From backyard to big league: How dads molded these Diamondbacks players' love of the game The Arizona Diamondbacks' Christian Walker, Jake McCarthy, Paul Sewald, Justin Martinez and Alek Thomas share baseball bonds with their fathers. 06/16/2024 - 2:01 am | View Link
Fantasy baseball notebook: The end of an era, Gunnar Henderson’s ascent to stardom, and don’t-buy bats Derek VanRiper pays tribute to a departed legend of The Athletic before diving into the week that was in the Rates & Barrels podcast. 06/14/2024 - 8:59 am | View Link
Saline product, Mariners prospect Logan Evans starring in minors, eyes MLB future Playing for the Double-A Arkansas Travelers, Evans appears on track for a potential call-up to the bigs for Seattle sooner rather than later. 06/10/2024 - 4:00 pm | View Link
Around the Tigers' farm: Detroit getting a dividend from Michael Lorenzen trade? The Tigers acquired Hao-Yu Lee in a trade last August for Michael Lorenzen. It was a low-voltage transaction, but the wattage is picking up. 06/9/2024 - 10:32 am | View Link
Top 5 Fantasy Baseball Prospects Busts Ryan looks at the fantasy baseball prospect busts for the 2024 season so far. He discusses the top MLB prospects who have not performed well, and if they can turn it around this season. 06/6/2024 - 6:37 am | View Link
This month marks the anniversary of a book that changed America.
History.com:
On June 15, 1974, Simon & Schuster releases All the President’s Men, the first definitive book about the Watergate scandal, authored by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporters from The Washington Post who broke the explosive story.
During a private meeting with congressional Republicans Thursday, convicted felon Donald Trump reportedly called Milwaukee, where the Republican National Convention will be held in July, a "horrible city." He then lied about crime in the city, where homicides are down 42% since 2022.
But don’t worry, Wisconsin, you are not alone in Trump's disdain for the country’s most populous areas.
Democrats are not bringing Powerpoint slides to a gunfight any longer. Tiger Beat on the Potomac (AKA Politico, Thanks Charlie Pierce!) morning email thingie:
A MATTER OF CONVICTION — The JOE BIDEN campaign is announcing a major new $50 million June ad push this morning, centered on a new spot slamming DONALD TRUMP over his conviction in the New York hush money case.
The effects of extreme heat on the human body have been well-documented, but increased summer temperatures may also pose another type of burden for millions of Americans—financial.
In addition to the increased frequency and record-high temperatures that are hallmarks of a heat wave, climate change is also lengthening the duration of a heat wave, and Americans can expect to see the cost of energy rise alongside temperatures.
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“There’s a cost to climate change,” Mark Wolfe, the executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA), tells TIME.
As the weather starts heating up this week, you may be tempted to go outside—but with the outdoors comes the possibility of getting bitten by mosquitoes. And if you find yourself getting a lot of mosquito bites, it could be because of the way you smell or the colors of the clothes you are wearing, recent research has found.
“If you think you are a mosquito magnet, it’s probably the case,” Jeffrey Riffell, a biology professor at the University of Washington who studies mosquito sensory systems, said in a video on the university’s website released earlier this month.
Shilletha Curtis has logged thousands of miles hiking the world’s most challenging trails—and turning into a sweaty, sticky mess along the way. The dry heat of the Continental Divide Trail, which stretches from Mexico to Canada, is vivid in her memory. But the absolute most scorching? That would be the Appalachian Trail, a nearly 2,200-mile trek from Georgia to Maine.