Hats off to my hometown NY Mets, who managed to snag a playoff spot yesterday. The team has a huge payroll, so this shouldn't be a shock, but its record was 10-25 at the end of May. This projects to a 46 win season, but going 79-48 after that bad start led to them finishing as the hottest team in baseball. But I'm still not getting too hopeful about winning it all. The team hasn't won the World Series in 38 years, and ironically, that last championship was considered the end of a "drought" since the Miracle Mets won it all 17 years before that. But on the bright side, the Chicago White Sox become the worst team in modern MLB history has the news that with 121 losses this season, the ChiSox surpassed the 120-loss 1962 Mets for the most losses in a season in the modern era.

Wild Card Round-up
Thanks Ant, Neutronbeam, and Max.

Stories

• Hiker Scares Away Mountain Lion With Harmonica - Unofficial Networks.
• California to allow eating, smoking at Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes - Los Angeles Times.

Science

• Did a top NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s studies for decades? - Science - AAAS.
• 'Sub-Earth' exoplanet discovered around the closest solo star to us - Space.
• China’s astronauts are aiming to land on the moon by 2030. They now have a new spacesuit to do it - CNN. Ordered from Temu.

Media
Thanks The Flying Penguin.

• Movie Guns Suck, so I Built Something Better - Corridor Crew.
• Austex Beef Stew Commercial (1966). Thanks Digg.
• Flying The World's Biggest R-C Planes With Tyler Perry and RamyRC.

Follow-up

• Which arm is best for vaccines? Here's what scientists say - AZCentral.