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“He’s a big kid, he’s tall, he’s got good hands, he can make plays, offensive-type player but pretty good instincts for the game, as well,” Bowman said Wednesday. “It’s going to be important for him to be a solid two-way player so we can tap into the skill he has.
Sandberg, 61, whose All-American image and on-field heroics cemented his place in Cubs lore, is arguably one of the greatest second basemen in baseball history. He’s also one of the least likely celebrity endorsers of cannabis, having never tried weed until this year.
Abreu became the 11th player in franchise history to reach 700 RBIs and is one of five Sox players to hit 200-plus home runs and record 700-plus RBIs. That list also includes Frank Thomas (448 home runs, 1,465 RBIs), Paul Konerko (432, 1,383), Harold Baines (221, 981) and Carlton Fisk (214, 762).
Sandberg, 61, whose All-American image and on-field heroics cemented his place in Cubs lore, is arguably one of the greatest second basemen in baseball history. He’s also one of the least likely celebrity endorsers of cannabis, having never tried weed until this year.
Ethan Brockman, 17, from left, Tyler Sulzberger, 17, and Zach Sulzberger, 16, gather supplies before starting another round of clay target shooting at the Downers Grove Sportsmen’s Club in Morris on April 30, 2021 More than 50 other students from several schools, grades 6 through 12, are part of the team based out of Parkview Christian Academy. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
Ethan Brockman, 17, from left, Tyler Sulzberger, 17, and Zach Sulzberger, 16, gather supplies before starting another round of clay target shooting at the Downers Grove Sportsmen’s Club in Morris on April 30, 2021 More than 50 other students from several schools, grades 6 through 12, are part of the team based out of Parkview Christian Academy. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
Dear Wondering: This story isn’t quite holding together for me (are these children twins, or did these encounters happen over the course of a couple of years?), and so I am trying to imagine the conversation your husband might have with the kids: “When I was 19 I had sex two times with a woman who claimed I fathered both of her children, but I don’t think I did …. Sooooo, just giving you a heads up!”
Even with Thursday’s win, there’s plenty of work to be done for the Bulls to reach the postseason. They have only one path remaining to make the play-in: win both of their remaining games and hope the Wizards lose out. So while the Bulls’ late-season push is admirable, it still seems almost certain to fall short.
The 45-year-old Rodriguez hit 696 home runs over 22 major league seasons, with the New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers. His last season on the field was 2016, marking the end of marvelous career that was tainted by performance-enhancing drug use he later admitted to. Rodriguez was suspended for the entire 2014 season for violating MLB policy.
That prompted Republican state Rep. Deanne Mazzochi of Elmhurst to say, “To me, a good leader doesn’t assume things are happening. A good leader actually checks to make sure that things are happening. For you to just sit there and say, ‘Oh, well, I just assumed things were happening,’ that’s a failure of leadership. I’m sorry.”