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USA Today
11 hours ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Tennessee's Drew Gilbert, Blade Tidwell sent to Giants by Mets in MLB trade deadline deal
Former Tennessee baseball standouts Drew Gilbert and Blade Tidwell were traded to the San Francisco Giants by the New York Mets on July 30, a day before the MLB trade deadline. The New York Post's Jon Heyman reported the pair of Mets' prospects were included in a package for Giants pitcher Tyler Rogers. The Mets also traded right-handed pitcher Jose Butto. Tidwell, a right-handed pitcher, made his MLB debut on May 4 with the Mets. He pitched in four games with two starts, going 1-1 with a 9.00 ERA. He was picked No. 52 in the 2022 MLB Draft as the Mets' second-round pick. Gilbert, an outfielder, has spent the season mostly with Triple-A Syracuse. He is hitting .243 with 12 homers and 47 RBIs with Syracuse this season, including a .300 mark with six homers in July. It is the second time Gilbert has been traded at the deadline since he was drafted No. 28 overall in the first round of the 2022 MLB Draft by the Houston Astros. He was traded to the Mets by the Astros at the 2023 trade deadline in a deal for pitcher Justin Verlander, who now is with the Giants. Tidwell has a 20-24 record with a 4.13 ERA and 372 strikeouts in 326⅔ innings in four minor-league seasons. The Loretto, Tennessee, native was 13-5 with a 3.53 ERA in two seasons at Tennessee. He struck out 141 in 137⅔ innings. Gilbert is hitting .260 with 44 homers and 151 RBIs in four minor-league seasons. He has battled injuries, including a hamstring injury in 2024 that cost him much of the season. The Minnesotan hit .314 with 22 homers and 140 RBIs in 141 career games as a three-year starter at UT. He hit .362 with 11 homer sand 70 RBIs on Tennessee's 2022 team. Gilbert cemented himself in Tennessee history in the 2021 postseason with a walk-off grand slam against Wright State. The homer, which lifted UT to a 9-8 win in its opener in the Knoxville Regional, got the Vols started on their roll to the program's first College World Series berth since 2001. The Giants now have four Tennessee products in their organization. They drafted shortstop Gavin Kilen with the No. 13 pick in the 2025 MLB Draft. They have former Vols shortstop Maui Ahuna with the High-A Eugene Emeralds after picking him in the fourth round of the 2023 MLB Draft. Mike Wilson covers University of Tennessee athletics. Email him at and follow him on X @ByMikeWilson. If you enjoy Mike's coverage, consider a digital subscription that will allow you access to all of it.
The Guardian
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Tom Lehrer obituary
No one ever fought off the trappings of fame and success so fiercely as the singer, songwriter, and mathematician Tom Lehrer, who has died aged 97. He was an enigma. The songs that made him famous were mostly written and recorded before 1960, after which he returned to teaching mathematics and tried to behave as though no one had heard of him. His songs were by turns gloriously vulgar, ludicrously macabre or ferociously political: I Got It from Agnes – 'it' being a sexually transmitted disease; I Hold Your Hand in Mine, in which the held hand is no longer attached to a body; and We Will All Go Together When We Go, perhaps the best anti-nuclear weapons song ever written, praising 'Universal bereavement / An inspiring achievement'. Others were wonderfully clever games with words and music, including The Elements (1959), which names all the chemical elements, set to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General. He began writing songs as a graduate student at Harvard, where he had enrolled at 15 and had taken a first-class maths degree at 18. He sang them to his friends and soon people started asking him to perform at parties. 'My songs spread slowly,' he said. 'Like herpes, rather than Ebola.' The politics and rudeness of his material put off the record companies, so in 1953 he paid for 400 discs to be cut of a record called Songs of Tom Lehrer, having worked out that if he sold them all, he would break even. He sold many more than that: he had to keep getting them cut. His university idyll was broken by a period with the Atomic Energy Commission at Los Alamos, and two years in the army. 'I dodged the draft for as long as anybody was shooting at anybody,' he said. 'I waited until everything was calm and then surrendered to the draft board.' Afterwards he wrote the song It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier, about strange and disturbing army folk: 'Now Fred's an intellectual, brings a book to every meal. / He likes the deep philosophers, like Norman Vincent Peale.' Peale was a famous evangelical Christian of even more than usual banality and intolerance, and also the Trump family pastor, who gave the US president his ethical base. After the army, Lehrer returned to studying and singing in night clubs in New York and other cities, while his reputation grew in a samizdat sort of way – record companies ignored him and newspapers sneered, but his growing army of fans loved him. He undertook a series of concert tours, including in the UK, and produced another album, More of Tom Lehrer, in 1959, with a live concert version, An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, also