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5 hours ago
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Royals' Jac Caglianone Gets Major Personal Advice After Promotion
Royals' Jac Caglianone Gets Major Personal Advice After Promotion originally appeared on Athlon Sports. If you were a minor-league baseball player, what's the first thing you'd do upon learning you were headed to the majors? Advertisement When Kansas City Royals top prospect Jac Caglianone learned of his promotion, his mind didn't immediately pivot to an Instagram post or finding an apartment. If he thought about the incoming larger paychecks, he sure did an incredible job hiding it during his conversation with Triple-A manager Mike Jirschele. Instead, Caglianone thought about family, and a special someone who'd be thrilled by the Royals' next lineup. "Holy cow," he told Jirschele. "I need to call my dad!" Florida Gators first baseman Jac CaglianoneSteven Branscombe-Imagn Images And Jirschele, a 66-year-old who managed his first minor-league game in 1992, offered the best advice he could. 'Go call your dad,' the veteran skipper responded. Advertisement Caglianone, the No. 6 pick in last summer's draft, is expected to make his MLB debut on Tuesday against the St. Louis Cardinals. The promising first baseman hit .319 with six home runs, 13 RBI, and a stellar 1.094 OPS over 54 Triple-A plate appearances. It's a well-deserved promotion for Caglianone, who recorded 17 home runs and a .875 OPS in his first 79 minor-league games. He'll join Athletics first baseman Nick Kurtz (No. 4) and Houston Astros right fielder Cam Smith (No. 14) among the 2024 first-round picks who debuted this season. 'Just remember, it's still a game,' Jirschele told Caglianone. Advertisement 'It's baseball," Jirschele continued. "It's a little higher level, but you know when you can play.' Related: Red Sox Make Major Kristian Campbell Announcement Before Monday's Game Related: Dodgers' $17 Million Bust Has Words About Playing With Shohei Ohtani This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 3, 2025, where it first appeared.
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6 hours ago
- Entertainment
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Royals' Bobby Witt Jr. hit a historic home run that flew under the radar Friday
Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. hits a home run during the first inning against the Detroit Tigers at Kauffman Stadium. When Royals Stadium opened on April 10, 1973, John Mayberry hit the first home run in the franchise's new ballpark. Since that night, the ballpark was been renamed as Kauffman Stadium, and the Royals have won a pair of World Series championships. And they are currently searching for a new home, so their days at Kauffman Stadium are numbered. Advertisement Through the years, many incredible players have called the ballpark their home. Those names include George Brett, Amos Otis, Lorenzo Cain, Alex Gordon and Bobby Witt Jr. The latter hit a significant home run Friday night in the Royals' game against the Detroit Tigers. Witt clubbed a 442-foot home run off Casey Mize in the first inning with the ball landing in the water in left-center field. Only later did we learn that it was the 3,000th home run to be hit by a Kansas City player in the history of Royals/Kauffman Stadium. That's according to Ian Kraft, the Royals' assistant director of media relations, who shared that fact a few hours after Witt's blast. Even though the ball landed in the water, the Royals were able to fish it out, and it's headed for the team's hall of fame. Advertisement That wasn't the only noteworthy accomplishment of the night. In the third inning, Royals catcher Salvador Perez hit a double, which was the 300th of his career. He's only the sixth player in Royals history to reach that milestone.
New Statesman
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New Statesman
Lorde's Brat moment
After four years of not-quite-wilderness, Lorde has returned to the charts. It's music, recession style. At the end of April she released a breakup song called 'What Was That'. The song's anthemic structure, metallic production and handheld music video all lead away from the New Age setup of her last album and into the tail end of the do-it-yourself 'indie sleaze' era from which she originally emerged. She followed it up this week with 'Man of the Year', a genderbending ballad about becoming your ex. Like 'What Was That', its video evokes several things that all come from 2013: there's a bit of the original 'Royals' video, a gasp of Lars von Trier's dimly-lit Nymphomaniac films, and, thanks to some symbolic breast tape, a vague visual idea of the Free the Nipple movement. Perhaps this nostalgic tendency is a way to draw fans back into the original Lorde project. But the rest of the album rollout feels darker and edgier. It's called Virgin and a press release claims it will be '100% WRITTEN IN BLOOD;' the album cover features an ultrasound image of a female pelvis with an IUD in it. An all-caps mission statement sounds slightly too much like the one written for Charli XCX's Brat, the album of last summer; where Charli wrote 'THE ARTWORK WILL BE… OBNOXIOUS, ARROGANT AND BOLD… WE MUST CULTIVATE DESIRE, CHAOS AND DESTRUCTION', Lorde responds 'THE COLOUR OF THE ALBUM IS CLEAR… FULL TRANSPARENCY…MY FEMININITY…RAW, PRIMAL, INNOCENT, ELEGANT.' Brat shot Charli XCX into the mainstream and simultaneously gave Lorde a route back to indie-pop acclaim. The Brat track track 'Girl, So Confusing' covered the emotional fallout of a decade-long not-quite feud between the two singers, who had emerged at about the same time as doppelgangers and alt-pop competitors. The track's cultural afterlife seemed planned out from the beginning: 'One day we might make some music / The Internet would go crazy'. The internet went crazy, but it was always going to – the merging of confessional songwriting and pop culture in-jokes meant everyone could feel like part of the story. Any mortal artist can be forgiven for wanting to create their own Brat moment; to define the soundscape of the year; to bathe in such acute commercial success. And it is possible that Lorde in 2025 has even more to prove than Charli in 2024. Lorde was a smart teenager – she dropped an era-defining alt-pop album, largely disappeared from the public eye and then dropped another one. Her whole brand was based on distance, both from her fanbase and her real-life attachments. She was only 16 on the release of Royals, and the child-prodigy veneer created a lasting mystique (conspiracy theorists claimed she was actually 45). She was known for dodging the usual trappings of pop stardom, like tight choreography and sexualised photoshoots. Moral ambiguity ruled her lyrics, But the aura was shattered on the 2021 release of her third album, Solar Power. The music videos were her first to incorporate bright daylight, back-up dancers and full-body bikini shots; the music was languid and folky and boring. She managed genuine sexual provocation for about a second on the album cover, which placed a camera under her bare legs. With Solar Power she negated her core persona. With Virgin she is trying to claw it back. And with that, the attention and critical acclaim lacking from her most recent era. It will not be so simple. Lorde's nipple-taping and multitude-containing femininity is clearly supposed to shock, but now we have left the 2010s (when Lorde was last pop star supreme) it barely lands. Provocation means nothing when there is no constant audience to provoke, and when you have to rely on an unstable algorithm instead of the overarching narratives of the mainstream press. All of her vacillating and re-referencing is bad news for a modern musician: the death of the monoculture also means the death of the celebrity rebrand. Pop music must have a constant visual identity, because it now arrives without a face; catchy parts of songs get big in the background of short videos and are quickly forgotten afterwards. