Smith allowed a single in the ninth, and there were two outs when the Guardians sent up Bailey as a left-handed pinch hitter for catcher Austin Hedges.
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Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2026
There was always something to take care of given the age of the buildings and the dampening mist sent up by the waterfall.
Barney & Friends, the enormously popular and widely mocked PBS series about a singing, dancing purple dinosaur, is the obvious touchstone for the children’s-show-as-hellscape in the new movie Buddy.
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Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
28 Aug. 2026
Trump has all but severed America’s system of alliances, mocked and bullied Ukraine’s president, and showered praise upon Kim Jong Un.
Trump has long derided past leaders who used sanctions to limit Iran’s ability to pay for its military and nuclear development.
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Farnoush Amiri,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Aug. 2026
Much of the vitriol apparently stems from the developers releasing GTA VI without physical copies of the game, a decision that was roundly mocked and derided last month.
These polyester fits have also been parodied in video skits, where comedians put on an all-over polyester print outfit, like a wolf T-shirt and galaxy pants, and parody the stereotypical nerdy kid.
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Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
18 Aug. 2026
In Mel Brooks’ parody fashion, the Spaceballs team parodied Marvel’s Hall H panels with an expansive Spaceballs Cinematic Universe, stretching across 180-degree screens in the room.
Young Dolly wore the coat proudly to school, only to be ridiculed by mean kids who laughed at the sight of it.
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David Kamp,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Aug. 2026
Beloved by younger fans who remember the sneaker’s original 2013 release, the style is sometimes ridiculed by purists, but that doesn’t make its inclusion any less valid.
The falseness of the medium, though, jibed with the falseness of most attempts, throughout American history, to make sense of this enormous, strange man.
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Christopher Hooks,
Harpers Magazine,
23 June 2026
This forced the British to make jibes to get down to the bottom of the course while the Americans jibed just once, and that was the deciding factor in securing what went on to be an easy victory.
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