I don't labor anymore...

Today is Labor Day (or if you are British, Labour Day) which is a day that was officially recognized by the federal government back in 1894.

What fascinates me about that fact is that the federal government only offically recognized the day after an event known as the The Pullman Strike.

Seems that the railroad barons decided that they were paying their workers too much money so they cut their pay and increased their hours. This kinda pissed off the workers so they went on strike. This caused the trains to come to a standstill in Chicago and since the mail was transported by train, that caused the mail to be halted. This pissed off Grover Cleveland so he sent in troops and gunned down 87 striking workers, killing 30 & wounding 57.

Old Grover understood that the murder of 30 citizens was a bad look and it made him look really bad to the rest of the country. He huddled up with his people and they decided that letting people hold parades and giving them a day off would make him look good so he established Labor Day.

Basically, we get a day off to make up for the government murdering 30 people.

Enjoy!

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The Red Sox beat the Angels this afternoon and since the Judges & the Rays did not play today, they picked up half game on both.

They are now 2 games behind the Judges and 6 games behind the Rays.

There are 17 games left in the season so it is highly possible they overcome the Judges and move into the 1^st wildcard slot. What is also possible but not likely is that they overcome the Rays and move into 1^st place in the ALEast.

According to Fangraphs, they have a 99.9% chance of making the playoffs which is way better than the 20.6% it was back in June.

Game 2 of the series is tomorrow. First pitch is at 6:45 and since the Red Sox seem to be jugling their pitching rotation, I have no idea who will get the start.

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This is terrible and I swear to god I did not laugh when I saw this:

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Here are some links:

• Well, at least it's not the storm troopers from Star Wars.



• Don't tell the Joker, the Riddler or the Penguin where it is.



• In January of this year, 60 to 100 ships a day passed through the Strait of Hormuz. Today there are 6 to 20 ships a day passing through the Strait of Hormuz. But Dementia Donny says the Strait is open...