fall, Mayor de Blasio
and Chancellor
Richard Carranza
announced yesterday
— leaving working
parents angry about
how that will affect
kids and child care.

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for seat
in salon

Rich ’do anything for hair
By doree lewak
Well-coiffed New Yorkers are go-
ing to great lengths to get a haircut
— resorting to bribes and other
sneaky tactics to score a coveted
appointment.
Colorist Louis Licari says his cli-
ents turned into “desperados” when
his Upper East Side salon, Mizu
Louis Licari, reopened in June.
“I knew they wanted in, but I
didn’t expect this,” said Licari.
“Some try to pay off the bookers”
— like greasing the palms of the
maitre d’ back in the day — or at-
tempt to reserve multiple appoint-
ments under different names to get
an earlier slot.
Savvy clients who know that the
way to Licari’s heart is through his
teacup Yorkie, Isabella, have been
pampering the pooch to butter him
up.
“She’s gotten more leashes and
collars lately than she knows what
to do with,” he said, laughing.
Since the city’s Phase Two re-
opening, hair salons are back in
business, but not everything is
so glossy: The new social-dis-
tancing and sanitizing regula-
tions restrict the number of
clients allowed at a single time,
creating waiting lists that
stretch for weeks.
Alain Pinon, founder of Salon
AKS, said he faced a daunting 800-
person waiting list upon reopening
last month. Even with a 6,500-
square-foot space, his former 40-
chair salon has been whittled down
to 20, as per the new guidelines,
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meaning fewer total daily appoint-
ments.
It’s enough for clients to tear their
hair out — and spend big bucks for
a bespoke experience.
“People don’t want to wait.
They’ll bring you to their homes,”
said Pinon, who was spirited away
to a Hamptons yacht for a client
who just couldn’t wait 10 days for a
salon spot. It was worth the trip: Pi-
non, who usually charges around
$300 a cut, netted more than $1,500.
Manny Rolon, co-owner of My
Darling Ivy salon in Chelsea, said
one of his clients secretly paid an-
other to swap appointments.
“I was expecting one client, and
then it was someone else,” said a
bewildered Rolon of the “briber,”
who was too anxious to wait three
more weeks to get glam.
Ultimately, “she got her way,” he
said. “I totally get it. Everyone’s hair
is suffering right now.”
At Arsen Gurgov’s eponymous
salon, hair hustlers “went crazy”
when they reopened, he said, and
even offered double the service
price to get in.
Other snippy clients tried the old
“but I should be on the list” standby,
protesting to the receptionist, “I
thought I had an appointment.”
In some cases, giving in to impa-
tient glamazons has its benefits.
Angelo David, who specializes in
wigs and extensions at his name-
sake salon, got a call from a desper-
ate client vowing to buy lunch for
the whole salon staff. “We made
some accommodations for her,” he
said. “Lunch was very good.”

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woman (check out the remote in her left hand
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to work the camera) in the August issue of

InStyle — a k a the “Badass Women’s Issue.”
The 45-year-old star tells the mag, “I . . . love
to see the word ‘badass’ in a joyful context,
like on this cover with a smile, a peace sign
and a shirt that says, ‘Good news.’ That
makes me feel like I’m on the right path.”
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No clue for
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dumb and
dumber
KAROL
MARKOWICZ
ELL, they did it. Mayor
W de Blasio and his schools
chancellor, Richard Car-
ranza, have finally confirmed an
absurd plan to have school restart
on a part-time schedule in the fall.
What will parents who still have to
work full-time do? Who cares!
What will teachers who have
school-aged children do? That’s
their problem. The new “let them
eat cake” is “hire a nanny.”
The mayor treated this an-
nouncement as some sort of reflec-
tion of what parents wanted. “75%
of families want to send their kids
back to school in the fall,” he
tweeted. The survey sent to parents
had three options, and none of them
was “reopen schools full-time.” The
mayor had to know a majority of
parents would have picked that.
Because everything to Hizzoner
is about President Trump, de Blasio
added, “What we won’t do is ignore
the science and recklessly charge
ahead like our president. We will
do it the right way. We will keep
everyone safe.”
There is, of course, absolutely no
way to “keep everyone safe” and, as
the mayor who ignored the
COVID-19 epidemic until the last
possible second, even famously go-
ing to the gym the day after he was
forced to close schools, de Blasio
knows this.
The most galling part is when
these politicians pretend they are
making their decisions based on
facts or science. But study after
study shows that kids rarely con-
tract coronavirus. Children rarely
spread coronavirus. Children very,
very rarely die of coronavirus.
Are they protecting adults?
Teachers will still be exposed to
100 percent of kids as well as each
other under blended learning.
There is absolutely no “science”
where this makes sense.
There is no medical difference
class clowns
Mayor’s Office
between sending kids to school
three days per week or five. This is
the worst example of splitting the
baby. Part-time school will only
make things more difficult for par-
ents, teachers and — remember
them? — kids.
Everyone else is managing to
open schools. Look at Europe,
where many countries had far more
deaths per total population than
the US, and are still opening
schools because they know educa-
tion for children is paramount and
they know online classes do not
provide an adequate education. A bit of this, A bit of thAt: Chancellor Richard Carranza and Mayor de Blasio on Wednes-
We don’t even need to look day unveil their hybrid school-reopening plan — which offers little relief for working parents.
across the ocean. How about just
looking across the Long Island
Sound? Connecticut plans to re-
School
open schools in September, full-
time, no nonsense. The Hartford
Courant reported last week that
“16,000 New Yorkers have left the
state for suburban Connecticut
since March, according to new data
from the US Postal Service.”
This is not a coincidence. Anyone
who can get out, will, and the rest of
us will be stuck with an already-
failing school system that doesn’t
work for anybody. By NolAN HiCkS, said. “Students will return in vey of more than 300,000 fami-
The same people who designed Selim AlgAr, CArl September in a blended learning lies and 115,000 students.
our abysmal online education sys- CAmpANile and AAroN FeiS model or an online learning Fifty-three percent of families
tem during the lockdown are re- model, if they choose.” asked in a first question if they
sponsible for this foolish plan. A Mayor de Blasio and Chancel- He stressed, however, that, would feel very or somewhat
story in these pages last week high- lor Richard Carranza on “New York City students will be comfortable returning to school
lighted an irate mom of a Brooklyn Wednesday unveiled a plan to learning five days a week, full time had said yes, along with
Tech student telling the story of six get more than 1 million public whether it’s in person or at 56 percent of students.
of his seven teachers skipping live schoolkids back in the class- home.” A second question posing
instruction. If one of New York’s room this fall — sort of. Workers at all levels of the three options — none of which
finest high schools can’t get it right, Students would alternate two- public-school system weighed in was returning to school every
who can? and three-day weeks of in-per- to help craft the proposal, Car- day — found a schedule of alter-
A mother of twin first-graders, at son classes as part of a “blended ranza said. nating days the most popular.
one of the “best” elementary model,” in the most jarring “I want to thank all of our Maintaining the status quo of
schools in New York City, told me change detailed by the duo at a principals and teachers and sup- five days of in-home learning
their teacher did not do a single live City Hall press briefing. port staff, including our parapro- was the second-most-popular
instruction during the entire lock- Online classes would make up fessionals, but including as well pick, followed by a schedule of
down period. Do we really believe the balance of the schedule — our student-nutrition workers, alternating weeks: Five days in a
that teacher will spring into action and adding to the hodgepodge, our school-safety agents, our classroom, followed by five
when she’s responsible for both in- parents can also opt in to having custodians, who all had a voice learning at home.
person and online education? their kids learn remotely five in developing these plans,” the The need to maintain social-
It’s like New York is in an invisi- days a week. schools boss said. distancing rendered running
ble competition to see how quickly “For the 2020-2021 school year, The plan also apparently drew schools at full-capacity impossi-
we can destroy every aspect of our it will look different,” Carranza influence from a recent city sur- ble, Carranza said.
city. We’re winning!
Twitter: @Karol
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Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza and
Must be
Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday outlined a
plan for a staggered-week return to
school for more than 1 million New York
City kids — who will still spend about half
there in
their time in online learning. These are
some of the details of the proposal:
Kids would alternate two- and three-day
person:
weeks in schools, learning remotely the rest
of the time.
Parents can opt for full-time online learning.
VP, Don

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Class sizes will be cut to a social- Both President Trump and Vice
distancing-friendly nine to 12 kids. President Mike Pence emphasized
Students and teachers must wear masks Wednesday the need to reopen
schools in the fall.
and practice social-distancing in the “What we heard yesterday from
classroom. education officials and what we
Schools will be given caches of heard from the American Academy
of Pediatrics, it is absolutely essen-
disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer. tial that we get our kids back in the
Schools will also be cleaned nightly with classroom for in-person learning,”
electrostatic disinfectant sprayers. Pence said, referring to a White
House forum Tuesday.
School HVAC systems will be upgraded to “We cannot let our kids fall be-
allow for better ventilation. hind academically. But it is impor-
tant that the American people re-
Hallways will run one-way, and spacious member that for children that have
rooms like auditoriums, cafeterias and gyms mental-health issues, for special-
may be used as classrooms. needs children, for nutrition, for
children in communities facing
persistent poverty, that school is
the place where they receive all of
those services,” he continued.
“This is not simply about making
sure our kids are learning and ad-

Plan 50-50
“We know that we cannot
maintain proper physical dis-
tancing and have 100 percent of
our students in school buildings
five days a week,” he said. “It’s
just geographically, physically
not possible.”
When students do have in-per-
son classes, the sizes will be sig-
nificantly reduced, with Car-
ranza calling groups of nine to 12
the “optimum” size.
The plan also features a num-
ber of other safety precautions.
As is the case everywhere else
in the state, teachers and stu-
dents will be required to wear
face masks and practice social-
distancing in the classroom.
The Department of Education
will distribute disinfecting wipes
and hand sanitizer to all schools
to kill any germs not caught by
nightly deep-cleanings with elec-
trostatic antiviral sprayers.
School HVAC systems are also
being upgraded to allow for bet-
ter ventilation, hallways will run
one-way, and spacious areas like
cafeterias, gyms and auditoriums
may be used as classrooms to let
students spread out, the officials
said.
One glaring problem in the
plan, however, is the lack of
child-care options to help work-
ing parents, many of whom will
need to go back to their jobs
while their kids are still learning
remotely.
“I feel for parents who are jug-
gling so much,” said de Blasio.
He pointed to the city’s Tues-
day announcement that child-
care centers are reopening as a
first step, but said that more re-
lief will be announced in the
weeks ahead.
“Some parents are going to be
able to make it work under cur-
rent conditions,” he said.
“Some are going to need extra
help, and we’re going to work
over the coming weeks to find
other ways to help them.”
Meanwhile, the plan remains
just a proposal until it is ap-
proved at the state level.
The decision on whether or
not to shutter schools and transi-
tion to remote learning in the
first place played out as a public
tug-of-war between de Blasio
and Gov. Cuomo — one that ap-
pears to be ongoing.
In a briefing of his own held
after the de Blasio-Carranza an-
nouncement, Cuomo said that
the city officials were right to
draw up a plan — but stressed
that he has the final authority
over whether it gets put into
place — and, in fact, whether
schools statewide reopen at all in
the fall.
“No locality has the legal au-
thority to determine if they open
or not,” Cuomo told reporters. “I
think the mayor would say . . .
‘I’m putting in the plan to reopen
the schools.’
“That nuance is very impor-
tant.”
The governor said the state’s
688 school districts should sub-
mit proposals to Albany by July
31, outlining how they can safely
reopen.
“August 1 to 7, the state will an-
nounce a decision on whether or
not those schools open,” Cuomo
said. “We’ll look at the data in the
first week and we’ll make a deci-
sion.”
Additional reporting by Lia Eu-
stachewich
vancing academically, but for their
mental health, for their well-being,
or their physical health, [we] have
to get our kids back to school.”
He also said the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention would
be issuing guidelines for safe
school reopenings next week.
But Pence stressed that the CDC
guidelines were not mandates and
that it was up to the states to ulti-
mately decide how to proceed.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
echoed Pence’s message that it was
up to the states to decide how to
safely reopen.
“It’s not a matter of if, it’s simply a
matter of how. Schools must fully
open and be fully operational and
how that happens is best left to ed-
ucation and community leaders,”
she said.
Trump had threatened earlier
Wednesday to withhold federal
funding for schools from states that
don’t reopen in the fall.
“In Germany, Denmark, Norway,
Sweden and many other countries,
SCHOOLS ARE OPEN WITH NO
PROBLEMS. The Dems think it
would be bad for them politically if
U.S. schools open before the No-
vember Election, but is important
for the children & families. May cut
off funding if not open!” Trump
said in a Twitter post.
Mark Moore, Bob Fredericks, Wires
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already: teachers
Chaos will likely rule the
classrooms under the city’s
plan to reopen public
schools with a staggered
schedule this fall, teachers
told The Post on Wednesday.
“There are so many varia-
bles right now that teachers
don’t know what to think,” a
teachers-union leader in
Brooklyn said.
“The assumption is that
this is going to be a mess.”
Several teachers told The
Post they had a host of wor-
ries about the looming
school year — including per-
sonal health fears, the feasi-
bility of staggered student
attendance and concerns
about their own kids being at
home while they’re at work.
Kids at emotional risk
Keeping kids out of the
classroom can deprive
them of structure and
hamper their learning of
not just academics but key
social cues, a city-based
child therapist told The
Post.
“Kids thrive with a regu-
lar routine,” said Ari Fox,
who is also the founder
and director of Cope With
School NYC. “Consistency
is important.”
The switch to full-time
home learning necessi-
tated during the last school
year by the coronavirus
Biden’s for (safe) reopening
Like President Trump,
presumptive Democratic
nominee Joe Biden wants
schools to reopen this fall,
a Biden campaign official
said Wednesday.
“Of course he does,” the
source said when asked if
the former vice president
hoped schools would be
able to return in the fall.
“That’s why he’s been
making these proposals
“We have eight weeks be-
fore this is all supposed to
fall in place,” said a teacher
in Manhattan’s high-per-
forming District 2.
“Heads are spinning. How
do we make sure kids have
their masks on? What do you
do when they don’t social
distance? What are the halls
going to look like? It’s
endless.”
Another teacher said
Mayor de Blasio and the De-
partment of Education
should have addressed the
issue earlier and given prin-
cipals more time to develop
a plan.
The head of the United
Federation of Teachers,
Michael Mulgrew, offered a
has worked for some stu-
dents, but others — partic-
ularly those with less ac-
cess to technology — have
gotten the short end of the
stick, according to Fox.
“A good number of kids
are falling behind,” said
Fox. “Some kids don’t learn
with this format.”
While the potential re-
turn to at least some in-
person learning in the fall
could help, Fox said that it
can’t fully take the place of
a five-day-a-week class-
room experience — partic-
ularly in helping school
and pressing Trump to act.
But we need to ensure we
can do it safely, in line with
the recommendations of
public health experts, and
Trump keeps failing us on
that score,” the aide added.
Biden’s classroom-re-
opening plan includes sig-
nificantly scaled-up fund-
ing for personal protective
equipment and “enhanced
sanitation efforts” for
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cautious endorsement of
de Blasio and Schools Chan-
cellor Richard Carranza’s re-
opening plan, but noted that
many teachers “are obvi-
ously very apprehensive
with so many of our mem-
bers passing away from”
COVID-19.
Mulgrew also blasted the
city for not providing sup-
port to parents who can’t be
home to supervise their kids
during remote learning
sessions.
“We’ve been telling the
city this for months and they
still have not gotten back to
us,” he told The Post.
“This is a crisis we know is
coming right at us.”
Selim Algar, Bruce Golding
kids grow and mature so-
cially.
“The playground politics
is very important and
learning how to navigate
social situations,” said Fox.
“That’s the learning. You’re
learning to navigate social
interactions.”
In a June 25 guidance, the
American Academy of Pe-
diatrics said that, while
common sense precau-
tions should be taken to
prevent the spread of the
coronavirus, kids learn
I would like kids
best in classrooms.
Carl Campanile, Aaron Feis
to go full-time, but if
it’s not possible, then
child-care providers and
schools — particularly
poorer Title I schools.
they need to help
Speaking Friday during a
virtual fundraiser with the
National Education Associ-
the parents that
have to go to work.
ation, Biden predicted
schools would likely use
distance learning “for a
while longer,” before echo-
ing teachers unions’ call for — Bronx hairstylist Carolyn Martinez
more money for safety
measures. Emily Jacobs
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By KevIn Sheehan, ISaBelle FrIedBerG
and Bruce GoldInG

Parents and students expressed outrage

Wednesday over the city’s plan for
“blended” instruction, saying remote
learning already has proven a failure — and
limiting kids’ time in school won’t keep
them safe.
“Whatever the plan, it’s not going to meet
everyone’s needs,” said Hana Jaber, 34, a
stay-at-home mother-of-four from Park
Slope, Brooklyn.
“You can’t win! I’m a qualified teacher,
but my son does not want me teaching him.
And remote learning is not effective. They
are sitting in front of a screen in la-la land!”
She added: “My son, the 6-year-old, he
tells me, ‘You’re not my teacher, I’m not in
school, I’m not doing this!’ ”
Another Park Slope mom, Dina, 31, said of
her three kids, “I don’t see how it’s going to
be safe for them. How does only going for
two or three days make a difference?
“Remote learning doesn’t work, and my
kids don’t want me as their teacher. I have a Limbo: Astoria Park-goer Luan Demaj, with wife Effette and kids Wednesday, said, “I have to help my children with online work” and
third-grader going into fourth grade, and I wishes they’d go back full-time, while Brooklyn mom Hana Jaber (right) fumed the city’s plan is “not going to meet everyone’s needs.”
don’t think he learned anything at home.”
Brooklyn grandfather Bobby Roman, 65, said her 3-year-old daughter, Arcadia, city’s plan. “I don’t think they should go who was at Astoria Park in Queens with
said that “the main issue is the younger kids won’t be attending preschool at PS 196, as back at all, not until it’s safe! The risk, it’s his wife and two sons Wednesday, said he
have to go back to school so the parents can planned. not worth it. All this going on, and they are has been collecting unemployment since
go back to work.” “If they can’t open up the theater, how are going to bring it home. No! Not my kids, the lockdown began and is worried he
“I don’t see how this is helping most peo- they going to open up the schools?” she not until it’s safe.” won’t be able to return to work in the fall
ple. We’re lucky. We can help my daughter. said. “I want them to be open if it is going to Carolyn Martinez, a hairstylist from The due to the school situation.
We’re retired, but a lot of people don’t have be safe for the kids, but I don’t think right Bronx, said her child struggled with online “My wife does not speak English, so I
a built-in babysitter!” he said, now that’s going to happen.” learning the past three months. have to help my children with online
“What are the rest of the parents gonna Bensonhurst resident Stan Skylar, 17, an “I would like kids to go full-time, but if it’s work,” he said. “If it was up to me, the chil-
do when they have to go back to the office?” incoming senior at Manhattan’s City-As- not possible, then they need to help the dren would go back to school five days a
Jeannie Risolo, who lives on the Upper School HS, said he can’t “see the purpose of parents that have to go to work,” she said. week. For me, that is better. If police and
West Side and runs a test-prep and tutoring opening the schools now.” Lauren Anchor, a single mom of two from doctors can go back to work and be safe,
company, said there’s no way she and hus- “I still have to travel on a train, so I don’t College Point, Queens, said she was ini- why can’t teachers?”
band, Ray Angelo, will be sending their know. They get pretty packed,” he said. tially able to work from home for her em- Social worker Beth Manitsky of Windsor
twin daughters, 7, back to school . “Especially underground — it starts ployer, a construction company that “has Terrace, Brooklyn, who has two high-
“Over time , they will learn, and I can fill spreading on the trains, and it’s gonna get been considered essential during the entire school-age girls, called the city’s plan “not
the learning gap, even if it takes more time,” worse, not better.” pandemic.” realistic.”
Risolo said while on a day trip to South- But Willa, a 14-year-old Park Slope resi- “But with everything opening back up, I “I think it’s unsafe. I don’t think it’s going
ampton with her family. dent who’s planning to enter high school, am back at my office,” she said. “The to work,” she said.
“I fear for our family and extended family said, “I would rather just go back full-time.” thought of my kids possibly not going into She favors all-virtual learning because “if
James Messerschmidt
if our children go back to school . . . My Sheepshead Bay resident Crystal Estrada, the classrooms full-time will deeply impact and when we get hit again . . . I’d rather they
mother visits all of the time, and I can’t 30, a supermarket cashier, said she has a 10- my life. The days my kids might be learning have it together for staying home once and
have her compromised.” year-old child entering fifth grade and a from home, I will have no one there to for all.”
Upper East Side resident Erin Aska, a fur- 6-year-old entering first. watch or help them.” Additional reporting by Julie Coleman,
loughed television-industry worker, also “No! It makes no sense!” she said of the Marble and tile installer Luan Demaj, 44, Doug Cortese and Lorena Mongelli
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Cuo claim
on elderly
New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020

New York state dis-

patched more than 6,300 re-
covering coronavirus pa-
tients into vulnerable nurs-
ing homes during the height
of the pandemic, officials
said this week.
The transfers were made
under a now-scrapped,
highly criticized policy that
barred nursing homes from
refusing to take in
COVID-19 patients — a di-
rective from the Cuomo ad-
ministration intending to
free up hospital beds for the
sickest patients.
New York is now home to
one of the highest nursing-
home death tolls in the na-
tion, with more than 6,400
deaths tied to the virus.
But Gov. Cuomo and his

NY Post photos: Annie Wermiel

administration argue that the
controversial policy is not to
blame for the tragic toll.
State Health Commis-
sioner Dr. Howard Zucker
instead said the virus was
spread by the 20,000 in-
fected facility staffers, many
of whom kept going to work
One step at a time: Asimenia Polychronakis is back at Minas Shoe Repair, the in March and April unaware
shop her dad founded 50 years ago. She’s glad to have returning clients, but also has that they were sick.
about 100 pairs of unclaimed shoes (inset), all dropped off before the pandemic began. “Facts matter. And those
are the facts,” Zucker said at a

Dad rebuilt shoe-fix shop news conference on Monday.

