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New York Times
15-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Marvel at these sweet home run robberies. Plus, are we buying the Twins?
The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic's MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. There's a crime spree: Home runs are disappearing at an alarming rate. Plus: Pete Rose's daughter speaks, the Dodgers replace a clubhouse 'pillar' with their top prospect and are we buying the Twins' hot streak? I'm Levi Weaver, here with Ken Rosenthal. Welcome to The Windup! I am really proud of the work our MLB crew here at The Athletic does. Every day in The Windup, I get to highlight some of our best work and keep you, the readers, informed on the fruits of their labor. But once in a while, we all just get to sit back and marvel at the actual baseball being played. In yesterday's Yankees-Mariners game, the very first play of the game gave us one such moment. Watch this catch by Julio Rodríguez: JULIOOOOOO! Julio Rodríguez brings one back! 😤 — MLB (@MLB) May 14, 2025 Most days, that's gonna be your play of the day. Not today. Not when the Red Sox's Wilyer Abreu and Ceddanne Rafaela teamed up to do … this. TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK — MLB (@MLB) May 15, 2025 Perhaps you prefer the Rodríguez catch — the perfectly timed jump, the classic home run robbery, the slight delay in revealing the ball. Or maybe you're a merchant of chaos and the novelty of the one-in-several-million tip drill is more your style. Pick one! Or don't! Not everything has to be a competition. They were both fun to watch (assuming you're not a Yankees or Tigers fan). More single-serving greatness: that of Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr., distilled into a single swing. From my latest column: Pete Rose's daughter was in the Seattle airport, getting ready to fly to Cincinnati for a night honoring her father, when she learned the news. 'The emotion just kind of came over me,' Fawn Rose, the oldest of Pete's five children, said. 'I didn't think the commissioner's decision was going to affect me as much as it did.' Advertisement Fawn Rose's 17-year-old twins, her son Jude and daughter Eden, saw their mother getting teary and looked at her as if to say, 'Oh my God, what happened?' But quickly, they came to understand that what happened was good. Fawn said she wasn't shocked Tuesday when commissioner Rob Manfred removed her father and other deceased players from Major League Baseball's permanently ineligible list. But her brother, Pete Jr., 55, and sister Cara, 35, had the same emotional reaction when she phoned them to share Manfred's decision. And they all thought the same thing. 'I wish our dad was here to share this with our family and with all the fans,' Fawn said. Pete Rose died last Sept. 30 at 83. The very next day, the family's attorney, Jeffrey Lenkov, called Fawn. Referencing his nearly decade-long quest to get Pete reinstated, Lenkov told Fawn, 'We're going to get it done.' Lenkov originally did not plan to bring Fawn with him to meet in New York with Manfred and MLB chief communications officer Pat Courtney on Dec. 17. But before the meeting, Lenkov realized it might be the only opportunity he and the family would have to plead Pete's case. 'It was vital to hear Pete's voice through his children, that Fawn was the proper choice as the oldest,' Lenkov said. 'I didn't prep Fawn. I wanted her to organically express her opinion.' Which Fawn did. 'I didn't sugarcoat anything. It was the good, bad and the ugly,' she said. 'He's at fault. But he's our dad. And he's human.' Courtney, speaking for Manfred, declined to discuss details of a private meeting and the impact Fawn might have made on the commissioner. But following the league's announcement Tuesday, Fawn said she joked to Pete Jr., 'Dad should have sent me in years ago. I would have closed it quick (with) the commissioner.' The reality, of course, was more complicated. Advertisement The late commissioner Bart Giamatti banned Rose in 1989 after investigator John Dowd confirmed Rose had violated Rule 21 (d) (2), which states that any player, umpire or club or league official who bets upon a game in which the bettor has a duty to perform shall be declared permanently ineligible. Giamatti told Rose he needed to 'reconfigure' his life as a condition for reinstatement. The next three commissioners, Fay Vincent, Bud Selig and Manfred, kept