released. Then, in 1960, he stopped, and that was almost that, except that in 1964 he was lured back to write some songs for the American version of That Was the Week That Was. During the 1970s he contributed songs to the children's educational television programme The Electric Company and, two years later, appeared in episodes of the Frost Report at the BBC. There were occasional songs after that – (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica in 1990 is probably the best known ('Amid the California flora / I'll be lighting my menorah, /Like a baby in his cradle / I'll be playing with my dreidl'). In 1980, the British producer Cameron Mackintosh persuaded him to agree to a revue of his songs called Tomfoolery, which started life at the Criterion theatre in London. But Lehrer neither appeared in it nor wrote new material for it. He was done with performing. Born in New York, Tom was the elder son of James Lehrer, a prosperous necktie manufacturer, and his wife, Anna (nee Waller). He learned to play the piano, fell in love with the Broadway of Danny Kaye and Cole Porter, and attended private schools, which discovered they had a mathematics prodigy on their hands. So he went to Harvard, and took a master's in 1947, the year after his degree, before settling down to the life of a graduate student, which he enjoyed. He registered for a doctorate but never finished it. Over the years he gave various reasons for stopping song-writing and performing. 'What's the point of having laurels if you can't rest on them?' he asked. He said he never supposed he might be doing some good, and quoted Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin kabaretts of the 30s, 'which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the second world war'. Things that were once funny now scared him. 'I'm not tempted to write a song about George W Bush,' he said of the then US president. 'I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.' He said that satire died when they gave Henry Kissinger the Nobel peace prize, but that was not his reason for giving it up. However, if you listen to his students, you come away thinking the biggest factor was that he loved teaching and wanted to spend his life doing it. He taught on the US east coast until 1972, when he moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where for almost 30 years he taught two classes: The American Musical and The Nature of Math. The American fiction writer Greg Neri wrote: 'He was very humble, his fame meant nothing to him, the past he'd fob off as nothing more than messing around with satire. But get him talking about the American musical and he was off and running … He was truly delighted to see a play get on its feet and the day we performed it, he was all grins … He was extremely kind and patient with students.' Other former students reported that you did not mention his career as a performer, or ask about his personal life: it was an unspoken rule in his class. There is a video he recorded in 1997 called The Professor's Song. One of the songs, to another Gilbert and Sullivan tune, begins 'If you give me your attention I will tell you what I am. / I'm a brilliant mathematician, also something of a ham.' But these were private songs for his students. He had turned his back on fame and fortune. And the most dramatic illustration of that came in 2020 when he announced that his lyrics and sheet music were now available for anyone to use or perform without paying royalties. I benefited from this when writing a play called Tom Lehrer is Teaching Math and Doesn't Want to Talk to You, and including many of his greatest songs. It was performed last year at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate, north London, and is due to return this November at the OSO Arts Centre, south of the river in Barnes. 'Help yourselves, and don't send me any money,' he wrote on his website. So I did. Thomas Andrew Lehrer, singer, songwriter, satirist and mathematician, born 9 April 1928; died 26 July 2025
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Tom Lehrer obituary
No one ever fought off the trappings of fame and success so fiercely as the singer, songwriter, and mathematician Tom Lehrer, who has died aged 97. He was an enigma. The songs that made him famous were mostly written and recorded before 1960, after which he returned to teaching mathematics and tried to behave as though no one had heard of him. His songs were by turns gloriously vulgar, ludicrously macabre or ferociously political: I Got It from Agnes – 'it' being a sexually transmitted disease; I Hold Your Hand in Mine, in which the held hand is no longer attached to a body; and We Will All Go Together When We Go, perhaps the best anti-nuclear weapons song ever written, praising 'Universal bereavement / An inspiring achievement'. Others were wonderfully clever games with words and music, including The Elements (1959), which names all the chemical elements, set to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General. He began writing songs as a graduate student at Harvard, where he had enrolled at 15 and had taken a first-class maths degree at 18. He sang them to his friends and soon people started asking him to perform at parties. 'My songs spread slowly,' he said. 