Cuomo, under pressure,
reversed the order on May
10, but has maintained for

after 9/11. Now it’s her turn weeks that sick workers,
and not patient transfers
stoked the spread in nurs-
ing homes. Vincent Barone

By LISA FICKENSCHER There are no the same pair of that: “I retired my mother, who is

Asimenia Polychronakis was

determined to reopen Minas Shoe
Repair in June, the 50th anniver-
sary of the business her late fa-
ther founded.
Before the pandemic shutdown,
the devoted daughter, 37, was
planning a fitting tribute to her
dad, Minas, an immigrant from
Greece who became internation-
ally known after his shop in the
mall at the World Trade Center
was destroyed on 9/11.
His story was told in countless
articles plastered on the walls of
the shop where he relocated in
2003, at 63 Wall St.
Asimenia had hoped to cele-
brate reopening there with some
hoopla and special promotions,
including a shoeshine for 75 cents
— the cost in 1970.
Instead, she quietly opened the
doors on June 15 despite the Fi-
nancial District’s empty streets
and office towers.
shoeshiners
duty yet because
“no one is dressed
on
up” and too few
people are back at
their offices, she
said. How businesses
are bouncing back
But seeing her
old customers has
been one of the
brightest spots of after lockdown
her new day.
Bianca Alexis has been a patron
for 10 years, starting when Minas,
who died in 2018 at 76, was in
charge. She befriended him, dis-
cussing cooking and politics.
“It’s awesome to see them open
again,” Alexis said, adding that
she brought in a pair of white
shoes that needed to be repainted.
Then there’s the French doctor,
a customer for 15 years, who came
in with 14 pairs of shoes in the
days after the shop reopened.
“In all the years she has been com-
ing in, I have never seen her bring in
shoes twice,” Asi-
menia said.
Still, times are
tough: Revenue is
down by 90 per-
cent from a year
ago, she esti-
mates, and sum-
mer is already the
slow season for
shoe repair.
She has applied
for a $40,000 Paycheck Protec-
tion Program loan to bring back
her five employees for full-time
work and to help with the bills.
The frenetic pace she was used
to — six-day work weeks, with
some nights spent working until 3
a.m. — has been rolled back to
five days a week, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
for now.
The toughest decision she has
had to make was closing a second
shop, Omega Repair, located a
block away, on June 30.
She said there is one upside to
65 [and managed Omega]. I want
her to be able to chill out.”
Looking around her shop, Asi-
No ’shroom
menia wonders about the un-
claimed shoes — more than 100
pairs — and whether any belong to
in DC: rep.
customers who have died from the A Maryland congressman
virus or lost their jobs “and are not vows that Washington, DC,
thinking about their shoes and won’t decriminalize psyche-
bags.”
During the three months the
delic mushrooms, cacti and
other hallucinogenic plants.
store was closed, just 10 custom- Republican Rep. Andy Har-
ers called to pick up shoes they’d ris said he’s appalled that
left at the shop in March. drug-reform activists submit-
But there are encouraging signs. ted on Monday what they say
Some customers mailed in shoes is enough signatures to get an
during the lockdown, another initiative on the November
brought in a piece of leather fur- ballot to classify natural hal-
niture to be stitched, and the lo- lucinogens as part of the low-
cals who need her really need her. est law-enforcement priority
She mentioned a lawyer whose in the nation’s capital.
nearby office reopened, who Harris said he’ll use the
stopped in to get his shoes resoled. power of Congress over DC’s
“I’m still trying to be optimistic budget and force an Appro-
and patient,” the shop owner said. priations Committee vote on
“I can hear my father’s voice in the bid via a budget rider to a
my head telling me to keep faith.” pending financial-services
bill. Steven Nelson
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at odds
with brass
Gunplay surprise
By CrAig McCArthy, CArl
CAMpAnile and AAron Feis
State bail reform and corona-
virus-related releases from city
jails are not driving this year’s
surge in shootings, the NYPD’s
own data show — despite the in-
sistence of department brass to
the contrary.
“It’s bail reform. It’s COVID. It’s
emptying out prisons,” Commis-
sioner Dermot Shea — who’s
credited with developing the de-
partment’s data-driven policing
model — said as he attempted last
week to explain the troubling rise
in gun violence across the city.
While the surge in gunplay is
undeniable, a Post analysis of de-
partment data found that most
people released under bail reform
or amid the pandemic had no
known ties to the bloodshed —
with criminal-justice experts say-
ing cops should focus on the flow
of illegal guns into the city instead
of playing the “blame game.”
Although the city logged 528
shooting incidents through June
30 — a 46 percent spike from the
362 tallied at the same point last
year — just one person released
under the statewide bail-reform
laws that went into effect on Jan. 1
has been charged with a shooting,
according to a breakdown pro-
vided by the NYPD.
In fact, just 91 of the approxi-
mately 11,000 people sprung from
Rikers Island under the initiative
— or 0.8 percent — have been
found to be anywhere near a shoot-
ing this year, the figures show.
And more than half of those 91
are not accused of any wrong-
doing, with the department de-
bill, do something
Robert Mecea
scribing 25 as “victims” and an-
other 24 as “witnesses.”
That’s because “just being at
the scene of a shooting means
something,” Chief of Department
Terence Monahan said Wednes-
day in response to this story.
In addition to the one charged
with a shooting, 31 are described
as “suspects,” and the remaining
10 as “perps,” a description not
defined further by the NYPD in
its breakdown.
The known connection be-
tween those released with the
coronavirus bearing down on the
city and the spike in shootings
was even more tenuous.
While about 275 of the approxi-
mately 2,500 Rikers Island in- An East Harlem bicyclist was fatally shot near The incident comes amid a surge in gunplay
mates sprung to reduce crowding his home early Wednesday, one of seven victims across the city.
amid the pandemic had been re- — two of them fatal — in six shootings reported Brown’s murder was one of six shootings with
arrested as of mid-June, the in the Big Apple within less than 24 hours. seven victims reported citywide on Tuesday
NYPD said Tuesday that only Kenneth Brown, 35, was riding his bike on and early Wednesday, police said.
nine of the 275 — or 0.3 percent Pleasant Avenue near East 120th Street around They included a second fatality in East New
— had been linked to shootings. 12:45 a.m. when a man came from across the York, where a 27-year-old man was gunned
One has been arrested, and two street and started firing at him, cops said. down just before noon Tuesday in Lincoln Ter-
are described as persons of inter- Brown was pronounced dead at Harlem Hos- race Park, at East New York Avenue and Buffalo
est, while three are victims and pital Center. There were no immediate arrests, Avenue, cops said.
three are witnesses. police said. At 3:30 p.m., a 15-year-old boy was shot in the
Despite what the numbers
show, NYPD brass have repeat-
edly drawn a line between the
releases and the gunplay.
“It’s a combination of things — As of last month, an arrest had behalf of the NYPD that “bail re- de Blasio floated the explanation
bail reform, COVID releases from been made in just 28 percent of form has an impact on numerous last week.
prison, court shutdown, which shootings — approximately half crimes, with the greatest impact Asked about The Post’s find-
has Rikers [Island] at half of the normal rate — The New York on burglaries, robberies and ings by radio host John Catsimati-
where they were,” Monahan said Times reported, citing Chief of theft-related crime, including dis on Wednesday, Monahan
in a Monday press briefing, fol- Crime Control Strategies Michael auto theft.” made his “just being at the scene
lowing a holiday weekend in LiPetri. He also pointed to a backlog in of a shooting means something”
which at least 49 people were The department would not pro- some 800 gun cases making their comment, and noted that police
struck by gunfire, eight fatally. vide a comment on why its com- way through the courts — a claim have not identified suspects in
However, the NYPD is also missioner and top chief were blasted by state Office of Court every shooting.
closing out shooting cases at a making the claims about shoot- Administration spokesman Lu- A criminal-justice expert was
significantly reduced clip this ings without supporting evi- cian Chalfen as “absurd, patently unsurprised to learn that there
year. dence, and LiPetri responded on false and ridiculous” when Mayor was no significant link between
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bill, do something

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in rush to retire No respect, no
OT: ‘Who the hell

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wants to stay?’
By Tina Moore, CraiG chokeholds while trying to subdue
McCarThy and BruCe GoldinG violent suspects.
“There’s just droves and droves of
Members of New York’s Finest are people retiring,” one cop said. “But
putting in for retirement faster than there’s no surprise here; who the
the NYPD can handle — citing a hell wants to stay on this job?”
lack of respect and the loss of over- “Why would you want to stay on
time pay, The Post has learned. this job when people don’t appreci-
The number of city cops filing for ate what you do?”
retirement during the past week Sources also said the flood of
more than quadrupled over the overtime tied to last month’s pro-
same period last year, as the city tests — which will boost pension
grapples with a surge in shootings. payouts for eligible retirees — and
And the stampede has caused a the expected loss of overtime due to
dark night: An NYPD detect- bottleneck that’s forcing others to the recent $1 billion cut to the
ive takes notes on Pleasant Ave- delay putting in their papers, offi- NYPD’s budget were also factors.
nue early Wednesday after a bi- cials and sources said. “This is the best time to leave,”
cyclist was shot dead. The at- The NYPD said Wednesday that one officer said.
tacker was still at large. 179 cops filed for retirement be- “You’ve padded the numbers as
tween June 29 and Monday, an as- high as you can pad them.”
tounding 411 percent increase over Another cop noted, “When they cut
the 35 who filed during the same the OT, a lot of people were done.”
period in 2019. “Also, there’s another class hitting
The rush for the door came as 503 their 20th year in September, so that
cops filed for retirement between will be another group leaving,” one
May 25 — the day George Floyd was source added, noting that cops often
killed in Minneapolis, sparking anti- retire once they hit the minimum
back on Mapes Avenue in The Bronx and taken Shortly before 11:30 p.m., in Brooklyn, a 33- cop protests around the country — requirement for pension vestment.
to Jacobi Hospital. The suspect fled on a year-old woman was shot in the chest and a and last Friday, the NYPD said. In a prepared statement, Police
scooter, police said. man, 30, in the right arm following a dispute on That number represents a 75 per- Benevolent Association President
A 25-year-old woman was shot in the right Linden Boulevard, according to police. Both cent increase over the 287 who filed Pat Lynch blamed lawmakers for
thumb a little before 10:30 p.m. in Brooklyn by were taken to Brookdale Hospital. for retirement during the same having “completely dismantled our
three assailants who fled in a white sedan. She The violence came after a bloody Independ- period last year, the NYPD said. justice system” and called the rash
was treated at Maimonides Medical Center. ence Day weekend that saw dozens of New Sources said that the deluge has of retirement applications “one an-
About 10 minutes later, a 32-year-old man was Yorkers shot. In one grim stretch, 39 people overwhelmed the department — swer to the question on every police
shot in the head and wounded in Far Rockaway were shot between midnight Saturday and 6:30 due to cancellation of OT for work- officer’s mind: how are we sup-
by an unknown gunman in a white Ford Ex- a.m. Sunday, with at least three of the shootings ers who process the applications — posed to do our job in this environ-
plorer. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital. fatal. Tina Moore and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon and that as a result, the number of ment?
daily applicants was being limited. “And now that crime is out of con-
On Tuesday, The Post spotted a trol, they want to blame us for that,
line of cops waiting outside the too,” Lynch added.
office at One Police Plaza where “Whether we have 20 years on the
bail reform and the burst of gun “many,” identifying one of the Aborn also pointed to a move retirement papers get filed. job or only two, police officers are
violence. most pressing as the flood of ille- away from so-called “broken “Apparently, the pension section is tired of trying to sort out these
“There’s a blame game going gal firearms onto city streets. windows” policing that could only taking a certain amount of peo- mixed messages. Many of us are
on and I don’t think it’s helpful,” “We need a laser-like focus on prevent some serious crimes be- ple per day and I think they are looking elsewhere.”
said Richard Aborn, president of illegal guns,” he said. fore they happen. backed up ’til late July, early An NYPD spokesperson called the
the Citizens Crime Commission. The NYPD disbanded its plain- “We’ve had a lot of de-enforce- August,” one cop said. skyrocketing retirements “a troub-
“I think it would be helpful if the clothes Anti-Crime Unit — ment of low-level offenses,” he “That’s why you don’t see like 100 ling trend that we are closely moni-
NYPD put [out] a clear report which focused on guns and drugs said. a day, because they are only doing toring” but insisted the department
explaining why they think the — on June 15, with Shea citing Whatever the cause, Aborn like 35 to 40 a day, by appointment.” is not turning down any applications
uptick in shootings is linked to the unit as generating a “dispro- said the city’s focus must now be Sources blamed the situation on for officers retiring in the next 30
bail reform.” portionate” number of com- on containing the outbreak of vi- growing anti-cop sentiment, cou- days.
Aborn posited that there is no plaints and police-involved olence before it gets any worse. pled with a pending city law that Additional reporting by Larry
one cause of the uptick, but shootings. cmccarthy@nypost.com would make it a crime for cops to use Celona
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End the lies

He president’s unilateral decision to ures to share accurate information as re-

T withdraw from the World Health

Organization — without announcing
an alternative body, against the ad-
vice of medical experts and the
GOP’s own House Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee’s recent report into the origins of
COVID-19 — does nothing to reassure vot-
quired by international law and the sup-
pression of voices seeking to warn the
world.”
Tedros “actively engaged in an effort to
defend the CCP’s leadership from criticism,
negatively impacting the world’s under-
standing of the virus and hampering the
ers that we will be prepared for the next global response effort.”

and coverup
pandemic. McCaul wants the US and “like-minded
We know the Chinese Communist Party WHO member states” to investigate how
is to blame for unleashing the virus and and where the virus mutated into its lethal
WHO helped cover that up, but what are form.
we going to do, apart from take our bat and He points out WHO learned of the out-
ball and go home? break only last Dec. 31 from a US early-
We need to make sure the same mistakes warning site, not from the CCP.
don’t happen the next time a bat virus But there is evidence from open-source

mutates somewhere in China.
First up, officials all over the world
should stop lying.
After so many lies, it’s no wonder that,
after obeying orders for three months,
Americans are starting to behave irration-
ally and case numbers are rising again.
White House health adviser Dr. Anthony
Fauci admits he lied about the effectiveness
of masks in order to safeguard stockpiles
for health workers.
No excuse. It was an arrogant vote of no
confidence in the good sense of Americans
to self-regulate if given accurate informa-
tion.
When officials lie, we lose faith in author-
ity, get our information elsewhere and
throw caution to the wind.
The result is that too many Americans
think masks don’t work when,
in fact, they’re probably
the best tool we have to
ward off infection.
According to a
review last
month in The
Lancet of 172
studies
on COVID
across 16 countries, wearing a face mask re-
duces the chance of COVID-19 infection
from 17 percent to 3 percent, with best re-
sults from N95 respirator-type masks.
But Fauci’s lie gave masks a bad name and
caused outbreaks of hostility between
skeptics and believers.
Of course, the deadliest lies are from
China. The CCP keeps changing its story
about the outbreak. First it came from the
Wuhan wet market, and then it didn’t.
The party swore it didn’t come from the
Wuhan virology lab that just happened to
be testing coronaviruses and has a
track record of sloppy safety.
The CCP blamed the US mili-
tary and now is pointing the
finger at Spain, after an un-
verified University of Bar-
celona study found virus
traces in wastewater
samples dated March
2019.
As soon as WHO
belatedly bowed to
international pres-
sure to investigate
the origins of the vi-
rus, China leapt on
the Spanish news to
say all countries
should be investigated, a time-wasting cha-
rade.
This weekend, an advance team of WHO
investigators will fly to China, eight months
after the first confirmed case in Hubei prov-
ince of the new coronavirus that has killed
more than 500,000 people worldwide.
“We can fight the virus better when we
know . . . how it started,” WHO Director-
General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
said last week.
No kidding.
It’s pathetic. No wonder the Trump ad-
ministration has run out of patience.
But the GOP’s June report, “The origins
of the COVID-19 global pandemic,” recom-
mends a more constructive path.
The author, Texas Rep. Michael McCaul,
says the US should dump Tedros but re-
main in WHO and leverage international
pressure to stop the “CCP’s malfeasance
from giving rise to a third pandemic during
the 21st century.
“We do not believe the withdrawal of the
US or the establishment of a competing in-
ternational organization is the correct path
forward.”
McCaul blames the CCP for “allowing a
local outbreak to become a global pan-
demic [due to] its efforts to conceal the
spread and novel nature of the virus, fail-
intelligence that at least six weeks earlier,
the CCP was preparing for a dangerous res-
piratory-disease epidemic.
On Nov. 13, China’s national health author-
ity issued new influenza guidance instruct-
ing hospitals to check blood-oxygen levels of
pneumonia patients and look for what we
now know are COVID-19 symptoms such as
pneumothorax and mediastinal emphysema
and multifocal brain damage.
The virus may have been circulating in
September, when satellite images show
Wuhan hospitals unusually crowded.
An African Ph.D. student trapped in Wu-
han during the lockdown told Korean Ari-
rang News in February of a pneumonia out-
break “somewhere in September.”
By November, it was “an epidemic but [it]
was concealed,” he said. “There are more
than 10 hospitals in Wuhan, and they are
overwhelmed.”
That was at least a month before WHO
knew anything.
Then there is the mystery of the disap-
pearing database at the Wuhan Institute of
Virology, which contained records of 15,000
viral samples from bats, birds, mosquitoes,
rodents and ticks.
Among the samples was the bat corona-
virus RaTG13, which is closely related to
SARS-CoV-2, and was collected from a
mineshaft in Yunnan province where an
outbreak of unexplained pneumonia in 2012
killed three workers who had been clearing
mounds of bat feces.
But every trace of that invaluable WIV
database has been deleted at a time when
the world needs it most.
It can’t happen again.

Nation ‘being torn apart’ by anarchists

A terrible thing happened
Tuesday night in the close-
knit Hudson Valley town of
Washingtonville.
Some worthless vandal
Way tOO late: sawed off a flagpole and
The World Health toppled the American flag
Organization, led by that stood over the memorial
Tedros Adhanom built for five local firefighters
Ghebreyesus, was killed on 9/11.
late to investigate The “Washingtonville 5”
the origins of the World Trade Center
Reuters
commemorates the ultimate
sacrifices of Lt. Glenn Perry,
Mark Whitford, Bobby
Hamilton, Gerry Nevins and
Battalion Chief Dennis
Devlin, has been desecrated.
Perry’s brother Frank, 63,
can’t bring himself to tell his
88-year-old mother.
“Enough is enough with the
anarchistic activities,”
he says.
this country had better wake
up and speak up. Our country
is being torn apart.”
The mayor assures him the
culprit will be caught and he
draws comfort from the
kindness of locals, who
already have offered money
for a reward and will repair
the flagpole.
But it’s a crying shame to
see our 9/11 heroes

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Angst over Doc’s house call

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Page
DR. Phil’s production companies got up to
$7 million in government aid loans during the
pandemic — while his son splashed out on a
$10 million Beverly Hills, Calif., mansion, Page
eponymous talk show and “DailyMailTV,” and loans and the home purchase. But after TV
was on a list of recipients disclosed on Mon- sources pondered why the family needed to
day by the Small Business Administration. ask for the government handout, sources close
Dr. Phil’s other production company, Peteski to the star stressed that Dr. Phil’s companies

Six®
Six has learned. Productions, also got a loan valued at between requested the cash to protect their employees
New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020

According to newly released documents, Dr.
Phil’s production companies received up to $7
million from the paycheck protection pro-
gram, the massive federal plan designed to
help small businesses ride out the financial
crisis caused by the coronavirus.
$2 million and $5 million, the government
agency reported.
On the same day those numbers were re-
ported, Variety reported Phil’s youngest son,
aspiring rock star Jordan — who is engaged to
reality-TV star and E! host Morgan Stewart
— and the loans had nothing to do with Jor-
dan’s house.
This all comes after Dr. Phil apologized in
April for questioning on Fox News why lock-
downs were necessary when “we don’t shut
the country down” for deaths from car acci-

Emily Stage 29 Productions, run by Phil McGraw

and his son Jay McGraw, got a loan valued at
between $1 million and $2 million. The com-
— had paid $10 million in cash for a 6,500-
square-foot mansion in the exclusive Trous-
dale Estates neighborhood of Beverly Hills.
dents and swimming pools. He wrongly
claimed 360,000 people die in swimming
pools in the United States every year.
Smith
esmith@nypost.com
pany makes programs, including Dr. Phil’s There is no link whatsoever between the Dr. Phil declined to comment.

Ian Mohr
imohr@nypost.com New
Mara Siegler couple Lily
msiegler@nypost.com
Carlos Greer James and Chris
cgreer@nypost.com Evans are very
Oli Coleman social, but not too
ocoleman@nypost.com distant, while hang-
Tashara Jones ing out at a park in
tjones@nypost.com
London.
Puzzling decision
GWYNETH Paltrow says she
got her 14-year-old son, Moses, a
jigsaw puzzle festooned with
breasts “just for fun” in lockdown.
The 450-piece Jiggy puzzle, titled
“Boobs,” was designed by Brook-
lyn freelance illustrator Julia
Heffernan, and features draw-
ings of breasts of various shapes,
sizes and colors. It costs $40. Pal-
trow’s nugget of information was
part of a post on her Goop Web
site, which included a roundup of
products helping her family get
through summer in self-isolation.
“There’s been a lot of Trivial Pur-

BACKGRID
suit happening at the house,” she
wrote. “And I got Moses the boob
puzzle just for fun.”

A Jerry good dad
BEN Stiller says his father,
Jerry Stiller — who passed away
in May at 92 — was “so not like”
the abrasive, curmudgeonly dad
he famously played on “Seinfeld.”
On streaming show “Stars in the
House,” Ben (above) recalled his
father’s reaction when he
dropped out of UCLA after seven
months, saying, “He wrote me
this long letter about life and why
it’s important to stick things out.
It got very philosophical. Reading
it now, it was a beautiful thing. He
really cared.”
One to forget
‘Borat’ bids to prank Rudy A day after Montauk’s Love at
RUDY Giuliani called the NYPD when “Borat” star Sacha Baron the End march to support Black
Cohen — wearing a spangly pink bikini — tried to prank him during a Lives Matter drew celebs such as
spoof interview. The former mayor and personal attorney to President Julianne Moore, Sienna Miller
Trump went to the Mark Hotel on Tuesday for what he thought was a and Naomi Watts, the town’s
LISTEN NOW!
serious interview about the administration’s response to COVID-19. A Memory Motel offended activists
female interviewer began the conversation in a hotel room fitted with a by hanging a Blue Lives Matter
professional camera and lights, before, as Giuliani tells flag and posting it on Instagram.
us, “This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what “It’s a huge middle finger to the
I would say was a transgender outfit. It was a pink
bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh
Listen now! black people who work and live
here,” one march organizer told
Memoir for Mimi
top. It looked absurd. He had a beard, bare legs and Page Six. It removed the post after BACK in 2018, Page Six re-
wasn’t what I would call distractingly attractive.” being called out in the comments. vealed that Mariah Carey
Giuliani said he didn’t recognize the gatecrasher as Owner Brian Kenny told us the (above) was working on a mem-
Cohen. “This person comes in yelling and scream- post was meant to give thanks to oir. On Wednesday, she said on
ing, and I thought this was a scam or a shakedown, so cops. “We worked effectively this Instagram that she’s completed
I reported it to the police. He then ran away.” Other July 4 weekend, hand in hand with the book. “It took me a lifetime to
sources said Cohen was seen running out of the hotel down 77th Street the police, to keep our guests safe have the courage and the clarity
in just a bathrobe but was not apprehended by cops, who arrived in the new world of [coronavi- to write my memoir,” she wrote.
quickly to investigate. The NYPD did not comment. Giuliani ex- rus.]” He added that the flag “in She said it recounts “my mishaps,
plained, “I later realized it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen. I no way was meant to look like we my struggles, my survival and my
thought about all the people he fooled and I felt good about myself be- were taking a side.” Kenny said songs. Unfiltered.” Carey worked
cause he didn’t get me.” Yet, he added, “I am a fan of some of his mov- that he’d “like to believe you can on the memoir with Michaela
ies, like ‘Borat,’ because I’ve been to Kazakhstan. [Giuliani then mim- support law enforcement, BLM Angela Davis and it’ll be pub-
icked Borat’s accent and recited a line from the movie] ‘She is my sis- and first responders without lished under Andy Cohen’s book
ter. She is No. 4 prostitute in all of Kazakhstan.’ That was pretty funny.” slighting one side or the other.” imprint.
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BEST-SELLING author James
Patterson has written 156 books
that have sold more than 325 mil-
lion copies. Whenever, wherever
anybody might be there’s always
some James Patterson thing to
read. Adam and Eve — after knock-
ing off that apple — probably read
James Patterson.
“My first book attempt was when
I was 25. More publishers then. I
was turned down by 31 of them.
Then came an ad for new writers.
So I stuck this same manuscript in
a cardboard box, tied it with a rub-
ber band and sent it.
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company Little, Brown accepted it.
I went to see them. It was great. A
fire in their fireplace. Books
around by Herman Wouk, Nor-
man Mailer, ‘Catcher in the
Rye.’ I thought, ‘Wow — look
where I am.’ ”
Why do people love to read
his mysteries?
“Because they’re like
puzzles. There’s some
resolution. Like the JFK
ending or what hap-
pened to Epstein — we
still don’t know. Older
people sometimes don’t
even feel anything any-
more, but they can feel
pleased reading a mys-
tery book because
there’s an ending.
“Now I’m surrounded
by a pile of current pro-
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from Paris. I enjoy my wife, seven civilians killed, plus the naut-training exercises, took
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play golf together, still go the Middle East. It’s called a sum- Antonelli describes the great
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a YouTube social-activism channel. The Oscar from a private john, do not
winner was home-schooled as a kid, and she’s now think Old Spice.)
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channel on Earth, I’m reaching to steal from really AFTER quarantining and
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The Trump administration
warned about investing in

Facebook
Chinese companies because
of the possibility of sanctions
and boycotts over the Com-
munist Party’s handling of
the coronavirus pandemic
and its strong-arm response
to pro-democracy rallies in
Hong Kong, according to a
report.
National Security Adviser
Robert O’Brien and Larry
Kudlow, director of the Na-

2
tional Economic Council,
wrote in a letter to the US Rail-

nypost.com
road Retirement Board that in-
vestments in China opened its
retirees to “unnecessary eco-
nomic risk,” The New York
Times reported Tuesday.
The letter also noted that
the investments would put
money into the hands of
companies “that raise signifi-
cant national security and
humanitarian concerns,” in-
cluding some firms that sup-
ply the Chinese army.
The board, an independent
federal agency, managed
$28.3 billion in assets in late Haul oF Famer: Ex-wide receiver Phillip Blanks
(above left) runs to a burning Phoenix building in time to
1 3
2018, the report said.
Mark Moore catch a 3-year-old boy and cradle him while falling, before
running to safety. Sadly, the boy’s mom, Rachel Long, died.