the ban intact. Manfred twice rejected Rose's petitions for reinstatement, in 2015 and 2020. More Pete Rose: MLB's hottest team isn't the Dodgers, Yankees, Mets or even the Padres. With yesterday's sweep of a doubleheader with the Orioles, the Minnesota Twins have boosted their record from a disappointing 13-20 to 23-20, climbing from fourth place and six games back in the division to … fourth place and 5 1/2 games back in the division. Ah right. The Tigers are 8-2 in their last 10 games, and the Royals and Guardians are both 'only' 6-4. So while the 10-win streak has been a lot of fun for Twins fans, it has also been a matter of survival. I remember not so long ago when it seemed like the AL Central title went to the first team to lazily raise their hand and go, 'OK fine, I guess. We'll take it.' Not any more. So how do we feel about the Twins? The hole they dug themselves into shouldn't be insurmountable. But they were streaky last year, too (remember the gross sausage?). Is the duo of a healthy Byron Buxton and new arrival Harrison Bader enough to convince you? Is the pitching as good as it has seemed lately? I'm not ready to say they're my favorites to win the division. I think the Tigers are legitimate World Series contenders, and I think the Royals have some juice. I somehow always underestimate the Guardians. Like I said, it's a rough division. Advertisement But the Twins aren't rolling over. More Twins: Three under-the-radar Minnesota prospects off to stock-raising starts, led by 'McCrusher.' It is one thing to announce that a team is calling up a star prospect. Dalton Rushing definitely qualifies as that — Keith Law had the 24-year-old as the Dodgers' top prospect coming into this season, and the No. 16 prospect in the sport. It's another when that call-up comes at the cost of the team's longest-tenured position player and clubhouse 'pillar.' That's what happened in Los Angeles yesterday, with Austin Barnes on the tough end of a DFA to make room on the 40-man roster for Rushing. Barnes, 35, has spent his entire big-league career with the Dodgers. He debuted in 2015 after a 2014 trade that is a fun little trip down memory lane: (Hernández made his Dodgers debut before Barnes, but spent two-plus years with the Red Sox, the last an 86-game stint in 2023, so his tenure counter was reset.) As for Rushing, he was hitting .308 (.938 OPS) in Triple A and basically forced the issue. But where will he play? After all, he's primarily a catcher (the Dodgers have Will Smith), but also plays first base (Freddie Freeman) and designated hitter (literally Shohei Ohtani). He has also played two games in left field this year (Michael Conforto). As Fabian Ardaya informs us here, 'That versatility, along with Rushing's left-handed bat, could open up a path to playing time.' In other words … stay tuned? Two similar stories: Cubs prospect Moisés Ballesteros was playing MLB The Show when he got the call that he was being called up to the real big leagues. And at Auburn, Andrew Dutton has spent the season as the first-base coach. He finally got his shot at taking an at-bat. Guess what happened? All is well in Atlanta. Ronald Acuña Jr. has apologized to manager Brian Snitker, and everyone's ready for him to return from his rehab assignment. Advertisement Juan Soto says he's excited to hear the reaction when he returns to the Bronx as a member of the Mets tomorrow. Even the boos? Even the boos. Two pitchers of note have hit the IL: flame-throwing Angels reliever Ben Joyce (out for the season) and Red Sox starter Tanner Houck (no timetable for a return). The Giants' hot start has cooled. What's going on? Three-time All-Star Matt Carpenter announced his retirement at age 39. Jim Bowden gives us this year's 10 biggest surprises. On the pods: Chandler Rome joined 'Rates & Barrels' to talk about all things Astros, including a pitching staff that has been surprisingly effective. Twins Win Streak Counter: The Cardinals lost the first game of a doubleheader against the Phillies, but the Twins now have that 10-game winning streak, so let's change horses mid-stream! Most-clicked in our last newsletter: The 2019 piece correcting some of the myths around the Black Sox, 100 years later. 📫 Love The Windup? 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New York Times
14-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
‘I wish our dad was here to share this': Pete Rose's daughter on her father's long road to reinstatement
