J.P. Hoornstra

Rooting for Panama obviously

A Dan, a can. I saw Bob. Was I a can, Dan? A Canada.

The Dodgers optioned Ryan Ward and Ronan Kopp to Oklahoma City, and sent Carlos Duran, Carson Hobbs, Garrett McDaniels, Jackson Ferris, Wyatt Mills, Jordan Weems and Lucas Wepf, Griffin Lockwood-Powell, and Josue De Paula and Kendall George to minor league camp

I half expected the bat to land on the head of the batter walking up to the plate at the end.

Ozzie Albies walkoff HR #HONKBAL

When the WBC is at its best, it's giving people in Nicaragua a brand-new story around a person who already enjoyed wildly different storyline arcs in Boston, Los Angeles, and Cincinnati.

If there's media you care about, it's hard to overstate how important it is that you subscribe to it. Ad rates are garbage, and the changes to search mean fewer new folks discovering sites they didn't already visit.

The real Olympic 🐐

Big fella could hit

Nine men who have never been in my kitchen

This #immaculategrid is a Seth Lugo WBC reference

Further proof that writing for work and writing for pleasure is a false dichotomy

I made a dad joke

Did I wake up feeling like getting banned from Slack today? Who is to say

It's a World Baseball Classic game for Great Britain, so you know Harry Ford is doing something big.

His solo homer ties it up in the sixth inning against Mexico.

Stay for the "changing of the guard" celebration.

Padres' Walker Buehler Reveals Shocking Health Update After First Cactus League Start San Diego Padres right-handed pitcher Walker Buehler made his Cactus League debut on Thursday, pitching three innings while allowing two runs. Buehler averaged

Walker Buehler hasn't been the same pitcher since his second Tommy John surgery with the Dodgers.

However, after his spring debut with the Padres, he revealed he was finally pain-free for the first time in years.

At just 31 years old, he appears ready for a second act.

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I'll allow AI into my life for 2 seconds if it can reasonably replicate Vin Scully saying "back home, he's a carpenter by day, a stevedore by night, and a father of eight. For now he'll be pitching to Bobby Witt Jr., Bryce Harper, and Aaron Judge."

Like, if you have to throw that image in print in black and white to fill a hole on an inside page, whatever. Let your cat pee on it in a few days. But when that photo hits the wire for broader distribution, that's not what anyone was signing up for in this enterprise.

In visiting Dodger Stadium, ‘Baseball Brit’ relies on the kindness of strangers Joey Mellows, a 34-year-old British-born baseball fan, is spending the season touring American ballparks. He attended his first Dodger games Saturday and Sunday, with some help from new-found frien…

Spring training is exposing one reason why I'm dismayed by the cuts to newspaper photography staffs. More and more, the task of photographing a subject is falling to writers. And writers, as we'll happily tell you, take the shittiest photos. Case in point:

This is official. Molly Jolly is the Angels' president.

X: Where all hell breaks loose and, ironically, so does news about the Angels

Meanwhile, Jeff Fletcher is reporting on the other site that the Angels have completed a deal to start their own TV network though a purchase of a portion of Main Street Sports Group. Nothing changes for viewers.

Alden Gonzalez is reporting on the other site that John Carpino is retiring as the Angels' president.

The Rockies are currently hiring *3* quants! (And an electrician. Electricians encouraged to apply.)

Box score showing the Padres leading the Mariners 17-2 in the third inning

Walker Buehler: "could you guys, like, score 17 today?"
the San Diego Padres:

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Dodgers likely adding ex-Blue Jays All-Star to MLB roster, Dave Roberts says Santiago Espinal signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Feb. 17. Not even a month later, it's already clear to manager Dave Roberts that Espinal doesn't belong in the minors.…

Sure sounds like Santiago Espinal is taking Jack Suwinski's 40-man roster spot with the Dodgers.

Dodgers likely adding ex-Blue Jays All-Star to MLB roster, Dave Roberts says Santiago Espinal signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Feb. 17. Not even a month later, it's already clear to manager Dave Roberts that Espinal doesn't belong in the minors.…

Sure sounds like Santiago Espinal is taking Jack Suwinski's 40-man roster spot with the Dodgers.

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Astros All-Star, World Series champion, out of WBC with freak injury Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Peña suffered a small fracture in one of his fingers Wednesday after it was struck by a ground ball that took a bad hop.…

Edwin Diaz's injury at the 2023 WBC was a freak occurrence. This one involving Jeremy Peña, who reportedly has a hairline fracture in his finger, is also the kind of thing that wouldn't deter insurance companies in a just world.

Lt. Gov. Randy McNally announces retirement, ending nearly 50-year legislative career - Nashville PRIDE, Inc. Lt. Gov. Randy McNally announces retirement, ending nearly 50-year legislative career

They say he thought globally and acted locally

Astros All-Star, World Series champion, out of WBC with freak injury Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Peña suffered a small fracture in one of his fingers Wednesday after it was struck by a ground ball that took a bad hop.…

Edwin Diaz's injury at the 2023 WBC was a freak occurrence. This one involving Jeremy Peña, who reportedly has a hairline fracture in his finger, is also the kind of thing that wouldn't deter insurance companies in a just world.