Beijing hits
‘Tibet’ Yanks
By Joshua Rhett MilleR

A former college-football wide re-

China announced Wednes-
day it will impose visa re-
strictions on US citizens en-
gaged in what it called “egre-
gious conduct” with regard
to Tibet, the mountainous re-
gion that China has been ac-
cused of illegally incorporat-
ing after invading it in 1950.
The move comes one day
after Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo announced that the
Trump administration was
barring entrance to the US
for Chinese officials who had
restricted American authori-
ties, diplomats, journalists
and tourists from entering
the Tibetan regions.
Emily Jacobs
ceiver made the most critical catch
of his life — when a 3-year-old boy
was thrown off a burning third-story
balcony in Arizona.
Phillip Blanks, 28, quickly sprang
into action Friday when he heard a
commotion outside his apartment
building in Phoenix and dashed out-
side barefoot, footage of the death-
defying rescue showed.
The one-time wide receiver for
Saddleback College in Mission
Viejo, Calif., saw an apartment fully
engulfed in flames and a woman
preparing to toss her son to another
man standing nearby.
That’s when Blanks — also a
former Marine — dove to the
ground and made the lifesaving
catch, before dashing off with the
child in his arms.
Blanks got to the boy just as his
Grabs tot tossed
from blazing apt.
mother frantically screamed, “Grab
him!”
“Instinct. There wasn’t much
thinking. I just reacted. I just did it,”
he told KABC News.
“I just had tunnel vision on the
patio,” Blanks continued. “And when
the boy got thrown off the balcony, it
was just me and the boy. I didn’t hear
anything. I didn’t see anything else.”
The boy came down “twirling in
the air like a propeller,” Blanks
recalled.
“I just did my best,” Blanks said.
“His head landed perfectly on my el-
bow. His ankle got twisted up as I
was diving. The guy who was there
with me — it looked like he wasn’t
going to catch him. So that’s why I
stepped in. I just wanted to make a
better catch.”
He attributed his clutch hands to
time spent on the gridiron.
“I know how to catch,” said
Blanks. “I’ve learned how to catch a
football. So I’ll give some credit to
football.”
The boy’s 30-year-old mother, Ra-
chel Long, tragically did not survive
the blaze, according to KABC.
“She’s the real hero of the story,”
Blanks said. “Because she made the ul-
timate sacrifice to save her children.”
The boy and his 8-year-old sister,
who was rescued by another good
Samaritan, were rushed to the hos-
pital with burns, but were expected
to survive, KABC reported.
Blanks now wants to “track down”
the two children, as well as their fa-
ther — who was at work at the time
— to help them during their recov-
ery as much as possible, he told
WWMT-TV in Kalamazoo, Mich.,
where Blanks attended high school.
Blanks, who now works as an ex-
ecutive protection agent, said he
believed the rescue was fate.
“I think God has put me on this
planet for that,” he told the WWMT.
“I always had a protector mindset
growing up and it just enhanced
when I went to the military,” Blanks
added.
jmiller@nypost.com

‘Bullied’ Vindman retiring Beau busted in gal-pal slay

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman,
who testified about President
Trump’s call to Ukraine, is
ending his 21-year career with
the Army because he said his
service will “forever be lim-
ited” after intimidation from
the White House.
Vindman has been the tar-
get of “bullying, intimidation
and retaliation” by Trump
and his allies after he testi-
fied before the House Intelli-
gence Committee last No-
vember, his attorney, David
Pressman, said Wednesday.
Vindman, a Purple Heart
recipient, testified that he lis-
tened to Trump’s July 2019
phone call with Ukrainian
leader Volodymyr Zelensky
as the Ukraine expert on the
National Security Council.
Vindman said he found
Trump’s comments asking
Zelensky to investigate Joe
and Hunter Biden “inappro-
priate” and was bound by a
“sense of duty” to report
them up the chain of com-
mand. Trump fired Vindman
from his White House post in
February. Mark Moore
A Queens man has been
charged with stabbing his girl-
friend to death in front of her
daughter — then slicing his
own abdomen, officials said.
Carmelo Mendoza, 41, of
Jackson Heights, got into a
heated argument with Yaq-
ueline Collado, 45, last Friday.
Collado told her 19-year-old
daughter to go to her room so
she would not have to witness
the furious exchange, accord-
ing to the Queens District At-
torney’s Office.
From her room, the daughter
heard her mother screaming
her name. The teen rushed to
her side, then watched in hor-
ror as an enraged Mendoza re-
peatedly stabbed the woman
in the chest, neck and torso,
authorities said.
The daughter desperately
tried to stop Mendoza’s as-
sault, but her mom allegedly
said, “I’m dying, leave!” to the
teen, who suffered a leg slash
and sought help from neigh-
bors before calling 911. Cops al-
legedly found Mendoza
slumped over Collado in a pool
of blood. Rebecca Rosenberg
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By kirsten fleming
Don: Reb
T
his facialist has a cheeky response to NYC’s

flag free
nypost.com

reopening standards.
Sofie Pavitt Skincare Studio in Chinatown
is open for business under Phase 3, but the
aesthetician is not yet allowed to do what Unable to
she does best: facials.
“The irony is that you can get dental appoint-
ments, Botox injections, acupuncture on your face give facials speech
New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020

or facials in a [medical spa],” Pavitt told The Post.

But without a medical license, she doesn’t have the
power to work on someone’s face, even if she’s
wearing the same PPE as someone in a doctor’s of-
because of President Trump said dis-
playing the Confederate flag
comes down to “freedom of
fice. “I have been frustrated. But what can I do in speech” — a day after he
the interim?”
Her solution: Offer the same service for the
COVID, blasted NASCAR for banning
the Stars and Bars.
southern cheeks. “My stance is very simple:
“It’s a facial for your booty,” said Pavitt, 36, who
has already lined up 17 clients looking to get their spas are It’s freedom of speech,”
Trump said in a White House
rear ends buffed and ready for thong-bikini season. interview Tuesday with Nex-
“I think after all the time in quarantine, people
are in need of some self-care. They’re jumping at
the chance to have someone touch them. I don’t
smoothing star broadcasting. “NASCAR
can do whatever they want,
and they’ve chosen to go a
think it matters the
body part. This treat-
ment specifically is
out other certain way.”
Trump said his Monday
tweet about NASCAR wasn’t
great for the summer.
If the skin is dull, irri-
tated and has pimples,
parts of the meant to be critical: “I was
just talking about the fact that
NASCAR chose to go a cer-
we are going to get rid tain way and that’s going to
of that,” she said.
The 45-minute treat- body ... be up to them.”
After the Bubba Wallace
ment costs $159 and noose incident, NASCAR an-

“
starts with an exfolia- nounced that it was banning
tion of the buns, a the Confederate flag at Wal-
scrub or an enzyme lace’s urging because “no one
peel to ditch dead skin should feel uncomfortable
and extractions to re- when they come to a
move pimples. It’s fin-
ished off with a mois-
After all the NASCAR race.”
In the tweet, Trump said of
turizing mask.
“It will tighten up the
time in NASCAR: “Flag decision has
caused lowest ratings
skin, make everything quarantine, EVER!”
firm, hydrated and Wallace told guest host An-
smoother,” said Pavitt, people [are] thony Anderson on “Jimmy
adding that she takes Kimmel Live!” Tuesday that
every safety precau- jumping at Trump should focus on other
tion. “I will give you
disposable underwear,
the chance things than NASCAR.
“When I first read it, I was
and your mask is on. I
am in full PPE.”
to have like, ‘Man, there’s so much
more things that are going on
Client Marian someone back in in the world that I feel like he
Shelley, 33, recently should be worried about,’ ”
had her first booty fa- touch them. action:
Marian he said. Mark Moore
cial and called it “luxu-
rious.” A fan of bum- I don’t think Shelley
shows off
revealing bathing suits, it matters
Guilty in slay
Courtesy of Marian Shelley
the results of
she said of the treat- aesthetician
ment, “It feels nice to the body Sofie Pavitt’s
give attention to that
part of your body. My
skin was radiant after-
part.” $159 “Miss
New Booty”
butt facial.
of pol’s son
ward. After the dull- — Facialist Sofie Pavitt A Berlin court Wednesday
ness of winter and be- convicted a man of killing the
ing stuck inside, it was a good way to come into son of former German Presi-
summer.” dent Richard von Weiz-

BLING UP
Normally, the Brooklyn-based advertising crea- saecker. He was sentenced to
tive director sees Pavitt for about six facials a year. 12 years and ordered held in a
“She says good skin is the best makeup, and I have psychiatric ward.
stopped wearing makeup since I’ve been going to Dr. Fritz von Weizsaecker
her,” Shelley said. was stabbed to death in No-
During quarantine, Pavitt treated clients re- vember while delivering a
motely, putting them on a products regimen and lecture on liver disease.
assessing their progress via pictures. “I can clear Prosecutors said the defen-
up acne in four months 90 percent of the time,” she dant, identified only as Gre-

THE REAR
said. gor S., 57, hated Richard von
The pandemic has given New Yorkers more time Weizsaecker, who died in
to tend to their skin — and perhaps realize they 2015, because the ex-leader
could use a little outside help. had once worked for a com-
“Having the focus on the booty is fun, but it’s not pany that developed “Agent
just about booty facials,” she said. “If you are Orange,” a defoliant used in
breaking out [anywhere] on the body, we can treat the Vietnam War and blamed
it.” by some for illnesses suffered
by people exposed to it. AP
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By Ben Feuerherd

The former CEO of

Reddit drew criticism this
week after revealing that
she and several others at a
ritzy 2011 Silicon Valley
Christmas party attended
by Ghislaine Maxwell
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cool people,” a third user Maxwell being at the
responded. bash, she responded that
Pao set her Twitter to the employees who made
private after the criticism, up the guest list were fine
but later lifted the setting. with her attending.
In a second tweet, she The “super exclusive”
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A god Among bros

New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020

Billionaire’s fans believe he can do no wrong
By suzy weiss

What’s the deal with Elon Musk ado about elon:

Musk’s online army? Kanye West (from top), Pharrell
His legions of sci-fi-obsessed Williams and Joe Rogan are all
stans — they’re mostly men — “Musketeers,” die-hard fans of Elon
congregate online in forums, such Musk (right). The entrepreneur
as the subreddit r/ElonMusk, supports West’s bid for president.

nypost.com
which has 210,000 followers, and
follow Twitter accounts like Elon’s
World and Teslarati. They’ll take
time off from work to watch the
SpaceX launch, vociferously de-
fend their leader online against
what they see, in the words of one
fan, as “garbage media attention,”
and sing his praises even when
stocks dip precipitously.
To the “Musketeers,” as his die-
hard fans are sometimes known,
Musk can do no wrong —
whether he’s pledging “full sup-
port” to rapper Kanye West’s
presidential bid or cheekily sell-
ing silky, red short shorts for the
price of $69.420.
And that’s just this week’s an-
tics.
“Even though the guy seems in-
sane at times, there’s a super-ge-
nius aspect behind him and his be-
liefs,” said Keith Muelas, 27, a Seat-
tle video game developer who
saved for six years to be able to
put down a deposit on a Tesla
Model 3. Musk, he said, is “ad-
vancing Earth to protect the fu-

NY Post photo composite/Mike Guillen

ture of humanity.”
The South-African born Musk’s
businesses include: Tesla, the
electric-car company; SpaceX, a
space exploration enterprise that
recently launched the Falcon 9
rocket into orbit; and the Boring
Co., with a stated mission to build
tunnels but which is better known
for producing flamethrowers
wielded by uber-popular YouTu-
bers, such as David Dobrik.
Fanboys of the 49-year-old bil-
lionaire businessman include sev-
eral celebrities: Joe Rogan, who
has invited the “super genius”
onto his podcast twice; Pharrell
Williams, who has also publicly
called Musk a “genius;” and Kanye
West, who’s so proud of his bro-
mance with the inventor, he re-
cently tweeted a pic of them in
color-coordinated outfits.
“There’s a ‘Nerd King’ aspect,”
Muelas said, when asked to de-
fine Musk’s je ne sais quoi. And
the alleged dishy sexploits of the
playboy scientist have only
added to his mystique among
young, single men: Johnny
Depp’s lawyers have accused
Depp’s then-wife Amber Heard
of having a threesome with Musk
and Cara Delevingne as part of
the actor’s libel case against UK
newspaper The Sun. Musk has
denied the affair — although the
rumored ménage à trois has only
burnished his image.
Although he doesn’t proclaim
to be an objectivist, Musk sure
seems straight out of an Ayn
Rand novel. Viewed through that
lens, his exploits aren’t bizarre
p.r. stunts, but rather a kind of
rugged, anti-establishment indi-
vidualism. In a typically head-
scratching — and apparently ille-
gal — move, Musk recently
named his seventh child, a son
with the musician Grimes, “X Æ
A-12 Musk.” (The couple later
changed it to “X AE A-XII” to
comply with California law.)
Ultimately, though, Musk is liv-
ing out the ultimate dude fan-
tasy: becoming an astronaut.
“There was this young guy who
wanted to go out to space. It
sounds like something a little kid
would say, like, ‘I want to have my
own company and go out to space,’
” said Steven Papadakis, 40, an As-
toria resident with his own real-
estate investment business. “But
he’s really making it happen.”
So what if his “bulletproof”
Cybertruck can’t withstand a
metal ball being thrown at it? Or
that Tesla has had difficulty
churning out enough cars to
break even?
In the eyes of Papadakis, such
shortcomings just serve to un-
derscore Musk’s “underdog” sta-
tus.
His supporters view him as a
tech punk unafraid to put him-
self on the line.
“When he was pushing for Cali-
fornia to open up, he showed up at
the factory to get arrested if the
cops came,” said John, 33, who
works in tech and declined to give
his last name. He also runs a Twit-
ter account called Tesla Owners
Silicon Valley. “I’m not saying he’s
a Mother Teresa, but he definitely
cares about his employees.” (In
May, Musk, who has called the
coronavirus lockdown “fascist,”
reopened Tesla’s Bay Area factory
in defiance of county shutdown
orders.)
John, who said he’s “heavily in-
vested” in Musk’s companies and
drives a Model X, couldn’t resist
buying those short shorts that
read “S3XY” along the butt and
sold out in less than five min-
utes. He and his friends plan on
wearing them, he said, to the
next Tesla shareholder meeting.
“It’s a joke,” John said, although
he believes Musk — and his Mus-
keteers — will have the last laugh.
“It’s a ‘screw you’ to the short-sell-
ers that were giving him gray hairs
for the last three years.”
sweiss1@nypost.com
Elon’s payday / p. 30
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Grand-Slammed
nypost.com
New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020

J
MAUREEN
CALLAHAN
OHNNY, we hardly knew ye.
For Gen Xers who came of
age in the 1990s, there was no
From young
and ‘Sassy’
one like Johnny Depp. As it is,
our icons are few — Winona, Kate
Moss, the late Kurt Cobain and
River Phoenix — but Johnny was
special.
He was a teen heartthrob, to be
sure, but of a different stripe. One
of my monthly rituals as a suburban

to aging
teenage girl was waiting for my lat-
est copy of Sassy magazine to ar-
rive, and I’ll never forget finding
one issue in particular waiting on
the kitchen table: Johnny Depp, the
magazine’s white whale, finally on
the cover, photographed in black
and white — an almost unheard-of

and bitter
design choice, then and now —
looking right back at me, so beauti-
ful, so bored, so indifferent.
It was the perfect distillation of
his appeal. Johnny Depp, the reluc-
tant pinup, way too cool for this s--t
but playing along anyway, acknowl-
edging besotted teenage fans like
me.
“We hang out at JOHNNY play the eccentric titular B-movie in 2019, “Bitter and old age really is
DEPP’s,” read the cover line. director in “Ed Wood” and the a depressing moment. And when
“Doesn’t he look excited?” child-man with blades instead of you’re 23, you can be angry, you can
That cover is the stuff of 1990s fingers in “Edward Scissorhands.” be a drug addict, a drunk, and you

legend, and Depp went on to be an
emissary of Gen X cool. He lever-
aged his initial fame playing Tom
Hanson, a square, grown-up under-
cover high-school narc on “21 Jump
He starred in Jim Jarmusch’s fringe
black-and-white Western “Dead
Man” (budget $1 million), in Emir
Kusturica’s “Arizona Dream,”
and the sideways romance “Benny
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can be sexy. But [when you’re
older], it doesn’t look so good.”
This is the Johnny we’re seeing
now. The movie star who would
render talk-show hosts David Let-

Amber’s pic
Street,” and transformed it into an & Joon.” terman and Charlie Rose into bab-
ironic meta-commentary on teen When Depp finally made a con- bling idiots, murmuring “you’re so
idoldom in his first feature film, ventional genre film with 1997’s cool” over and over to his face; the
1990’s “Cry-Baby.” “Donnie Brasco,” he Johnny Depp who, once he decided
Depp was consid- stole it from leg- to go mainstream, horrified Disney
ered crazy to do it. endary co-star Al execs by playing Captain Jack Spar-
He had been on Pacino. row as a drunk Keith Richards and By Tamar Lapin The images came on the
track to be a major Nothing could turning the “Pirates” movies into a second day of Depp’s three-
Hollywood star. But tarnish his image: global juggernaut anyway; the It’s all part of an unbal- week court battle against
instead of going the Not the death by Johnny Depp who would quietly anced breakfast. The Sun newspaper for
conventional big- drug overdose of dress up as Captain Jack and visit Images unveiled in once calling him a “wife
studio route, he River Phoenix out- children’s hospitals, never for pub- Johnny Depp’s libel case in beater” — as a lawyer for
signed up to work side Depp’s LA licity but because his own daughter London on Wednesday the paper continued to
with John Waters, nightclub The Vi- nearly died when she was little — show a table laid out with paint the troubled actor as a
then that rarest of per Room in 1993. that still-crushworthy Depp is gone. his morning meal of booze violent addict who repeat-
things — an openly Not his 1994 arrest It’s painful to see the Depp we’re and drugs during one rage- edly assaulted Heard.
gay director best for trashing his seeing in court, pushing 60 with bad fueled bender. Questioned about the
known for cult films $1,200-a-night ho- teeth, evidence submitted that he’s One pic — taken in 2013 photo, the “Pirates of the
starring a drag queen tel room at Man- taking booze and lines of coke for by Depp’s ex-wife Amber Caribbean” star, 57, admit-
named Divine. hattan’s The Mark, lunch, passed out on the floor and Heard inside her LA apart- ted his breakfast of champi-
It was risky to be then-girlfriend finding poop in his bed. He wasn’t ment — showed two glasses ons that day included booze
sure, and it not only Moss with him. supposed to go out like this. Johnny of whiskey and a cross- and blow after a spat with
made Depp a movie star — it estab- “He looked good under arrest,” Depp was meant to age like the Gen bones-decorated pillbox Heard, 34. “It had been
lished him as a true artist. Waters said of Depp’s perp walk. “I X original he was, not some clichéd marked “property of JD,” quite a nasty argument,”
In the 1990s, Depp reportedly loved the handcuffs — they always version of late-stage Elvis. which Depp conceded Depp said, according to The
turned down the leads in studio work. Criminal movie star is a This week, we Gen Xers lost one “probably” contained co- Sun. “I was definitely par-
blockbusters “Speed” and “Inter- really good look for Johnny.” of our last icons. Note to Brad Pitt: caine, according to reports. taking of the cocaine and
view with a Vampire,” instead Now, not so much. Please hang in there. Four lines of what appears whiskey that morning.”
teaming up with Tim Burton to As Waters told NPR’s Terry Gross mcallahan@nypost.com to be coke are near a credit The day the photo of the
card and straw. drug-littered table was
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breakfast time

New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020

AFP via Getty Images
Tobacco

nypost.com
Keith
Richards Whiskey
CD Paraphernalia

Who’s Up?!
Driver’s license Johnny Depp and
ex Amber Heard
(opposite page)
arrive Wednes-
Depp-branded day for a day at
London libel
drug box court, which in-
cluded a photo of
his druggy morn-
Lines of cocaine ing intake (left)
shot by the ac-
tress in 2013, a
hard time for the
superstar (inset).

of druggy Depp’s wake-up meal

taken, Heard’s sister, Whit-
ney Henriquez, got to the
couple’s home to find it in
complete disarray, said
Sasha Wass, the attorney
representing the tabloid.
“Whitney was confronted
with a lot of mess — whis-
key, lines of cocaine on the
kitchen table and the sight
of Ms. Heard, who was very
red and had obviously been
crying,” Wass said, accord-
ing to The Sun.
Depp responded: “I don’t
recall the level of destruc-
tion Whitney describes.”
But he said he remem-
bered “sitting at the glass
table when she came and I
was drinking whiskey.”
In court Wednesday, he
denied that he is a “Dr. Jek-
yll and Mr. Hyde” monster,
while fending off claims
he beat Heard for laughing
at his infamous “Wino For-
ever” tattoo and for her
working with actor James
Franco — and that he even
once dangled her little dog
out the window of a mov-
ing car.
“She is the only person
who has raised that notion
— that I am a monster
when I drink, take cocaine
or smoke marijuana,” he
said of Heard, according to
The Sun.
The day’s cross-examina-
tion kicked off with Wass
accusing the actor of hit-
ting Heard in 2013 for
laughing at his infamous
ink — which he’d had al-
tered from “Winona For-
ever” after splitting with
actress Winona Ryder
years earlier.
The laughter “provoked
disappointment” and “then
anger” in the actor, Wass
alleged.
“You slapped her more
than once, because after
you slapped her the first
time, she didn’t react. She
just eyeballed you. She just
stared at you, and that
made you more angry, and
you slapped her again,” the
lawyer said, according to
the Daily Mail.
Depp called it “patently
untrue,” insisting, “I don’t
recall any argument about
any of my tattoos.”
The attorney then ac-
cused him of slapping and
kicking Heard, while call-
ing her a “slut and a
whore,” in 2014 because he
thought she was having an
affair with co-star Franco.
Depp admitted to being
“uncomfortable” with
Heard working again with
her “Pineapple Express”
co-star because she had
previously called him
“creepy and rapey” — and
he believed the two were
having an affair.
But he denied Wass’
claims that he slapped and
kicked Heard during a fight
about Franco on a private
jet — though he conceded
he may have called her “a
go-getter slut and a whore.”
“There is a possibility
Ms. Heard and I had a fight
where those words came
out of my mouth, but I
didn’t go into a rage and
start screaming at
her in front of all
those people,”
Depp said, accord-
ing to the Evening
Standard.
He also beat
back claims he
once dangled
Heard’s teacup
Yorkshire terrier,
Pistol, out a mov-
ing car during an-
other row. insulting any
“That is not my idea of [person] who got near” —
fun,” he said. “Although my Depp said: “I may have
sense of humor is rather done things that I have no
skewed.” memory of.”
Confronted with a text But he insisted, “I am cer-
message he sent to fellow tainly not a violent person
actor Paul Bettany — say- — especially with women.”
ing he’d gone on a binge Additional reporting by
that resulted in a “blackout, Lee Brown, with Wires
screaming obscenities and tlapin@nypost.com
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Protester Weird
faked car
‘Religious’ win true
BUT
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hit: police You can’t call her a “Karen”

A protester who claimed now.
to have been hit by a car on

Justices void birth-control mandate A British writer changed

New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020

Long Island was charged on her name after it became

Wednesday with filing a slang for an entitled white
false report, police said. woman.
Keith Harrison was at a By BoB FrEdEricks provide contraceptives the Poor had asked the jus- employees, in violation of Karen J. Yossman, who con-
Black Lives Matter protest with no co-pay to workers. tices to reverse a lower their religious beliefs. tributes to The Telegraph,
in Huntington Station on The Supreme Court on The group said the act vi- court’s order that blocked “Twice before in this on- said she no longer wants to
Monday when a driver Wednesday upheld ex- olated their religious and the exemptions nation- going saga, the Supreme be associated with the “ster-
struck a marcher with his panded exemptions to the moral beliefs. wide. Court has blocked these eotype” on social media.
SUV, according to police. Affordable Care Act’s birth- The law al- The White overly rigid and misguided She now goes by her ini-
Harrison, 56, allegedly control mandate for employ- lowed for House hailed efforts and sided with reli- tials, KJ.
filed a police report stating ers with religious or moral some exemp- the high gious freedom. Today, it has
that he, too, had been hit — objections. tions for court’s deci- once again vindicated the
but an investigation proved The 7-2 vote, with Justice churches and sion. conscience rights of people These hooters got cen-
otherwise, cops said. Clarence Thomas (inset) other reli- “Today’s of faith.” sored!
Police said that another writing the majority opinion gious organi- Supreme House Speaker Nancy A live video of baby owls
man was injured when An- and Justices Ruth Bader zations. Court ruling Pelosi ripped the ruling. nesting in England was re-
thony Cambareri allegedly Ginsburg and Sonia Soto- But after is a big win “The Supreme Court’s moved by Facebook — which
plowed into the march. mayer dissenting, came in President for religious decision to enable the cited “nudity and sexual
Cambareri has been charged the case of Pennsylvania vs. Trump took freedom and Trump administration’s activity.”
with third-degree assault. Little Sisters of the Poor, a office, the freedom of brutal assault on women’s Graham Moss, who set up
Harrison, meanwhile, was Roman Catholic order that feds in 2017 conscience, “ health, financial security cameras in his garden in
charged with falsely report- had sued over the act’s re- issued a rule it said in a and independence is a fun- Doncaster, said he was baf-
ing an incident. quirement that employers to allow exemptions for statement. damental misreading of the fled by why birds had ruffled
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publicly traded companies. Obama administration at- “The Affordable Care Act It wasn’t clear if any owls or
Under the rule, private tempted to force employ- was explicitly designed to humans had been mating on
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New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020

Air of Menace
Indoor ventilation is key to fighting COVID-19
Protest beat: The Twin Cities in Ruins
The media “might have ‘moved on’ from the riots in Minneapolis, but
residents have nowhere to go,” reports Michael Tracey at The Wall Street
Journal. “Much of the Twin Cities is still in ruins. Boarded-up storefronts
F you’re working in an office still display makeshift notices that read ‘black-owned’ or ‘minority-

I or eating in a restaurant, and

someone 30 feet away exhales
tiny particles of the coronavi-
rus, those particles can drift and
infect you. Picture cigarette
owned’ to ward off further destruction.” Long Her, an immigrant whose
clothing store had much of its inventory looted, says he still hasn’t heard
from authorities. Flora Westbrooks, whose hair salon was burned to the
ground, is waiting for officials to update her on what, if anything, can be
done. Meanwhile, notes Tracey, “ ‘Black Lives Matter’ signs dot the yards
smoke wafting across a room. of countless leafy homes across the area.” Westbrooks’ neighbor, a white

nypost.com
Same thing. The precautions woman, displays one in her window. “Westbrooks, who is black, does not.”
global and federal agencies are
advising aren’t good enough.
Social distancing — keeping six
Urban desk: How To Destroy Cities
feet away — and washing your “On the surface, progressive ‘blue America’ ” seems strong, with Presi-
hands won’t protect you from dent Trump polling poorly and Joe Biden placating his party’s “activist
this airborne virus. That isn’t and identitarian wings” — but, Joel Kotkin notes at Tablet, “woke pro-
fear-mongering. It’s science. gressives” are “undermining their own urban base” through “crushingly
To defeat COVID-19 and re- high taxes, regulatory burdens and dysfunctional schools.” That’s why
open our economy, we all need “New York, Los Angeles and Chicago have lost population” over the last

