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Jan. 20, 2021: Mets fire GM Porter after he admits to harassing female reporter. Thosar: Women who work in sports media have to endure this kind of behavior far too often. Jared Porter, who was hired by Mets last month, sent more than 60 unwanted texts and lewd photos to reporter while working for Cubs. (New York Daily News)
Cubs catcher José Lobatón winces in pain after a collision at first base during the ninth inning of a 2-1 loss to the Brewers on Tuesday in Milwaukee. Lobatón suffered a sprained right shoulder in the collision, and the Cubs placed him on the 60-day injured list Wednesday. (Aaron Gash / AP)
Toews, 33, last played for the Hawks on Aug. 18, 2020, a 4-3 elimination loss to the Vegas Golden Knights during the return-to-play postseason in the Edmonton, Alberta, bubble after the regular season was shortened to 70 games by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This should not be enough to derail this option, however. Hosting an Olympics is not any city’s birthright. Many NFL cities never get to host a Super Bowl (cough, Chicago, cough). They get over it, and the same would be true for the Games. As for fans who want to see events unfold live, technology allows them to stream to their hearts’ content — regardless of what time it is.
Most managers, including the Chicago White Sox’s Tony La Russa and Milwaukee Brewers’ Craig Counsell, continue to rely on Zoom to communicate with reporters at the expense of regular on-field interviews, with the obvious exception of in-game interviews on national telecasts. La Russa conducted one on-field interview with Sox beat writers recently in Houston, but he also Zoomed for the rest of the media not in Houston.
“It was kind of nice,” Sheets said. “It switched from making your debut to being a big part of the game, and that was really nice for me to step in the box. It wasn’t as much about, ‘Hey, I’m in the big leagues.’ It was, ‘Hey, I’ve got to get a job done here.’
“Been a tough stretch of games, but it’s a long season,” Davies said. “We still have quite a while until the trade deadline, and that’s typically when teams make decisions on where their season is going to go. This is a professional ballclub that knows their job, and they know there are highs and lows of a season. Hopefully we get out of this low as quick as possible.”
Young was declared out about 45 minutes before tipoff, having sustained a bone bruise when he twisted his right ankle stepping on an official’s foot along the sideline in Game 3. He watched from the bench in a black warmup suit, barely noticeable with a hood over his head and a mask across his face.
Schwarber drove Rich Hill’s first pitch, an 83 mph fastball, 434 feet off the upper-deck facade in right for his major-league-leading seventh leadoff home run — all in June. Schwarber’s 16 home runs this month are the second-most in any June behind Sammy Sosa’s 20 in 1998.
“First of all, I don’t buy or sell,” manager David Ross said before Tuesday’s game. “The key is for us to represent a winning product and someone that can win the division and go into the playoffs doing something special. That is what we try to produce on a daily basis here, and the front office is involved in all that.