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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 11h

LAPD literally getting there early to beat the crowds

Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 12h

Los Angeles, CA -

The game hasn’t ended yet, but LAPD is calling an unlawful assembly on Douglas and Sunset. A large contingent of police in riot helmets blocking the street.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 10h

The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04

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Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · 10h

This is how you get a Yoshinobu Yamamoto

Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · 6d

How Dodgers became a hotbed for Japanese talent: respect
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"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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derek 🔒 @websitehomepage.bsky.social · Sep 16

Just learned from the news that a person was intentionally harmed the other day. As the sun warms me on this peaceful afternoon my thoughts are with victims everywhere.

One day we will eliminate violence.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22h

You can't make this up.

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.”

“Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

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Frag-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 13d

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I love that every character in Star Wars is dressed in robes and tunics except for aunt beru who is dressed like she is force sensitive to newport 100s

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🌸☀️idspispopd🌙🥀 @bhaalspawn.bsky.social · 1d

The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.

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ceej @ceej.online · Nov 1

We turned our light off hours ago, but they’re still coming to our door, quietly begging. I think they like the flicker of our Jack-o’-lanterns. I can hear them murmuring as they work their fingers along the window casing. Ten hours till morning.

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sage scrub @sagescrub.bsky.social · 1d

scary

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Scoob @scoobydouchebag.bsky.social · 2d

Cigarettes used to be cheap enough that you could give a whole pack out to each trick or treater instead of just one or two loosies. Failed fucking empire

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Michael Balazo @mbalazo.bsky.social · 2d

A weak man asks “trick or treat?”

A strong man declares “Give me treats.”

Which one are you?

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 2d

I can see why it's called Blu-ray. Because the picture is "blurray" af!

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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 3d

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

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sage scrub @sagescrub.bsky.social · 3d

Trader Joe’s has cursed the Dodgers by selling maple fudge

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "If the president was a king, then the government would be open." (Trump yesterday said he no longer has a need for Congress.)

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sage scrub @sagescrub.bsky.social · 4d

CUOMO IS UNC

sage scrub @sagescrub.bsky.social · 4d

UCI Langson Orange County Museum of Art Angels of Anaheim

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🎃trash🎃 @dollarpbr.gay · 5d

biblically accurate pitch count

a still from game 3 of the world series showing 487 pitches over 18 pitchers with the location of each ball thrown

it’s chaos

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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 5d

How on earth do you put this pitch here

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🦇 @erikforrestjackson.com · 5d

The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟

Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

Yes. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · 6d

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

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sage scrub @sagescrub.bsky.social · 5d

miraculous, but it was a 120 ft cliff