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Padres are dumping their controversial City Connect jerseys after 2025... "The San Diego Padres are officially retiring their pink-and-mint City Connect uniforms after the 2025 season. The team revealed on Friday that the popular uniforms will be discontinued beginning in 2026, per Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times."

How many rookies with let’s say under 12 homers but .360+ obp can there be in recent years? https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2024&month=0&season1=2024&ind=0&sortcol=13&sortdir=default&pagenumyear just 20 hitters had a 360+ obp last year

Boston already has Campbell and Hamilton for second base…but would love to know how hard they fought to keep Meidroth once the first two pieces were agreed upon.

Wrobleski Casparius London Knack the next wave… Gonsolin…if you go back to 2022-23 and combined years had recorded the fourth lowest BAA in the majors. The others? Snell is first, Glasnow 2nd and Ohtani third.

“She, for the record. And I guess I will never for the life of me understand why, if you know they're all bad and it doesn't matter what they're working on anyway, anyone would bother tuning in to a radio/gameday feed of a Justin Anderson inning vs. the Rockies in February in the first place? Like I'm tuning in to ST because I do think it matters what the players relevant for the future are working on, but there's literally no room to have that conversation.” I honestly didn’t know it was a female poster until I re-read her posts…assumptions assumptions assumptions. At least for my part, I will jump on the Shane Smith bandwagon this year and pound that particular drum…just because it’s always more fun to have an underdog to root for.

https://www.mlb.com/mets/news/rikuu-nishida-gets-autographed-bat-from-ichiro

Mookie Betts out of these two exhibition games due to illness...will reassess on off day Mon.

Cubs were shut down but not the Dodgers. Three homers in one inning from Conforto Ohtani and Teoscar. 5-0. Yomiuri starter Togo only gave up 12 homers all last season...ace of staff now that Sugano has left for Baltimore. Wrobleski would be in the starting rotation for 20-24 teams. Nice off speed stuff to go with 96 fb from lh side. Casparius as well. 98 mph fb. Likely goes to major league pen. London Knack as well. Depth pieces 8-9-10 or 9-10-11. LAD used 17 starters last year.

I've lived in Wuhan for 12 years now, straight through Covid starting in January, 2020...we taught online all the way through July 10th that year. And then online again in 2022. I actually believe that was the real tipping point for this generation of kids in Asia becoming hyper addicted to gaming and social media. Taiwan is obviously a different world from the mainland...working for an accredited school is always going to be better than ESL or a training center. Worked four years in Kansas City MO public schools as well as Colombia, South Korea, three cities in China, the Philippines and Indonesia. I think we've already passed the peak of Chinese demand for foreign teachers...just like Japan was the hottest place to go until the early 90s.

https://apnews.com/article/rays-steinbrenner-field-makeover-a843685deca2a9023e3fcb4a02c83217 120 hours to transform new Rays' home field

30. White Sox (30) It sure looks like Martín Pérez is going to be making his first Opening Day start after 13 years in the Majors and 269 starts (and 314 games). Don’t look too surprised: He did make it to the All-Star Game just two seasons ago.

154 was always the magic number of games until 8 more were added...at least you could maintain historic parallels with the Mantle/Maris and Ruth marks from previous generations.

Buehler was very successful...turned out much better than Carson Fulmer his Vandy teammate, but got hurt and is fighting to come back with Boston. Dustin May had a world of potential but got hurt twice...same thing with Gonsolin. Then this current generation of guys like Pepiot (now with Tampa) Miller and Stone have all had their ups and downs.

Was history class any different? The most important thing you need to know is how to read and write, think critically and communicate effectively. Growing up without an iPad or cell phone, I'm sure my son would have been an avid reader like I was, but this generation is so visually oriented around the dopamine hits of Minecraft or Tik Tok. The attention span and ability to focus on books like Gone with the Wind or Tolstoy epic just isn't there anymore. It feels like the Harry Potter books were the last time kids around the world were all really excited about reading...compared to movies, tv shows, music and esports. Being a (successfully) published author might as well be on that same list as CWS beat writer on the list of careers that are being displaced by AI.

With ChatGPT and DeepSeek, the kids here in China are hardly learning how to write their own homework or university admissions essays. They are great at memorizing past papers and STEM subjects, but weak in critical thinking...the advanced math homework my son does in 4th grade is pretty much the equivalent of the 6-8th grade curriculum in the US. I personally grew up with Invisible Man, Baldwin, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Toni Morrison...those books were highly influential to a white growing in lily white Iowa. There did used to be a more or less agreed upon canon of literature when I studied as an English major in the early 90s. It was pretty much every book that you could find those yellow Cliff's notes study books for, with the majority being American Lit over the last 150-200 years and all the Greek and English playwrights. We also had the Norton Anthology of Literature as a textbook.

They went the way of Tim Anderson.

It also doesn't do much good when they can't afford to keep any of their pitchers long-term. Not to mention the premium in the sport is still on up the middle position prospects (see Anthony Campbell Mayer). Which is looking even more questionable with Colson's physical issues.

They still have to prove they can be healthy and productive major leaguers before congratulating anyone just yet. The jury's far from out on Caglianone vs. Hagen Smith. At some point, the offense will need to be able to score more than 2-3 runs once the regular season begins.

It's the same for Sports Admin. Used to be Ohio U Ohio State UMass and Georgia Southern. Now you basically need Ivy Stanford Duke maybe Northwestern or Michigan if you want a front office track.

With the way the roster's set up now...maybe Vaughn gets you closer to 110 than 121 losses again. He's pretty reliably average. Vargas looked hopeless last year, but now is showing some signs with his strength gain and increasing comfort with the team. At any rate, Vaughn is clearly not part of their next playoff team and is blocking the likes of Vargas Sosa Elko and Ramos from getting more opportunities.

Nobody can beat Antonio Davis...although Meidroth wins for "bushiness."

$49-61,000 is average according to a search...but the demand for these jobs is so high (like internships) that for MLB jobs you could probably cut that by 20-25% and still find a plethora of applicants. With Fegan...he might have an escape clause with his SoxMachine deal if he gets offered another beat writer spot.

Well the Rays can't or couldn't afford to take those chances with Glasnow looking at his career lack of availability/IP totals. That works out fine when they are only planning to use guys like Ohtani and Kershaw for partial seasons. For example, Yamamoto only pitched 90 innings but was available in the post season when they most needed him. Blake Snell looks great on paper but is lucky to get through five innings most starts.

Back in the day...everyone wanted to go to Syracuse for that major.

Jeter?