Pete Rose's daughter was in the Seattle airport, getting ready to fly to Cincinnati for a night honoring her father, when she learned the news. 'The emotion just kind of came over me,' Fawn Rose, the oldest of Pete's five children, said. 'I didn't think the commissioner's decision was going to affect me as much as it did.' Advertisement Fawn Rose's 17-year-old twins, her son Jude and daughter Eden, saw their mother getting teary and looked at her as if to say, 'Oh my God, what happened?' But quickly, they came to understand what happened was good. Fawn said she wasn't shocked Tuesday when commissioner Rob Manfred removed her father and other deceased players from Major League Baseball's permanently ineligible list. But her brother, Pete Jr., 55, and sister Cara, 35, had the same emotional reaction when she phoned them to share Manfred's decision. And they all thought the same thing. 'I wish our dad was here to share this with our family and with all the fans,' Fawn said. Pete Rose died last Sept. 30 at 83. The very next day, the family's attorney, Jeffrey Lenkov, called Fawn. Referencing his nearly decade-long quest to get Pete reinstated, Lenkov told Fawn, 'We're going to get it done.' Lenkov originally did not plan to bring Fawn with him to meet in New York with Manfred and MLB chief communications officer Pat Courtney on Dec. 17. But before the meeting, Lenkov realized it might be the only opportunity he and the family would have to plead Pete's case. 'It was vital to hear Pete's voice through his children, that Fawn was the proper choice as the oldest,' Lenkov said. 'I didn't prep Fawn. I wanted her to organically express her opinion.' Which Fawn did. 'I didn't sugarcoat anything. It was the good, bad and the ugly,' she said. 'He's at fault. But he's our dad. And he's human.' Courtney, speaking for Manfred, declined to discuss details of a private meeting, and the impact Fawn might have made on the commissioner. But following the league's announcement Tuesday, Fawn said she joked to Pete Jr., 'Dad should have sent me in years ago. I would have closed it quick with the commissioner.' The reality, of course, was more complicated. Advertisement The late commissioner Bart Giamatti banned Rose in 1989 after investigator John Dowd confirmed Rose that violated Rule 21 (d) (2), which states that any player, umpire or club or league official who bets upon a game in which the bettor has a duty to perform shall be declared permanently ineligible. Giamatti told Rose he needed to 'reconfigure' his life as a condition for reinstatement. The next three commissioners, Fay Vincent, Bud Selig and Manfred, kept the ban intact. Manfred twice rejected Rose's petitions for reinstatement, in 2015 and 2020. Lenkov acknowledged that Rose sabotaged repeated possibilities for baseball to give him a second chance. 'Manfred has to protect the product. He has to maintain the integrity of baseball. It's a big rule to overcome,' Lenkov said. 'Since 2015, when I knew Rose and prior to when I wasn't involved, every time there was an opportunity, Pete sort of screwed it up, or made it seem like he didn't care. 'When people ask me, 'Are you angry it occurred now?' No. I'm angry that every time I got Pete close, he found a way to do something, like Bad Luck Shleprock, to denigrate the opportunity.' While Pete was alive, Fawn said she and Pete Jr. talked about how it would be logical for Manfred to lift the ban after their father passed. But they didn't know whether that was the decision Manfred actually would make. Fawn still didn't know after she and Lenkov met with Manfred and Courtney in the commissioner's office. She entered the meeting uncertain of how Manfred would react, 'just because I'm Pete's daughter and my dad is a bit controversial.' But she left more than satisfied. 'I can't even tell you what a great experience it was,' Fawn said. '(Manfred) was very gracious. It was a great dialogue. I felt like he really listened. This will probably sound stupid, but he listened to me almost from his heart. Advertisement 'I came away feeling extremely hopeful and heard. That's what I wanted from the meeting. Just the opportunity, to present another side, to present a side of Pete Rose the man, Pete Rose the father, Pete Rose the grandfather. What it meant to him. His sort of arrogance, (acting like) it didn't matter . . . I think it really did matter. I wanted to really convey that piece of who he was to the commissioner.' The meeting, Lenkov felt, was a positive first step, something akin to a preliminary hearing. Fawn said she had a spring in her step afterward. Lenkov, maintaining the detached perspective of an attorney, knew the process was only beginning. 