Tony Garcia

Digital Content Producer at Las Vegas Review-Journal

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Sure, 4K is nice, but there was nothing like sitting two inches away from one of these sweet bastards while your mother predicted you’d be as blind as Ray Charles by the following Thursday.

[Tony Garcia @TonyGLVNews]

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[Tony Garcia @TonyGLVNews]

Nice when an all-Cubs IG falls into place

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

The Cubs are the only MLB team in the last 50 years to have 7 different players who came into the inning batting .250 or worse get hits in the bottom of the 9th in the same game:

Busch (.242)
Happ (.233)
Hoerner (.250)
Ballesteros (.231)
Suzuki (.239)
Swanson (.180)
PCA (.242)

[Rock History Live! @KTrain939913]

Today in Rock History

June 5, 1986
The iconic “Twist and Shout” parade scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was set on June 5th and filmed during Chicago’s real Von Steuben Day parade. Director John Hughes cleverly integrated the scene into the actual annual German-American parade, using real participants and spectators. Matthew Broderick performed on a float while thousands joined in singing and dancing. The sequence remains one of the most joyful and memorable moments in 1980s cinema.

[Tony Garcia @TonyGLVNews]

“What a day for a daydream/What a day for a daydreamin' boy/And now I'm lost in a daydream/Dreamin' 'bout my bundle of joy” #EarwormThursday

[BetMGM 🦁 @BetMGM]

The Knicks in 22 years before Brunson: 10 playoff wis

The Knicks since April 23: 12 playoff wins

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you,

[Tony Garcia @TonyGLVNews]

"Nick Castellanos has been released by the San Diego Padres. He signed after being as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, it will be a home run, and so that'll make it a 4–0 ballgame."

[Tony Garcia @TonyGLVNews]

@martymaciaszek @TimJenkins1962 The Les Steckel of the diamond

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:

[Tony Garcia @TonyGLVNews]

@martymaciaszek Had a pair of "pound that Budweiser" guys myself

[My Topps Football Cards 🏈 🇺🇸 @ToppsGallery]

Quite possibly the best video in internet history.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Keith Richards @officialKeef]

It's Charlie's birthday! Missing him!

[Tony Garcia @TonyGLVNews]

@summacorp I misread that as "Opening Night of the Las Vegas News Bureau" and thought it still made sense