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to become radical indoor envi- few years, while “the suburbs, exurbs and sprawling cities of the interior”
ronmentalists, shifting our atten- have grown. Instead of trying to reverse the “exodus,” big-city mayors
tion from outdoor air quality to have “conceded enormous credibility” to radicals who believe in “un-
the air we breathe indoors. leashing violence and disorder as an intimidation tactic” — a “riot ideol-
New research from the National New normal: Figures atop Paul’s Daughter diner on Coney Island don ogy” that will “accelerate urban feudalism, driving out middle-class fami-
Academy of Sciences contends masks as science focuses on the role of droplets in spreading the virus. lies and businesses” and “leaving only the lords and the peasants.”
that airborne transmission of the
virus is “highly virulent,” the glasses or goggles. Viral parti- the coronavirus, says Joseph
“dominant” way it spreads. cles can invade eye membranes Gardner Allen from Harvard’s Conservative: Kanye and the ‘Uncancellables’
On Monday, 239 scientists too. The journal Lancet reports School of Public Health. And “Rapper, producer and sneaker salesman Kanye West is almost certainly
jointly announced research that “eye protection is typically against indefinite lockdowns. not running for president,” but just upping his profile
showing “beyond any reasonable under-considered.” Reopening plans proposed by in advance of dropping his next album, argues Ben
doubt” that “viruses are released As for improving indoor safety, most states and the Centers for Sixsmith at Spectator USA. Yet whatever he does, the
during exhalation, talking and kudos to Gov. Cuomo for be- Disease Control and Prevention left can’t destroy him, because he is one of the “peo-
coughing in micro-droplets coming an indoor environmen- overlook the problem of air- ple who somehow transcend cancellation” — like
small enough to talist. At his June borne spread and don’t consider Elon Mush or J.K. Rowling. That doesn’t mean they
remain aloft in 29 briefing, he ex- high-tech remedies. merit “hero worship,” as some on the right opted for
the air” and that pressed concern What the United States needs after West praised President Trump. Still, you “have
can spread across BETSY about the air- is a Green Indoor Deal, an infra- to respect someone who gets rich and starts to say
a room. McCAUGHEY borne virus parti- structure-spending plan to equip whatever they want. What is the point of f-you
They didn’t say cles circulating in workplaces. It would be a bar- money if you never say f-you?” Plus, their ability to
what proportion malls. gain compared to prolonged un- “take heat without apology or ruin . . . exposes the
of infections are caused that way, Unfortunately, he went too far, employment benefits. pack dogs of political correctness as being some-
but the evidence may explain mandating that they install spe- It could also help schools thing less formidable than one might have imagined.” Kanye West
how one “super-spreader” in a cific equipment — HEPA filters reopen. School-aged kids pose
room can infect dozens of other — in their air conditioning, be- the lowest infection risk. Yet
people. fore they’re allowed to reopen. Mayor de Blasio is insisting kids Media watch: Another Baldfaced Lie
The scientists, including engi- Mall owners are pushing back learn from home half the time. According to The New York Times, President Trump stoked “racial
neering experts, urged countries against the HEPA mandate, say- Why? The CDC recommends fears to pit a white voting base against nationwide calls for social justice”
battling the virus to make build- ing the filters won’t work with that students’ desks be spaced in his Mount Rushmore speech — a claim, The Washington Post’s Marc
ings healthier, by improving ven- their existing systems or will six feet apart, making it impossi- Thiessen points out, that isn’t remotely true. In reality, Trump praised
tilation and installing air-clean- cost too much. ble to fit the whole class in one “great black Americans” and “the righteous movement for civil rights.”
ing technologies. Airlines use HEPA. Most recy- room. It’s going to be a night- Because he also criticized radicals who “burn buildings and tear down
Here’s the takeaway: Indoor cle about 30 percent of cabin air mare for parents. statues,” though, the media repeated its “insidious habit” of twisting his
air quality is the key to reopen- through HEPA filters, and ex- The CDC’s antiquated six-foot words to make it seem he was sowing racial animosity. He didn’t; he “de-
ing safely. haust the other 70 percent out of rule ignores that the virus can clared that no one would cancel the American Founding on his watch.” If
The scientists cited research the plane. The cabin air is re- spread through the air and the such “celebrating and defending of our founding principles” is divisive, it
showing how three families at placed about every three minutes. technologies to battle that. “tells us less about Trump” than about “the sad state of our country.”
three different tables in a restau- So a plane is an unlikely place to You may wonder why you ha-
rant in China all became infected become infected by airborne ven’t heard this information
with the virus. One person at ta- COVID-19: A passenger must still from the CDC or the World Libertarian: A Perilous Redefinition of Violence
ble A came in with it, and when worry about people seated close Health Organization. They’re Progressives are waging a “socially corrosive” effort to “radically redefine
he talked, he emitted viral drop- by and about contaminated surfa- behind on the science. On Tues- ‘violence,’ ” warns Reason’s Billy Binion. Current Affairs’ Nathan Robinson
lets that were carried across the ces, but not dirty air. day, WHO grudgingly acknowl- and The New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones, for example, argue that
room in a stream of air-condi- Unfortunately, few indoor spa- edged “the emerging evidence.” “violence” refers only to harming a person, not property. “Human lives are
tioned air, infecting diners at two ces can be fitted like airplanes to It’s airborne, and it’s time to more intrinsically valuable than inanimate objects,” of course, but destroy-
other tables. turn over air in three minutes. deal with that. ing property is still violence, and redefining the word just trivializes the
In a restaurant, you’re mask- But there are other, newer tech- Betsy McCaughey is the chair- struggles of minority business owners now trying to recover from that
less and more vulnerable. The nologies that can be installed to woman of the Committee to Re- destruction. And other left-wingers are expanding the definition with slo-
mounting evidence on airborne combat airborne viruses. duce Infection Deaths and author gans like “Silence Is Violence,” as well as widespread claims that speech
transmission underscores the “Healthy buildings should be of the forthcoming book “The (unwelcome ideas or the wrong pronouns) can be an act of violence. Alas,
importance of masks and eye the first line of defense” against Next Pandemic.” the left’s “incoherent” redefinition effort will only slow down progress on
combatting real violence. — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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How Blas Failed the City:
A Rotten Schools Plan NYers’ Cry for Leadership
New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020

arents are rightly panning Mayor de Teachers told members they had no obliga- It is hardly surprising

P

The Issue: The Post’s call for Mayor de Blasio to
Blasio and Chancellor Richard Car- tion to provide live teaching during the pan- that the city’s quality of
address the city’s spike in violent crime.
ranza’s plan for a half-reopening of city demic — no matter what principals said. life is rapidly deteriorat-
schools come September — a vision It’s one thing for the DOE to be unpre- ing, as each day
that seems to only work for families with at pared when schools suddenly closed in brings more proof of Thank goodness we
least one stay-at-home adult. March. It’s another that, four months later, the disastrous may- have only 18 months
Unless the parents opt for pure remote- the DOE’s remote-learning program re- oralty of Bill de left. Let’s hope he
learning, the scheme has students at the mains of dubious quantity and quality. Blasio (“Bill, do then disappears.
school on a two- and three-day rotating — Plus, the new plan assumes much smaller something!” July 7). Walter Williams
possibly staggered — schedule, with online in-school class sizes — requiring a lot of And it should come Hartsdale
instruction the other days. teachers. Who’s left to run online classes? as no surprise to any-
This, when online “classes” have been a The mayor is making vague promises that one, given the ex- The photo of Mayor
disaster. Last week, parent and veteran city parents won’t have to stay home with kids, treme leftist philoso- de Blasio ostensibly
teacher Jenny Lombard ripped the “abys- though it’s hard to see how that will avoid phy that has guided in a quandary on how
mal” quality of remote teaching at Brooklyn the very crowding that the plan aims to keep his actions right from to deal with the up-
Tech, where her son is enrolled. In a letter to out of the schools: The city doesn’t have the get-go. surge of crime in
school and Department of Education offi- that much excess day-care capacity. His longtime ro- New York City is an
cials, she outlined how her son’s teachers Gov. Cuomo isn’t helping: After de Blasio mance with social- appropriate snapshot.
loaded up students with assignments and announced his so-called plan, the gov reiter- ism has wrought Obviously, the
homework without any actual instruction. ated that no one’s reopening without his OK chaos, as criminal NYPD’s ability to
And Tech is one of the city’s top high and said the state will issue reopening gui- activity in the streets they must be held re- deal with the current up-
schools, which suggests that most schools dance for local school districts next Monday goes unchecked and po- sponsible when they do. surge in crime has been
failed as badly. (Hail to those teachers who, — and judging the districts’ plans starting lice are not given the di- At the same time, curtailed by legislation
despite the lack of support, went all-out to Aug. 1. So it may be back to Square One for rection and support they crime — particularly gun and policies that have
make online learning work.) the city. need. violence — has long benefited the lawless.
Neither de Blasio nor Carranza has ac- One thing’s clear: Working parents (espe- Law and order have be- been a chronic disease in The mayor, City Coun-
knowledged these failures. Then again, both cially single ones) are the last people whose come dirty words, re- America, and New York cil and state officials
went along as the United Federation of needs matter to state and city leaders. placed by crime and dis- City has not been spared. have enacted legislation
order, and de Blasio The reality is: Until we and policies that ham-
blissfully turns a blind reach a collective Uto- string the police.
Supreme-ly Reluctant eye to it all.
David Shapiro
pia, we need cops to
keep us safe.
I’m a bit perplexed as
to why our representa-
ednesday’s headline news from the Su- olic nursing order, has been fighting for years That de Blasio has tives avoid backtracking

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Manhattan
preme Court was less than it seemed, to be exempt from the mandate — citing the failed New York City is on reforms and continue
because the justices never should have First Amendment and the Religious Freedom De
 Blasio and the City unrelated to party poli- curtailing police tactics
had to rule on the point they decided on — Restoration Act, which guarantees protec- Council have effectively tics and totally due to his that have effectively re-
and they dodged the central issue for at least tions for sincerely held religious beliefs. tied the hands of the fin- singular incompetence. duced crime.
the second time. Yet the court (repeating a dodge it took in est police department in Daniel Dolgicer The fear of punish-
The court simply ruled, 7-2, that the a 2016 case) declined to rule on that basic the world, and Gov. Cu- Manhattan ment may have reduced
Trump administration could add a broad re- question, which means that New Jersey and omo sat back and did one’s desire to commit
ligious-freedom exemption to the Obama other states will continue litigating against nothing. I
 used to think that crime, but that no longer
administration’s order that employer health the Little Sisters. The police now have to former Mayors Abe exists thanks to the
plans must include “free” contraceptives. This is particularly bizarre, since the same wonder if a potential ar- Beame and David Dink- mayor and state and city
That’s a no-brainer: One president gets to seven justices on the same day broke differ- rest could result in the ins were the worst may- representatives.
make different decisions from another. ent new ground when it comes to religious end of their career or ors in the history of New John Gargiulo
To be clear, the Trump order was in no protections: They held that Catholic schools even possible arrest. York City. Wrong! De Queens
way an effort to rewrite the ObamaCare law and similar organizations can’t be sued for Cuomo needs to come Blasio has easily become
— which is completely silent on the ques- employment discrimination as long as the down from his mountain the worst. I
 used to love visiting
tion. The “contraceptive mandate” was the (ex-)employee’s duties included any reli- and take his chances on How else do you ex- New York, the best city
work of then-Health Secretary Kathleen Se- gious role, such as teachers’ responsibilities the streets of New York plain his crippling and in the world.
belius as she chose how to apply that law. for students’ moral foundation. Even suits City. Ronald Alois then defunding of the po- Sadly, because of the
The real issue here is whether employers for age or racial discrimination are out — Brooklyn lice, his hiring and then policies of your left-wing
who are morally opposed to contraception the “ministerial exception” is that broad. absolute loyalty to his politicians, the city is too
have to pay for it anyway, as Sebelius in- Next to that, siding clearly with the Little De Blasio isn’t responsi-
 Schools Chancellor Rich- dangerous for me to con-
tended. The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Cath- Sisters’ rights of conscience should be easy. ble for all of the city’s ard Carranza or his ap- sider returning.
woes — but he bears re- pointment of his wife, If city residents decide
sponsibility for the jum- Chirlane McCray, to head in the next election to
‘Piling on’ Amy Cooper bled, inadequate re-
sponse to them.
the mental-health initia-
tive ThriveNYC?
use common sense and
vote for someone like
ringing her more misery just seems like rushed to avoid any spillover bad press. We do need to reform Then there’s his ne- Mayor Rudy Giuliani,

‘B piling on,” Christian Cooper says to ex-

plain why he won’t help Manhattan DA
Cy Vance prosecute Amy Cooper over their
Yet Vance has still charged her with falsely
reporting an incident in the third degree,
which could bring up to a year in prison.
the police by changing
hiring practices, retrain-
ing officers and making it
glect of the MTA and the
various transit services
in New York City.
who knew how to lead, I
am sure my mind would
change. With your cur-
now-infamous Central Park confrontation. (Her arraignment’s set for October.) easier to get rid of bad Boo to our clueless rent Mayor de Bozo,
Sure does: She got slammed across social The case seems beyond iffy — how many cops. Police must not doofus of a mayor, de there’s no chance.
media (and regular media) for calling 911 to 911 calls include similar inaccuracies? — and harm the society they Blasio. This guy doesn’t Steve Novello
report that “an African-American man” is a blatantly political prosecution, though an pledge to protect — and even make an effort. New Hope, Pa.
“threatening myself and my dog” — when unemployed woman still might find it im-
he wasn’t really threatening, just being possible to fight the charges. E-MAIL: letters@nypost.com or WRITE to The Editor, The New York Post, 1211 Avenue of the
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Decry Cancel Culture?

New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020

Sorry, You’re Canceled
NE-hundred fifty luminaries, mostly of the left, signed an impas-

O sioned statement against the intolerance of cancel culture — and

were promptly targeted by intolerant liberals for cancellation.
Liberal culture in 2020 is beyond parody: The maddened mobs that
came for the letter writers proved their point instantly and perfectly.
“A Letter on Justice and Open Debate” appeared Tuesday in Harper’s
Magazine, signed by novelists (Margaret Atwood), academics (Steven
Pinker), journalists (Malcolm Gladwell) and musicians (Wynton Marsa-
lis). They decry “a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments
that tend to weaken our norms of open debate,” with the “free exchange
of information and ideas . . . daily becoming more constricted.” They
worry about “intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming.”
Cancel culture is a beast of the
left, and though the writers are

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against conformity, they were care-
ful to trumpet their #Resistance KELLY JANE
bona fides: “The forces of illiberal- TORRANCE
ism” have “a powerful ally in
Donald Trump, who represents a
real threat to democracy.” But the ture being on the letter makes me
“dogma” and “coercion” they’ve feel less safe at Vox,” because it
“come to expect” on “the radical was also signed by “several promi-
right” is becoming a feature of the nent anti-trans voices” and “con-
#Resistance, and “right-wing dem- tained many dog whistles towards

never ‘never Trump’

ONSERVATIVES have their dis-
Never Trumpers indicated a will-
agogues” are “exploiting” it. anti-trans positions.” (J.K. Rowling,
Indeed, “Donald Trump is the another signer, is a critic of gender
Canceler-in-Chief,” Thomas Chat- ideology; presumably that’s who
terton Williams, who shepherded VanDerWerff had in mind.)
the letter, assured The New York VanDerWerff claims she isn’t
league Max Boot. The hard-line

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agreements with President
Trump, even as they continue to
support him overwhelmingly for
any number of reasons. But a tiny
group — a groupuscule, really — of
self-styled “true conservatives”
would have you believe a large
chunk of the GOP is rooting for his
Democratic opponents to win.
It just so happens that this group-
ingness to call balls and strikes in
the first few months after he won
the election: They vowed to sup-
port Trump when he deserved it
(by their lights) and to criticize
him when he went wrong.
But it didn’t last. Policy-wise, as
Trump became more conserva-
tive, Never Trump turned more
overtly liberal. “The GOP tax bill’s
war hawk — who once fantasized
about imposing on Muslim lands
“the sort of enlightened foreign ad-
ministration once provided by self-
confident Englishmen in jodhpurs”
— now practically sounds like an
Oberlin College wokester, abjectly
confessing his white, male privi-
lege at every turn.
But it’s Never Trump’s role in
Times. Huh? Who has Don can- trying to get Yglesias fired — but
celed lately? at what else would a note like hers
The virtue-signaling wasn’t be aiming?
enough, of course. “ ‘The Letter’ Already, one signer has folded.
was shaped/spearheaded from Writer and trans activist Jennifer
conversations by four privileged Finney Boylan tweeted a mea
white men,” huffed New York culpa: “I did not know who else
Times reporter Farnaz Fassihi. had signed that letter. I thought I
‘ The mobs that came for the letter writers

uscule has massive media influ-
ence, far out of proportion to its im-
portance to the American right. I’m
speaking, of course, of the Never
Trump movement: the coterie of
failed political consultants, self-
proclaimed “experts” and Washing-
ton pundits happy to tell the left
media exactly what they want to
hear about the Trump GOP and to
demoralize ordinary Republicans
in a crucial election year.
From pop-up groups like the Lin-
coln Project and Republicans for
Biden to e-publications like The
Bulwark, Never Trump is follow-
ing a familiar, failed pattern: go all
out for any Democrat running
against Trump. In a tweet this
week, Bill Kristol, Never Trump’s
de facto leader, endorsed the idea
that Illinois Sen. Tammy Duck-
worth, a Democrat, should be the
next vice president.
Here was the founder of The
Weekly Standard, a high official in
the George H.W. Bush administra-
tion and a longtime conservative
figurehead hoping that a left-wing
Democrat replaces a conservative
in office: a left-wing Democrat,
moreover, who recently suggested
she is open to tearing down statues
of George Washington.
It didn’t have to be this way. Hav-
ing opposed his candidacy during
the 2016 GOP primaries, some
bringing out my inner socialist,”
Kristol tweeted in November 2017.
If a tax reform that yielded mas-
sive jobs gains before the COV-
ID-19 lockdowns can bring out the
man’s “inner socialist,” that only
suggests there is no deep convic-
tion in that core.
Washington Post columnist Jen-
Julie Kelly
nifer Rubin has changed her mind
on nearly everything.
In 2015, she suggested that Presi-
dent Barack Obama had promoted
the Paris climate accord to distract
from his many failures. A year
later, she railed against how
“ephemeral Obama’s Paris climate-
change deal is.” In 2017, however,
when Trump pulled out of the
accord, she said the move “signals
solidarity with his climate-change
denial, right-wing base that revels
in scientific illiteracy.”
Likewise in 2015, Rubin de-
nounced Obama’s Iran nuclear
accord as an awful agreement and
cited “10 reasons the Iran deal is
ludicrous.” In 2017, after Trump
pulled out, she fretted that the
move threatens US “credibility.”
Rubin’s flip-flops are only out-
stripped by those of her Post col-
attempting to destroy Trump and
his entourage that is most galling.
All or nearly all of them signed on
to the wildest of the “collusion”
and Steele dossier theories — and
held on even after the Mueller re-
port debunked these hoaxes.
Sen. Mitt Romney, Washington’s
ranking Never Trumper, will go
down in history as the only mem-
ber of the Senate to vote to convict
a president of the same political
party. Many other Never Trumpers
led the charge for appointing a
special counsel in the first place.
At the same time, Never Trump
ignored or justified one of the big-
gest political scandal in American
history: the Obama Justice Depart-
ment’s abuse of its power to sabo-
tage Trump’s campaign and then to
derail his presidency. In 2018,
prominent Never Trumpers backed
a Democratic takeover of the
House and Senate to punish the
GOP; they got half their wish.
Whatever happens in November,
conservatives shouldn’t soon for-
get all this. Just when the nation
needed a true bulwark against an
increasingly radical left, they
betrayed their comrades.
Julie Kelly is author of the new
book “Disloyal Opposition: How
the Never Trump Right Tried And
Failed To Take Down the
President.” Twitter: @Julie_Kelly2
proved their point instantly and perfectly.
“Apparently they felt entitled to re-
ally weigh in on racism, diversity
and inclusion. That says it all.”
Never mind that the spear-
header, Williams, is a black man.
Fassihi is completely condescend-
ing to the many women and non-
white people on the list. Does she
think they can’t possibly have
ideas and opinions of their own?
Can they be nothing more than
tools of “privileged white men”?
Having a diverse demographic
isn’t enough for the new left if the
minorities stand beside people in
the wrong demographic. Anything
uttered by white men is suspect,
even if plenty of others agree.
Reginald Dwayne Betts, a poet
the Times noted “spent more than
eight years in prison for a carjack-
ing,” is particularly concerned
about the “unforgiving nature” of
the culture. Does his experience as
a black man not count?
The letter didn’t list specific
examples of cancel culture, but the
responses to it did them one better.
Emily VanDerWerff wrote to her
Vox editors complaining that an-
other staffer, Matthew Yglesias,
signed the letter. “He has never
been anything but kind to me and
has often supported my work pub-
licly,” she conceded, but “his signa-
’
was endorsing a well-meaning, if
vague, message against Internet
shaming,” she wrote. “I am so
sorry.”
Another letter writer might have
told the Times the same thing —
we don’t know because she would
only speak “on the condition of an-
onymity in an effort to stay out of
the growing storm.”
Countless liberals proved the let-
ter’s point with their outrage at its
warning that an illiberal society
“invariably hurts those who lack
power.”
Two of the signers understand
that intimately. The dissident Garry
Kasparov can’t return to his home
in Russia, for fear that Vladimir Pu-
tin’s henchmen will throw him out
a window for his tireless work for
democracy. Salman Rushdie lived a
fugitive’s life for years after the
Ayatollah Khomeini issued his 1989
fatwa ordering Muslims to kill the
novelist over the “blasphemous”
novel “The Satanic Verses.”
It’s insulting to suggest their
courageousness counts for nothing
because some white men agree
with them. But it says everything
you need to know about today’s
illiberal left. Once they come for
their own, there is no hope for any-
body else. Twitter: @KJTorrance
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United Airlines, hob- The storied New York-based wearing a Brooks Brothers suit
bled by the coronavi- retailer, which operates 200 on the evening he was assassi-
rus-spurred cutdown stores across the US and more nated. Teddy and Franklin D.
on travel, is preparing than 500 worldwide, is the lat- Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy,
to send out as many as est retail bankruptcy casualty Bill Clinton, George W. Bush
36,000 furlough offers of the coronavirus pandemic and Barack Obama also were
to front-line employees, to which Neiman Marcus, touted as clients.
with its flight attend- JCPenney, J.Crew and others Licensing firm Authentic
ants most heavily tar- have succumbed. Brands Group, owner of Bar-
geted. The iconic brand, which neys New York, Forever 21 and
popularized business-uniform Sports Illustrated, is among the
In hand($) staples including striped companies looking at acquir-
Allstate said it’s buy- “repp” ties and buttoned- ing Brooks Brothers, sources
ing National General down shirt collars, has strug- told The Post. But the brand fa-
Holdings for about $4 gled in recent years in an in- ces significant challenges, in-
billion in cash, as it creasingly casual workplace dustry sources say, including
scales up its auto-in- where khakis, jeans and hood- its stuffy image.
surance business at a ies are now de rigueur. “Brooks Brothers is a good
time when drivers are This spring, however, the name, but it is a yesterday
using their cars less of- COVID-19 outbreak not only brand,” Craig Johnson, presi-
ten. shuttered stores but left cus- dent of Customer Growth
tomers hunkered down at Partners. “It’s a style statement
Gold at $1.8K home, working in sweatpants. that’s not as relevant to con-
Gold pushed above Indeed, before the Chapter 11 sumers today as it was a gener-
$1,800 an ounce for the filing, Brooks Brothers had al- ation ago.”
first time since 2011, ready announced plans to Apparel brands are suffering
with analysts predicting close 50 stores. as consumers spend less of
further gains as inves- Although most of its cloth- land City, Queens, where it vestment bank PJ Solomon to to obtain additional financing their disposable income on
tors stock up on an as- ing is imported, Brooks Broth- makes its ties. The company find a buyer, but the crisis and facilitate a sale process in clothing amid the pandemic.
set they expect to hold ers is one of the few US chains manufactures its suits in a fac- threw a wrench into those an efficient manner to maxi- Clothing sales are down 42
its value. that still makes some of its tory in Haverhill, Mass., and its plans. The chain has snagged mize value for our stakehold- percent year to date, according
merchandise domestically. shirts in Garland, NC. $75 million in financing to sup- ers and ensure that our iconic to CGP. Clothing accounts for
Bed Bath bet Last month, the company said Owned by Italian retail ty- port it through the Chapter 11 brand is positioned to continue just 3.8 percent of retail spend-
Bed Bath & Beyond is it may close its three US facto- coon Claudio Del Vecchio, the process, court records show. under new ownership,” a com- ing compared to 9 percent in
permanently closing ries, one of which is in Long Is- company last year hired in- “The purpose of this filing is pany spokesperson told The 2000. nmanskar@nypost.com
about 200 stores in a bet
that the home-goods
chain can ride out the
coronavirus pandemic by
shrinking its bricks-and-
mortar footprint.

