magic wonderland ocean
NoneNew year, new me: Top tips to get fit and stick to your health resolutions in 2025
LOS ANGELES — If you have a bag of sunflower seeds, throw it to the sky. Teo is back. Break out three giant claps, a dazzling smile and a deafening scream. Teo is back. The Dodgers' heartbeat still pumps. The Dodgers' soul still stirs. The Dodgers are still the Dodgers. A front office that respects the team culture while listening to its fans made certain of this Friday when the Dodgers agreed to re-sign Teoscar Hernández to a three-year, $66 million contract, keeping last season's championship hero where he belongs. In the dugout, showering fellow home-run hitters with sunflower seeds. In the clubhouse, smoothing the path for Shohei Ohtani. And, of course, at the plate, delivering huge hits all summer capped by season-tilting drives in the National League Division Series and World Series. Teo is back, and your sigh is as big as his personality, and your relief is as palpable as one of his late-inning swings. Because, admit it, you were worried. You were even worse than worried. After the final bus had sped past, the final inspirational speech had been delivered, and the last of the hoarse cheers had been uttered, you barely had time to savor November's title celebration before you began waiting for the other blue shoe to drop. Teo was a free agent, and that meant this band of ring bearers could be broken up, and, oh no! The Dodgers couldn't let such a giant presence walk, could they? They weren't really going to be blinded by analytics and age and contract length and fail to sign everybody's newest favorite player, were they? In the past, they might have. In the past, there was actually little chance they would have rewarded a 32-year-old playing for his fourth team with a lucrative three-year deal based partially on intangibles. You knew all this, and you were scared, and it shaded your every perception of what had been an otherwise wildly successful offseason. Signing two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell was nice, but what about Teo? Extending October hero Tommy Edman was a boss move, but hey, where's Teo? Adding smart-swinging lefty outfielder Michael Conforto was cool, but what does this mean for Teo? Blake Treinen was brought back, and Japanese star pitcher Roki Sasaki could be coming but ... hello? Teo? All those fears were erased Friday afternoon in what is usually a time for sports teams to dump their bad news in hopes that it gets lost in the weekend. This was the opposite of that. Teo is back, and the New Year's party starts now. It turns out, while negotiations were painfully protracted, the end result was always obvious in what is pretty close to a perfect relationship between a star and a team. Hernández wanted to stay, something he had been openly expressing by the end of the championship parade. And the Dodgers, in valuing him as not only an All-Star player but a standout leader, wanted him to stay. It was all pretty simple, really, and now, for the rest of baseball, it's downright suffocating. The Dodgers don't need to do anything else this winter and already they're better than last season. By keeping their title core together while essentially adding two ace pitchers — Snell and the mound return of Ohtani — the Dodgers are a lock to win the National League West for the 12th time in 13 seasons and should be heavy favorites to become the first team to win consecutive World Series since the New York Yankees from 25 years ago. Andrew Friedman and the Dodger ownership group understands this team and this market as well as any front office in franchise history. In bringing back a guy who had 33 homers and 99 RBIs and arguably the team's exciting personality, they have continued to maintain a monster. Look at their lineup, rich with regular-season MVPs, National League Championship Series MVPs, World Series MVPs and, oh yeah, a home-run derby champion. Check out their rotation, led by four aces in Ohtani, Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Then there's the bullpen, which could be anchored by the veteran who shut down the New York Yankees for 2 1/3 innings in the World Series clincher, the retention of Treinen being a sneaky good move. If possible, Friedman has had a winter that rivaled Hernández's Game 5 division series homer for excitement. As crazy as it sounds, Friedman has worked an offseason that could come close to matching Hernández's Game 5 World Series two-run double for impact. It all became clear Friday afternoon with two words that appeared on Hernández's Instagram story. "I'm Back," he wrote. Run it back, you shouted. ©2024 Los Angeles Times. Visit latimes.