reminds me of one of my favorite ledes ever, from the Associated Press in February 2020 when the Dodgers signed Chris Taylor to buy out his final two arbitration years that paid $5.6 million in 2020 and $7.8 million the next year

Your annual MLB vs NFL parity report Champs last 10 seasons: MLB: 7 teams NFL 6 teams Teams in "finals" last 10 seasons: MLB 13 NFL 9 Reminder: The NFL is the "any team can win" league

Big tech has gutted ad revenue and monopolized distribution, billionaires have exerted a corrosive control over the platforms, and both squeezed the industry away. We have to organize. We have to get systematic, and think and act collectively.

I know everyone means well with their 'scoop this reporter up immediately' endorsement posts but christ — who's doing the scooping? What's left? Thinking about our industry this way, like this is a momentary setback and there are ample open roles, obscures the truth about the rot at its core.

Dodgers World Series headlines from the LA Times and Orange County Register

Oh my god @hnalbandyan.bsky.social and the LA Times crew. Wonderful headline

Brad Paisley's previous two World Series anthems at Dodger Stadium: -Max Muncy's 18th-inning HR -Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam www.truebluela.com/2024/10/25/2...

Just the greatest baseball player of all time having the greatest game of all time — in no small part because of the great time he picked to do it. Bye, bye Brewers. Hello World Series. Holy Shohei Ohtani, man. Got to write about it. www.ocregister.com/2025/10/17/s...

Dying.

Shohei Ohtani has homered off Jose Quintana to lead off Game 4 of the NLCS in consecutive years, both on October 17

*no kings except this guy

As a society, we're going to HAVE to stop trusting relievers

That was the 22nd time Blake Treinen has entered a playoff game with the lead. He's left the game with the lead in every one of those 22 appearances.

This is one of the most incredible games of one of the most fascinating postseasons I can remember best sport best sport ever

Incredible headline in the LA Times this morning

That was the first postseason series in history to end on a walkoff error. What a crushing way for any team to end a season. Bill Buckner might come to mind, but that was only Game 6.

With Shohei Ohtani and Roki Sasaki, the Dodgers are the second team in postseason history with a win and save from Japanese-born pitchers in a game, joining: 2013 ALCS G6 Red Sox: Tazawa & Uehara First with the win being the SP

Six majors for Carlos Alcaraz at age 22 is hard to comprehend. As long as a futuristic Victor Slambanyama tennis prodigy doesn’t emerge through the youth ranks, he’ll have a chance at some incredible history.

Lol

Jesús Cruz arrived in California 33 yrs ago and built a life with a wife and four kids. In June, he was deported after immigration agents swarmed the LA car wash where he worked. Now his wife faces an impossible decision. Heart-rending Kate Linthicum piece www.latimes.com/world-nation...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I know we’ve moved on but I can’t shake the deeply sad spectacle of the interview with an AI-generated mass shooting victim. Such horrors are only possible because our institutions and politics have so deeply failed us that this is what we’re left with—a cheap, automated simulacrum of hope.

I wrote about why the vibes feel so weird for knowledge workers right now. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-catast...

Google's AI summaries are - killing traffic to legitimate sites - producing summaries that can be wrong - in the long run probably making you a dumbass www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

I was just discovering sports when Jim Abbott arrived on the scene in Anaheim to play for my first favorite team - this week, I got to chat with him because ESPN has this wonderful new documentary, "Southpaw," about his legacy airing Sunday. This was fun. www.ocregister.com/2025/07/10/s...

This is wonderful from Mirjam. This description of LeBron as “aggressively passive aggressive” is perhaps the best I’ve seen. You just wonder why a player that is so great consistently acts this way. Maybe it’s just his personality.🤷‍♂️

LeBron James is right. The Lakers definitely need to be making win-now moves to please and appease their superstar … ... Luka Doncic. www.ocregister.com/2025/06/29/s...

the thing about not liking sports is that you're wrong

OpenAI facing tangible consequences for infringing one (1) trademark but essentially none for infringing millions of copyrights is an Eddie Izzard bit www.theverge.com/news/690858/...

This is fantastic from Mirjam. This passage gives those of you not in LA a good window in on the fabric of this community

DTLA 930am — The old @latimes.com building including the famous Globe Lobby have been vandalized. There’s broken glass and rubber bullets everywhere. Spring Street being blocked with concrete barricades near City Hall where a protest in support of David Huerta is to begin at 11am

Polite request to please credit the photographers whose L.A. photos you’re sharing. They’re out there risking getting their shins exploded by police munitions to get those shots.

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This is good! No bottoming out, no TRYING to lose (looking at OKC for a few of these years too). Hope the basketball gods continue to smile on ‘em for this miraculous competitive effort.

I’m not sure that I’ve seen many better visual representations of what it’s like to be a parent.

Happy start of NBA playoffs day, for those who celebrate! We got front and back covers in today's @latimes.com Sports section to kick off the festivities.

Clippers-Nuggets playoff preview: Controlling Nikola Jokic key to series

College basketball is getting dangerously close to becoming pickup hoops at LA Fitness. I’m for the players getting paid, but the money comes from fan interest. If *I’m* losing interest in Tar Heels basketball because I can’t keep up with who plays for the Tar Heels, the game is in real trouble

JJ Redick returned to the Palisades to see the devastation from the fires and to talk about his $50 million plan to help the rebuild - starting with the rec center near his home and sprawling across the city, to make those communal spaces whole again. www.latimes.com/sports/laker...

Mookie Betts, man

People are angry, and 100% justifiably so

If you think UCLA's 5-foot-4 Londynn Jones is formidable, I gotta to tell you about her great-great-grandmother, Mamie Kirkland: "An incredibly powerful woman" (at 4-foot-6!) who lived to 111 and helped inspire the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. www.ocregister.com/2025/03/21/s...

Joan of Arc, by Frank Schoonover, 1918, 📸 by Katie Chin

Luka will love L.A., eventually. On the new-Luka Lakers ... and possible echoes of Freddie Freeman's L.A. story. www.ocregister.com/2025/02/04/s...

Perfect headline.

You still awake? Me too. Holy cow! Luka Doncic is coming to the Lakers!? For AD!? This is real life!? My column: www.ocregister.com/2025/02/02/s...

what if this is all just a promo for AD’s new prank show

Tonight's @latimes.com Sports Extra after the Lakers stunned the sports world by landing Luka Doncic in a trade for Anthony Davis: "SHOCK EXCHANGE"