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19 hours ago
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Jacob deGrom's dominant streak continues in win over Nationals
The post Jacob deGrom's dominant streak continues in win over Nationals appeared first on ClutchPoints. After missing most of the last two seasons while recovering from Tommy John surgery, Jacob deGrom returned to the Texas Rangers' rotation in 2025. And the two-time Cy Young Award winner has quietly worked his way back into elite form. Advertisement Following his excellent outing against the Washington Nationals Saturday, deGrom has now 'allowed 2 runs or fewer in each of his last 10 starts,' according to MLB on X. Now fully healthy, deGrom has captured Rangers fans' imagination with vintage performances this season. However, his gem against the Nationals was easily his best start of the campaign. The 12th-year veteran allowed just two hits in seven shutout innings against Washington. deGrom didn't give up a walk in the contest and struck out eight batters. Jacob deGrom continues hot start to season for Rangers Tim Heitman-Imagn Images It's been a long road back for the pitcher. DeGrom signed a five-year, $185 million contract with the Rangers prior to the 2023 season. But by early June that year he required season-ending surgery. He would miss the Rangers' surprise World Series championship with the injury. Advertisement Over his first two seasons with the Rangers, deGrom started just nine games. He was, however, able to return to the team late in 2024, giving fans hope that deGrom would be at full strength this year. So far, he's exceeded expectations. DeGrom is now 6-2 with a 2.12 ERA, 0.92 WHIP, 8.6 K/9 and 162 ERA+ in 12 starts for the Rangers this season. He hit a major MLB milestone in May when he reached 1,700 career strikeouts. DeGrom became the fastest pitcher in baseball history to accomplish the feat, doing so in just 225 games. While deGrom has been exceptional this year, the Rangers have struggled. Texas had dropped four straight games before deGrom's gem against the Nationals. The team has lost 14 of the last 20 games, falling to 30-35 on the season and fourth place in the AL West. While the Rangers were hoping to bounce back in 2025 after failing to reach the playoffs following their title in 2023, it's not looking good. The team's poor start has led to trade rumors surrounding deGrom. With more than half the season remaining, it's unclear how the Rangers will handle the four-time All-Star. And given deGrom's injury history, it's unknown what Texas might receive in a trade, despite his excellent start this year. Related: MLB umpire suffers concussion during Diamondbacks-Reds game Related: Rangers lose in shortest game in decades
Toronto Sun
02-06-2025
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- Toronto Sun
HANSON: Are some racist slurs OK?
Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky dribbles the ball up court against the Dallas Wings during the second half of a game between Chicago Sky and Dallas Wings at College Park Center on May 31, 2025 in Arlington, Texas. Photo by Tim Heitman / Getty Images One reason why the public turned on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) was its insistence that roughly 70% of Americans were stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin colour. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account In contrast, the other 'diverse' 30% were de facto considered the victimized. In such absurd binaries, the left returned to the old 'one-drop' rule of the antebellum South, suggesting that anyone with any non-white ancestry was a minority victim. And once that Marxist-inspired dichotomy was institutionalized, a corollary was established that the self-declared racially oppressed cannot themselves be racist oppressors. But human nature is universal and transcends race. One lamentable characteristic of our species is that we are all prone to excess and crudity if not deterred, especially once civilizational restraint is lost. We are now witnessing examples of what follows when anti-white stereotyping and racism are given a pass — as long as the purveyors can claim their victimhood entitles them to bias. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Recently, WNBA basketball stars Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark got into one of their now-characteristic on-court rivalries. But, this time around, Reese mocked Clark as a 'White gyal (sic) running from the fade.' Reese assumes that her status as a Black star grants her immunity from backlash — a privilege unlikely to be extended if the roles were reversed. Or is her crassness a simple reflection that 60 years after the Civil Rights movement, it is deemed cool or deservedly acceptable to use the word 'white' derogatorily? After all, loose-cannon Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-TX, in one of her accustomed racialist rants, recently went after her party's big Democratic donors, who raised a record amount of money for Kamala Harris' short-lived campaign. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Crockett played the race card when claiming that Democratic insiders were already backing the next party nominee as the 'safest white boy.' Her racist irritation is puzzling. After all, two out of the last four Democratic presidential nominees have been African-Americans. It is certainly easy to see why Crockett, who endlessly spouts off about race in congressional sessions, used the pejorative 'white boy.' She knows there are no repercussions given her race and, to a lesser extent, her gender and left-wing ideology. Recently, a past 2018 slur resurfaced from another House Democrat, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-MN. She had falsely claimed, 'I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths in this country.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Omar's stereotyped smear was not only racist but also factually incorrect. The FBI's 2018 data on perpetrators of murder, when the race of the offender was known, reveals that 54.9% of the nation's murderers that year were African-American, who constitute about 13% of the population. And when the race of the murderer in rare interracial killings was known, blacks were more than twice as likely to murder whites as whites were to kill blacks. During recent controversies over leaks at the Pentagon, former United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, during the Obama administration, injected race by smearing Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth. She levelled a trifecta race/gender/sexual orientation slur — all irrelevant to the issue at hand: 'Well, if you're a white male Christian cisgender macho MAGA man, you can be as dumb as a rock and be deemed qualified to serve as Secretary of Defence.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Rice still chafes that as a sometimes-official Obama administration spokeswoman, she serially and deliberately misled the country about the fatal 2012 terrorist attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi. In all these cases, there was no fallout from racial categorization and demonization. Again, we apparently accept the pernicious idea that those identifying as an oppressed group cannot themselves voice illiberal stereotypes. But while our political elites and celebrities seem fixated on using racial putdowns for career advantage and personal notoriety, the people increasingly ignore their entrenched and off-putting racism. For example, in a recent Rasmussen poll surveying public attitudes toward Trump's first 100 days in office, 62% of Hispanics voiced approval (higher than the 49% of whites). And 39% of blacks agreed. One result of the 2024 campaign was that while Democrats seemed fixated on racial stereotypes, the public had moved on. Voters increasingly see class considerations transcending race. That fact may explain why exasperated and flailing Democrats and leftists desperately seek to resurrect racial polarization instead of finding a popular middle-class agenda. Historically, tribalism erodes a multiracial democracy. It did when white leaders in the past expressed racist attitudes toward blacks. And it will again if black elites simply flip the paradigm and do the same.
