Cup of Coffee: February 7, 2024

Good morning!

In today’s newsletter: Clayton’s back. The A’s get even MORE shade in response to their move to Las Vegas and you won’t believe who is throwing it now. And, not to be outdone, John Angelos continues to be the worst, even as he’s on his way out the door.

In Other Stuff BlueSky is now open for everyone, even without an invite. A court finally says that Trump is not above the law. Let’s see if that holds. The absolute last movie I ever thought would or could be adapted into a TV show is about to be adapted into a TV show. And a famous play is being adapted into . . . a play? OK, good for them.

Finally, before we get going today, I wanted to handle a bit of housekeeping.

There’s been a pretty big uptick in recent days of people contacting me to tell me that they’re not getting the newsletter delivered. Invariably, I am finding that it either has been delivered but it has, for some reason, been sent to the person’s spam or junk folder, or that it was sent but that the person’s email server has bounced it back for unknown reasons.

If you’re someone who is not getting the newsletter in your inbox, I’d ask you to do a couple of things:

• First: check junk/spam folders. I know that seems basic, but it is happening more frequently than at Substack, so at least give it a look first;

• Second: Consider whitelisting the email address which sends this newsletter: [email protected]. Different email servers have different methods for doing so, but the upshot is that you are telling your email server that, yes, you want to receive this newsletter and that you do not want it going into junk or getting bounced.

Again, while there aren’t a ton of people experiencing this problem, I’m finding that this is a much bigger issue for people who have their own custom servers or who use more obscure servers than for people who use the big ones like Gmail. If it happens to you, these steps are the quickest way to deal with it. If none of that works after a day or two, shoot me an email and we’ll try to suss it out.

OK, on with the show.

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