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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 21h

Bear down 🐻⬇️
Blood Pressure ⬆️

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 23h

This is a wild stat. Ja needs to sort himself out, smdh.

#NbaSky

Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: tonight would have marked Ja Morant's seventh consecutive game for the Grizzlies.

He hasn't played in 7 consecutive games since the 2022-23 season.

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 1d

Good for them.

Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · 7d

How Dodgers became a hotbed for Japanese talent: respect
www.mlb.com/news/dodgers...

"It was only a matter of time before the All-Star level players in Japan would want to come to the United States, and I was able to parlay that self-study to a job with the Dodgers in the Dodgers' Asian operations department."

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Scott Akasaki, center, with Kaz Ishii (left) and Hideo Nomo (right) in 2002. Photo by Jon SooHoo.
While some may point to Hideo Nomo's landmark move to the Dodgers as the beginning of the current connection between the Dodgers and Japanese baseball, that relationship actually began many decades earlier thanks to the vision of Akihiro "Ike" Ikuhara

My vision -- supported by [Dodgers executives] Bob Daly and Bob Graziano -- was, 'Why should we be dependent only on the free-agent market and the draft? Let's get into every area in the world that's producing baseball, and let's be aggressive about it again. This is the team of Jackie Robinson. It's the team of Hideo Nomo.'"

Thanks to a staff led by Acey Kohrogi, now the director of Pacific Rim Operations for the Padres, the Dodgers put together a team that featured Akasaki covering Japan along with Curtis Jung, who handled Korea, and Vincent Lau, who was responsible for Taiwan and China.

While the Dodgers may have an edge thanks to their location and financial might, Evans argues that there is a much more human role that goes into it.

"This game is all about relationships," Evans said. "You spend 10 to 14 hours a day at the ballpark for eight and a half, nine months together. The game is a worldwide game. It is certainly not a North American game anymore. It's played in more than 25 nations. The World Baseball Classic is evident. It's not money. It's cultivating and maintaining and nurturing relationships. You can't buy relationships."

"You hear [Yoshinobu] Yamamoto and Shohei [Ohtani] and Roki [Sasaki] talk about one of the reasons they chose the Dodgers is because of its history," Akasaki said. "Obviously the proximity to Japan and the community that we have here helps, but we have a really unique infrastructure. We have Japanese-speaking trainers. We have Japanese-speaking staff in the front office. I'm bilingual. Will Ireton was Kenta Maeda's interpreter -- Kenta Maeda was [with the Dodgers] a long time ago, but he's still on the support staff. You drop a Japanese player in our Dodgers clubhouse and that will be seamless."

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is your World Series MVP

Yoshi in a backwards champ hat being interviewed

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 1d

The MVP, unquestionably

Jeff Passan @jeffpasan.bsky.social · 1d

Yoshinobu Yamamoto won Games 2, 6 and 7 of the World Series. He threw a complete game in Game 2, six innings and 96 pitches on Friday and came back Saturday to throw 2.2 scoreless innings on 34 pitches and induce the World Series-winning double play. A legendary performance.

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 1d

OMG

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon character says " you did this " while pointing at the camera

ALT: a cartoon character says " you did this " while pointing at the camera

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon drawing of a baseball with red stitching on it

ALT: a cartoon drawing of a baseball with red stitching on it

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 1d

This series is unreal

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂

a baby is running on a wooden floor with the words oh na na na written below him .

ALT: a baby is running on a wooden floor with the words oh na na na written below him .

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 2d

I do. That, and the Following feed. Every so often, when feeling adventurous, I don a hazmat suit and wade into Discover Feed waters...

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 2d

💯

Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 2d

All day yesterday, my main feed (Popular With Friends), was all about the Illinois Transit Bill (🥳‼️) and/or sports. It was... nice.

Guess I had forgotten how this place felt before *waves around* all this.

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 2d

It absolutely is
#chicago

cta @chicagocta.bsky.social · 2d

It's a Chicago holiday

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. People are increasingly swapping smart devices for old-fashioned buttons, switches and knobs in their homes, .. according to Zillow's 2026 Home Trends Report.”

@axios.com
zillow.mediaroom.com/2025-10-15-Z...

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 3d

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LOVED Arrival.

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent effort all around. Thank you! 👏🏾👏🏾

Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org · 3d

We saved transit.

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for all your hard work! 👏🏾👏🏾

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 3d

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Micheál Podgers @michealpodgers.bsky.social · 3d

With a 35/22 vote, transit funding and reform passes the Illinois Senate. An historic governance reform and $1.5 billion annual investment in transit proceeds!

Micheál Podgers @michealpodgers.bsky.social · 3d

Transit funding passed the Illinois House 72/32. Off to the Senate!

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Capitol Fax @capitolfax.bsky.social · 3d

Transit reform/funding bill approved in the Senate. This is final passage

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 3d

🇹🇿✊🏾

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Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org · 3d

🚨 There’s still time to support the transit bill:

1. Fill out your contact information
3. Under "firm/business" put "self"
4. Under "representation" put "self"
5. Under "position" choose subject matter "SB2111" and "proponent"
6. Under "testimony" choose "record of appearance only"
7. "Submit"

Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly

Welcome to the Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly

ilga.gov

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Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 3d

So good 😂😂

Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 5d

I loved it

Lil @lilsky.bsky.social · 5d

The part about having Board members who don't live or work in the area 🧐

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