Sources: AP, Dow Jones,

Pier 1 Imports in $20M brand sale
By LISA FICKeNSCHeR ports in a bankruptcy auction on the likes of Target, Wayfair and Ama- — only to sell everything off.
Reuters and Post wires Wednesday, co-owner Tai Lopez told zon. Sales were so brisk since the re-
Pier 1 Imports isn’t dead — it’s just The Post. Pier 1 operated 936 stores at the be- openings that the chain was “blowing
heading to the Web. When going-out-of-business sales ginning of the year. When it filed for through Black Friday levels,” Chief

Follow us on The bankrupt home-goods retailer

— which revealed in May it was clos-
ing all of its 540 stores nationwide
after 58 years in business — has sold
the rights to its brand for $20 million
to Retail ECommerce Ventures, a
firm that bought the Dressbarn brand
@NYPOSTBIZ last year.
The licensing firm, which focuses
on distressed assets, won Pier 1 Im-
at stores wrap up in October, the
company will strictly be an e-com-
merce business.
Founded in 1962 in San Mateo, Ca-
lif., under the name Cost Plus Im-
ports, Pier 1 later became a nation-
wide shopping destination for wicker
baskets, candles and glassware.
But in recent years, the retailer fell
victim to rising competition against
bankruptcy protection in February,
the chain had hoped that closing
more than 400 locations would help it
get profitable again.
In March, however, the coronavirus
pandemic forced Pier 1 to shutter its
stores and hurt its efforts to find a
buyer for the company.
Many of the stores began reopening
with the easing of lockdowns in May
Executive Robert Riesbeck said dur-
ing a court hearing.
Pier 1’s woes are part of a larger
trend of once-sturdy retail chains
landing in bankruptcy court.
J.Crew, JCPenney and Neiman Mar-
cus have all filed for bankruptcy, al-
though those chains are looking to
downsize rather than close all loca-
tions.
lfickenscher@nypost.com
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$1.7B pay heyday for Musk
nypost.com
By NicOlAS VegA
Tesla’s supercharged stock rally has
put a $1.7 billion payday within arm’s
reach for Chief Executive Elon Musk.
New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020
Shares of the electric automaker
have soared 40 percent in the past
week, and with a market cap of $253
billion, Tesla blew past Toyota as the
world’s most valuable car company.
More important for Musk, however,
is that Tesla’s six-month stock average
is now at $138 billion. When the aver-
age reaches $150 billion, Musk (right)
F’book civil wrongs
Platform weaponized to suppress voting: audit
By NOAH MANSKAR
Missteps in Facebook’s ef-
forts to clamp down on issues
like voter suppression and
hate speech have created
“significant setbacks for civil
rights,” a sweeping audit of
the company’s practices
found.
The two-year review re-
leased Wednesday and paid
for by Facebook concluded
the company’s approach to
civil-rights issues “remains
too reactive and piecemeal”
despite the progress it has
made in recent years to com-
bat misinformation and dis-
crimination.
The auditors blasted Face-
book’s policy of not fact-
checking posts from politi-
cians in the interest of pro-
tecting free expression over in the 89-page report. “When
equality and non-discrimina- it means that powerful politi-
tion — an approach they
called “deeply troubling.”
“Elevating free expression
is a good thing, but it should
cians do not have to abide by
the same rules that everyone
else does, a hierarchy of
speech is created that privi-
apply to everyone,” Laura W.
Murphy, the civil-rights ex-
pert who led the audit, wrote
leges certain voices over less
powerful voices.”
The audit also criticized
Biogen rises on Alzheimer’s Rx hope
By NOAH MANSKAR
Biogen has asked the feds to let it
market a potentially groundbreaking
treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in
the US, the company said.
The Massachusetts-based biotech
firm asked the Food and Drug Admin-
istration for an expedited review of the
drug known as aducanumab, which
promises to be the first treatment to
will trigger the second tranche in his
eye-popping $50 billion pay package.
Musk would be able to flip the shares
for a profit of $1.7 billion per tranche.
His first stock award vested in May
when Tesla’s six-month average hit
$100 billion, allowing him to buy 1.69
The two tranches combined would
net Musk $3.4 billion in profit.
To earn his full, $50 billion award,
million shares at $350 a pop. At the Musk would have to lead Tesla to a
time, flipping those shares would have market cap of $650 billion by 2028.
landed Musk a profit of roughly $775 Tesla’s board signed off on the com-
million. pensation package in March 2018,
The Tesla boss will be able to pur- when the market cap was $52.46 billion.
chase another 1.69 million shares Musk’s net worth is $54 billion, ac-
when the board certifies that he has cording to Forbes, making him the 19th
unlocked the second tranche. At richest person in the world.
Tesla’s current stock price of $1,365.88, With Post wires
Scathing review
Facebook, headed by Mark Zuckerberg,
released the findings of a damning two-
year audit on Wednesday amid criticism
of its lax approach to hate speech.
‘
These decisions
exposed a major
hole in Facebook’s
understanding and
’
application of civil
rights.
— Facebook audit
Facebook’s decision not to re- company’s own staffers.
move President Trump’s The ballot comments “ef-
posts about “illegal” mail-in
ballots, and chaos that en-
sued in Minneapolis after the
George Floyd protests, draw-
fectively allow the platform
to be weaponized to sup-
press voting,” the auditors
claimed.
ing fire from civil-rights
groups, including
NAACP, and some of the
the
“These decisions exposed a
major hole in Facebook’s un-
derstanding and application
change the course of Alzheimer’s if it’s Biogen said its marketing application
approved. included data from a clinical trial show-
The submission is “the first filing for ing the drug helped slow the decline of
FDA approval of a treatment that ad- memory and the ability to perform
dresses the clinical decline associated household chores and other tasks in
with this devastating condition, as well Alzheimer’s patients who received it.
as the pathology of the disease,” Biogen A second late-stage study did not
Chief Executive Michel Vounatsos said meet its treatment goals, but the com-
in a statement. pany said some data from that trial “are
Shares rose 4.4 percent, to $280.19, on supportive of the outcome” in the suc-
the news. cessful study.
of civil rights,” the report
said. “While these decisions
were made ultimately at the
highest level, we believe civil-
rights expertise was not
sought and applied to the de-
gree it should have been and
the resulting decisions were
devastating.”
Facebook released compre-
hensive findings of the audit
amid mounting criticism of
its lax approach to hate
speech, which has led big
companies such as Verizon
and Coca-Cola to join an ad-
vertising boycott of the social
media giant.
In response, Chief Operat-
ing Officer Sheryl Sandberg
pledged to implement pro-
posals from the auditors and
other advocates and insisted
AP
the move had nothing to do
with the ad boycott.
“This audit has been a deep
analysis of how we can
strengthen and advance civil
rights at every level of our
company — but it is the be-
ginning of the journey, not
the end,” she said.
nmanskar@nypost.com
The FDA has up to 60 days to de-
cide whether to accept Biogen’s ap-
plication for a review, the company
said in a joint statement with Japa-
nese drugmaker Eisai.
The firms have been working to-
gether since October 2017 on aducanu-
mab, which targets a protein called am-
yloid beta that abnormally piles up in
the brains of people with Alzheimer’s.
With Post wires
Twitter
may go
for subs
By NicOlAS VegA
Twitter shares soared 7.3
percent Wednesday after the
company hinted it’s building
a subscription platform code-
named “Gryphon.”
Engineers for a subscrip-
tion platform, Twitter says in
a job listing, are working
closely with Twitter’s pay-
ments team, and the listing is
looking for someone to “lead
the payment and subscrip-
tion client work.”
Twitter last year struck a
truce with billionaire Paul
Singer’s hedge fund Elliott
Management, which was
looking to oust Chief Execu-
tive Jack Dorsey over the
company’s weak stock per-
formance compared with
other social-networking gi-
ants.
As a part of the truce, Twit-
ter agreed to “accelerate reve-
nue growth on a year-over-
year basis and gain share in the
digital advertising market.”
A representative for Twit-
ter did not respond to a re-
quest for comment.
The stock climb also came
as Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo said that the govern-
ment was looking at banning
popular social media app
TikTok because of its con-
nections to China.
The top US diplomat said
Americans should be careful
using the app, which is
owned by China-based Byte-
Dance.
Shares jumped $2.42, to
$35.41. nvega@nypost.com
Nvidia’s
in charge
In a semiconductor industry
milestone, Nvidia’s shares rose
2.3 percent in afternoon trad-
ing on Wednesday to a record
$404, putting the graphic com-
ponent maker’s market cap at
$248 billion, just above the
$246 billion value of Intel, once
the world’s leading chipmaker.
It closed at $408.64, up 3.5 per-
cent.
While Intel’s stock is down
3 percent in 2020, Nvidia has
surged 68 percent, with ana-
lysts forecasting a revenue
rise of 34 percent in its cur-
rent fiscal year to $14.6 bil-
lion. Reuters
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GIVES IT
THE GAS
Shepard Smith
Peacock network pick.

Smith
signs on May ax stations for deal

nypost.com
at CNBC EXCLUSIVE
restaurants, sources said.
“Every C-store wants to
offer more fresh food,” an
By ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD By JOSH KOSMAN industry source said. “That
is the trend.”
Former Fox News anchor Shipping fee: Federal prosecutors say Former Nissan The owner of Circle K is The Canadian company
Shepard Smith is set to join CEO Carlos Ghosn sent close to $900,000 to one of the angling to sell a chunk of its wants to step lightly with
CNBC as the host of a new men who assisted in his escape from Japan. Getty Images gas stations to quell possible the FTC, one source added,
nightly newscast. antitrust concerns as it eyes noting that it was forced by
The 56-year-old newscaster a possible acquisition of the the agency earlier this week
to pay a $3.5 million penalty

will host an hourlong weekday
broadcast at 7 p.m. called “The
News with Shepard Smith,”
which is expected to start in
the fall, the network said.
Smith, who spent 23 years at
Fox, left the network last Octo-
ber, telling news outlets that he
asked the network to let him
out of his contract so he could
start “a new chapter.” Fox
News shares a common owner
with News Corp., the pub-
lisher of The Post.
Smith has stayed tight-
lipped on his future plans but
said in a statement Wednesday
that he was “honored to con-
tinue to pursue the truth, both
for CNBC’s loyal viewers and
for those who have been fol-
lowing my reporting for dec-
ades in good times and in bad.”
Smith is the first big-talent
hire following NBCUniversal’s
move to reunite NBC News,
MSNBC and CNBC under
uber news boss Cesar Conde.
AMC deadline
Ghosn’s US rescuer
is $900K richer: feds
By NOAH MANSKAR
Fugitive auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn wired
nearly $900,000 to one of the Americans ac-
cused of aiding his dramatic escape from Ja-
pan, the feds said.
The former Nissan boss sent two payments
worth $862,500 in October 2019 to a com-
pany controlled by Peter Taylor, who helped
Ghosn flee Tokyo for Beirut roughly two
months later, federal prosecutors said in a
court filing.
The feds offered the transfers as further ev-
idence that Taylor and his father, ex-Green
Beret Michael Taylor, should remain behind
bars while they await extradition to Japan as
their lawyers tried to free them from a coro-
navirus-plagued lockup.
Japanese officials have asked the US to ex-
tradite the duo on allegations they helped
Ghosn skip bail while he was awaiting trial on
financial-crime charges. Ghosn, 66, has de-
nied the allegations and said he fled “perse-
cution.”
Lawyers for the Taylors asked a federal
judge Monday to release them from the Mas-
sachusetts jail where they’ve been held for
more than six weeks, citing a coronavirus
outbreak. Some three dozen inmates and
staff at the jail have caught COVID-19 and
one inmate died of the bug last week, accord-
ing to a motion for the Taylors’ release.
The risk of the virus “is particularly acute
for Michael Taylor, who had an earlier lung
surgery, which places him at a heightened
risk of serious injury or death should he con-
tract COVID-19,” the filing said.
But federal prosecutors say the wire trans-
fers from Ghosn indicate the Taylors “have
the resources with which to flee and there-
fore should continue to remain detained as
flight risks.” Ghosn sent the money from a
Paris bank account to Promote Fox LLC,
which is managed by Peter Taylor and his
brother, according to the prosecutors’ filing.
Speedway chain, The Post
has learned.
Alimentation Couche-Tard
— a Canada-based conve-
nience-store giant whose
chain of nearly 8,000 Circle
K stores in the US includes
5,900 gas stations — has
launched a process to sell
1,250 gas stations that are
near Speedways, sources
close to the situation said.
Couche-Tard is looking to
raise about $4 billion with
the sale, which would likely
be contingent on a deal to
buy all of Speedway’s 3,800
locations from Marathon
Petroleum. Marathon, which
recently revived an auction
of Speedway after it got de-
railed in March by the coro-
navirus, is being prodded by
billionaire Paul Singer to di-
vest Speedway.
Other possible Speedway
suitors include Seven & I
Holdings, the Japan-based
owner of 7-Eleven, which had
been nearing a deal to buy
Speedway for $20 billion be-
fore the pandemic hit, ac-
cording to The Wall Street
over allegations it had vio-
lated a 2018 order requiring
it to sell 10 stations in Min-
nesota and Wisconsin after
a smaller acquisition.
Convenience stores with
gas stations make about half
their money from fuel, but
the other half that’s from in-
store purchases carries
much richer profit margins
as high as 40 percent, an in-
dustry source said.
Last month, analysts at Bar-
clays estimated Couche-Tard,
which also owns 500 Holiday
gas stations in the Upper Mid-
west, may have to divest 1,036
Speedway stores in a merger
if the FTC forbids it from
owning more than 35 percent
of gas-and-convenience
stores in any given market.
In Minneapolis, Couche-
Tard has 223 Holidays and
there are 80 Speedways,
comprising a whopping 80
percent of the local market,
Barclays said. The concen-
tration would be similar in
other cities including Cin-
cinnati, Detroit and Tucson,

gets extended Journal. Marathon is also Ariz., the bank added.

AMC Entertainment saw

its stock surge nearly 10 per-
cent Wednesday on reports
that it’s nearing a debt re-
structuring deal to avoid
bankruptcy.
AMC has been trying for
weeks to get bondholders to
agree to swap debt at a dis-
count but only a small per-
centage had agreed as of
June 30. On Tuesday, the firm
said in a securities filing that
lenders had extended the
deadline. Alexandra Steigrad
GM racketeering suit tossed
A federal judge on
Wednesday threw out a rack-
eteering lawsuit General
Motors had filed against Fiat
Chrysler, saying the auto-
maker’s alleged injuries were
not caused by the rival’s al-
leged violations.
GM officials said in state-
ment they “strongly disagree”
with the order by US District
Court Judge Paul Borman,
whom the automaker had
sought to have removed from
the case, and would appeal.
“There is more than enough
evidence from the guilty pleas
of former [Fiat Chrysler] exec-
utives to conclude that the
company engaged in racket-
eering, our complaint was
timely and showed in detail
how their multimillion-dollar
bribes caused direct harm to
GM,” GM said in a statement.
The Detroit company added
that Borman’s decision “would
let wrongdoers off the hook.”
GM filed the racketeering
lawsuit last November, alleg-
ing its rival bribed United Auto
Workers union officials over
many years to corrupt the bar-
gaining process and gain ad-
vantages, costing GM billions
of dollars.
Fiat Chrysler had called the
case meritless and asked Bor-
man to dismiss it. Reuters
mulling a possible spinoff of
Speedway, sources said.
Quebec-based Couche-
Tard didn’t return calls. Mar-
athon, based in Ohio, de-
clined to comment on re-
ports it has restarted its sale.
Couche-Tard may be look-
ing to appease the Federal
Trade Commission, which
could be concerned that a
combination of the two big-
gest gas-and-convenience-
store chains could raise food
prices at those locations, es-
pecially during a time when
less people are going out to
In New York City, there
are 186 Speedways and only
21 Circle Ks, so the combina-
tion would result in a likely
acceptable 28 percent mar-
ket share, Barclays said.
“While we certainly hope
the FTC would take a much
broader approach at assess-
ing the size of the industry
the C-stores compete in —
including dollar stores, club
stores, grocery stores, etc. …
historically, definitions have
been largely limited to the
exact vertical,” Barclays said.
jkosman@nypost.com
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Tiny house
residents are
riding out the
pandemic in the
closest quarters
By Jordi Lippe-McGrAw

J
usT weeks after the country
shut down due to the corona-
virus, cabin fever set in. After
all, being confined to a small
space can make anyone go
nuts. But some were stuck in
especially cozy confines: tiny house
dwellers.
The median size of an American
single-family home is roughly 1,600
square feet, according to listings
sites Zillow and Redfin. But most
tiny houses are well under 300
square feet. Living and working so
close to partners, kids and pets —
especially in bad weather — was a
big deal. Here, four tiny house own-
ers share how they survived lock-
down.

Shannon and Tim Soine, Rochester, NY

Raising a baby in 210 square feet is already a challenge. Add a health crisis
into the mix and it seems downright impossible. But that’s what happened to
Tim, 35, and Shannon, 34, after they welcomed son Nico in January. “When Tim
started to work from home, it created some unanticipated challenges,” Shan-
non says. A product line manager, Tim juggles frequent conference calls,
which didn’t mix well with newborn naps. Shannon bought
a sound machine to drown out the chatter. Adding to the
After ruckus, one of their two dogs ended up in a cone after sur-
New York’s stay- gery. The pair used their non-home vehicles as refuges dur-
at-home order took ing the coldest months. “Tim started taking calls from his
effect in March, truck, and we used the cars as extra storage to stock up on
Shannon and Tim Soine groceries,” says Shannon. They wouldn’t trade it. “So many
juggled new infant Nico, people are struggling financially, and we’ve been saving
two dogs and working money since paying off our debt last fall,” Shannon says. “It
from their 210-square- feels good to know that when something like this happens,
foot home on we’re okay because we’ve chosen to live this way.”
wheels (inset).
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Their little
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Amy Garner and John McCarthy in

New Haven, Conn.
When two married Pilates instructors gave up their four-bedroom home
in rural Connecticut for a 344-square-foot house on wheels, they never ex-
pected to be stuck inside it. The social couple, who chose New Haven for
access to restaurants and nightlife, opted for tiny living to have the finan-
cial means to travel more. But going abroad isn’t an option anymore.
“We chose this life to travel at least once a month,” says McCarthy, 35.
“Since we don’t have that to look forward to, it’s led to feelings of being
cooped up. Also, not being able to see our friends is hard.”
The pair usually throws an annual tiny house party each June and often
has international friends stay with them. That didn’t happen this year.
Luckily, the fitness buffs stayed busy hosting virtual workout sessions for
their clients. “We still go to our studio at the same time every day. It’s just
we don’t have in-person classes,” Garner, 33, says. “That’s helped me keep a
sense of normalcy in this situation.”
Their riverfront location and access to nearby parks helped with feeling
less claustrophobic. “We’re lucky we decided to park about 5 feet from a
river,” says McCarthy. “It’s beautiful and relaxing. That view has made all
the difference.” Their advice for others in close quarters is simple. “Keep
your space tidy,” says McCarthy. “It helps keep you sane.” Plus, the internet,
books and impromptu photo shoots of your dog help.

Tim Davidson and Sam Cosner

in Sarasota, Fla.
After living in a
270-square-foot
tiny house on
wheels dubbed
“Tiffany” for its
stained glass
windows for
three years, Da-
vidson, a 30-
year-old lighting
salesman, and
Cosner decided to
upgrade during
the pandemic. In
June, they moved
into a whopping
320-square-foot Barbara and Bob Ienuso in Saugerties, NY
home on a foun-
dation. Florida residents Barbara and Bob Ienuso actu-
“We are both so ally chose to live in a tiny backyard home during
attached to a the pandemic. They swapped their more tradi-
smaller lifestyle,” tionally sized abode for a 240-square-foot house
says Cosner, 28. on wheels in the Hudson Valley to be closer to
Although when their four grandchildren.
they started “We figured it would be a great time to come
building the oc- visit family, help out with the kids and not be
tagon-shaped, bored,” says Barbara, whose son Bob and daugh-
weather-proof house in August, they never envisioned they’d be living in it or Tif- ter-in-law Esther build tiny houses for a living
fany during a pandemic. “It’s been a big adjustment,” says Davidson. “I’m usually on through their company Willowbee Tiny Homes.
the road for work, and now that I have to work from home, I’m not as comforta- For the retired pair, the tighter living quarters unique opportunity, especially during this pan-
ble [in the smaller space]. And we haven’t been able to see friends and get out like were actually a welcome change: less cleaning demic and quarantine,” Bob says. “They allow
we used to.” While those problems are shared by most Americans — albeit many and more time outside with their (now much ‘home’ to be anywhere you choose.”
who can retreat to larger houses — there was one issue they had to troubleshoot closer) loved ones. “We are very active here and Of course, while they love spending time with
immediately: storage. “We couldn’t stock up on items at Costco like everyone else, created a small bird garden that we tend to with their “grandbabies,” there are some little things
but didn’t want to go to the grocery store all the time,” says Cosner. The solution? the kids,” Barbara says. “When you’re in a bigger that take getting used to. Their first-floor bed-
“We took all of the air out of any food bags to make them fit in the cabinet,” Da- house, you tend to stay inside.” room is a tight squeeze. “The hardest part is get-
vidson says . “Plus, we started storing things under the couch, in the ottoman, etc. Bob agreed that having his parents live in one ting around the foot of my bed, which is about 18
There was a lot of rearranging to make it work. But we figured it out.” of his creations during a stressful time has inches,” Barbara says. “But it sure beats climbing
boosted everyone’s moods. “Tiny homes give a into a loft!”
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by Forty Niner. Irad has owned the meet. ALDA closed from 14 lengths out
Anthony Rendon 18/1
to get within a length of the winner in her opener. Dangerous 2nd time 7 Belleza(L),124 I Ortiz, Jr 2-10-x Rice 3-1 8 Arithmetic ,120 H Diaz, Jr 2-1-1 Miranda 20-1
Aaron Judge 20/1

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around getting another furlong. FRANKEL AT ASCOT French filly is the
8 Sander's Empire(L),119 R Maragh 5-4-8 Williams 30-1
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daughter of, yes, Frankel. J Ortiz rides the debuter for Casse.
1 mile; $66,000; alw; 3up(f) Rafael Devers 25/1
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 9 Giant Stella ,111 L Cardenas x-x-x Morrison 20-1
More ground for MRS DANVERS after getting up for 2nd in her 3YO

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Shohei Ohtani 25/1
1 Contained ,119 M Franco x-x-x Duarte 8-1 debut. Earned diploma at Spa previous start. Tapit gray gets up under J
2 Alda ,119 J Velazquez 3-x-x Motion 9-5  1 1/16m(T); $42,000; clm($35,000); 3up
Some noise from QUIET OUT EAST. Went dirt to turf (his preferred
Ortiz. GRAND CLU CLASSE smashed her debut by 8+ sprinting in the slop at
Gulfstream. Mott has her competitively spotted; gets Johnny V to ride.
Jose Ramirez 25/1
Gerrit Cole 30/1
3 Trewish ,119 J Ruiz x-x-x Salzman 20-1 surface) and powered off the pace to win. Proven at this longer distance. MAIDEN BEAUTY was 4th, a 1/2 dozen back of Mrs Danvers. Won twice at a
CC RIDER switches to turf 2nd off the layoff for Matz. 0 for 6 on grass but a mile last year. Has 2 wins at Belmont; rest of field is unproven. Best value. Marcus Semien 35/1
4 Illegal Smile ,119 D Davis 7-x-x Ward 8-1 close 2nd with better last summer. Johnny V on the Florida invader. DOVEY LOVEY drags a modest win streak from Big A. Meets better; 0 for 2 DJ LeMahieu 40/1
UHTRED was a tired 5th in his seasonal. Improves, 2nd off the shelf at distance.
5 Funwhileitlasted ,119 K Carmouche 5-x-x Sweezey 12-1
stretching to distance where he's 2 for 4. Castellano replaces Alvarado. PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds Giancarlo Stanton 40/1
6 Frankel At Ascot ,119 J Ortiz x-x-x Casse 5-2 Rides TRICKY MAGICIAN for Casse. Jose Altuve 40/1
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 2 Grand Cru Classe(L),118 J Velazquez 1-x-x Mott 2-1
7 Steal My Sunshine ,119 I Ortiz, Jr x-x-x Ward 5-2 J.D. Martinez 40/1

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1 Monaghan(L),119 R Maragh 9-5-1 Nevin 30-1 3 The Great Johanna(L),126 K Carmouche 4-1-8 Ferraro 8-1

