something I really appreciate about Marc's work on baseball labor is how heavily he leans on history/what actually happened in discussing things like the salary cap. That perhaps sounds like something obvious, but every single time I read about *what owners actually did* in 1994, it's drops my jaw

anyway if you’re a non-Dodger baseball fan feeling mad right now, remember that Andrew Friedman sat out of every high-money available player race until the minute MLB said they wouldn’t punish the 2017 Astros and then he turned on the money faucet like the end of Fury Road so it‘s really their fault

Ben Casparius is a breakout candidate for the Dodgers, or another team - Dodgers Digest In a world in which the Dodgers have the likes of Tyler Glasnow, Shohei Ohtani, Roki Sasaki, Emmet S

Ben Casparius might be on the verge of a breakout. I took a deep dive into the data to see what might fuel it. dodgersdigest.com/2025/12/23/b... @dodgersdigest.bsky.social

126 days until Opening Day

a special hello kitty night dodgers plushie where she has a dodgers uniform and hat and foam finger on

just realized dodgers won on hello kitty’s birthday THEY DID IT ALL FOR HELLO KITTY

Time for a new profile pic

Freddie Freeman now has 11 career go-ahead home runs in the postseason, most in postseason history

Dodgers spend 73% of their revenue; Brewers spend 41%

this is so sweet

Painkiller might be the best metal song of all time

Dodgers Tour Guides Deserve Fair Wages & Benefits Dodgers tour guides are the face of the team for thousands of fans fans every year. These workers bring Dodger history to life, create unforgettable experiences, and are a key part of what makes the D...

On this Labor Day, if you’d like to lend support to MLB workers fighting for a fair wage, sign this petition backing the Dodger Tour Guides. We’re facing some cartoonishly villainous union busting tactics from the Dodgers in our quest for a fair first contract.

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I love listening to the Cocteau Twins because the music is heavenly and i can’t understand what the lady is saying 95% of the time

Love to see Glasnow pitch like who he is

Damn

All people's rights under the Constitution are, per the Supreme Court, 100% alienable. If you cannot hire a lawyer and engage in effective litigation against the power of the entire executive branch of the federal government, you have no rights at all.

US economy shrank 0.5% in the first quarter, worse than earlier estimates had revealed The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.5% annual pace from January through March as President Donald Trump’s import taxes at least temporarily disrupted business, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in a a downgrade from its previous estimate.

The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.5% annual pace from January through March as President Donald Trump's import taxes at least temporarily disrupted business, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in a a downgrade from its previous estimate.

Clayton Kershaw sucks It was Pride Night at Dodger Stadium on Friday evening. As is usually the case on Pride Night, the home team wore a rainbow version of their logo on their cap. Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw donned the rainbow cap but he made an addition to it: [insert photo of Clayton Kershaw with a Pride cap with a bible verse citation next to it]. That writing is a citation to Genesis 9:12-16, which is a passage in the Bible which is commonly used by homophobic Christians who are part of what they call the "Take Back the Rainbow" movement. They claim that the LGBTQ+ community stole the rainbow symbol from God and they view it as their mission to "rescue" gay people from what they consider to be a sinister movement.

Clayton Kershaw has been around long enough and he's a big enough deal to where (a) vanishingly few reporters would ask him about this; and (b) even if they did, he'd have some canned response on which no one would follow up, but he knows goddamn well what he's doing here. Whether or not Kershaw actively adheres to the Take Back the Rainbow movement, he's endorsing it with that bit of Sharpie on his cap. It's in keeping with his past sentiments surrounding Pride Day in which he decided to police those who could or could not take part in it and used the controversy he himself created in order to get the Dodgers to commit to moving up a Christian identity promotion in response. It was shitty behavior then and this is shitty behavior now. As was the case with those Tampa Bay Rays players who, a few years ago, tore the rainbow logos off their caps and jerseys in protest to the team's Pride Night, I expect nothing to happen to Clayton Kershaw for blatantly undermining the team's public-facing messaging and violating selectively-enforced rules about defacing one's uniform with personal messaging. Indeed, it would not shock me if people in and around the game defend Kershaw on a "hey, everyone has a right to freedom of speech" basis. Not that he even needs the defense. He pitched on Saturday night after I and others had pointed out the thing he did with his cap. As far as I can tell, not a single person asked him about it after the game. It was all "Kershaw tosses seven scoreless innings against the Giants!" But ask yourself: what would happen if a player wrote a message of protest next to the American flag-logos or the camouflage logos teams wear on their Fourth of July or Memorial Day and Military Appreciation caps? If you think the response to such a thing would be benign – if you think people would ignore it and merely focus on what the player did on the field – then Colin Kaepernick has a bridge to sell you.

Today's newsletter is one of the few places where you'll read about Clayton Kershaw defacing his Pride Day cap with a bible verse widely used by homophobes to discredit the LGBTQ+ community.

Imagine if it was someone doing that to an American flag cap logo. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Breaking:

Trump just issued a sweeping new travel ban.

The ban fully restricts people from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

The ban partially restricts Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

when you *still* think your lame ass message just needs to be repackaged for the 6000th time

congrats to the consultants I guess

Freddie Freeman signed for 6/$162M

Based off the marginal value of a win over at fangraphs, Freddie’s 21.2 fWAR in a Dodger uniform is worth $169.7M

Nobody else would offer Freeman a 6th year, and the last 2 2/3 years of his deal are house money (could even say the entire last 3 with deferrals 😎)

It’s always great to see folks chasing after a ball on the other side of a berm beyond the fence 😂

I feel so bad for Conforto lmao

The sun is setting later again 💙

I forgot how awesome Judas Priest is

I’m forced to bro damn

It happened, i don’t have to imagine!

Noah’s Bagels is lowkey a scam

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally-mandated agency.

A victory for scammers.

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has been gutted by @makenakelly.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

Know I’m going to fall short tonight, but I’m going to try