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Baseball's labor war has a new flashpoint, and it's wearing a Padres uniform. San Diego keeps punching above its weight in a small market, and depending on which side of the salary cap debate you're on, that's either proof the system works or proof it's broken beyond repair. The Padres are simultaneously the argument and the counterargument, and both sides are claiming the win.
Shifting to a story that goes well beyond the field, a woman is now saying she flagged a forty-niners impersonator to the organization months before law enforcement made an arrest. She reported Daejon Love directly to the team, raising serious questions about what San Francisco knew, when they knew it, and what action, if any, was actually taken in response.
And look, we can't ignore this one. Travis Kelce found the end zone in week two, and Taylor Swift celebrated the only way a newly married person apparently knows how, by flashing that ring for the cameras. Kelce saw the memes flooding the internet and responded with exactly the kind of self-awareness you'd expect, saying the internet is having a good time with this, and honestly, he's not wrong.
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