 6 fur; $27,000; clm($10,000); 3up Yoan Moncada 40/1

2 Tricky Magician(L),126 J Alvarado 7-2-6 Casse 12-1 1 a-Cobra Sophie(L),124 B Hernandez 6-5-5 Kantarmaci 10-1
Racing at Laurel off the 14 month layoff STONEY BENNETT ran well, Matt Chapman 40/1
but a length short. Won 5 of 10 prior to the break. Should wire this bunch 3 War Film(L),124 J Ortiz 5-2-5 Asmussen 5-1 4 Dovey Lovey(L),117 H Harkie 1-1-3 Ferraro 20-1
Xander Bogaerts 50/1
with Franco up. JAVELIN is in an extended losing skid and is 0 for 13 at
4 Channel Island(L),124 I Ortiz, Jr 4-11-1 Maker 6-1 1A a-Excess Capacity(L),126 I Ortiz, Jr 6-7-3 Kantarmaci 10-1
Belmont. 2nd best twice here in June. Again? ZONIC was last of 9 after Jose Abreu 50/1
scoring 2 back. Runs off the Noda claim. Cancel replaces Gutierrez; moves 5 Another(L),124 J Lezcano 9-3-11 Kantarmaci 7-2 5 Mrs. Danvers(L),118 J Ortiz 2-1-3 McGaughey III 3-5 Vlad Guerrero Jr. 50/1
to SWIPING DAN.
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 6 Quiet Out East(L),126 M Franco 1-7-4 Cox 4-1 6 Maiden Beauty(L),126 D Davis 4-2-1 B Brown 12-1 Matt Olson 50/1

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7 Uhtred(L),124 J Castellano 5-3-4 Clement 6-1 Eloy Jimenez 60/1
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1 Vincero(L),123 H Diaz, Jr 7-7-5 Jones 12-1
1 1/16m(T); $39,000; mdn clm($40,000); 3up(f)
2 Tipsy Moose(L),123 B Hernandez 7-8-3 Sciacca 20-1 8 Riendo(L),124 K Carmouche 6-9-6 Schosberg 20-1 George Springer 60/1
COME STORMING finished 1 1/2 lengths short last pair. SIMPLY
9 C C Rider(L),124 J Velazquez 3-7-2 Matz 3-1 MISS RED (2nd), FLEET STEPPER (5th) and WICKED HAPPY (4th at 85-1) Favorites to win
3 Stoney Bennett(L),123 M Franco 2-2-1 Rice 4-5

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here weeks ago.
2020 NL MVP
4 Tale of Mist(L),118
5 Zonic(L),125
R Maragh
E Cancel
4-7-5
9-1-3
Persaud
Noda
12-1
6-1
 7 fur; $64,000; mdn; 3up(f)
If the price is right SKY QUEEN is worth a look. Showed 3rd here
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds
PLAYER ODDS
2 Fleet Stepper(L),118 M Franco 5-x-x Clement 4-1
weeks ago. 2nd best after leading late at Aqueduct. 7/8 may be the ticket. Ronald Acuna Jr. 5/1
6 Massey Hall(L),116 L Cardenas 12-5-6 Noda 30-1 BACK CHANNEL Clear 2nd after arguing the lead in her 6 1/2 furlong debut. 3 Hard Won(L),118 R Gutierrez 9-3-3 Gyarmati 20-1
ORSAY Turf to dirt off the layoff for Brown. Debuted a non-threatening 3rd Christian Yelich 6/1
7 Swiping Dan(L),123 R Gutierrez 5-6-7 Dharamjit 20-1 4 Come Storming(L),125 J Castellano 3-4-4 Bush 2-1
on dirt here in October. HARLEM HEIGHTS makes seasonal for Shug. Mookie Betts 13/2
8 Javelin(L),123 I Ortiz, Jr 2-2-3 Atras 4-1 Distant 3rd in year ender. Motts SIMPLY SWEET is a live 1st timer.
5 Toastnjam(L),118 J Ortiz 11-6-5 Kimmel 12-1 Juan Soto 17/2
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds
9 Moneymeister(L),125 K Carmouche 4-4-1 Ferraro 8-1
Fernando Tatis Jr. 10/1

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6 Simply Miss Red(L),125 E Cancel 2-6-2 Donk 7-2
1 Sky Queen(L),118 E Cancel 3-2-4 Breen 8-1

 1 1/4 miles(T); $66,000; alw; 3up(f)

Ten furlongs on the lawn. French bred EBONY makes US/seasonal
2 Pop a Choc(L),118 J Velazquez 8-4-x Casse 12-1 7 Matador Moon(L),125 J Velazquez 7-x-x Terranova II 6-1 Cody Bellinger 10/1
8 Shine Like Bobby(M),118 B Hernandez 12-5-5 Persaud 30-1 Nolan Arenado 15/1
debut for Motion. 0 for 6 on turf but runnerup 3 of last 5 going long on 3 Buyer's Remorse(L),118 K Carmouche 5-4-5 O'Neill 12-1
French grass. 1st time lasix; 1st time Irad. HUNGRY KITTEN was a fast 9 Plimsoll Anny(L),125 T Howell 11-11-10 Quiles 50-1
Javier Baez 22/1
4 Orsay(L),118 I Ortiz, Jr 8-3-x C Brown 3-1
closing 4th then a wide 6th. Stretches out for Shug; rider change to J Ortiz. Bryce Harper 22/1
NO MO TEMPER returns after 7 months for Casse. Ran evenly, 3rd best 5 Venus Oyzo(L),111 L Cardenas 5-7-x Persaud 30-1 10 Wicked Happy(L),113 R Maragh 4-3-8 Gyarmati 6-1
prior to break; graduated previous grass start. May relish the additional Manny Machado 28/1
yardage. Alvarado up; best value. WHATDOESASHARKSAY is proven at 6 Back Channel(L),118 J Lezcano 2-x-x Rice 5-2 11 Wishes and Dreams(L),111 L Cardenas 9-5-4 Summers 20-1
Pete Alonso 30/1
distance. 7 Simply Sweet(M),118 J Alvarado x-x-x Mott 6-1 1 a-Acting Chipper(L),120 R Maragh 3-7-3 Nevin 6-5
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds Jacob deGrom 30/1
8 Capraia's Destiny ,119 R Maragh 4-x-x Hanan 30-1 12 Queen Daveigh ,118 H Diaz, Jr 7-10-x Laxmeter 50-1
1 Wicked Amber ,109 L Cardenas 7-6-5 Persaud 30-1 Kris Bryant 30/1
9 Fast Chica(M),118 M Franco x-x-x Asmussen 10-1 1A a-We Are Family(L),125 M Franco 7-2-3 Nevin 6-5 Charlie Blackmon 40/1
2 Whatdoesasharksay(L),124 K Carmouche 4-5-10 Toner 4-1
10 Harlem Heights(L),118 J Ortiz 3-4-x McGaughey III 9-2 Paul Goldschmidt 40/1

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3 No Mo Temper(L),124 J Alvarado 3-7-1 Casse 8-1

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PLAY OF THE DAY
1 1/8 miles(T); $66,000; alw; 3YO Ketel Marte 40/1
4 Ebony(M),124 I Ortiz, Jr 7-4-2 Motion 1-1
More than dozen lengths out SHAMROCKET picked up speed and Anthony Rizzo 50/1
5 Hungry Kitten(L),124 J Ortiz 6-4-10 McGaughey III 3-1 zoomed by the field to graduate traveling 1 1/4 miles. Alvarado will have to Trevor Story 50/1
6 Setting the Mood(L),118 J Velazquez 6-1-2 Pletcher 9-2 stay closer, tightening an 1/8. Only horse proven over the course. Can
Too Sexy teased us again, running home

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outkick NO WORD who rallied for 3rd at a mile then 1 1/4 miles. ON BASE Rhys Hoskins 50/1
2nd best on Sunday. But Kid Chocolate won
 6 1/2 fur; $39,000; mdn clm($40,000); 3up(f) stretched to this distance and won at 2nd asking. Castellano picks up the Max Scherzer 50/1
Tampa shipper. BUY ME CANDY (2nd, this distance) and ASSIDUOUSLY at odds of 9-2. Our $39 profit on the day cut
Love LOVE ME TOMORROW going turf to dirt for Avila. Trainer has a (3rd at a mile) in their latest. Trea Turner 60/1
rich ROI off the switch. Neck short this level/distance latest on dirt.
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds our losses for the meet to just $22.50.
ALLURE FORTUNE was 9th of 12 with better off the layoff. Drops..blinkers Josh Bell 60/1
on. BELLEZA ran a distant 2nd before going on the shelf in November.
Race 6: Sky Queen ran 3rd earlier in the
1 Our Country(L),122 M Franco 6-3-8 Weaver 9-2
Moves lower for Rice. MADAM DEPUTY debuts for Cox/Castellano. meet. Placed 2nd after leading late two starts ENGLISH
PN Horse Wt. Jockey Last 3 Trainer Odds 2 Assiduously(L),122 I Ortiz, Jr 3-1-6 C Brown 6-1 back at Aqueduct. May reign turning back to PREMIER LEAGUE
1 Buffet(M),118 E Cancel x-x-x Hennig 10-1 3 On Base(L),122 J Castellano 1-10-x Thomas 5-1 seven furlongs. Play $10 across the board. Tottenham at
4 Shamrocket(L),122 J Alvarado 1-2-3 Clement 4-1 — Vic Cangialosi Bournemouth (Thur.)
2 Central Exit(L),118 J Vargas, Jr 4-2-9 Terranova II 6-1
3-WAY BETTING ODDS
3 Funderella(L),117 H Harkie 7-9-5 Simmonds 30-1
Debbie Little at Yonkers Tottenham -150
FIRST: Mile pace; $9,375; cond 4 Family Roll Call (TBeyer) 3-2-6 12-1 8 Machiatto A (JBongiorno) 2-4-1 5-1 Draw +305
5 Line Dancer (ASiegelman) 7-3-3 8-5 6 Half A Virgin (PBerry) 6-2-6 20-1 2 FastOnTheDraw(ASiegelmn) 1-3-7 20-1 Bournemouth +390
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8 Majorette Angie
(BHolland) 5-2-8 9-5
(DDube) 5-1-5 7-1
7 Bullville Bren (ASiegelman) 2-3-4 20-1
FOURTH: Mile pace; $20,250; cond
4 Notabadgame
5 Fine Diamond
(JStratton) 2-3-1
(BHolland) 8-5-2
9-2
9-2 Southampton at
2 Real Roxy (JBongiorno) 8-6-4 15-1 4 Machnhope (PBerry) 4-1-6 5-2 6 Kept Under Wraps A (DDube) 9-6-6 20-1
3 Spilling TheBeans(JStratton) 3-3-6 5-1 5 Lispatty (ASiegelman) 3-1-1 3-1 7 Tom Me Gun N (PBerry) 1-7-1 20-1 Everton (Thur.)
3 2 1 4 6 8 7 5 9 5 1 2 8 3 4 6 9 7 4 Three Rocks (TBeyer) 7-7-1 20-1 3 Rockin The BoysA (BHolland) 1-3-3 7-1 SEVENTH: Mile pace; $14,250; cond 3-WAY BETTING ODDS
6 KamwoodLaughterN (Berry) 6-4-5 20-1 1 Neverforgetwhour (Bongirn) 2-5-3 4-1 1 Ronnies Rocket (JBongiorno) 3-7-1 2-1
9 4 6 5 1 7 8 2 3 8 3 6 9 7 2 1 5 4 7 Rock N Roll Rosie(GBrennan) 1-4-5 20-1 2 Anytime N (JStratton) 8-2-2 4-1 5 Abraxas Blues A (GBrennan) 5-5-7 3-1 Southampton +260
SECOND: Mile pace; $9,375; cond 6 Ambro Courage N (TBeyer) 3-1-1 20-1 7 Military Master A (BHolland) 1-3-7 4-1
5 7 8 3 9 2 1 6 4 9 4 7 6 5 1 3 8 2 3 Bronze Over N (GBrennan) 2-7-3 1-1 7 Sandy Win (DDube) 7-7-3 20-1 2 Kaboom Pow (TBeyer) 6-7-6 20-1
Draw +265
2 9 5 8 3 1 4 7 6 6 2 8 7 4 5 9 1 3 4 Livinginthedream (PBerry) 1-2-5 3-1 8 Scandalicious (GBrennan) 5-8-5 20-1 3 LinkjackHanover(ASegelmn) 8-2-4 6-1 Everton Even
8 HeavensChallenge (Bongirn) 3-4-8 8-1 FIFTH: Mile pace; $17,250; cond 4 Treasure Mach (PBerry) 1-1-6 6-1
6 1 7 9 4 5 2 3 8 1 9 4 3 6 8 2 7 5 1 Caviart Scarlett (BHolland) 5-6-8 6-1 3 Feelin Red Hot (GBrennan) 4-2-1 7-5 6 Aston Hill Dave (JStratton) 8-2-5 20-1 Manchester United
2 Mylittlesurfergirl (DDube) 4-7-2 20-1 4 Quite A Delight N (DDube) 2-4-4 7-1 8 Canbec Kingkazimir (DDube) 2-1-1 20-1 at Aston Villa (Thur.)
8 3 4 2 7 6 9 1 5 7 5 3 1 2 9 8 4 6 5 Sweet You (JStratton) 1-6-4 15-1 6 Tellawoman (JBongiorno) 1-7-3 9-1 EIGHTH: Mile pace; $17,250; cond
6 Vintage Babe (ASiegelman) 7-10-8 20-1 1 Easy Three (TBeyer) 3-1-7 5-1 4 Talent Soup (ASiegelman) 5-1-3 4-1 3-WAY BETTING ODDS
7 5 9 1 8 3 6 4 2 3 8 5 2 1 7 4 6 9 7 Machin Marley (TBeyer) 2-6-5 20-1 2 DongalRundlscrkN (BHollnd) 7-10-8 20-1 2 SaulsbrookDeputy (Bongirn) 4-6-1 3-1
Manchester United -315
THIRD: Mile pace; $14,250; cond 5 Rose Run Toni (ASiegelman) 3-1-8 6-1 5 Orillia Joe (BHolland) 1-6-8 7-2
4 6 2 7 5 9 3 8 1 2 7 9 4 8 6 5 3 1 1 Keystone Nikki (JStratton) 2-4-2 2-1 7 Classy Chapel N (PBerry) 4-2-2 20-1 1 Zach Maguire N (TBeyer) 2-3-2 12-1 Draw +425
5 Sezana N (JBongiorno) 1-5-1 5-2 8 My Ruebe Star N (JStratton) 1-1-2 5-1 3 Majestic Kiwi N (GBrennan) 6-4-9 7-1
1 8 3 6 2 4 5 9 7 4 6 1 5 9 3 7 2 8 8 Our Miss Reese (GBrennan) 1-8-1 9-1 SIXTH: Mile pace; $14,250; cond 6 Triple Seelster (DDube) 5-4-6 20-1 Aston Villa +870
Solution to Very Easy #5,143 Solution to Difficult #4,933 2 Color Envy (DDube) 2-4-3 9-2 1 Vague Traces (GBrennan) 1-3-2 8-5 7 Yayas Hot Spot N (JStratton) 1-1-X 7-1 (All odds by William Hill)
3 MilliondollargemA (BHollnd) 10-8-9 9-2 3 Wind Blast (TBeyer) 1-1-4 9-2 8 Betterlatethnnever (PBerry) 1-2-2 4-1
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Nuggets 2½ Heat After months of waiting, demic, again potentially foreshadowing a that each of our schools is adopting as part
Jazz 1 Thunder Inter Miami CF 0 3 0 0 2 5 New York will finally have nationwide shutdown of college athletics. of its reopening plans this fall.”
Clippers 5½ Pelicans WEST W L D Pts GF GA one of its teams play a real Winter sports, including basketball, won’t Though the Ivy League was prescient —
76ers 5 Pacers
Sporting K.C. 2 0 0 6 7 1 game. begin until Jan. 1, if at all. and initially faced some criticism — in lead-
Lakers 4 Raptors NYCFC returns to action In March, the Ivy League was first to make ing the charge of cancellations in March,
Minn. United 2 0 0 6 8 3
All odds from William Hill against the Philadelphia Un- the unprecedented decision to cancel its FBS programs are less likely to follow its
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will be the second game of the coronavirus. Every league soon fol- Given the financial standing of Ivy League
Transactions the “MLS is Back” tourna- lowed, leading to the first-ever cancellation members and the relative unimportance of
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ment, taking place at the of the NCAA Tournament. their respective FCS football teams without
BASEBALL Portland 1 1 0 3 2 3
ESPN Wide World of Sports The Ivy League will determine at a later meaningful media contracts, the schools
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complex in Orlando, Fla. date whether it is feasible to move fall sports wouldn’t be devastated by the potential loss
Real Salt Lake 0 0 2 2 1 1
American League The tournament, an- to the spring. of an entire season. However, several large
LA Galaxy 0 1 1 1 1 2 nounced on June 10, will at- “As a leadership group, we have a respon- FBS programs would lose several tens of
Los Angeles Angels: Placed LHP Jose San Jose 0 1 1 1 4 7
Quijada and OF Brandon Marsh on the tempt to uphold a bubble — sibility to make decisions that are in the best millions of dollars if the football season is
Houston 0 1 1 1 1 5 similar to the NBA’s planned interest of the students who attend our insti- eliminated.
10-day IL. Claimed RHP Jacob Rhame
off waivers from the Mets. restart. The integrity of the tutions, as well as the faculty and staff who The Ivy League joins multiple Division II
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New York Yankees: Placed RHP Luis Pool play results of restart tournament bubble, however, has already work at our schools,” the league said in a and III schools which have already scrapped
Cessa and 2B DJ LeMahieu on the 10- count in regular-season standings; All been called into question. statement. “These decisions are extremely fall sports. Fellow FCS programs could soon
games in Orlando, Fla. Ten FC Dallas players im- difficult, particularly when they impact follow suit — including the Patriot League,
day IL.
Wednesday mediately tested positive for meaningful student-athlete experiences that which was scheduled to play numerous non-
National League Orlando City 2, Miami 1
Nashville FC vs. Chicago, ppd.
the coronavirus, and the so many value and cherish. conference games against the Ivy League —
Los Angeles Dodgers: Placed RHP
Edwin Uceta, OF Cody Thomas and OF Thursday
team was subsequently “With the information available to us to- given the optics of the increasing number of
Zach Reks on the 10-day IL.
kicked out of the tourna- day regarding the continued spread of the schools taking precautionary measures.
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Saturday
National Football League the tournament, though attending a party over the July Fourth week-
Philadelphia Eagles: Signed WR Quez
Red Bulls vs. Atlanta, 8pm
Columbus vs. Cincinnati, 10:30pm Nashville’s first game was
HOOPS: Kawhi not on team flight end. The team learned of Reyes’ off-field ac-
Watkins to a four-year contract. postponed. A person with knowledge of the situation tions from social media.
Detroit Lions: Signed WR Quintez
Soccer Scores NYCFC entered the bub- says that Kawhi Leonard did not accom-  The Padres said that recently ac-
Cephus to a four-year contract.
English Premeir League
ble July 2. Head coach pany the Clippers on their flight to Central quired middle infielder Jorge Mateo, a
SOCCER Man City 5, Newcastle 0 Ronny Deila said he trusts Florida on Wednesday night for the restart of former Yankee, has tested positive for cor-
Major League Soccer Sheffield United 1, Wolverhampton 0 the league’s safety proce- the NBA season. Leonard’s absence was ex- onavirus. Padres manager Jayce Tingler
West Ham 0, Burnley 1 dures. cused and he is expected to join the team at said Mateo, 25 is experiencing symptoms,
Los Angeles FC: Signed D Tony Leone, Liverpool 3, Brighton 1
Italy Serie A “It’s been a long time now the Disney complex sometime in the next including loss of smell, and is currently in
D Christian Torres and F Erik Duenas.
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women's soccer assistant coach. Roma 2, Parma 1 games. We want to play, the matter. Stanford will cut 11 of its varsity programs
Tennessee: Named Marshall Steward Turin 3, Brescia 1
Spain La Liga
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Assistant Athletic Director for have to do everything we been cleared to travel with the team to the year as it deals with the ongoing financial
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Academic Services and Assistant Villareal 3, Getafe 1 can so that the focus is on NBA bubble in Orlando, Fla., according to ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic.
Provost. Real Betis 3, Osasuna 0 the games and nothing else. ESPN. Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni, 69, is The 11 sports that will be discontinued are
“I think the group has been among those still awaiting word. men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey,
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By MollIe WAlKer

The NHL and NHL Players Associ-

Frazier fighting
nypost.com

ation’s memorandum of understand-

ing for a new collective bargaining
agreement confirms Toronto and
Edmonton were selected as hub cit-
ies for the return-to-play tourna-
fasciitis in foot
ment, with Eastern teams, incouding By GeorGe A. KInG III the visiting team, so that
the Rangers and Islanders, compet- should help out. I won’t lead,
New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020

ing in Toronto and Western teams in
Edmonton, according to TSN.
The conference finals and Stanley
Cup finals, per the report, will be in
Edmonton — but is subject to change.
TSN also reports that the league is
aiming to have teams travel to their
respective hub cities on July 24, with
exhibition games beginning the next
day. The qualifying round is tenta-
tively scheduled for July 30 and the
first round for Aug. 9.
The second round is supposed to
begin on Aug. 23, with the confer-
ence finals starting Sept. 6 and Stan-
ley Cup finals on Sept. 20, per TSN.
The report also said the league de-
creed that Oct. 2 is the last possible
date for the finals.
In addition, TSN reports the CBA
memo says NHL players will be per-
mitted to return to the Winter Olym-
pics in 2022 and 2026, pending an
agreement with the International Ice
Hockey Federation and the Interna-
tional Olympic Committee.
When the coronavirus pandemic
shut down the 2019-20 season in
March and forced the league to put
together the 24-team playoff tourna-
ment, there was a sudden uncertainty
about the 2020-21 season. Consider-
ing the start of next season has yet to
be determined, players will receive
one paycheck in the fall, per TSN.
The report also says the beginning
of free agency is set to begin after
Oct. 9, or seven days after the Cup fi-
nals end. Barring any changes, the
opening of training camps for the
getting RestaRted: Artemi Panarin (left), Mika Zibanejad and the Ran-
gers, along with the Islanders and the rest of the Eastern Conference qualifiers,
will head to Toronto for the NHL’s return-to-play tournament.
Toronto, Edmonton confirmed
as NHL’s hub sites: report
2020-21 season is tentatively sched-
uled for Nov. 17, with the start of next
season set for Dec. 1.
The CBA is reportedly a four-year
extension, running through the
2025-26 season.
With Phase 3, the start of training
camp, set to begin on July 13, two of the
Rangers’ three goaltenders had partici-
pated in the NHL’s Phase 2 voluntary
small-group workouts as of Wednes-
day, the team confirmed to The Post.
Veteran Henrik Lundqvist is the
odd goalie out — he is among a
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handful of players who traveled
from Europe to New York in the past
week or so who are still waiting to
be cleared. Alexandar Georgiev was
included in the latest group of play-
ers to take part in Phase 2, in which
rookie Igor Shesterkin has been par-
ticipating since he returned from
Florida at the end of June.
Additionally, Ryan Strome, Brett
Howden and prospect Vitali
Kravtsov also began skating at the
team’s practice facility this week.
mwalker1@nypost.com
Through two Yankees in-
trasquad games, Clint Fra-
zier hasn’t surfaced in the
outfield due to a foot prob-
lem — though it wasn’t seri-
ous enough to keep him
from being a DH.
“Clint has had a little
plantar fasciitis, but it really
hasn’t held him back,. We
have held him back in the
early going of getting him
out in the outfield,’’ Aaron
Boone said on a Zoom call
following a spring training
2.0 workout Wednesday at
Yankee Stadium.
According to the manager,
the foot issue didn’t hold
back Frazier Wednesday
when there was no intra-
squad game.
yankees
notes
“He was out sprinting to-
day and doing all of his out-
field work,’’ Boone said.
“Base running and, obvi-
ously, hitting. I don’t expect
it to slow him much. We are
kind of going easy with him
here at the start.’’
➤ Joe Girardi returns to
Yankee Stadium later this
month as the Phillies’ man-
ager for an exhibition game
I will follow make sure I go
to the right place,’’ Girardi
said Wednesday on a Zoom
call from Philadelphia.
➤ Masahiro Tanaka
worked inside and outside
Wednesday.
“Still at this point taking it
slowly, but he is doing pretty
good,’’ Boone said of Tanaka,
who suffered a concussion
Saturday when hit in the
head by a batted ball off Gi-
ancarlo Stanton’s bat dur-
ing a simulated game.
➤ Right-hander Jonathan
Loaisiga completed his in-
take testing process and
threw a bullpen session
Wednesday at Yankee Sta-
dium.
“He should be good to go
and tentatively we have him
going Saturday, a couple of
innings but he looked good
today,’’ Boone said.
➤ The Yankees placed DJ
LeMahieu and Luis Cessa
on the COVID-19 list and in-
vited right-hander Adonis
Rosa to spring training.
LeMahieu and Cessa are
quarantining at home and
need to pass intake proto-
cols for COVID-19 before
entering the Stadium. The
moves aren’t backdated be-
cause there is no minimum

Blueshirts asst. appears headed to Devs against the team he helped

win three World Series from
1996-99 as a player and man-
aged from 2008-17, winning
or maximum days a player
needs to spend on the COV-
ID-19 IL.