'Like herpes, rather than Ebola.' The politics and rudeness of his material put off the record companies, so in 1953 he paid for 400 discs to be cut of a record called Songs of Tom Lehrer, having worked out that if he sold them all, he would break even. He sold many more than that: he had to keep getting them cut. His university idyll was broken by a period with the Atomic Energy Commission at Los Alamos, and two years in the army. 'I dodged the draft for as long as anybody was shooting at anybody,' he said. 'I waited until everything was calm and then surrendered to the draft board.' Afterwards he wrote the song It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier, about strange and disturbing army folk: 'Now Fred's an intellectual, brings a book to every meal. / He likes the deep philosophers, like Norman Vincent Peale.' Peale was a famous evangelical Christian of even more than usual banality and intolerance, and also the Trump family pastor, who gave the US president his ethical base. After the army, Lehrer returned to studying and singing in night clubs in New York and other cities, while his reputation grew in a samizdat sort of way – record companies ignored him and newspapers sneered, but his growing army of fans loved him. He undertook a series of concert tours, including in the UK, and produced another album, More of Tom Lehrer, in 1959, with a live concert version, An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, also released. Then, in 1960, he stopped, and that was almost that, except that in 1964 he was lured back to write some songs for the American version of That Was the Week That Was. During the 1970s he contributed songs to the children's educational television programme The Electric Company and, two years later, appeared in episodes of the Frost Report at the BBC. There were occasional songs after that – (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica in 1990 is probably the best known ('Amid the California flora / I'll be lighting my menorah, /Like a baby in his cradle / I'll be playing with my dreidl'). In 1980, the British producer Cameron Mackintosh persuaded him to agree to a revue of his songs called Tomfoolery, which started life at the Criterion theatre in London. But Lehrer neither appeared in it nor wrote new material for it. He was done with performing. Born in New York, Tom was the elder son of James Lehrer, a prosperous necktie manufacturer, and his wife, Anna (nee Waller). He learned to play the piano, fell in love with the Broadway of Danny Kaye and Cole Porter, and attended private schools, which discovered they had a mathematics prodigy on their hands. So he went to Harvard, and took a master's in 1947, the year after his degree, before settling down to the life of a graduate student, which he enjoyed. He registered for a doctorate but never finished it. Over the years he gave various reasons for stopping song-writing and performing. 'What's the point of having laurels if you can't rest on them?' he asked. He said he never supposed he might be doing some good, and quoted Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin kabaretts of the 30s, 'which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the second world war'. Things that were once funny now scared him. 'I'm not tempted to write a song about George W Bush,' he said of the then US president. 'I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.' He said that satire died when they gave Henry Kissinger the Nobel peace prize, but that was not his reason for giving it up. However, if you listen to his students, you come away thinking the biggest factor was that he loved teaching and wanted to spend his life doing it. He taught on the US east coast until 1972, when he moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where for almost 30 years he taught two classes: The American Musical and The Nature of Math. The American fiction writer Greg Neri wrote: 'He was very humble, his fame meant nothing to him, the past he'd fob off as nothing more than messing around with satire. But get him talking about the American musical and he was off and running … He was truly delighted to see a play get on its feet and the day we performed it, he was all grins … He was extremely kind and patient with students.' Other former students reported that you did not mention his career as a performer, or ask about his personal life: it was an unspoken rule in his class. There is a video he recorded in 1997 called The Professor's Song. One of the songs, to another Gilbert and Sullivan tune, begins 'If you give me your attention I will tell you what I am. / I'm a brilliant mathematician, also something of a ham.' But these were private songs for his students. He had turned his back on fame and fortune. And the most dramatic illustration of that came in 2020 when he announced that his lyrics and sheet music were now available for anyone to use or perform without paying royalties. I benefited from this when writing a play called Tom Lehrer is Teaching Math and Doesn't Want to Talk to You, and including many of his greatest songs. It was performed last year at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate, north London, and is due to return this November at the OSO Arts Centre, south of the river in Barnes. 'Help yourselves, and don't send me any money,' he wrote on his website. So I did. Thomas Andrew Lehrer, singer, songwriter, satirist and mathematician, born 9 April 1928; died 26 July 2025
