The Update- May 20th

In today's edition of The Update Journal, Somewhere between the 14th inning of a Mets game, a 97-degree subway platform, and a Memorial Day mattress commercial screaming at you like it’s the Super Bowl, we completely lost control of society. We look back at when extra innings used to be a psychological endurance test instead of a pace-of-play inconvenience, why every human being in New York becomes 43% angrier the second the temperature crosses 90 degrees, and how portable fans, ice cups, and corner-store Gatorades suddenly become luxury items. Plus, Brandon’s Take on Memorial Day — the strange annual tradition where Americans try to balance honoring veterans while simultaneously financing a sectional couch at 0% APR for 72 months. Welcome to summer in New York, where everybody’s sweating, nobody’s patient, and somehow the fire hydrant is losing the fight too.In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, trains are rolling again on the Long Island Rail Road after a deal was reached to end a strike that had shut down the busiest commuter rail system in the U.S.A 56-year-old woman fell into an open maintenance hole on a busy New York City street and died, police and utility officials said as they investigated how it could have happened.And in Miami, the Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press, as President Trump threatens possible military action against the communist-run island.