By MollIe WAlKer interim label after the Devils

The Rangers may be
searching for a new assist-
ant coach soon.
Lindy Ruff is expected to
be named the next head
coach of the Devils, end-
ing his three-year tenure
as assistant coach of the
Rangers, according to
NHL Network analyst
Kevin Weekes. The NHL
network also reported the
Devils are also expected to
remove the interim gen-
eral manager tag from
Tom Fitzgerald, making
him the full-time GM.
The Rangers declined a
request for comment.
Ruff, who has been an
assistant with the Rangers
since 2017, was mentioned
as a candidate for the job
two weeks ago. Sportsnet’s
Elliotte Friedman reported
that Ruff was being con-
sidered alongside interim
Lindy Ruff
Expected to become
next Devils coach
coach Alain Nasreddine,
former Islanders coach
Peter Laviolette, ex-
Golden Knights coach
Gerard Gallant and former
Kings coach John Stevens.
It’s unclear whether Ruff
will be on the Rangers’
bench in Toronto.
NHL Network also re-
ported that the Devils will
make Tom Fitzgerald the
full-time general manager.
Fitzgerald worked under an
canned Ray Shero last sea-
son following a dismal start
to the season.
It would be the 60-year-
old Ruff’s third stint as a
head coach in the NHL
after gigs with the Sabres
and Stars. He was the head
coach of the Sabres — the
team that drafted him in
1979 — from 1997-2013 be-
fore becoming the bench
boss in Dallas for four sea-
sons.
Ruff led Buffalo to the
Stanley Cup finals during
the 1998-99 season before
ultimately losing to the
Stars. He had a 571-432-
78-84 record with the Sa-
bres and made eight playoff
appearances, earning Coach
of the Year honors for the
2005-06 season. In Dallas,
Ruff went 165-122-41 with
two playoff appearances.
When the Rangers hired
Ruff under then-head
coach Alain Vigneault, he
began working predomi-
the World Series in 2009.
“I think it’ll be odd because
➤ Kyle Higashioka par-
ticipated in early fielding
nantly with the defense and I’m not used to going in the fundamentals on Wednes-
the penalty-kill unit. After other dugout or the other day, a day after the catcher
Vigneault was fired at the locker room. But it would be was scratched as the DH in
end of that season, Ruff was good to get back. But it’s go- an intrasquad game.
considered to replace him. ing be a little bit different. I
David Quinn was ulti-
mately selected as head
have to make sure I don’t
turn into the wrong door
➤ The Yankees didn’t have
an intrasquad game Wednes-
coach, but Ruff was re- when I come down the day when they worked out
tained, along with goaltend- stairs, and I think we do but will play one both on
ing coach Benoit Allaire. come in a different way as Thursday and Friday.
Ruff, a defenseman for 12
seasons in the NHL, also
played parts of three sea-
sons with the Rangers. It is
not known whether Ruff
will be behind the Rangers
bench in Toronto when the
NHL is scheduled to re-
start on Aug. 1.
When the season was
suspended in March due
to the coronavirus pan-
demic, the Devils were 28-
29-12. They will not be
among the 24 teams com-
peting in the NHL’s re-
turn-to-play tournament.

Camping out
By MiKE PuMa
Brad Brach’s absence in
Mets camp was confirmed
Wednesday.
The veteran reliever has
not worked out with the
team since spring training
2.0 began on Friday, ac-
cording to manager Luis
Rojas, who said he would
Brach among those not yet at spring 2.0
provide no further details.
A day earlier, Rojas con-
firmed reliever Jared Hu-
ghes, who was signed last
week, has not appeared in
camp.
mets notes
It is unclear if any play-
ers have tested positive
for COVID-19 — through
intake testing or since
camp began. But general
manager Brodie Van Wa-
genen indicated before in-
take-testing results had
been received that a
player on the 40-man ros-
ter previously tested posi-
tive for the coronavirus.
The Mets are not com-
menting on players’ sta-
tuses for non-baseball-re-
lated ailments.
Bench coach Hensley
Meulens, who had missed
the first four days of work-
outs, has been in camp the
past two days. Chili Davis
is the only absent member
of the coaching staff — he’s
➤ Jacob Rhame, who
began camp with the Mets,
chosen to work remotely
from home in Arizona be-
was claimed off waivers by
the Angels. The Mets
cause of coronavirus con- added
cerns. pitcher Ryley Gilliam to
A NY METS BASEBALL
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the first-round bidding deadline.
AND MEDIA PERSONALITY Suitors will be making indicative
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FORMER METS MANAGER Then the Mets will show their full
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suitors after the first round makes an
offer too rich to refuse, which might
NEW EPISODE preemptively end the process.
DROPS TODAY The favorite is clearly hedge funder
Steve Cohen, who is worth $13 billion
and if he chooses can outbid anyone
else, multiple sources close to the sit-
uation said.
Still, the Mets will likely keep at
least one and perhaps two others
suitors in the process past the first
round no matter what to keep com-
petitive pressure on Cohen, sources
close to the situation said — espe-
their player pool.
➤ The Mets played their
first intrasquad scrimmage,
right-handed which lasted 2 ½ innings.
Dellin Betances, Paul Se-
cially after what happened earlier
this year, when Cohen had signed a
non-binding term sheet to buy the
Mets for $2.6 billion then tried to
change the terms of the deal.
Cohen had initially agreed to let Jeff
Wilpon control the team for five
years during a transition period.
Then Cohen changed his mind and
the deal fell apart, sources said.
Now the Mets are selling full con-
trol up-front.
The Mets will likely not commit to
Cohen until they know they have a
binding offer.
Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey
Devils owners Josh Harris and David
Blitzer are expected to make a com-
petitive offer and have a cleaner bid
than their rivals, making it likely they
will survive the first-round cut, sour-
ces said.
There is no guarantee the required
three-quarters of MLB team owners
will approve Cohen after he allegedly
pulled out of the previous deal in early
February, but Harris and Blitzer should
have little problem getting approved.
Then there is Alex Rodriguez, who
after serving a suspension as a player
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wald, Justin Wilson, Ty-
ler Bashlor and Jeurys
Familia all saw action
from the mound.
➤ Rojas was asked about
the Mets’ scheduled exhibi-
tion games against the Yan-
kees on July 17 and 18. The
first of those games is set
for Citi Field, with the latter
nypost.com
at Yankee Stadium.
“I can’t wait to see an-
other team,” Rojas said. “I
am really excited for us to
face another [uniform], es-
pecially a team that we’re
going to be seeing in the
regular season six times, so
it’s going to be good for us.”
It’s still possible the Mets
could add a third exhibi-
tion game.
➤ Amed Rosario still
hasn’t acclimated to the
safety protocols imple-
mented for workouts.
“It’s been uncomfortable,
just in the sense of being so
distant from the players,”
Rosario said through an in-
terpreter. “It’s one of the
things I have been used to
my whole career and now
that we can’t do it, it’s been
uncomfortable.”
for taking steroids is also not a guar-
antee for approval.
A-Rod, though, is the most glamor-
ous bid especially when factoring in
his fiancèe, Jennifer Lopez.
As The Post has reported, Lopez
and Rodriguez have been spending
most of their waking hours in luxury
quarantine studying the details of
running a baseball team, dreaming up
a future for Willets Point as a shop-
ping and entertainment destination,
and speaking to key senior players at
J.P. Morgan private banking about the
financing of their bid on a daily basis.
With the couple’s net worth
thought to be in the realm of $750
million, J-Rod have added heavy-
money hitters such as financier Vin-
cent Viola and Vitaminwater founder
Mike Repole to their lineup.
The Mets in a normal season are los-
ing about $90 million, sources said, so a
suitor will not only have to pay roughly
$2 billion for the team but have to
cover losses starting next season.
Longer shots include Kurt Rappa-
port, a 49-year-old Los Angeles real-
tor who is putting together a package,
and the billionaire Reuben Brothers.
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LEAPS
Daniel
Jones
A trio of Jets ready to bust onto the scene this
By BRIAN COSTELLO
One in a series.
The Jets enter the 2020 season
still with a lot of question marks
about their roster.
General manager Joe Douglas
has begun his rebuild through free
agency and April’s draft, but find-
ing sure things on the roster is hard
to do. They are going to need some
players to surpass their expected
production and become pleasant
surprises during the year.
Here are three Jets who are
primed to be breakout players this
season:
Breshad Perriman,
wide receiver
It is odd to predict a breakout
season for a player who turns 27 in
Big Blue need more than small
smal
steps from these 2nd-year talents
By PAUL SCHWARZ
One in a series.
The Giants need more than three.
They need more than three players in 2020 to take
a quantum leap forward. After all, they won three,
five and four games the past three seasons — a hor-
rid stretch that can be attributed to many deficien-
cies, including a dearth of talent and not nearly
enough tangible improvement from the players they
selected in the NFL draft.
It is not too much to ask. The roster first-year
coach Joe Judge is putting together is populated with
youth, which is a good thing. Inexperience leads to
mistakes, but also offers the possibility of growth.
There are so many Giants with barely filled résumés;
their careers can go in any of a number of directions.
When a team is in such disrepair, it is preferable
to have an unproven group. In that case at least the
inhabitants of the group are possibly on the way up,
as opposed to a bunch with some measure of pedi-
gree but likely on the way down.
Here are the three Giants most ready and needed
to produce a breakout season:
Oshane Ximines, outside linebacker
Ximines understands his name will always be
linked to the Odell Beckham Jr. trade, as his 2019
draft slot (No. 95 overall) in the third round was
shipped from the Browns to the Giants in that mega-
deal. Affable, serious-minded and willing to work,
it seems as if Ximines can handle this extra
ingredient (or impediment) that will carry
through his NFL career.
Julian Michael Strahan (one), Osi Umenyiora (one)
Love and Justin Tuck (one), had a combined total
of three sacks in their respective rookie sea-
sons. Does this mean guaranteed stardom
for Ximines, who had 4.5 sacks in his
NFL debut? Of course not. What this
does mean is there is bona fide poten-
tial lurking around the corner. Ximines
needed to continue to learn the NFL
ropes, coming from a non-Power Five
college program (Old Dominion). He
improved steadily and, with added
experience and strength, there is
every reason to think the youngster
called X-Man can develop into a
serious pass-rusher. How serious?
We shall see.
September and was drafted in 2015, what he is capable of at the end of training camp. Entering August,
but Perriman’s career has been last season with the Buccaneers, there were questions whether he
odd. The Ravens took him in the when he had 25 catches for 506 would make the team, but by the
first round in 2015, and he struggled yards and five touchdowns in his end of camp he had won over the
with injuries and off-field issues final five games. Perriman got coaches.
that stunted his progression. more playing time because of inju- A sixth-round pick in 2018,
ries to the Bucs receivers.
The Jets will be Perriman’s Fatukasi figures to be a big part of
Perriman won’t have to wait for
fourth team in Gregg Williams’ defensive line this
injuries to get on the field this sea- season. He played behind Steve
four years.
Douglas signed son. He will be their lead receiver McLendon last year, but it would
and a frequent target of Sam Dar- not be surprising to see him
Perriman
quickly after nold. If Perriman can produce cut into McLendon’s
like he did late last season, playing time more in
R o b b y
he will be a steal for the 2020. He is extremely
Anderson
departed Jets and a key cog for the powerful. That was
offense.
fo r t h e shown last year on
Panthers. Folorunso Fatukasi, several occasions
The Jets defensive line when he pushed
believe offensive linemen
Fatukasi’s breakout
Pe r r i m a n began last year when into the backfield.
showed he turned heads in He blew up one play
Julian Love, defensive
ensive back
ensiv
Note that there is no designa
designation of safety or
cornerback with Love. This, is, potentially, is the
beauty of what he brings to the Giants. He was
primarily a cornerback at No Notre
tre Dame and tran-
sitioned to safety as an NFL rorookie. Love’s cover-
age skills and ability to tackle
ckle should meld into
the formation of an interesting
esting prospect. If he
continues to grow, there is litlittle doubt this new
coaching staff will figure outt a way to get Love
on the field with the two pr presumptive
esumptive starting
safeties, Jabrill Peppers and rookie
ro Xavier McK-
inney.
It took too long to get Love rereps on defense
def last
eks, he was finally giv-
season. In the last six weeks,
en the opportunity to show whatwh he could do, up
in the box and also in the slot. He graded out at
the ninth-best safety in the box,
bo according to Pro
Football Focus, and allowed only 19 yards in 80
coverage snaps in the slot.
Daniel Jones, quarterback
quar
Ask any guy who plays the most important posi-
tion on the field when his greatest
eatest improvement
ea
came and many will say in year ar No. 2. Eli Manning
went from a rookie who often en looked unready for
the NFL in 2004 to a legitimate
itimate starter in 2005,
capable of leading his team int
into o the playoffs. Jones
had a much more impressive ve first season than
Manning did 17 years ago — tw twice as many
man touch-
down passes (24) than interceptions
erceptions (12). Still,
there is a whole lot of developing
loping Jones can and
probably will display in 2020.
It is true Jones faces unique challenges. He has
a new offense to learn, and that process in the
spring and early summer was undertaken
undert remote-
ly amid the coronavirus pandemic.
ndemic. Jones was able
to gather his teammates for twotw weeks of throw-
ing and catching in Austin, Texas.
Te He is a sharp
guy and understands what it means to be Man-
ning’s successor. He learned the hard way
the rep ercussions of havingving shaky ball
security. His offensive line should pro-
vide more protection. He will never be
accused of shirking his responsibili-
sponsibili-
sponsibili
ties and has bulked up, approach-
appr
ing 230 pounds to better withstand
withst
the rigors of the job. Watch Jones’
Jo
numbers rise this season.
paul.schwartz@nypost.com
.com
against the Dolphins inside the
5-yard line by shoving the center
into the ball carrier for a loss.
The Jets will be relying on their
defensive front to again be stout
against the run and get more pres-
sure on the quarterback. There are
holes in the secondary. Those can
be hid to a degree if the front is
strong. Fatukasi will play a big role
in that.
Kyle Phillips, defensive line/
outside linebacker
Phillips was a complete
unknown entering last season. An
undrafted free agent out of Ten-
nessee, Phillips became a solid
fill-in for the Jets when injuries
began to hit at outside lineback-
er and on the interior of the
line.
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Ximines Darnold still must prove

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he’s worth his next deal
You ask, we answer. The Post
is fielding questions from read-
ers about New York’s biggest pro
sports teams and getting our beat
writers to answer them in a series
of regularly published mailbags. In
today’s installment: the Jets.
How likely do you think it is
that Sam Darnold signs an-
other contract with the Jets?
He’s a California guy (who’s)

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been on a losing team that may
keep losing. I suspect he’d
rather be elsewhere and that
he’s biding his time until he
can leave.
— Jonathan A.
I definitely don’t think Darnold
is biding his time until he can
leave, Jonathan. Darnold does not
strike me as a guy who spends
much time thinking about his next
contract. I think he is focused on
trying to improve and win this
season.
As far as his next contract, Dar-
nold has to first prove he deserves
a long-term deal — he has done
that yet. This is a big season for
him in that regard, because he is
eligible to get an extension after
this year for the first time. If the
Jets do decide to re-sign Darnold, A lot on the line: The Jets need Sam Darnold to grow in Year 3,
it will come down to what it al- and he needs a big season if he wants to earn a chance for a big con-
ways does — the money. Losing tract extension. Robert Sabo
can wear on players. I think it
does play a role with Jamal Ad- gium! You raise a good point, Luis. the season starts. It’s impossible
Adams has not handled this con- to know right now.
Anthong J. Causi; AP (2)

ams’ current unhappiness. But ul-

timately money usually wins out. tract situation well this offseason. With the revamped offensive
Are the Jets going to use Adams deserves more money, but line, how effective can Le’Veon
some of their remaining cap he would have been better served Bell be with his 1.5 seconds de-
money to address the edge keeping all of the bickering with lay to find the right hole. And
rusher position by signing Ja- the team pri- will Sam
deveon Clowney, Everson vate. It is hard JETS Darnold be
Griffen or Markus Golden? to see him
MAILBAG able to roll

season
Phillips’ strength is his versa-
tility. He looked as comfortable
standing up on the outside as he did
in a four-point stance on the inside.
He ended up with seven tackles
for loss, six quarterback hits
and 1.5 sacks.
The Jets did very little
to address their pass rush
this offseason outside of
re-signing Jordan Jenkins
and drafting Jabari Zuni-
ga. Phillips should get
more playing time than
he did last year and he
could be a pass-rush-
ing factor for the Jets.
By the end of this
season, everyone may
know who Phillips is.
brian.costello@nypost.com
— Curt Hines
I could see the Jets signing an
edger-rusher on the cheap before
training camp or early in camp.
None of those guys you men-
tioned fit that price range. The
Jets view their remaining cap
money not as unused money this
year but money they can push
into next year when they may
have a Darnold contract to do, and
I think they were hoping a deal for
Adams. So though fans may view
the cap space as wasted dollars,
the Jets’ front office views it as an
investment in the future.
Obviously I want to
keep Jamal Adams. He
can be a cornerstone, but
does his attitude reflect
someone who wants to
be a leader or will he
eventually be a distrac-
tion to what we are trying
to build?
— Luis, New Yorker
living in Belgium
Bill Kostroun (2); Getty Images Our first question from Bel-
walking back out and
to the Jets and By Brian throw on
returning to Costello the run, as it
his role as a appears to
leader of the team after saying he be a major strength for him?
does not want to be on the team. — Michael T Sklar
If he does end up playing for the The line is revamped for sure,
Jets this season, he will have to but is it better? That is going to be
work to regain his role as a team one of the major questions in
leader. 2020. If Joe Douglas’ revamping
Why isn’t anyone talking works, then I do think Bell can be
about CB Lamar Jackson, the effective and Darnold will stay
22-year-old from Nebraska, upright. As for Darnold rolling
who may be this year’s sleeper out and throwing on the run: Yes,
signing? Some (mock drafts) he is good at it, but other teams
had him slated to be (selected) know that and will take it away. If
as early as the 3rd round. teams have strong players on the
— Tom Killeen edge, it is tough to roll out. That
Tom, no one has seen Jackson part is not as simple as just having
play yet, including the Jets’ a better line.
coaches. Undrafted free agents For me, an (Adams) trade
typically make noise during the would be a first- and third-
spring in OTAs then in training rounder in 2021 and a first-
camp. It’s impossible to know rounder in 2022. Otherwise no
what Jackson’s chances of even deal. — Ric Riel
making the team are right now. He There is no chance the Jets will
could be a sleeper signing, as you get two first-round picks for Ad-
said, or he could be gone before ams.
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season is — hopefully — set to
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By Marc BerMan
It’s undetermined how many asterisks
will be needed when (if?) a new NBA
champion is crowned in an empty gym in
October. But the march for a ring — not an
Oura ring — begins Thursday with the
opening of training camps in Disney World.
Orlando’s Mickey Mouse Tournament al-
ready has seen its share of defections and a
growing number of COVID-19 positives, in-
cluding 26 players.
A handful of the 22 teams, including
what’s left of the Nets, arrived in the Or-
lando bubble Tuesday. Others arrived
Wednesday with the rest expected Thurs-
day.
Members of each club will quarantine
in their hotel rooms for 36-48 hours
upon arriving at the bubble, four
months after the league shut down on
March 11.
“We hope it works as we designed it,’’
commissioner Adam Silver said.
Here are 10 storylines as the NBA
restarts its season July 30 with eight
regular-season games followed by a
16-team playoff — if the league
makes it that far.
Rules, rules and more rules
beyond flagrant fouls
Seven of the 22 NBA teams closed
their practice facilities from individual
workouts because of positive tests
among players and/or staff.
Upon arriving in Or-
lando, each player
must pass two coro-
navirus tests before
being allowed to
practice. There is
a 113-page docu-
ment with reams
of protocols regarding handwashing and so- chances of a 17th title may rest on a talented
cial distancing. Players will also receive Kyle Kuzma, who is making his playoff de-
their Oura smart rings to detect coronavi- but, and new signee J.R. Smith adding
rus symptoms, though they are optional. throwback 3-pointers and defense. James is
The virus can live on a basketball and other seeking his fourth title and — amazingly —
surfaces, so within the document are sev- 10th appearance in The Finals.
eral ways for equipment managers to disin-
fect the rock. All of these rules are why
sports psychologists believe mental health
in the bubble is as vital as physical health —
with one telling The Post that living in the
bubble without seeing family “could be a
miserable experience.’’
Will players continue to defect?
There are various reasons, but fear of the
virus is the major one for some players opt-
ing out. Washington’s Davis Bertans had the
most questionable excuse — wanting to
protect himself for free agency. Bertans
should realize these games would fund a
salary-cap raise and therefore a raise for his
next contract. Victor Oladipo, Wilson
Chandler, Trevor Ariza, Thabo Sefolosha,
Bradley Beal, Willie Cauley-Stein, Justise
Winslow and Avery Bradley also have de-
cided to sit out. Chandler is worried about
the virus. Bradley, part of the coterie that The reuniting of Rudy Gobert
believes the games would hinder progress and Donovan Mitchell
to the Black Lives Matter movement, ulti-
mately pulled out because of his son’s The shutdown occurred after Gobert
health. More players will likely abandon tested positive, with Mitchell following suit.
ship once in Orlando. Sources believe play- Mitchell was enraged Gobert was not care-
ers on teams out of playoff position will lose ful leading up to the crisis and reportedly
interest if their teams lose early games. felt their relationship was “irreparable.’’ But
the trade deadline has long passed, so here
Will LeBron lead his Lakers to a chip they are. “Right now, we’re good,’’ Mitchell
and move closer to Jordan? said. “We’re going out there ready to hoop.”
Michael Jordan dominated the pandemic
with “The Last Dance’’ documentary, but A Sixers Soap Opera
James’ quest is the most compelling basket- If the Sixers flame out, coach Brett Brown
ball storyline in the restart. The James and might be out of a job with the club needing
Anthony Davis-led Lakers finished 49-14 a new voice. Sources believe Knicks candi-
before the shutdown, but the Lake Show’s date Ime Udoka, a Sixers assistant, will be
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Shorthanded Nets will be

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relying on LeVert to lead
By GreG Joyce

For long stretches over the past two sea-

sons, the Nets have been without Caris
LeVert because of injuries.
So naturally, now that the team is falling
apart at the seams because of coronavirus,
opt-outs and injuries, the Nets will turn to
LeVert to shoulder the load in Orlando, Fla.
The 25-year-old guard is in for a big test,
set to play a starring role for the Nets when
the NBA resumes on July 30, with eight
seeding games and, barring a disaster, the
playoffs on the horizon. After the Nets ar-