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe Instead we have had Lorde, the histrionic adolescent with Melodrama and Pure Heroine. Then Lorde the sun-god, under Solar Power's visual language. Now she is reverting to her teenage self, with extra gender-bending addition. There are still certain pop personae who genuinely come from the Soundcloud wilds; who are supposed to be above it all. They're ruined if they behave too self-consciously, reference too much or show any sign of deliberate self-marketing. Lorde is one of them. Her existing mythos forbids her from deliberately stepping forwards or backwards in time; she 'played against type' just by appearing on Brat, which broke with past convention by placing her for the first time in a distinct universe of other leftfield pop singers. It feels wrong to see her building on recent internet hype, or on her past career, or even on the postmodern assortment of references underpinning Solar Power. She is supposed to be a soothsayer, and she needs to be able to see the future. [See more: Wes Anderson's sense of an ending] Related
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5 days ago
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Real estate attorney shares potential future of Aspiria Campus
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — More details were revealed on Thursday, May 29, about the mortgage purchase an affiliate of the Kansas City Royals made on the old Sprint Campus, now known as Aspiria. The team confirmed the news with FOX4 on Wednesday, but said no stadium decision has been made yet. According to the Kansas City Business Journal, Occidental Management, which owns the property northwest of 119th and Nall, needs to make a more than $232 million loan payment by August 9. ACLU accuses Leavenworth facility of breaking the law, violating ICE detainees' rights Levy Craig Law Firm Real Estate Attorney Tracey Steele said on Thursday that the Royals' affiliate didn't buy this mortgage to give the borrower, Occidental Management, better loan terms. They have their own agenda for the property. 'We don't know if they actually want to build a stadium there or if this is about leverage in negotiating with lawmakers, you know, both in Missouri and in Kansas,' Steele said. When the Royals confirmed the affiliate's mortgage purchase Wednesday, the team said they still had not determined where they wanted to build their new stadium. Steele says that if Occidental Management can't make that payment in two and a half months, the property could be foreclosed on. 'The Royals' affiliated entity, they're not a bank, but they are the lender,' Steele said. 'They're the holder of the mortgage. They're the entity that has security interest in this piece of property, so if they foreclose, they will get the deed.' The August 9 timeline falls after the Missouri Legislature returns for a special session where a stadium package will be discussed. It also falls after the Sales Tax and Revenue (STAR) Bond package expires on June 30 in Kansas. The STAR Bond package can be extended for another year. Steele says the affiliated entity buying the mortgage on the property allows the Royals to talk to Missouri lawmakers about the opportunity that they could have in Kansas. 'They can say, 'We have this Special STAR Bond that we can use to incentivize this development in Overland Park,'' he continued, talking about the Royals. 'We have a piece of property in Overland Park that we don't own yet, but we have an interest in that land that may turn into full ownership of the land in August, so if you don't give us a sweet deal to develop somewhere in Missouri, we already have bird in hand in Kansas.' Kansas Policy Institute Chief Executive Officer Dave Trabert says he hopes Kansas' Legislative Coordinating Council (LCC), made up of State House and State Senate leadership, does not extend the STAR Bond offer. The LCC can do that without having the full State House and State Senate vote on it. Lawrence police searching for person who stabbed elderly woman 'It would be sad if they did, given that this is the same legislature that was unable to do property tax relief as they promised for individual property owners, some of whom are being taxed out of their homes, to turn around and give billion-dollar subsidies to private entities. [That] would be a real slap in the face, as well as bad economic policy,' Trabert said Thursday when asked about the possibility that the LCC extends the STAR Bond package. FOX4 reached out to the office of LCC Chair and Republican State Senate President Ty Masterson Thursday afternoon to see if they were interested in extending the STAR Bonds. Masterson's spokesman said that an extension would most likely be short-term and would be decided at a date closer to the deadline. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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6 days ago
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Overland Park police ask for public's help identifying man hit by car on I-435
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Overland Park police are asking for the public's help identifying a man who was seriously hurt after being hit by a car Wednesday on Interstate 435. On Wednesday, May 28, around 11:32 a.m., the Overland Park Police Department said officers responded to a crash on I-435 East at Antioch Road. Royals' affiliate buys Overland Park Aspiria campus' mortgage Police said a man was walking north across I-435 from the Antioch Road on-ramp. As he was crossing the highway, police said he was hit by a car. The man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, according to police. Since he did not have identification on him, police are asking for the public's help identifying the man. According to police, the man is Asian and between the age of 25 and 35. Anyone with information is asked to call the Overland Park Traffic Unit at 913-327-6731. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
