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SOURCE SPORTS: Juan Soto Rejects Qualifying Offer From Yankees

November 20, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Several reports have confirmed that free agent outfielder Juan Soto formally rejected the $21 million qualifying offer from the New York Yankees, becoming one of twelve free agents who declined a similar one-year offer. The Yanks will receive Draft compensation if Soto is picked up by another team, but the Bronx Bombers are working hard to keep that from happening, calling in managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner, general manager Brian Cashman and manager Aaron Boone to their meeting yesterday with Soto.

According to MLB.com, the left-hander has already fielded meetings with the Blue Jays, Red Sox and Mets. Other teams such as the 2024 World Series Champion L.A. Dodgers, the Giants, Phillies and Rays have expressed interest in the 26-year-old outfielder.

Juan Soto wrapped up an exceptional season in 2024, earning $31 million while posting some of the best numbers of his young career. Across 157 regular-season games, Soto slashed .288/.419/.569, tallying 128 runs, 31 doubles, 41 home runs, 109 RBIs, and 129 walks. His performance set career highs in several key categories, including runs scored (128), hits (166), home runs (41), total bases (328), and extra-base hits (76).

“It was a remarkable season,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said last week. “As I’ve said all year, what Juan did for us between the lines was pretty special. But equally, I was just impressed with the person. Really getting to know him and managing him was a pleasure.”

Soto’s stellar contributions have sparked significant interest across the league, and his future remains a hot topic of discussion. Boone didn’t hide his desire to keep Soto in pinstripes but acknowledged the fierce competition to secure the star outfielder.

“I certainly would love to have him back, obviously,” Boone added. “I want him in pinstripes moving forward. But you also know there’s going to be a lot of people competing for that, and who knows where it ends up?”

As teams line up for the chance to acquire one of baseball’s brightest talents, Soto’s impact in 2024 is a testament to his consistency and superstar potential.

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Boardroom and MLB Team Up for Star-Studded Vegas Weekend Following All-MLB Awards

November 19, 2024 by newhiphopnews

This past weekend, Boardroom and Major League Baseball (MLB) hosted a star-studded weekend in Las Vegas, following Thursday night’s All-MLB Awards. Boardroom CEO Rich Kleiman and MLB legend-turned-executive CC Sabathia curated a high-profile gathering of influential leaders from sports, music, entertainment, and business at The NoMad Bar on Friday night. The event, which featured music by Chase B, brought together an impressive roster of guests including retired MLB stars like Gary Sheffield, Nick Swisher, and Justin Upton, as well as active players like Lars Nootbaar of the St. Louis Cardinals and Tommy Pham.

Saturday morning’s Toca Madera brunch continued the momentum, bringing together a mix of MLB players and executives, including Ryan Helsley of the Cardinals and Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin. Among the VIP guests were rapper Travis Scott, retired NFL tight end Darren Waller, NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, Los Angeles Sparks player Dearica Hamby, and Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony Tiffith.

Kleiman said, “We are proud to have brought together so many power players in music, sports, and business alongside our partners at MLB. Boardroom looks forward to continuing to expand our partnership through incredible events and storytelling with the MLB.”

Noah Garden, MLB’s Deputy Commissioner of Business and Media, echoed the sentiment, noting, “This weekend’s events really showcased what this partnership is all about – culturally impactful moments with our players and MLB at the forefront. Together with Rich and his team, and with the influence of Special Advisor to the Commissioner CC Sabathia, we have created events that leave a lasting impact for our players and attendees. We look forward to continuing to build these opportunities with Boardroom as part of our player marketing efforts.””These events showcase what this partnership is all about—culturally impactful moments with MLB at the forefront. Together with Rich and his team, and with CC Sabathia’s influence, we’re creating events that leave a lasting impact.”

The event marked another milestone in Boardroom’s partnership with MLB, which, since its announcement in May, has brought MLB players together with key figures across industries for unique networking opportunities and brand-building moments.

Pictures from the weekend can be seen below.

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SOURCE SPORTS: Yankees Fans Balk At Fat Joe’s Performance At Opening Of World Series Game 3 In The Bronx

October 29, 2024 by newhiphopnews

After Ice Cube took the field at Dodger Stadium on Saturday and performed his classic hit “Today Was A Good Day” before Los Angeles’ Game 2 win, who else would’ve been better to return the favor in the Bronx other than the BX’s heavy hitter Fat Joe? According to Yankees fans, it could’ve been anybody else, especially after the matching 4-2 loss against L.A..

Even though Joey Crack pulled out some of his biggest bops of the new millennium, including “Lean Back”, “All The Way Up” and of course, the Empire State anthem “New York”, the overall consensus of Yanks fans felt that Joe’s performance didn’t just miss the mark in exciting the Yankee Stadium crowd, but brought down the morale on 161 Street and River Avenue.

