{"id":478893,"date":"2022-07-29T03:58:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T00:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/espn-still-hasnt-fixed-disgraceful-doug-adler-firing\/"},"modified":"2022-07-29T03:58:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T00:58:40","slug":"espn-still-hasnt-fixed-disgraceful-doug-adler-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/espn-still-hasnt-fixed-disgraceful-doug-adler-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"#ESPN still hasn&#8217;t fixed disgraceful Doug Adler firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b797a4da5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26b797a4da5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/espn-still-hasnt-fixed-disgraceful-doug-adler-firing\/#%E2%80%9CESPN_still_hasnt_fixed_disgraceful_Doug_Adler_firing%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;ESPN still hasn&#8217;t fixed disgraceful Doug Adler firing&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/espn-still-hasnt-fixed-disgraceful-doug-adler-firing\/#QB_Kyler_is_required_under_contract_to_hit_books\" >QB Kyler is required, under contract, to hit books<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/espn-still-hasnt-fixed-disgraceful-doug-adler-firing\/#Takes_some_discipline_to_K_that_much\" >Takes some discipline to K that much<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CESPN_still_hasnt_fixed_disgraceful_Doug_Adler_firing%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;ESPN still hasn&#8217;t fixed disgraceful Doug Adler firing&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Phil Mushnick\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>     <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Once upon a time, not long ago \u2014 just before the world went nuts \u2014 he\u2019d have spent this week in Washington, the volunteer instructor for the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation, serving poor black kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He coached these kids for three consecutive summers, neither asking for or receiving a dime. An All-American at USC, he was in the area as the in-stadium radio voice of the men\u2019s and women\u2019s Citi Open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then, 5\u2009\u00b9\/\u2082 years ago, based on a mad rush to politically correct (mis)judgment, ESPN fired Doug Adler as a racist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Citi Open, though not an ESPN event, was once a steady gig for Adler. But the stain of \u201cracist,\u201d no matter how preposterously <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lied, is not easily, if ever, removed. Adler, once a busy man over the tennis broadcasting landscape, now can\u2019t land a gig nor catch a break \u2014 as if having the truth as your defense is catching a break, a matter of luck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not giving up on this one, only because I can\u2019t. In my 40 years writing this column, I\u2019ve never encountered such a hideous miscarriage of justice and gutless abandonment of common sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As you might by now know, Adler, now 64, was fired on the spot by ESPN as he worked his ninth Australian Open as an analyst, falsely accused by a reckless New York Times stringer armed with a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> account that ID\u2019d him as a Times correspondent. It became an overnight \u201cfact\u201d that Adler \u2014 for no known reason \u2014 racially degraded Venus Williams by calling her \u201ca gorilla.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-618246976.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Doug Adler\" class=\"wp-image-23251842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-618246976.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-618246976.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-618246976.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Doug Adler <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Britain-Wimbledon-Tennis-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Venus Williams\" class=\"wp-image-23251840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Britain-Wimbledon-Tennis-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Britain-Wimbledon-Tennis-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Britain-Wimbledon-Tennis-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Venus Williams<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So Ben Rothenberg, covering the 2017 Australian Open for The Times, made a splash. He tweeted that Adler said what he never did.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adler had complimented Williams, saying that by rushing the net she\u2019d surprised her opponent with the \u201cguerrilla effect \u2013 charging,\u201d a common tennis expression. He did not call her \u201ca gorilla.\u201d Still, ESPN freaked out \u2014 \u201cOh, my gawd, The New York Times may claim we\u2019re racist! Off with his head! Immediately!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>So ESPN rushed to fire Adler \u2014 to hell with facts, the truth and his long, unimpeachable service to ESPN. Adler, who soon suffered a heart attack, lost his career and reputation to a lie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an email to me last year, Rothenberg insisted that Adler called Williams \u201ca gorilla,\u201d though he was unable to explain why. Yet, he wrote, \u201cOnly Doug will ever know what he meant to say there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oh, really? But Rothenberg had already determined and disseminated his conviction that Adler meant to call her a gorilla!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for a \u201cguerrilla\u201d warfare tactic by suddenly attacking the net, Rothenberg wrote me, \u201cIt is not, as you\u2019ve erroneously written, a regularly spoken term in tennis whatsoever. It\u2019s just not.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rothenberg must\u2019ve missed \u2014 or ignored \u2014 an entire 1995 Nike ad campaign in which Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi play \u201cguerrilla tennis.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-514548562.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Ben Rothenberg (center, right)\" class=\"wp-image-23251859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-514548562.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-514548562.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-514548562.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-514548562.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Ben Rothenberg (center, right) does not believe \u201cguerrilla\u201d is a tennis term.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And late NYC Mayor David Dinkins, a tennis freak, in a 2018 interview with NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> claimed he knows \u201cguerrilla\u201d as a common and useful tennis term. Interviewed by Matt Lauer, Dinkins shook his head in disbelief at what had befallen Adler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the kicker came when Rothenberg wrote me that \u201cGorillas, however, do charge.\u201d Not sure if he meant gorillas charge while playing tennis, only that they \u201ccharge.\u201d According to Rothenberg, this was proof Adler called Williams a gorilla \u2014 even if he admittedly didn\u2019t know what Adler meant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, as no one \u2014 not Venus or Serena Williams, anyone from the tennis world including media, sponsors, Nike, current and past players, execs at ESPN, Disney and The Times \u2014 has stood up, or even leaned slightly forward, to rescue this man from Devils Island. Race issue? Even a nonsensical one? Run for your life!