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Runner's World: Top RBs take flight when Ravens entertain EaglesWade Taylor IV poured in 24 points, Manny Obaseki put his team ahead for good with a fastbreak dunk and No. 20 Texas A&M staved off Rutgers 81-77 to take fifth place at the Players Era Festival on Saturday in Las Vegas. In a game with seven ties and 10 lead changes, the Aggies (6-2) took a 78-77 lead when Solomon Washington pulled out a defensive rebound and heaved it up court for Obaseki to convert a two-handed slam with 2:12 to play. Rutgers lost a pass out of bounds, and Taylor made two free throws for a three-point game. Rutgers freshman star Dylan Harper went to the rim in the final seconds but had his shot blocked by Washington. Washington had 11 points, five rebounds and four blocks for Texas A&M. Henry Coleman III and Obaseki also finished with 11 points. For Rutgers (5-3), Ace Bailey led the way with 24 points and a game-high 10 rebounds. Jeremiah Williams scored 20 points on 7-of-8 shooting and Harper had 18 points. Centers Emmanuel Ogbole and Lathan Sommerville each fouled out. Texas A&M scored nine of the last 12 points of the game after trailing by as many as nine earlier in the half. A 10-0 run early in the first half, capped by Washington's three-point play, gave the Aggies a 17-9 lead. Rutgers ensured Texas A&M would not lead by more than eight, as Bailey (13) and Harper (eight) combined for 21 of Rutgers' 34 first-half points. After Sommerville put up five straight points for Rutgers, the Aggies made three free throws in the final minute for a 40-34 halftime lead. Rutgers' 13-0 sprint early in the second half flipped the lead to 47-42 in its favor. Harper made a 3-pointer to get things going and Williams scored three straight buckets -- a dunk in transition, an easy layup and an offensive rebound and putback. Bailey's second 3-pointer at 12:51 put the Scarlet Knights up 63-54, but Texas A&M scored the next eight points. Then, down 65-62, Taylor made the Aggies' first 3-pointer of the game to tie it at the 8:21 mark. His team had missed its first 11 tries from long range. Texas A&M won despite going 2 of 15 from the arc (Rutgers was 6 for 26) and being outrebounded 42-35. --Field Level Media
DeNA (OTCMKTS:DNACF) Hits New 12-Month High – Still a Buy?Being a ‘bedroom community’ comes at a cost for those south of Silicon Valley
Legendary football coach Bill Belichick shocked the football community when he took the University of North Carolina head coaching job earlier this week instead of waiting for a possible NFL gig. See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news While plenty of debate was sparked on social media with Belichick’s surprising move to the NCAA, Lil Wayne hopped on X on Thursday (Dec. 12) to congratulate the six-time Super Bowl champion on getting the UNC job. “Man much respect 2da GOAT coach Bill Belichick! Not sure why they’re all hatin but I believe it to be envy and just a bunch of folks that don’t know how to simply say “congratulations” or nada,” Wayne wrote while calling out the haters. He continued to quote bars from his “Love Me or Hate Me” track, which landed on 2007’s The Leak EP. “A wise man once said ‘u can luv me or hate me, I swear it wont make me or break me.” Man much respect 2da GOAT coach Bill Belichick! Not sure why they’re all hatin but I believe it to be envy and just a bunch of folks that don’t know how to simply say “congratulations” or nada! A wise man once said “u can luv me or hate me, I swear it wont make me or break me”... With Wayne slamming the backlash against Belichick, some fans flipped his words against him. They compared the situation to when he voiced his frustration about not getting the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show gig instead of simply showing love to Kendrick Lamar. “Say kongratulations to Kendrick challenge,” one TDE fan wrote while another said : “This sounds oddly familiar..” Wayne admitted he was “hurt” when Kendrick was announced as the Halftime Show headliner in his hometown of New Orleans next year. “That hurt. It hurt a lot. You know what I’m talking about. It hurt a whole lot,” he said at the time. “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a letdown. And for automatically mentally putting myself in that position like somebody told me that was my position. So I blame myself for that. But I thought that was nothing better than that spot and that stage and that platform in my city, so it hurt. It hurt a whole lot.” Earlier this month, Joe Budden speculated that Wayne attempted to call Kendrick Lamar to discuss the situation after the Compton native mentioned Weezy on GNX , but K. Dot reportedly had no interest in hopping on the phone with the New Orleans rap legend.IO Biotech Receives Notice from Nasdaq Regarding Minimum Bid Price RequirementNone
Jimmy Carter, a one-term president who became a globe-trotting elder statesman, dies at 100None
- Previous: magic of ocean
- Next: magic. ocean. song