Dodgers’ Tarik Skubal trade shows baseball is broken — and two vicious battles stand in way of fixing it

Nypost · Aug 02, 2026 · 154 words · By Mike Vaccaro

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What to know about Dodgers’ Tarik Skubal trade shows baseball is broken — and two vicious battles stand in way of fixing it

I admit, I still get a little freaked out whenever I stumble across the end of “The Planet of the Apes,” the original one, from 1968, with Charlton Heston.

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What happened

I admit, I still get a little freaked out whenever I stumble across the end of “The Planet of the Apes,” the original one, from 1968, with Charlton Heston.

Why it matters

Astronaut George Taylor and his companion, Nova, are riding on horseback in what they believe to be the Forbidden Zone of a distant planet.

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It’s the Statue of Liberty, half-buried in the surf.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that His adventures the previous two hours weren’t conducted in some distant solar system but on Earth, he and his colleagues having been hurtled many, many years into the future?
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Claim 1: “His adventures the previous two hours weren’t conducted in some distant solar system but on Earth, he and his colleagues having been hurtled many, many years into the future.”

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The evidence confirms the film is a science-fiction story about a post-apocalyptic world where humans and apes clash. The plot twist regarding the setting being Earth in the future is the central premise of the 1968 film as referenced in the franchise descriptions.

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web search NEUTRAL — Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science-fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a screenplay by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, loosely based on the 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(1968_film)

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web search NEUTRAL — Here are the most egregious plot holes and confusing moments in the Planet of the Apes franchise, from its 1968 debut to its most recent chapter.
https://www.looper.com/1120804/the-biggest-plot-holes-in-the…

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web search NEUTRAL — Disney is planning a Planet of the Apes remake so woke it could've come straight out of the Lucasfilm Story Group according to a source who claims to have re...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Lm-ihOpo8

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Claim 2: “It’s the Statue of Liberty, half-buried in the surf.”

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The provided evidence includes a Wikipedia entry for the Statue of Liberty and the film, but the specific scene description (half-buried in the surf) is not explicitly detailed in the provided snippets. However, it is a widely known plot point; based strictly on the provided evidence, there is no direct confirmation of the visual detail, only confirmation that the movie and the statue exist.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Planet of the Apes is a media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a post-apocalyptic world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control as …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science-fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a screenplay by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, loosely based on the 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle. The …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(1968_film)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island, part of New York City…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

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Claim 3: “the end of “The Planet of the Apes,” the original one, from 1968, with Charlton Heston”

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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that 'Planet of the Apes' is a 1968 American science-fiction film starring Charlton Heston.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a 1970 American science fiction film directed by Ted Post from a screenplay by Paul Dehn, based on a story by Dehn and Mort Abrahams. The film is the sequel to Planet…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_the_Planet_of_the_Apes

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Claim 4: “Astronaut George Taylor and his companion, Nova, are riding on horseback in what they believe to be the Forbidden Zone of a distant planet.”

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Multiple sources confirm the movie stars Charlton Heston as astronaut George Taylor. While the provided evidence snippets for the 'Forbidden Zone' and 'Nova' are fragmented, the general plot details across the Wikipedia and YouTube tribute sources align with the claim's description of the characters and setting.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Planet of the Apes is a science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a post-apocalyptic world in which humans and intelligent apes clash…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Planet_of_the_Apes_cha…

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