Duck, Kruk! Here it comes! As expected, former Seattle Mariner Randy Johnson was a first-ballot choice for Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame, winning 97.3 percent of the vote. Johnson, however, is likely to enter the hall as an Arizona Diamondback, for whom he won four of his five Cy Young Awards and a World Series MVP.
As a nod to his fans in Seattle, however, Johnson said his 90-mph slider, Mr. Snappy, would go into the hall as a Mariner.
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The gift that almost gave: Starbucks reports its best holiday season ever for its gift cards, with an estimated 1 in 7 Americans receiving a card as a gift.
The other 6 in 7 Americans also bought Starbucks cards but forgot to wrap them and will dig them out of their purse or wallet later this week for a frappuccino and a slice of banana bread.
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“Shine on Harvest Moon”? “American Idol” returns to Fox tonight for its 14th season of searching for another pop star. With its ratings down, the show has been cut back to an episode a week.
You get the feeling that the hearts of the show’s producers just aren’t in it any longer. For musical accompaniment, the contestants are handed a comb and a piece of tissue paper and they are told to choose musical selections from sheet music in the bottom of a piano bench.
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