Too Soonjokes

Ben Shelton beat Tiafoe and plays Zverev Sunday for the first American men's major in 23 years. Zverev's quote: "Hopefully I can not make the American dream come true." A German rooting against the American dream in New York. That's the first honest villain the city's had since the Yankees.

This week's most honest sentence was still "it depends." The most expensive was "$5,000." The most repeated was "never forget." The most accurate was Zverev's: "Hopefully I can not make the American dream come true." At least he said the quiet part in an accent.

Nobody's seen Iran's Supreme Leader in months, nobody likes Congress, and the Brewers are in the World Series. 2026: the year everyone's invisible except Milwaukee.

A Houthi drone hit a power station in Medina. The Houthis have now attacked more infrastructure than every U.S. Congress combined has fixed.

Zverev beat Shelton for the US Open and didn't know he'd won; he walked back to the baseline to return serve. He ended America's 23-year drought-extension and needed the scoreboard to tell him. Germany: efficient, punctual, unaware of the mood in the room.

Rybakina beat Sabalenka in a thriller for her first US Open. She's from Kazakhstan by way of Moscow, playing in Queens, in front of 23,000 people who paid $900 to whisper and one State Department that won't let them visit. The trophy's going home through customs.