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Yet as a WB admirer since childhood, and someone whose first encounter with “Duck Amuck” was like a thunderbolt, hearing Foghorn Leghorn use the word “sucks,” or seeing Tweety Bird’s Granny doing an Elaine Stritch cocktails-before-lunch routine — well, if they were genuinely sharp, that’d be one thing. But the character tweaks play like lazy updates thrown against the wall to see if they’ll stick. This time around, for the record, Lola Bunny has been made to be more than the sum of her Jessica Rabbit-inspired parts. In the end, even without a movie-saving Bill Murray around (though he makes a photographic cameo in the end credits) to fully save it, “Space Jam 2″ is a smoother, less grating experience than the first one. Faint praise? Faint movie.

“Guys that come from programs that do a lot of the development already,” Shirley said. “When you think about the (pitcher) Johnny Ray’s of the world (12th round), (outfielder) Terrell Tatum (16th), (third baseman) Jayson Gonzalez (17th), (catcher) Adam Hackenberg (18th) and even (pitcher) Haylen Green (20th), you have TCU (Ray and Green), Clemson (Hackenberg), Vanderbilt (Gonzalez), North Carolina State (Tatum). These guys come with the grit, grind and makeup to get into your system, balance it out, make a difference for you.

A: Yes. I’m excited to see all the athletes. In the past year, there’s been a time for them to do a lot of training, a lot of thinking, a lot of preparation, so I think they will be at their best at the Games. I think a lot of athletes are ready to have a breakout party, so I’m looking forward to it.

“The more we can think about our personal space and personal thermal dynamics, that’s the future that we’re all going to have to think about,” said David Lauren, Ralph Lauren’s son, vice chairman of the company’s board, and chief branding and innovation officer.

“I think it’s a benchmark of women’s basketball for sure. I think most importantly it speaks to visibility and how important it is and how important the WNBA is,” Parker said. “Everyone is looking at it that it’s impacting little girls, but it’s also impacting little boys and young men and young women and men and women. I think our game is different than the NBA, now it’s embracing that fact. Now more than ever, fans want to follow the athlete. Through social media, through video games, it’s adding and benefitting the WNBA.”

Hendriks later added, “I would have been a little more conscious if I had heard them back. But it all turned out, the volume was too low. Probably my fault, a little user error. But it makes for some interesting TV, I’m sure. Hopefully the bleeping guy was on point.”

“We were able to take some more risks, and at this point, I’m not so sure about whether we’re going to sign everybody that we selected (Tuesday),” Kantrovitz said. “But just based on how the draft rules work, there’s probably some players that we were able to take a risk on and kind of shoot for the stars and hope, and then some others where we have a little bit more cost certainty that they’re going to sign.”

Hynes’ teammates refer to him as “Skip,” as in “Skipper,” a joking reference to the colloquial name for the captain of a baseball team. During his first at-bat in a recent league game, which ended in a base hit, a friend cheered him on and called him “Big Cat,” a nickname from high school. He hadn’t been called that in years, he said, and his high school coach at St. Ignatius in University Village gave the nickname to him. He was a catcher in high school, and catchers are supposed to have quick, catlike reflexes. But Hynes didn’t, he said, so it was another lighthearted quip.

A reunion for Hall of Fame inductees will be held at the Hall of Fame site in Forest Park on July 18, according to the Hall of Fame website. There are over 300 living Hall of Famers, according to Maag, and he hopes between 150 and 200 will come to the reunion. Chicago singer John Vincent will be there to sing “the national anthem and a couple of other Chicago songs to entertain that day,” Maag said. The reunion is for both inductees and fans, according to a flyer for the event.

“It was fun,” Lynn said. “Whenever you can get on the field with All-Stars, some of the best in the game. They’ve got guys that are young, and (Minnesota Twins designated hitter Nelson) Cruz is older than some. When you’re on a team like this, it’s always fun.”