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m tired of ESPN staffers whispering to me that they agree; ESPN did Adler dirty. Don\u2019t tell me, tell your boss, Jimmy Pitaro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/ESPN-Pitaro.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Jimmy Pitaro\" class=\"wp-image-23251877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/ESPN-Pitaro.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/ESPN-Pitaro.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/ESPN-Pitaro.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/ESPN-Pitaro.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Jimmy Pitaro<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now Adler approaches the sixth year of his life sentence, convicted, overnight, as a racist by a mad rush to injustice then tacitly approved by the cowardly silent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Venus Williams is scheduled to play in D.C. this week. Though a proponent of civil rights and racial justice, she already spoke to this issue: She\u2019s not interested.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yep, let him rot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week Adler used to be in D.C., volunteering to coach poor black kids then working the in house-broadcasts. He figured the goodwill and high regard he\u2019d engendered at the Citi tournament eventually would be worth something, the way he figured the truth would eventually free him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was wrong. You can\u2019t shame the shameless.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"QB_Kyler_is_required_under_contract_to_hit_books\"><\/span>QB Kyler is required, under contract, to hit books<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Ever feel yourself drifting far, far away?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rays shortstop Wander Franco this week claimed to have had $650,000 in jewelry stolen from his Rolls Royce while it was parked overnight in a hotel lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That inspired reader Mike Natale of Lake Worth, Fla., to a vow: \u201cI will never leave $650,000 in jewelry in my Buick LaCrosse overnight ever again!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Now we\u2019ve reached the stage where an NFL QB making $230 million can\u2019t be expected to spend the week preparing for the next <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. Thus the Cardinals Kyler Murray, by contract, now must spend four hours a week in independent game film study.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Cardinals-Football-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kyler Murray \" class=\"wp-image-23251894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Cardinals-Football-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Cardinals-Football-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Cardinals-Football-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Cardinals-Football-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kyler Murray <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>YES now has two worth-your-time Yankees sideshows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHomegrown\u201d has for several years been a fun up-close-and-personal study of Yankees minor leaguers and coaches at work, play and even grocery shopping. Simple but compelling \u2014 exactly the way NFL pregame shows ain\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s edition of the \u201cThe Feed,\u201d with Matt Stucko interviewing reliever Lucas Luetge, was particularly enjoyable. Luetge shared videos of his kids \u2014 one, a toddler, electric-shaving Dad\u2019s head bald. Luetge, his head otherwise in all the right places, made a fan of this viewer.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Takes_some_discipline_to_K_that_much\"><\/span>Takes some discipline to K that much<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Seeing new Met Daniel Vogelbach hanging over the dugout railing is like watching the late Dan Blocker, as Hoss Cartwright, lean over the corral fence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/07272022Mets56JS.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Daniel Vogelbach\" class=\"wp-image-23251903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/07272022Mets56JS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/07272022Mets56JS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/07272022Mets56JS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/07272022Mets56JS.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Daniel Vogelbach<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jason Szenes<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then we heard from Pete Alonso, who marveled at Vogelbach\u2019s \u201cplate discipline.\u201d Unless Alonso was referencing dinner-plate discipline. Voeglbach, another all-or-nothing batter, has struck out in 30 percent of his MLB at-bats. As of Friday, he struck out three times in his six at-bats as a Met.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well, don\u2019t forget to visit our Bargain Basement, conveniently located on the third floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Reader Bob Franzese notes that Sunday, when Gil Hodges was inducted into the Hall of Fame, a horse named Johnny Podres, for Hodges\u2019 Brooklyn and L.A. teammate, won the fifth at Del Mar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Why would Charles Barkley think the Saudi golf tour would throw big money at him if not to be its official on-air clown?\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/1411505278.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Charles Barkley at the LIV Golf pro-am at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ. \" class=\"wp-image-23251913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/1411505278.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/1411505278.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/1411505278.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/1411505278.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Charles Barkley at the LIV Golf pro-am at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Carlos Beltran and Cameron Maybin would be far batter on YES if they learned to take deep breaths \u2014 the kind that last, oh, half an inning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>There was never a shortage of reasons why those who worked for King of Sleaze Vince McMahon chose not to include that employment in their r\u00e9sum\u00e9s and bios.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>So MLB, under Rob Manfred, and the MLBPA, perhaps as a fundraiser for destitute multimillionaire players and team owners, will sell more of their uniforms to display corporate messages. That conspicuous Nike logo to suddenly appear on all uniforms left room for more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New stat coming: Career leaders in \u201cManfred RBIs\u201d \u2014 runners driven in after automatically placed at second base.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Rough week for kids as we lost Choco Taco, discontinued by Klondike. I\u2019d grow excited when the music on the ice cream truck signaled its approach. Until my dad, tight with 15 cents, said, \u201cNo, son, they play that music when they\u2019re out of ice cream.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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