The Boston Red Sox are
on the road to the World Series,
and they got a helping hand
last night
from the opposing team's fans.
NEWSWOMAN:
 The Houston Chronicle reports
 an Astros fan says
 he did not interfere
 with José Altuve's
 potential tying home run
 in game four
 of the AL Championship Series.
 Last night, Astros fan
 Troy Caldwell, in orange,
 was nearby when Mookie Betts
 of the Red Sox
 jumped to catch
 a long fly by Altuve,
 but it bounced off his glove.
 The umpire ruled
 fan interference
 and called the potential
 two-run homer an out.
(laughs): The Astros needed
 that two-run homer.
 The final score was
 eight to six for the Red Sox.
-(laughter)
-Okay. Okay.
First of all,
I don't think it's fair
to call it "fan interference,"
all right?
The ball was coming
right at him, all right?
What is he supposed to do,
just sit there, be like,
"I hope he catches it,
I hope he catches it. Aah!
(garbled): He didn't catch it.
He didn't catch it."
Like, to be honest,
I don't blame the fan.
I blame baseball.
Why would you put your fans
in a position to affect
the score of the game?
There's a reason this doesn't
happen in any other sport.
Imagine the problems if
basketball had ringside seats.
-Huh?
-(laughter)
There's, like,
one second on the clock,
Steph Curry takes
the game-winning shot,
and then the fan
is like, "Nuh-uh!"
(laughter)
This poor fan, man.
He just wanted
to take a baseball home.
I get it. I mean, the last time
I was at a Mets game,
I got myself a baseball,
and I still keep it at home.
You know? I give him
water and rice every few days.
I understand.
But let's move on
to some science news.
Stephen Hawking was
one of the most brilliant
theoretical physicists alive,
and thanks to his new book, he's
also one of the most brilliant
theoretical physicists
 not alive.
NEWSMAN:
 Late physicist Stephen Hawking
 is now posthumously providing
 his own brief answers
 to the big questions
 in his final book.
 Hawking writes,
 there is no God,
 that the laws of nature
 can explain everything.
 He says that intelligent
 alien life is out there,
 and that time travel,
 at least into the past,
 is actually possible.
Wow! Those are
some big claims, man.
And I'm not saying
he's right or wrong,
but he also predicted that
Pete and Ariana would make it,
-so...
-(laughter)
you tell me.
And you got to admit,
him saying what he said
is pretty gangsta, right?
'Cause, I mean,
he's saying there's no God
-right before he dies?
-(laughter)
No. Because it's easy
to say there's no God
when you're young,
but he was, like,
two minutes from finding out.
That's gangsta.
Like, for all he knows,
he could die
and then show up in Heaven,
and God would be like,
"So, Stephen Hawking.
"Can I have your autograph?
I'm a big fan,
I'm a big fan, man."
But it was just great news
that time travel is possible.
I mean, that's what
Stephen Hawking says.
You can travel in time
back to the past.
I hope that he's right,
and I hope it happens soon.
Because if I could
go back in time,
I would go back to right before
the Titanic hit the iceberg,
right, so that I could be there
to say, "Hey, Rose,
don't throw the diamond,
throw it at me,"
and then I'd catch the diamond,
and then I get a free diamond.
Yes!
In other news,
Kleenex is changing the name
of their Mansize tissue box.
Yes. After people complained
that it was sexist.
So I guess now they're gonna
change it to, I don't know,
-my guess is Jerk-Off Size?
Um... -(laughter)
It's a little more honest.
And...
And I completely agree
with this,
because ladies can have boogers
just as big as men,
so it's a good name change.
Honestly, the only time
I need a Mansize Kleenex
is when I'm watching
a sad movie, like Titanic.
You know?
I just sit there like,
(sobbing): "That poor diamond
is getting thrown away."