Were the fans right? Well, the Yankees could not score a run until the last out in the bottom of the ninth inning with a two-run HR from Alex Verdugo in the team’s valiant, but losing effort. The Bronx Bombers still have a chance to turn the series around tonight in Game 4, but fighting against a 0-3 deficit against Ohtani and the Dodgers might not end with a “Good Day” for the Yankees.

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Fat Joe And The New York Yankees Get Near-Universally Roasted For The Rapper’s World Series Performance

October 29, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Before the second game of the World Series this past weekend, Ice Cube stood before the Dodger Stadium crowd in Los Angeles and performed his classic hit “It Was A Good Day.” So, when Game 3 of the series between the LA Dodgers and the New York Yankees shifted back to NYC yesterday (October 28), the Yankees had an answer.

As the New York Post notes, Joe Torre, CC Sabathia, Gary Sheffield, Dave Winfield, and Derek Jeter, the latter of whom threw out the ceremonial first pitch, participated in pre-game festivities. Then there was Bronx native Fat Joe, who delivered renditions of “Lean Back” and “All The Way Up.”

However, the consensus appears to be that Joe’s part didn’t go so well: Following the performance, Joe was one of the top-trending topics on X (formerly Twitter), and not because people were flooding the platform with praise.

One user wrote, “I’m not a hater, BUT Fat Joe opening up for the Yankees might be one of the worst things I’ve ever seen. I think they got him on SALE 50% OFF.” Somebody else said, “Fire whoever from the Yankees thought that was a good idea to have Fat Joe do whatever that was. I’m literally speechless at wtf I just watched. We don’t even deserve to win after that performance. George Steinbrenner would ban Fat Joe from Yankee Stadium after that.”

Another user wrote, “Me checking Twitter to make sure I’m not the only one who thought that Fat Joe intro was a miss.”

The Yankees would go on to lose the game 4-2, falling to 0-3 in the best-of-7 series.

Watch a video of Joe’s performance above.

SOURCE SPORTS: Cleveland Guardians’ Tyresse Turner Drops His Dirty South Centered Playlist On Black Baseball Mixtape

September 6, 2024 by newhiphopnews

This week’s MLB playlist comes from Terrance. California born utility man for the Cleveland Guardians organization, former USC star Tyresse Turner. The switch hitting right hander was recruited to the Guardians’ High-A Lake County Captains before being shifted to the Lynchburg Hillcats, hitting .238 with 23 RBIs and 30 stolen bases with both teams that year.

This year, the 24-year-old Turner took his talents to the Double-A Akron Rubberducks(another Cleveland Guardians affiliate) and back to Lake County, where he now boasts a .250 batting average, with 25 RBIs including four homers in 68 games. Turner was mainly used as an infielder in his first year, playing all positions except first first base for the Captains and the Hillcats, but was switched to left field and utilized as a designated hitter half of his time on the field for the Rubberducks and the Captains in 2024.

Even as a West Coaster, Turner still has a Dirty South musical taste, with heavy NoCap, Gunna, Rod Wave and others from South of the Mason/Dixon. He still reps the Golden State with some Nipsey and Buddy collaboration flavors. It’s a plenty lengthy array of Turner’s favorites, so check out the playlist courtesy of the good people at Black baseball Mixtape!

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Ludacris Put On His Giant ‘Get Back’ Arms And Threw The First Pitch At A Braves Game

September 4, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Ludacris is known for doing a number of different things — he’s an actor, a businessman, a philanthropist, and a guy who drinks glacier water in Alaska. Before he was able to make a career doing those things, though, Luda was a rapper from Atlanta who specialized in making some absolutely iconic music videos.

Perhaps his most well-known video is for the track “Get Back,” which was directed by Spike Jonze and is famous for the comically large arms that he wore the entire time. If you are like me, you’ve probably wondered what the hell happened to those arms after the video came out, and on Wednesday evening we got the answer: Ludacris still has them.

We know this because he threw out the first pitch for the Atlanta Braves’ game against the Colorado Rockies at Truist Park. And As you can guess, he wore the arms out to the mound, kept the baseball stuck to his palm, and launched it to home plate — you can watch the video here.

Shockingly, this was not the worst first pitch any of us have ever seen, because while it was a ball, he at least got it to the plate. Credit to Ludacris for that, and I hope this is not the last time that we see him throw out a first pitch at a baseball game while wearing the “Get Back” arms.

SOURCE SPORTS: MLB To Commemorate Childhood Cancer Awareness Month This Sunday

August 29, 2024 by newhiphopnews

For the ninth year in a row, all 30 Major League Baseball teams will raise awareness for childhood cancer in all ballparks during all games on Sunday.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and MLB Together continues its community-based demonstrations of support for the cancer awareness among children, including outreach to local hospitals treating childhood patients.

According to the organization, all on-field personnel, including players, managers, coaches, and umpires will wear gold ribbon decals and wristbands during all games. Additionally, commemorative base jewels and line up cards will be featured on the day.