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rived in Orlando on Tuesday night without
the services of Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant,
Spencer Dinwiddie, Taurean Prince, DeAn-
dre Jordan, Wilson Chandler and Nic Clax-
ton, all eyes will be on LeVert — both for
his playmaking and leadership.
“I think for me it’s just taking on that chal-
lenge of being a leader, being the leader of
that group,” LeVert said on a Zoom call last
week, even before Dinwiddie and Prince
were declared out. “Going down there with
some of the most experience on the team,
playoff experience. I feel like I relish these
types of opportunities and situations. Ev- STAY SAFE: Jarrett Allen arrived in Or-
erything aside, I’m looking forward to going lando this week along with the other
down there and seeing what we can do.” handful of healthy Nets players for the
considered. The team’s journey is fascinat- He can get up to 27 games, but please don’t For LeVert, it’s another chance to answer a NBA restart. Getty Images
ing since there’s no longer any home-court vote him Rookie of the Year. key Nets question: Is he capable of being
advantage. Philadelphia was 29-2 at home their third star, behind Durant and Irving? point guard, alongside a potential starting
and couldn’t win on the road (10-24). Dis- Nothing but Nets Definitive judgments may be hard to make five of Joe Harris, Jarrett Allen, Rodions Ku-
ney World is a long way from Philly. The The Nets are a shell of themselves, with given the unusual circumstances of the re- rucs and Garrett Temple.
Sixers will also need Long Island’s Tobias Taurean Prince on Tuesday becoming the start, but a strong showing as the No. 1 option “Obviously there will be adjustments with
Harris to perform up to his max-level con- seventh player to opt out of the restart after could support LeVert’s case for stardom. It different personnel,” LeVert said. “I think
tract to aid recently injured Ben Simmons, he tested positive. Three Nets have tested could also make him an attractive trade target that’s inevitable. But like I said, next man up.
quirky Joel Embiid and aging Al Horford. positive since late June, while four Nets for another team who would be willing to We have a lot of talented guys on the roster
tested positive for the virus around the time give up its established star to land him. Or, still and I know those guys are very eager to
The Buck Stops Here of the league-wide shutdown. If the Wiz- perhaps, it could give credence to the thought get their chance and opportunity to go down
NBA insiders agree the stoppage hurt Mil- ards had Beal, the Nets would be strong that he is best as a supplementary player. there and make a statement and show what
waukee the most as Mike Budenholzer’s candidates to fall out of the playoffs. It won’t LeVert, who signed a three-year, $52.5 mil- they can do. I’m sure that everyone who has
club was sailing at 53-12 with home-court ad- be the worst thing. They’d get back their lot- lion extension last summer, has had a taste of opted in is very excited to go and play.”
vantage all but sealed through the tery-protected pick from Minnesota this bigger role before, though not quite to A year after missing 42 games with a
playoffs. Disney World is the and have two first-rounders if that this extent. Just before the NBA was sus- dislocated foot and then being sidelined
great momentum equalizer. were to happen. pended on March 11, he was in the midst of a for 24 games earlier this season following
Giannis Antetokounmpo hot stretch. He dropped 51 points on 17 of 26 thumb surgery, the Michigan product is
will never get to experience Social justice surging in shooting in a comeback win over the Celt- primed to step up in a time of need.
the mania that would’ve in- Orlando ics on March 3, which he followed up with “I feel good right now,” LeVert said. “I ha-
vaded Milwaukee amid a Give Kyrie Irving an assist on a triple-double against the Spurs two ven’t played in games since March so that’s
deep playoff run. “The something. His bid for players games later. the question I really don’t know. I feel good
Greek Freak” is a free agent to protest the games out of re- But LeVert still had another threat like in my workouts though. And if I didn’t, I hon-
in 2021 and all bets are off spect for the Black Lives Matter Dinwiddie on the floor with him for those estly wouldn’t be going down there to play.
should the Bucks stumble. movement prompted the NBA to games. Now the lineup is in flux, and the So I’m looking forward to getting out there.”
step up. The BLM logo (left) will be Nets could end up leaning heavily on him at gjoyce@nypost.com
Blame Zion Williamson painted on the court. Players can choose
for format
There are 22 teams in-
volved because the NBA
a social justice phrase such as “I Can’t
Breathe’’ on the back of their jerseys. Crawford signed, Beasley may be next
wanted 2019 No. 1 pick Old coaches waitin’ On the eve of training camp, the depleted for-30 from the field and 7-for-13 from deep.
Williamson here. Silver put his foot in his mouth Nets added a veteran, playoff-tested pres- Beasley would plug another, though not
And the Pelicans when he said elderly head ence to their roster and were working on immediately. The 31-year-old former Knicks
aren’t too coaches may not be allowed another. forward must first serve a five-game sus-
shabby despite on the bench for safety rea- After arriving in Orlando, Fla., for the pension for violating the league’s anti-drug
their 28-36 sons. He’s since back- NBA’s resumption without seven players policy last April. He last played with the
record. In just tracked after angry reac- because of coronavirus, opt-outs and inju- Lakers in February 2019 before sitting out
19 games, tions from 60-plus Mike ries, the Nets agreed to a deal with Jamal this season. The 11-year veteran, who is
Williamson D’Antoni, Rick Carlisle Crawford and were “moving toward” one close with Kevin Durant, has appeared in 25
averaged 23.5 and Alvin Gentry, but with Michael Beasley late Wednesday night, playoff games during his career.
points and they may be forced to according to The Athletic. While it remains to be seen how much
spent the pan- wear masks. Neither player has appeared in a game this Crawford has left in the tank, especially
demic sculp- marc.berman season. The 40-year-old Crawford’s last game after a long layoff, he should fit in well. He is
ting his body. @nypost.com came on April 9, 2019. He left a memorable im- a three-time NBA Sixth Man of the Year and
pression in that one with the Suns, dropping 51 also was named the NBA’s Teammate of the
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points on the Mavericks while shooting 18- Year in 2018. — Greg Joyce
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Son’s ‘Savage’
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leadership makes
New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020
Papa Boone proud
uLY 18 marks the one-year anni-
J versary of Aaron Boone going “Sav-
age” at the Stadium on home plate
umpire Brennan Miller for calling Brett
Gardner out on strikes:
“Our guys are f-----g Savages in that
box!”
When you attempt to play a baseball
season, even if it is just a 60-game, 66-day
baseball season, you will need Savages —
tough, smart, disciplined, accountable,
all-in Savages — everywhere if you plan
on being the last team standing.
You will also need the manager to be a
Savage. Someone who can manage the
great expectations, manage the game
and manage all the personalities and
end the Yankees’ 11-year title drought.
Someone like
Aaron Boone.
“I don’t know if
anybody knows how
to handle this,” Bob
Boone told The Post
over the phone.
“There’s no man-
ager’s guide to how
you handle this.
“But I think that he’ll do as good a job
as anybody can do.”
Bob Boone — 72-year-old baseball
lifer, former player and manager — is
Aaron’s father.
He remembers a young boy clutch in
baseball, football and basketball, a
young man so clutch that he whacked
that legendary 2003 ALCS Game 7 walk-
off home run off Red Sox reliever Tim
Wakefield. But now, as COVID-19 looks
to sabotage pinstriped dreams of that
elusive 28th World Series champion-
ship, the father is certain his son will
rise to another occasion.
“I know for me, if I had to have a
leader, I’d pick Aaron easily, at whatever
it is,” Bob said. “He’s just got that kind of
makeup. He’s been that way his whole
life. He brings people together.
“Everybody loves Aaron. He cares
about people — not just players — he
cares about people, and he always has.
He brings all kinds of people into the
tent, so to speak.”
Aaron Boone, like Joe Maddon and
Joe Girardi and Luis Rojas and every
other manager, will face sudden and
thunderbolt health crises. It will be one
of his many daunting challenges.
“Well, his first one is to keep all those
guys healthy,” Bob Boone said, adding
with a laugh, “He did a very poor job of
that last year.”
There is, of course, greater urgency to
start fast in this madcap sprint.
“I don’t think you do anything differ-
ently,” Bob said. “You go to the park ev-
ery day to win. Your job is to win that
game. It’s not to win 10 games.”
The father was a four-time All-Star
catcher who won a World Series with the
1980 Phillies and finally again last season
as assistant GM and vice president of
player development with the Nationals.
The son was driven again to win his first
championship almost immediately, after
his second season died in Game 6 of the
ALCS on Jose Altuve’s ninth-inning walk-
off homer off Aroldis Chapman.
Ironically, the father was at Minute
Maid Park scouting the Yankees for a
potential World Series meeting.
“I wanted to say, ‘Hey, you think [Gi-
ancarlo] Stanton will be all right tomor-
row, is he gonna play?’ I couldn’t ask him
that,” Bob Boone said.
He didn’t have to ask Aaron how long
it took him to get over the Altuve
crusher.
“Ten seconds. ...
You can’t spend any
time worrying about
what happened in the
past,” Bob said. “He
didn’t have to go to a
Steve Serby psychiatrist or any-
thing.”
The father was 371-
444 (.455) managing the Royals and
Reds. When he was fired in late July
2003, Aaron was playing for him.
“He was in a tough spot, ’cause he was
my son,” Bob said. “I know players
would come to him: ‘Hey, what did your
dad say about who’s gonna make the
team here? Who’s gonna be the 25th
guy?’ Aaron always knew to never ask
me anything like that.”
Torre-esque in temperament, Aaron
Boone has grown at his craft.
“He got the No. 1 job in the world for a
sports team,” Bob Boone said, “with no
experience as to running it. It takes a
very special person to convince some-
body else to sign him into that role.”
He perfectly understood Aaron’s Sav-
ages rant.
Sanchez ready for workload,
“You gotta stick up for the boys,” Bob By GeorGe A. KInG III “As far as the amount of games I am going to
said. “It’s probably one of the greatest play, I am not sure. I can tell you that anytime my
arguments I ever saw a manager have.” The mind is willing, but will Gary Sanchez’s name is in the lineup, I am going to be ready to
Savages back in The Bronx. body allow him to stay on the field during MLB’s play,’’ Sanchez said during a Zoom session after
“These guys are a bunch of guys that 60-game season, scheduled to start July 23 in the Yankees worked out Wednesday at Yankee
are coming here to play, and they’re com- Washington? Stadium. “They will make a decision and see how
ing in here to play do-or-die,” Bob Boone When spring training vanished on March 12 many games I can catch behind the plate, but if
said, “and that’s probably the best com- due to the coronavirus, Sanchez was over a my name is in the lineup, I will be ready to play.’’
pliment I could ever give any manager. back problem but away from the Yankees’ club- Considering lower-body injuries the past two
“What keeps managers from being house due to the flu. Shortly after the shut- years landed Sanchez on the injured list twice
fired is how much you get out of your down, Sanchez returned home to the Domini- each season and limited him to 89 games in 2018
players. ... Even if you’re a manager of a can Republic and continued to work on getting and 106 in 2019, durability has been an issue.
7-Eleven or a grocery store, your job is lower in his crouch to turn borderline low Perhaps a 60-game schedule will help San-
to make sure that all those people that pitches into strikes, as per catching instructor chez remain off the IL and on the field to work
are helping you run this store, they do Tanner Swanson’s suggestion. with an elite starting rotation, a dominant bull-
the best they can possibly do. And that’s Now, with his 6-foot-2, 230-pound body re- pen and be part of, if healthy, a muscle-bound
probably the most important part of a freshed from not having to endure the wear lineup.
manager’s job, is getting the most out of and tear of three months of catching five and In a small sample taken from catching Gerrit
every single guy.” six days a week, Sanchez said he feels good and Cole in Tuesday night’s intrasquad game, Boone
Savages in the box and on the mound. the 27-year-old promised when manager Aaron was impressed with Sanchez’s defensive work
And in the dugout too. Boone puts his name in the lineup he will be during the shutdown. Sanchez said he video-
steve.serby@nypost.com available. taped the workouts and sent them to Swanson.

ready, gary! Yankees catcher
Gary Sanchez has battled injuries
the past two seasons. Now, with
MLB ready to start an abbreviated
season in two weeks, he is set to get
significant work behind the plate,
and he says he’s healthy and ready.
if his body can hold up
“To get out there [Tuesday night and
catch five] innings with Gerrit, I
thought they did a really good job,’’ said
Boone, who had Sanchez catch two in-
nings on Monday evening. “I felt they
were on a good page [Tuesday]. ... I
thought Gary did a really good job. I am
confident the bat is going to be there. I
am encouraged about where he is right
now.’’
Sanchez, a two-time All-Star, gets
dinged for his defense, which im-
proved last year, but though the right-
handed power is real, the past two sea-
sons Sanchez batted .211 with a .776
OPS to negate some of the 52 homers
and 130 RBIs in 195 games.
Given that the opener is 14 days
away, there is little time for players
and pitchers to get sharp after a long
layoff dominated by COVID-19 and la-
bor problems.
N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzleberg; AP
“I think two weeks are going to be
enough for me to get ready and catch
nine innings,’’ Sanchez said. “[Tues-
day] I caught five and [Wednesday] I
feel really, really good. I am hoping the
next time I catch another five. De-
pending on how the manager wants to
extend my innings, follow the plan.’’
With veteran backup Austin Romine
a Tiger via free agency, the Yankees
are going with Kyle Higashioka as San-
chez’s backup. Higashioka, 30, grades
well defensively but has played just 56
big-league games, in which he has a
.164 batting average. He doesn’t have
Romine’s experience and could be an-
other reason Sanchez needs to stay on
the field more than he has in the past
two seasons.
The mind is willing. Can the body
hold up its end of the deal?
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Andujar
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comfy
being on
‘move’
By GeorGe A. KInG III
You would think staring down
Mike Trout from the pitching
mound would be the answer. Or at-
tempting to figure out what well-
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above-average pitch Gerrit Cole was
going to throw to make you look ill.
Yet, many players will tell you the
most difficult thing to accomplish at
baseball’s highest level is changing
positions once in the big leagues.
Which, of course, Miguel Andu-
jar continues to try and do.
With Gio Urshela’s breakout 2019,
which added a very solid bat to
Gold Glove defense at third base
while Andujar recovered from right
shoulder surgery that limited him
to a dozen games, the Yankees are
trying to find addition positions for
the talented 25-year-old hitter.
The experiment started in Febru-
ary and March — when Andujar
played third, first base and the out-
field — and has continued in spring
training 2.0.
“To be honest, I feel much more
comfortable comparing going back
to the time in Tampa spring train-
ing,’’ Andujar said when asked
Wednesday the difference between A NY YANKEES
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but when Andujar went down Ur-
shela got a chance and delivered.
Though Urshela has to prove that
last year’s career-best numbers at
the plate (.314, 21 HRs and 74 RBIs)
weren’t a one-season stand, if the
bat doesn’t produce, the Yankees NEW EPISODE
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where he continued to work during DROPS TODAY
the shutdown.
“It was a matter of balancing
working at third base and working
in the outfield,” he said. “I worked
at both positions the same amount
of time.”
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New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020
HE PLATFORM has shrunk from a
T full-length feature to, say, a short film
at best. Yet that doesn’t lower the
2020 stakes for Amed Rosario.
This still can be his statement season.
His stairway to a higher income and bet-
ter job security. His message to the Mets
in this golden age for
shortstops.
No pressure, right?
“I’m not putting pres-
sure on myself. Some-
times when you put
pressure on yourself, it
becomes problematic,” Ken Davidoff
Rosario said Wednes-
day, through an interpreter, in a Zoom
call. “I’m just going out there to have fun
and play my game.”
What is his game? Is it the .319/.351/.453
slash line that he compiled in 70 contests
— with improved defense, to boot — after
the All-Star break last year, giving him a
final slash line of .287/.323/.432 in 157
games? Because that’s pretty darn good all
around. Putting up the median of those
two sets this upcoming 60-game season
(if by some miracle the season actually
happens) would have to compel the Mets,
especially if a deep-pocketed party pur-
chased them, to think about investing long
term in him.
“Like I always say, this game can get a
little bit complicated,” Rosario said. “But I
feel like if I can continue working hard
and getting consistent, I think you guys
will be seeing a lot of that second-half
player.”
Just 24, Rosario’s major league career to
date evokes retired Mets-killer Jimmy
Rollins not physically — Rosario pos-
sesses a 7-inch height advantage on Roll-
ins — but statistically. The shortstop Roll-
ins debuted with the Phillies at age 21, the
same age as Rosario with the Mets. Roll-
ins tallied 2.3 wins above replacement, as
per Baseball-Reference.com, in his age-23 shortstops — “We do have a tremendous
season; Rosario put up 2.4 WAR last year
as a 23-year-old.
With Rosario set to enter the arbitration
crop of shortstops here,” Rosario ob-
served — and a step backward for Rosario
would really hurt his cause. The range of
cycle, which will put his salary in seven future Mets shortstop options creates a
figures next year, the Mets should and broad spectrum of future Mets shortstop
would be thrilled if Rosario replicated outcomes.
Rollins’ career. The optimal outcome? Rosario, having
“Oh my,” Luis Rojas scored points here already with his posi-
responded when asked tive demeanor, work ethic and durability
what he saw as Rosario’s (no one in New York logged more than his
ceiling. “It’s a great ceil- 311 games the prior two seasons), builds
ing. We’re still going to on his strong ’19 finish with a really good
see great things from
Amed in the future as
’20, convincing the Mets to commit to him
through, let’s say, 2025, buying out two
time goes by.” years of free agency. In turn, they can use
As the ceiling rests high, Mauricio as a trade chip to acquire, let’s
however, the walls pack say, Indians stud pitcher
tightly. If Steve Cohen Mike Clevinger as
buys the Mets, as Cleveland’s shortstop
now seems quite pos- Lindor heads to a big-
sible once again, all in- ger market.
dications are he’d start All big thoughts,
spending immediately. and right now, Rosario
Terrific A’s shortstop wisely focuses on the
Marcus Semien, An- small stuff, like preparing
gels defensive wun- for this unprecedented sea-
derkind Andrelton son. It has been “pretty un-
Simmons and comfortable,” he said, in be-
former Yankee Didi ing required to keep his dis-
Gregorius, trying to tance from his teammates as
rebuild his value on a well as not spit.
one-year deal with the Asked what he does instead
Phillies, all can be free of spitting, Rosario said, “I
agents this winter. And don’t do anything ... I really try
the following winter? not to think about it. I try to get
Looks like a shortstop on with my day.”
smorgasbord on the open If he gets on with his 66 days
market as we chat now: and 60 games successfully
Javier Baez, Carlos Correa, enough — and beyond, in Oc-
Francisco Lindor, Corey Sea- tober — he can spit the finest
ger and Trevor Story. Wow. champagne in celebration. If
Throw in the fact two of you shine on your platform,
the Mets’ top minor lea- no matter the size, high
guers, Andres Gimenez and stakes bring high rewards.
Ronny Mauricio, are kdavidoff@nypost.com

MASKED
MAN: Amed
Ces works out
Rosario, getting
in fielding work
at Citi Field on
Tuesday, is
hoping his strong
on own at first
second half at Yoenis Cespedes owns a first base-
the plate last man’s mitt, and put it to use during
season will carry workouts Wednesday.
over into 2020. But the grounders he took at first
Robert Sabo;
base were on his own, with Mets offi-
Paul J. Bereswill
cials not at the point they would con-
sider using the veteran outfielder in
that role. As it stands, the Mets have
Pete Alonso at first base, with Do-
minic Smith behind him. Matt Adams
and Melky Cabrera are also in camp
and can play first base.
Cespedes, according to manager
Luis Rojas, was given a first baseman’s
mitt by Alonso.
“[Cespedes] wants to be involved,”
Rojas said. “He was done with his
throwing from the outfield. He’s a guy
that wants to be on the field and do
different things.”
Cespedes worked out at first base in
2018 while rehabbing with the team. In
spring training he occasionally takes
grounders at third base.
“He wants to show you he’s really
good everywhere and have fun there,”
Rojas said. “I think he has played every
position in the book and we’ve defi-
nitely had conversations about [first
base], but nothing serious yet.”
— Mike Puma
At least these
fans won’t boo
There will be paying fans at Citi Field
this year, after all.
Well, at least paying fans’ cardboard
equivalents.
The Mets finally are offering refunds
to all 2020 games (as are the Yankees,
with both teams updating their policies
Monday), yet season-ticket holders who
opt instead for 2021 credit learned
Wednesday, in an email sent from the
Mets, that they will be rewarded with
the opportunity to set up cardboard like-
nesses of themselves that will be in-
stalled in seats during Mets home games
if this coronavirus-delayed season actu-
ally takes place.
The fun idea follows a trend set by the
A’s. Fans get one cutout per season
ticket, and if they want to purchase ex-
tras, they can pay a “discounted price,”
the precise amount unspecified, to get as
many as six. Proceeds from the sales will
go to the Mets Foundation COVID-19
Relief Fund.
The Mets own the right to approve all
photo submissions for the cutout, and
naturally no obscenities, advertising or
political messages will be allowed. Nor
will the names of any major league play-
ers.
With the Mets’ season scheduled to
begin July 24 against the Braves at Citi
Field, fans have until Aug. 7 to submit for
their cutouts. The Mets’ final scheduled
home game is Sept. 23 against the Rays.
— Ken Davidoff
49
By Mike PuMa
Steven Matz can actually con-
New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020
sider this as spring training 3.0.
His first camp came in Febru-
ary and March with the rest of
his Mets teammates, but was sus-
pended by the coronavirus out-
break. Then there was the camp
of sorts in which Matz partici-
pated at home in Nashville, Tenn.
— with players such as James
McCann, Logan Forsythe, Adam
Duvall, Lance Lynn, Phil Gos-
selin, Jacob Stallings and team-
mate Brad Brach, all of whom live
nearby.
Matz credits those workouts
for his arriving to Citi Field last
week ahead of where he would
be normally. In his first simulated
game, over the weekend, the left-
nypost.com
hander threw three innings. By
the time this 60-game season be- PAYING
gins on July 24, he expects to be DIVIDENDS:
at full strength. Mets lefty Steven
“That was kind of my mindset Matz worked out
all along, when this thing got with other pros at
shut down,” Matz said Wednes- home in Nashville,
day at Citi Field. “I felt like we Tenn., after spring
would be back together at some training was called
point, so me and [Brach] kind of off. Robert Sabo
made a vow to each other, like
we’re going to be available to
each other because we’re in the
same area, and [catcher] James
McCann was awesome.
“He was out there twice a week
for us catching bullpens and sim-
ulated games, so in my mindset I
Matz well
wanted to be ready to come in
and throw five innings. I threw
three innings the other day, so I
feel like a lot of guys stayed in
good shape and we’ll be ready to
rock when the season comes.”
Matz’s importance to the team
increased in March, when Noah
ahead of
Syndergaard was diagnosed with
a torn ulnar collateral ligament
that necessitated Tommy John
surgery. Matz at the time was a
possibility to share a rotation
spot with Michael Wacha — the
Mets had six starters for five
spots — but now is cemented
schedule
into a rotation that also includes
Jacob deGrom, Marcus Stroman
and Rick Porcello.
Matz last season went 11-10
with a 4.21 ERA, reaching 30
starts for the second straight
year. He’s now working to re-
ceive better results with his
curveball.
“The main worry is the feel of
everything and consistency of
stuff,” he said. “I have been mess-
Worked out during break
ing around with different grips,
on different pitches, I have been in his next two appearances. this season will happen.
throwing a slower curveball and “Seeing him for the couple of “The way it has been handled
harder curveball. I was throwing innings he threw the other day, over here, I feel with these proto-
to hitters once a week for four in- he looks really good,” manager cols we have got, I feel that ev-
nings or so, and so I really was Luis Rojas said. “He looks like he erybody is pretty safe from my
able to tinker with a lot of differ- did exactly what he was told and point of view,” Matz said. “The
ent grips and different stuff, so what he was communicating to Mets did a great job of everybody
all that just gave me a better feel everybody. Let’s say we’re in a putting their heads together and
for what I was doing out there. I good place, for the next start and seeing how this thing could work.
think that’s the biggest thing, is the next start until we see the With seeing how things are going
having that comfortable feel on pitch count and the length he can on here, I feel pretty optimistic.”
the mound.” be out there for a game.” mpuma@nypost.com
Ideally, Matz would throw four With safety measures in place
innings in his next simulated game that focus mainly on social dis-
then boost that total beyond five tancing, Matz says he’s confident
More Mets / P. 41
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“Luther” star Idris Elba (left) says he “would like to see”
his BBC detective drama turned into a big-screen movie —
nypost.com
and added that there are “no formal plans” to bring it back
to television. Season 5 of “Luther” aired over a year ago.
TV Thursday
New York Post, Thursday, July 9, 2020
‘Robot Chicken’
reaches big milestone
on Adult Swim
By michael starr
‘R
oboT Chicken,” which pre-
miered in 2005, is nearing its
milestone 200th episode on
Adult Swim.
Not bad for a stop-motion ani-
mated series that began life as
“Sweet J Presents” in 2001 on the now-de-
funct screenblast.com and was even rejected
by Cartoon Network — which ultimately re-
versed course and added “Robot Chicken” to
its nascent Adult Swim lineup.
But Seth Green, who co-created “Robot
Chicken” with Matthew Senreich, says “it
was just a matter of timing” regarding the
show’s 15-year, Emmy-winning run — with no
end in sight as it barrels along in Season 10.
“There was no sense of ‘I told you so,’ ”
Green, 46, tells The Post. “When we started our
Webisodes in 2000 the Internet was still dial-up
and we didn’t have this mass public acceptance
of reflecting nostalgically on pop culture.
When we first tried to sell the show there really
wasn’t a network like Adult Swim. Then, when
we were potentially making a deal with Com-
edy Central, 9/11 happened and that effectively
killed comedy across any network for a year.
“It wasn’t like we felt like we were ahead of
our time,” he says. “It just seemed that this
kind of content couldn’t get a large audience.
“Our aim was very low.”
Green is being modest, since “Robot
Chicken” struck an immediate nerve with its
quick-hit vignettes and sketches skewering
pop culture; a recent episode featured “Mr.
Robo Rogers Neighborhood,” Popeye, Bluto
and Olive Oyl being made over for the Gen-Z
crowd and takeoffs on “The Handmaid’s
Tale” and fixer-upper stars Chip and Joanna
Gaines renovating “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.”
Green says that his professional relation-
ship with another Seth — MacFarlane — also
played a role in launching “Robot Chicken.”
McFarlane hired Green to voice awkward
teen Chris Griffin on “Family Guy” and they
discovered they had a lot in common.
“We really bonded over our shared interest
in filmmaking, animation and pop culture,”
Green says. “We even lived on the same block
for a couple of years. When Seth sold the re-
runs of ‘Family Guy’ to Adult Swim, they
CBS has fired “MacGyver” and
“Magnum: P.I.” showrunner Peter
Lenkov after investigating a report
of a toxic environment on
“MacGyver.” It also terminated his
overall studio deal. Lenkov said in a
statement that he was “deeply sorry.”
SHOWTIME
FOR LENA
Legendary singer/
activist Lena Horne
(below) is getting the
biographical treatment —
courtesy of her
granddaughter, Jenny
Lumet. She will produce
the Showtime series
“Blackbird: Lena Horne
and America” along with
Alex Kurtzman.
A “Robot Chicken” sketch from the 200th
episode (above). Left: co-creators Matthew
Senreich and Seth Green celebrate.
were still a fledgling network dabbling in
original content. He told us it ‘could be a
LYNCH’S
good place for that thing,’ which is how he
described our show. He’s been an incredible
‘LINK’
factor in all of this.” NBC is reviving “The
“Robot Chicken” is known for its timely Weakest Link,” this time
pop culture references. But unlike its ani- with Jane Lynch (below
mated colleague “South Park” — which can left) hosting. Anne
produce a topical episode the week following Robinson (below right)
a headline-grabbing event — the “Robot hosted NBC’s version
Chicken” production schedule means that it from 2001-02 and turned
doesn’t have that luxury. “You are the weakest link.
“The main thing we do is try not to mention Goodbye!” into a national
something we can’t guarantee will be rele- catchphrase. George Gray
vant or recognized in a year’s time,” Green hosted the syndicated
says. “We try to focus on the stickiest stuff in daytime version.
pop culture. There’s a documentary about
‘South Park’ called ‘6 Days to Air’ about how
they write an episode so quickly, but we abso-
lutely do not have that ability. ‘Robot
Chicken’ is far more involved and labor-in-
tensive and it’s also exactly not our lane.”
The series will, however, make a big deal
about its 200th episode, airing July 26.
“The whole episode is about the concept of
it being the 200th episode, from start to fin-
ish,” Green says. “While it’s still very much
an episode of ‘Robot Chicken’ . . . it’s focused
on the celebration, the acknowledgement and
the milestone.”
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