'I didn't leave clicking my heels down the street saying, 'We got this,'' Lenkov said. Fawn told select family members about the meeting, but said she put them on a gag order. She didn't even tell her mother, LaVerne, 84, about the renewed effort to get Pete reinstated. The league did not request she remain silent, Fawn said. But out of respect to Manfred, she didn't want the issue to reach the media, didn't want pressure to mount from the outside. 'For us, it was more about, let's get some closure,' Fawn said. 'Let's go one way or another. Then we can put this piece to bed.' Lenkov's next move was to draft a new petition for Rose's reinstatement, which he submitted to Manfred on Jan. 8. For all the time he spent working on Rose's behalf, he said he never asked the family for money. Fawn confirmed that Lenkov performed all of his services pro bono, and said her father's reinstatement would not have happened without the attorney's relentless approach. 'He didn't let it go,' Fawn said. 'My understanding is that he made a commitment to my dad that he would see it through. And he absolutely saw it through.' One more quest remains for Lenkov and the family – the induction of Rose into the Hall of Fame. The removal of Rose from the permanently ineligible list means he now will become eligible for Hall consideration. Jane Forbes Clark, the Hall's chairman of the board, said Tuesday that the players Manfred removed from the list, including Shoeless Joe Jackson and other members of the 1919 Black Sox, will be judged by the Classic Baseball Era Committee. That group, which evaluates candidates who made their greatest impact on the game prior to 1980, next votes in December 2027. Advertisement Fawn said her father's induction into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 2016 was extremely meaningful to Rose and the family, carrying added weight because it took place in their hometown. Rose, baseball's all-time hit king, always wanted his place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, too. Asked what she might say to a committee that one day might consider her father for Cooperstown, Fawn initially paused. 'There is part of me that just wants to focus on this moment,' she said. 'This is a big first step, not just for my dad, but for other players who received lifetime bans.' But then Fawn, just as she did for Manfred, made her father's case. 'His achievements on the field, I don't think there's ever going to be another Pete Rose, someone who played with heart and grit and left everything on the field and played every day for the fans,' Fawn said. 'When he made the comment that he'd run through (hell) in a gasoline suit (to play baseball), he meant that. 'He was really that blue collar worker. That's the one thing I would want the Hall of Fame to look at – the accomplishments of the player on the field. That's really important. I know there's the other side of it. I'm a parent. But I'm a kid. 'I think it's just meaningful. And I just wish he could be around if it did happen.' (Top photo of Pete Rose with his son Pete Jr. and daughter Fawn in January 1976: AP Photo)
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Galveston beach homeowners accuse city officials of having no road since Hurricane Beryl
The Brief Galveston homeowners say they used to have a paved road that ran in front of their beachhouse. However, that road hasn't been there since Hurricane Beryl. The homeowners accused the city of dragging their feet in an effort to fix the road. City officials said they will be repairing the road with new limestone, but not with a hard surface road. GALVESTON, Texas - Fawn and Terry Maldonado had a paved road that ran in front of their Galveston beach house on Buena Vista Drive. Fawn has pictures to prove it. What they're saying "See how many people were parking there. We had no issues. No one was worried about getting stuck," she said. The couple can't even park in front of their own home. "We haven't had a street since Hurricane Beryl," Terry said. "The last time that I drove down here and parked in front of my house, I got stuck." "We've spoken to the Mayor's office, the City Manager's office, the public works supervisor," said Fawn, who has neighbors as frustrated as she. "We're all in the same situation, and