For your leadership on and off the field 🩵 Thank you, Nick!

Debra Messing paused her Election Day spamming to share “Pray for #Australia” on an Instagram story about the torrential rains in Florida because Melbourne.

How it feels to get home from work in November, sit down on the couch at 7pm, and realize that Major League Baseball isn’t there for you every single night anymore.

Nothing quite like a New England fall.

Craig Breslow if you can hear me, please make a move to get politics off my feed

November 3, 1997, Nomar Garciaparra of the Boston #RedSox is unanimously chosen as AL Rookie of the Year. @Nomar5 lead the AL in hits (209), triples (11), and multi-hit games (68). He also set a AL rookie-record with a 30-game hitting streak.

Aroldis Chapman responds to Salvador Pérez after his offseason training partner taunted him with a video drinking coffee early in the morning in the Dominican Republic. “Good morning, captain. I already saw you in the Dominican Republic on vacation, drinking coffee early in the morning. That’s good, enjoy it there. Listen to what I’m about to tell you. Take at least 30–45 minutes, go to the beach, and do a little cardio. Lately you show up for a couple of days, then disappear for a week or two, come back for two days, and disappear again. So do a little cardio, just something small so you stay active. You pushing 40, you know you can’t start getting lazy now. If we want to play a couple more years, we can’t start slacking. We have to be ready, ready, ready. No slowing down. A hug.” Via Aroldis Chapman/IG

There's a saying on American social media: "Be the American that Japanese people think you are." I'm Japanese. I've lived in Tokyo my whole life. So let me tell you what we actually say about you, when you're not in the room. "When someone falls down on the street, we pretend not to see. We're protecting their pride. Americans run straight at them. They don't care about the pride. They care about the knee." (Office worker, 38) "An American will stop four lanes of traffic for a family of ducks. And then everyone in the cars claps for the ducks." (Taxi driver, 61) "If you lend an American a pen, you will never see it again. If you need a kidney, they'll ask your blood type." (Nurse, 45) "At kids' soccer games, they cheer when the other team's kid scores. The other team's parents look confused. Then they cheer too." (Youth soccer coach, 52, lived one year in Ohio) "A man sneezed on a bus in Chicago. Eleven strangers said 'Bless you.' He said 'thank you' eleven times. Nobody on that bus thought this was strange." (University student, 21) "At an airport in Texas, I watched a soldier try to pay for his lunch. The cashier said someone already had. He asked who. She said, 'Somebody who didn't want you to know.'" (Retired teacher, 70) "American fathers cannot braid hair. But they will watch a video at midnight for an hour so their daughter's hair looks right on picture day." (Hair stylist, 33) "I ran the Chicago Marathon once. Strangers stood in the cold for hours holding signs for people they will never meet. At mile 20, a man I'd never seen read the name off my bib and screamed it like he'd raised me." (Runner, 48) "When Americans get lost, they ask a stranger. If the stranger is also lost, they become a team." (Tour guide, 39) "They ask the waitress her name. And then they remember it." (Restaurant owner, 66) And one more. From my father. He's 76. He doesn't say much about anything. This is the longest thing I have ever heard him say about another country. "Every time something terrible happens in America, I watch the news, and I look for one thing. The people running toward it. There are always so many." So, America. You don't have to become the Americans we think you are. We're not imagining you. We're remembering you.

As it pertains to Japanese RHP Kaima Taira, @kileymcd notes that ‘the Red Sox, Nationals and Cubs all covet starters with velocity and big extension, and rivals think they at least have to investigate.’

I know hypothetically speaking it’s the manager that went to the World Series that should win Manager of The Year But Chad Tracy and Will Venable should win the award Tracy turned the Red Sox season around as they were 14 games under 500. In the month of June to leading them to a playoff spot, and being 12 games over 500. At the end of the season Will Venable in his second year as manager after a 102 Loss season, turned the White Sox around to a 84-78 record almost winning the AL Central and making a core of young talent excel to an appearance in the ALDS My Vote would be Chad Tracy just for the turnaround he had on the season alone but don’t be surprised if either one of these two won it Kevin Cash is an amazing manager as well pushed the Rays to their first World Series appearance in 6 years but it’s hard to argue Tracy and Venable’s success this season

Urgent: Mark coded and is on ventilator. PLEASE PRAY NOW

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Sources: The Seattle Mariners have extended a qualifying offer to OF Randy Arozarena for the 2027 season. The one-year offer is worth $23.1 million. Arozarena is expected to reject it in the coming days.