OZY Daily Dose

When you pay to see a baseball game, you’re paying for action. Or at least you were. Baseball fans love the crack of the bat, the acrobatic catches, the bang-bang plays at first base and slide-and-tag plays at second. But no more. More than 33 percent of your average Major League Baseball (MLB) game is either a home run, walk or strikeout, according to Baseball-Reference.com. That means the only players those watching at home will see are the pitcher, hitter and catcher.

The day is stretching on, and tempers are running hot in the House Judiciary Committee. Donald Trump’s acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, has been parrying questions from Democrats about the Robert Mueller probe for several hours. And Rep. Doug Collins, newly elevated as the committee’s top Republican, has been playing defense. “If you want to sit down there, you can go sit down there, but you’re not his lawyer,” Rep.

If you peek into the office of Technology, Humans and Taste (THAT), an advertising firm in New York City, on a Friday afternoon, you might be puzzled to see employees and selected guests sitting on couches and clutching pencils. They’re jotting down ideas on forms and hanging them on boards around the office as music plays against a backdrop of Big Apple traffic noise. Within an hour, dozens of cards are scattered across the walls.

Greenwich has been called the hedge fund capital of the world, a city of less than 100,000 that nonetheless hosts three of the planet’s biggest firms and serves as the personal home and backyard of Ray Dalio, the mega-fund founder of the biggest firm, located just a few train stops away in Westport, Connecticut.

One April morning in 2013, I was at school, at my desk, reading The Boston Globe, when I noticed a small item about a boy from Revere, the city where I live and teach, who had been mauled by two Rottweilers the evening before. The seventh-grader was in critical condition at Massachusetts General Hospital. I thought about that article all day.The news reported that Brandon and a friend had ridden their bikes to a trucking company with high fences and two guard dogs, Bella and Sonny.

I'm standing at the doorway wondering where the heck his lumbersexual beard and the bird tattoo on his biceps are.I am in awe, but in a bad way, like when you take a bite out of a Chipotle steak burrito only to realize they got your order wrong and gave you a vegetarian burrito. He ushers me in and locks the door behind me, and I am realizing I got catfished.Sure, there were a ton of red flags, I get that.

For months Australian politics have been engulfed by allegations of a culture of sexism, which prompted at least one female member of Parliament to resign. But recent figures indicate that the country - which is regularly lampooned for its "good old boy" culture - has leapfrogged the U.K., Canada and the U.S. in terms of female representation in the boardroom, and it has ambitions to go further.

The Cold War was in its final stages, and Moscow was a drab place to build a life. But that’s where mathematician Alexey Pajitnov lived with his family in 1984, working as a researcher at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre, part of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Computers were scarce, and Pajitnov enjoyed programming, even though his Elektronika 60 couldn’t display particularly sophisticated graphics. Still, it could handle the little games he developed to test his experiments.

In the early afternoon light, Mi Tocaya Antojería is tranquil - a far cry from the bustling hotspot it will become when dinner service begins at 5 pm. Diana Dávila, wearing a sweatshirt with her dark hair pulled tightly into a side braid, brews herself a cup of coffee during a break in her pre-service prep. But the kitchen waits for no one - not even its head chef - and Dávila's attention is as hot a commodity as her mole.A mezcal vendor is at the back door.

Just as New England Patriots captain Matthew Slater predicted, the overtime coin flip came up heads. Patriots’ ball. We’d seen this story before. With a Super Bowl berth on the line, it took 13 plays and 4:52 for New England to find the end zone. A 10-yard Tom Brady pass to Chris Hogan here, a 20-yard dart to Julian Edelman there. Vintage Rob Gronkowski even appeared.