Club activations may include youth participation in pregame ceremonies, visits from players, mascots and other special recognitions. Nonprofit partners for Clubs may include partnering with local hospital or organizations focused on cancer among children such as Stand Up To Cancer, American Cancer Society, and Starlight Children’s Foundation.

As an extension of MLB’s relationship with Starlight Children’s Foundation, all 30 Clubs will be receiving either a Nintendo Switch Handheld or a Virtual Reality headset, which will be donated to a local children’s hospital, hospital pediatric cancer care unit or a pediatric cancer nonprofit organization. To learn more, visit www.mlbtogether.com/childhood-cancer-awareness-day and www.starlight.org/mlb.

This year, approximately 10,000 children under the age of 15 are expected to receive a cancer diagnosis in the United States. Across all demographics, this disease is the second-leading cause of death by disease in children ages 1-14. MLB, alongside other committed community leaders in this cause, are dedicated to lessening the statistics of cancer as a disease affecting young people.

Some of the most common types of childhood cancer include leukemia, brain tumors, central nervous system tumors, and malignant epithelial neoplasms and lymphomas. Over the past 50 years, cancer researchers have helped to develop treatments that have greatly changed the lives of patients with a pediatric cancer diagnosis. The five year survival rate for childhood cancer is now 85% (compared to 58% in the mid-1970’s).

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SOURCE SPORTS: Yankees’ Aaron Judge Becomes Fastest To 300 Homers In MLB History

August 15, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit his 300th homer, reaching that milestone faster than any other player in the history of Major League Baseball when he connected against the White Sox during a 10-2 victory Wednesday night.

“It’s a great achievement,” he said. “Like I said a couple days ago, I was hoping it would come in a win. It came in a big win for us. We were down for a little bit, couldn’t get much going, so I was just excited it was there in a big moment.”

Judge hit the mark in his 955th game and 3,431st at-bat with a three-run drive in the eighth inning. The six-time All-Star and 2022 American League MVP drove a 3-0 up-and-in sinker from Chad Kuhl into the White Sox bullpen in left for his major league-leading 43rd homer.

The Yankees let loose as the ball cleared the wall, jumping up and raising their arms and banging the dugout railing. After the game, DJ LeMahieu and Austin Wells doused Judge with a tub of water.

“That means a lot,” Judge said. “These guys grind with me every single day. I know the hard work they put in. They see what I do. That was pretty special.”

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New Era’s OVO Collab With Drake Features Dodgers Hats That Couldn’t Be Worse Timed

August 1, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Major League Baseball and New Era are regularly putting out hat collaborations with different designers, brands, and stars from the world of music and entertainment. The process of ideating, designing, and producing these collaborations means they’re in the work for quite some time, months or years before their release.

I say all of this because sometimes, you put in all that work on a project that you think is going to be a big hit and then, a month or two beforehand, something happens outside of your control that puts you in a real pickle. That is the case with New Era and Major League Baseball’s new collaboration with Drake’s OVO, with a line of hats featuring the OVO owl on the side — including not one but two Los Angeles Dodgers hats.

Drake’s OVO brand dropped a New Era collab of MLB caps pic.twitter.com/AvJIivH5pJ

— MLB (@MLB) August 1, 2024

As you have likely heard, Drake is not exactly a beloved figure in Los Angeles at the moment, as his beef with Kendrick Lamar quite literally united the city against him and led to Lamar’s “Not Like Us” becoming an instant-classic L.A. anthem and the song of the summer — not just in L.A.

As such, I have a very hard time coming up with a worse-timed collaboration than a line of Drake-themed Dodgers hats. I’m sure there will be plenty of Drake fans that purchase the hats of other teams, especially the two Blue Jays hats, but I truly cannot imagine anyone earnestly buying one of the Dodgers hats — although, I could see people buying them ironically, so maybe that’ll work out for them.

SOURCE SPORTS: [WATCH] Country Singer Ingrid Andress Slammed For Her National Anthem At MLB HR Derby, Says She Was Drunk

July 17, 2024 by newhiphopnews

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MLB All Star week will forever hold a lot of memorable moments, but none were quite like the botching of the Star Spangled Banner by Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Ingrid Andress, but she has the perfect excuse.

With so many star-studded celebs and recording artists who were present at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas last night(July 15), no one expected Andress’ rendition of the National Anthem to sound the way it did, but the entire innanet was on her neck before she banner could yet wave. Even in the video below, the look on ALec Bohm’s face pretty much summed up what everyone else who was present or even witnessed it remotely was thinking.

The performance has since been widely met with criticism online, viewers commenting on footage of the night’s flop with things like “When your Mom lied to you and said you were a great singer…”, “Legend has it, she’s still searching for the right key” and saying she sang the “Star Strangled Banner” instead.

Andress was quick to suspend comments on all of her socials following the display, but that hasn’t stopped the continuous jabs at Andress’ talent, going as far as calling her performance the “worst ever’ of any National Anthem performance in the history of Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby. Less than 24 hours after the embarrassing bomb, Andress claims that she was drunk during her performance and vowed to enter into rehab.

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