It’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball! The White Sox start their season against the Athletics in Oakland tonight. Former White Sox Outfielder, All-Star and AL Rookie of the Year Ron Kittle joined John to talk about what he’s expecting from the White Sox this season. (Listen here)
Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk says pre-orders of the firm’s much-anticipated Model 3 electric car currently total 276,000. Potential car owners need to put down $1,000 deposits to reserve their vehicles. The basic model will start at $35,000 and have a range of at least 215 miles per charge. Nathan Bomey from USA Today joined John to explain what the new car will mean for the auto industry. (Listen here)
Trump is complaining that the RNC is treating him unfairly. He was on Face The Nation and specifically cited Louisiana, where he says he should have gotten more delegates than he did. Is it still possible that Trump could lose this thing? Wall Street Journal Columnist Stephen Moore joined John with reaction. (Listen here)
A Mayoral task force is calling for the city to require employers to give workers 5 paid days of sick leave per year. They estimate there are about 200,000 workers in the city of Chicago who don’t have any sick days and can’t afford to take any days off and lose the pay from those days.
Rahm Emanuel wants a federal hate crime investigation into the racial slurs that were heard over Chicago Police radio frequencies. This seems like such a waste of time and energy to me, it’s not like you can completely control who broadcasts on those radio frequencies, and it seems like it would be impossible to find out who did it. So what’s an investigation actually going to prove? There are morons out there, we already know this.
America simply doesn’t want to be made great again: Polls show that a head to head match-up between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton would be a bit of a bloodbath in electoral votes.
Billboards are popping up all over Los Angeles that say “Feel The Burn.” They aren’t for Bernie Sanders, they are trying to get people tested for STD’s. Feel The Burn, get it? The billboards are from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. They’d had quite a few tongue-in-cheek billboards recently, and their spokesperson suspects that Bernie Sanders would get a chuckle out of them.
SNL had a pretty epic cold open on Saturday night. The focus was on women Trump supporters defending him on cable news.
