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Roger that: New Los Angeles Dodgers affiliate unveils aviation-themed name, logos “Sorry Goose, but it’s time to buzz the tower.” This line from “Top Gun,” spoken by Tom Cruise’s character Maverick just before he flippantly defies orders and flies uncomfortably close to the control...

The Ontario Tower Buzzers are coming in 2026:

Dodgers' Freddie Freeman, wife pledge massive donation in response to Southern California fires Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Freeman and his wife, Chelsea, are donating $300,000 — $100,000 each to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation, the Pasaden

In 2022, Freddie Freeman quietly donated half a million dollars to his Orange County high school to improve its baseball facilities. When the OC Register reported it, he told me the next day "I was trying to keep it a secret."
The giving keep giving:

Appears to be a mass glitch situation, not a scam. Topps recently partnered with Smile dot io so they’re legit

PSA for #cardsky folks: if you received an email from “Topps” this morning about an order being canceled or earning points for an order you don’t remember, don’t click any links in the email as the address isn’t from Topps. If you’re unsure go to the website from your browser to check orders/rewards

Is generally accepted league-wide cheating worse than being one of the masterminds of the biggest team cheating scandal in nearly a century?

I will never understand how someone will vote for Beltran and not A-Rod or Manny

And before you say “they should pitch better, not harder,” I already mentioned in my original comment why that’s more difficult these days thanks to batter friendly strike zones

Too early to know doesn’t mean dismiss it, it means take time to study it. If you do 5 sets of 20 max effort reps of any exercise, even with 15 seconds of rest between each rep and a few minutes between sets, you’d say there’s zero injury risk?

Well of course MLB’s report won’t find MLB’s rules as a contributing factor to pitcher injuries. Still to early to point at the pitch clock but increasingly tighter strike zones lead to pitchers looking for new ways to flirt with the edges and with hitters improving that requires more speed & stuff

Japanese pitcher to make history as 1st woman to play pro baseball in Canada | CBC Sports The Toronto Maple Leafs of the Intercounty Baseball League have signed Ayami Sato, making the Japanese pitcher the league's first female player.

Japanese pitcher to make history as 1st woman to play pro baseball in Canada www.cbc.ca/sports/baseb...

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Iowa State plays for a Big 12 championship today

Track Juan Solo’s agent’s airplane!

Sharks are going to win the World Series this year

In the criminal case against Ohtani's translator, you may remember that the government seized bunches of trading cards and wanted to know what to do with them. Basically.

Well, yesterday, Ohtani filed a doc saying those cards are basically his and he wants them.

So much for hobby dead week @paullesko.bsky.social

Ugh no thank you

Voters are humans so just because they appear to follow a pattern doesn’t mean they always will, but if he doesn’t vote for any cheater then my guess is it will come down to his trust in Phil Cuzzi

Yusei Kikuchi to the Angels. $63M, 3 years.
Angels are back in the ballgame: about $100M spent (Soler/d’Arnaud/Hendricks/Newman) early MLB spending lead.
Kikuchi’s $21M salary could boost pitching comps: Manaea also Severino, Flaherty, Eovaldi, Pivetta & Buehler (Snell, Burnes & Fried will be more)

Consistent with not voting for the steroid guys. If you vote for one cheater then you’d have to vote for the ones who were better, so if this voter hasn’t voted for cheaters before then I guess he’s not starting now

FYI, @mlb.com appears to be here now (note the domain verified handle).

Holy cow. If you need help finding sports writers' official bluesky accounts, just search through @jaysonst.bsky.social following list. Jayson is doing the lords work for us. Thank you for a beautiful curation of accounts, sir!

…By waiting til Jan 15 for the next period to begin all teams will have more money in their respective pools to offer with some carrying funds over, but ultimately the contract will be a rookie contract

International Amateur Free Agency & Bonus Pool Money | Glossary | MLB.com The Official Site of Major League Baseball

Important to note with this that he’ll be considered an international amateur FA rather than international professional so he’ll just get whatever a team offers from their bonus pool money and a rookie contract like Ohtani did…
www.mlb.com/glossary/tra...

Once Jeff Passan comes over here it’ll cause a new wave of sports people to take the leap and with sports people come collectors

Yeah if it was still $50-$60/box with those odds I probably would have too 😅

I’ll keep an eye out! I ended up getting one box for myself so I wouldn’t miss out entirely because a couple guys who wanted to run breaks backed out thanks to the massive price increase

Trying to figure out how to get some engagement here.

Let's do this.

Show me a black and white card, in honor of Topps b&w releasing this week!

#hobbysky #cardsky @grandsalamisc.bsky.social @sportscardspost.com

Had AL West in a B&W break last winter and it went well. That Ohtani SP came in same week as I hit an Ohtani Celebración /50!

Cloud Nothings and L.S Dunes opened for Rise Against tonight in Anaheim. Fun was had!