Borneo Post
5 days ago
- General
- Borneo Post
Miri mayor praises Tadika Krokop's role in nurturing creativity
Gilbert presents a token of appreciation to Yii (second right) during the prize-giving ceremony, while Chin (right) and others look on. MIRI (July 26): Children are the hope of our future, and quality early education is where that hope begins, said Miri Mayor Adam Yii. The Pujut assemblyman shared this during his opening remarks at Tadika Krokop's annual colouring competition prize-giving ceremony this morning, commending the kindergarten for nurturing creativity at an early age. 'Through activities like this, children build essential foundations for learning. 'Their focus, coordination and ability to express themselves all start here,' he said, noting Miri City Council's commitment to supporting early childhood education. Meanwhile, Tadika Krokop director Chin Paw Fah, in her speech, shared that the competition is held each year to encourage the holistic development of children while nurturing their appreciation for colour and creativity. 'For such young children, colours are not just a visual delight but a vital way of understanding the world around them and expressing their emotions,' she said. She also noted that the act of colouring helps children develop focus, patience, and hand-eye coordination, while also giving them a safe outlet for self-expression. 'Each finished piece reflects a child's hard work and imagination which are things worth celebrating with enthusiasm and pride,' she added. Board chairman Gilbert Chin also applauded the children's creativity and said their colourful drawings offered a glimpse into their unique ways of seeing the world. 'Each picture tells a story,' he said, adding that the event helped foster important skills such as persistence, fine motor control, and artistic confidence. He also took the opportunity to thank the school's teachers for their patience and guidance, and parents for being strong pillars of support in their children's journey. Gilbert extended his gratitude to Yii for assisting with recent improvement works at the kindergarten, particularly the replacement of old wooden floorboards with new tiles. Yii also took time to view the upgraded classrooms during his walkabout at the school. Afam Yii early education Tadika Krokop
New York Post
5 days ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Red-hot Drew Gilbert may be outfield help Mets are looking for
Access the Mets beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets. Try it free SAN FRANCISCO — As the Mets monitor the market for potential outfield help, Drew Gilbert's stock is rising as an internal option for a major league role. The 24-year-old Gilbert is surging at Triple-A Syracuse, where he delivered two homers on Friday, giving him six for the month. He owns a 1.126 OPS in July. The Mets view Gilbert as a plus defender in center field — team officials were raving about a catch he made Thursday by racing into the gap — but continued offensive success will be the biggest determining factor in whether he's promoted for the stretch run. 'Drew is doing a tremendous job, and I think to his credit he is probably putting himself on the radar a little bit,' president of baseball operations David Stearns said before the Mets' 8-1 win over the Giants at Oracle Park. 'Offensively and defensively, he's taken a step forward I would say over the last month or two.' A left-handed bat, Gilbert could potentially share center field with Tyrone Taylor, allowing Jeff McNeil to move back to second base full time. CHECK OUT THE LATEST MLB STANDINGS AND METS STATS But that would have ramifications in decreasing the at-bats received by players such as Ronny Mauricio and Luisangel Acuña. 'Offensively, he has put it together,' said a talent evaluator who has watched Gilbert throughout the season. 'He controls the strike zone really well and hits the ball plenty hard. They have got to get him to hit the ball up in the air a little bit more, that's all. He's stronger than he looks.' Drew Gilbert, running a drill during sprint training, hit two home runs for Triple-A Syracuse on July 25, 2025. Corey Sipkin for New York Post Gilbert, who arrived in the 2023 trade that sent Justin Verlander to the Astros, missed much of last season with hamstring injuries. Gilbert has remained healthy this season. He owns an .823 OPS with 14 homers in 314 at-bats overall this season. The Mets optioned reliever Alex Carrillo to Triple-A Syracuse and selected lefty José Castillo to the major league roster. Delivering insights on all things Amazin's Sign up for Inside the Mets by Mike Puma, exclusively on Sports+ Thank you Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Enjoy this Post Sports+ exclusive newsletter! Check out more newsletters Max Kranick was transferred to the 60-day injured list to create space on the 40-man roster for Castillo. This series against the Giants is the start of a nine-game stretch for the Mets against NL West opponents. The Mets, who face the Padres next week before returning home to play the Giants, are 13-6 against NL West opponents this season. Much of that success stems from a 6-0 record against the Rockies.