after speaking with them, they're hearing the exact same thing I have," she said. "You don't have to complete the thing but do something to improve it from where it is now," said Mike Chambers. "We've seen emergency vehicles come back here, and they have to back up because they can't turn around." What's the city's response? "They keep saying that they're going to fix it," Fawn said. "They just keep kicking the can down the road." The other side In a statement to FOX 26's Randy Wallace, officials with the city of Galveston, said, "Just following up with you on Buena Vista Drive. I spoke with our public works team and this is what's going on with the road: The City of Galveston has completed many repairs to West End roads since Hurricane Beryl and our work there is ongoing. Nearly half of our budget for streets is spent on the West End and crews are constantly working in the area to keep sand off the roadways. East Buena Vista Drive and West Buena Vista Drive have both recently been bladed (sand removed) to make the road more passable. The problems in this area have been ongoing since Hurricane Ike when the beach row of homes was destroyed. Since, it has been a constant battle to keep sand off this road and this has been exacerbated by the lack of rain this spring. However, the city performs regularly blading in the area. While we would like to do a hard surface road on East and West Buena Vista Drive, we are prohibited by the GLO. We have been working with our state partners to maximize our sustainable options and looking at other surfaces. As of now, the plan is to repair the road with new limestone and those repairs are forthcoming in the coming weeks. City Council has prioritized beach nourishment projects in this area because of erosion, and one is planned for later this year. While this won't necessarily result in less sand on the road, the project would help by keeping tides farther from the infrastructure and preventing the road from washing out." The Source FOX 26 Reporter Randy Wallace spoke with Galveston beach homeowners and got a response from the City of Galveston.
Irish Independent
25-04-2025
- Business
- Irish Independent
New Galway restaurant set to open its doors
New food and wine bar Fawn is the newest gastronomic venture from business duo Jason and Ervin, who plan to bring the small plates trend to Oranmore. The restaurant's kitchen opening times will see doors close on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 'Dear Friends, we are super excited to announce that we will be opening our doors this evening at 18:00. 'We are so excited to welcome our first guests. Join us for dinner over the weekend!' Owners shared a snapshot of their menu on social media, listing the small and big dishes that will be served at the chic new spot. Amongst the small plate options are Toonsbridge burrata, seafood chowder and Doonbeg crab meat, while the big plates menu boasts pan fried hake and dry aged chicken. The opening of the restaurant was announced earlier this month with owners promising a combination of eclectic dishes and unique wine choices. The pair are opening the new restaurant on in the heart of the town's Main Street as they allowed customers a sneak peek of what to expect. They said: 'We will be opening our doors very soon, and we would like to introduce to you Joe and Rosabelle Burke, and Fawn Wine Bar. 'We have designed our kitchen to be in the centre of the building, with open views of the cooking line from the two sides. ADVERTISEMENT 'Fawn Restaurant is on the right, and Fawn Wine Bar is on the left hand side of the ktchen. 'We're delighted to be partnering with Joe and Rosabelle Burke, whose roots run deep in this community. 'Joe grew up next door to what is now Fawn, in the heart of Oranmore. His father even put the roof on the very building that now houses our new restaurant and wine bar. 'Rosabelle, originally from Loughrea, went to school in Oranmore when Calasanctius was still a girls' boarding school. Somewhere along the way, she and Joe crossed paths, and the rest, as they say, is (a lot of) history. 'Rosabelle will be hosting your experience in the wine bar, where you will find a fun selection available by the glass and bottle from our cellar. We will have local cheese and charcuterie platters, small plates of local produce and nibbles to match our wines, all cooked by Jason, Sarah and the team. We do encourage sharing. 'We can't wait to open our doors and welcome you in soon!'
