Offseason/winter recap.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina “Manny” Machado gifted her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump before Venezuela upset Team USA at the World Baseball Classic.
Everyone but Stitches was named in the Epstein files.
“The Bachelorette” was canceled but chair-throwing Taylor Frankie Paul is a shoo-in to win the Bobby Knight Memorial Award.
And the California Post was born.
Is this the year the Pirates back Paul Skenes with some run support?
Skenes’ ERA was 1.97 and he struck out 216 in 2025, but his record was a pedestrian 10-10.
Freddy Peralta makes his Mets debut after mowing down batters in Milwaukee since 2018.

We will take Skenes and the Pirates for $50.
It took us eight months last year to win $101.
It took a couple of hours to go up +100 pepitones.
Max Fried tossed a two-hitter over 6 ¹/₃.
On a night Aaron Judge went 0-for-5, the Yanks blanked the Giants 7-0.


