5 Surprising Reasons Actors Turned Down Major Movie Roles

That headline in quotation marks is misleading. Krasinski didn’t “turn down” Captain America because they never offered it to him. He did, however, realize at audition time that he wasn’t Cap material.

Betts got 28 out of the 30 votes. Yelich got 29.

Yelich was the unanimous choice among position players. The other first place vote went to a pitcher (deGrom). Javier Baez was named on all 30 ballots, but none of them placed him first.

Yelich led the league in the key Sabermetric stats (OPS and WAR), and many of the traditional stats as well (slugging and batting averages). After the All-Star break, Yelich hit .367 with 25 homers. He totally carried the team during their final stretch drive, batting .370 with 34 RBI in the final month. In the final eight-game winning streak that carried the Brewers past the Cubs to the division championship, Yelich batted .458 with a .649 on-base percentage, and he averaged more than two RBI per game.

Betts and Mike Trout got almost all of the 1-2 votes in the AL. Betts was first or second on every ballot, while Trout was on 25/30.

“It’s not a big deal,” Trump told Fox News in an interview on Friday. “What they said, though, is that we have to create rules and regulations for conduct, etcetera. We’re going to write them up. It’s not a big deal. If he misbehaves, we’ll throw him out or we’ll stop the news conference.”

Yes, Trump is right (for a change). If there had been a formal rule that said each reporter is entitled to one question, no follow-ups, and must then yield the mic, and if the rule had been universally applied without exception, then the White House could remove the press pass of anyone who violated the rules.

Normally such a rule would not really be necessary, but the word “normally” never applies to President Trump, does it? There is so much antagonism between him and the press corps, that a rigid set of rules is necessary, and there probably ought to be a “sergeant-at-arms” to enforce the rules, rather than having Trump do it himself. (Because you know he’ll apply them arbitrarily, allowing Fox News ten softball questions, then removing CNN for asking two contentious ones, thereby invalidating the rules and sending everything back to square one.)

Personally, I don’t think press conferences should be done by having people shouting for attention and having the president call on the people he prefers. Instead of orderly questioners, these reporters look like people trying to get seats on Aeroflot in the Soviet days. If it were my decision, I’d have all the reporters write out questions, throw them in a bowl, and have one designated reporter (different each time) to pull them out at random and read them, throwing out any that duplicated previous questions. Just as with any other method, the President would decide when to quit.