At 23 years old, Roki Sasaki finds himself shackled by the red tape of MLB’s international bonus pool rules. Here’s the skinny, folks: Roki Sasaki, the 23-year-old flamethrower from Japan, is the talk of baseball’s hot stove. But let’s not kid ourselves—landing Sasaki is no cakewalk, thanks to MLB’s international bonus pool rules. Unless you’re 25 and a grizzled pro with six years in a…
San Diego County, in its restless and sprawling way, has opened another Immigrant and Refugee Welcome Center, this time at Escondido. It’s a gesture steeped in good intentions, wrapped in the hopeful language of inclusion. Here, they say, the doors are open wide, no questions asked about where you came from or how you got here. They call it a place where people can seek…
Yes, Max, the once-reigning monarch of mediocrity, has been unceremoniously dethroned in the bloodless coup of 2024 pet naming trends, according to the clairvoyants over at Rover.com. The most popular male dog name is now Charlie—again—because apparently, originality is overrated. Meanwhile, for male cats, the zeitgeist has settled on Milo. Groundbreaking. San Diego, ever the beacon of cultural innovation, has crowned Luna as the supreme…
Well, folks, Rincon Del Diablo Municipal Water District has just rolled out the red carpet for Tom Kennedy, a man who’s spent more time around water than a fish in a river. Replacing long-time Board member Dr. Gregory Quist, Kennedy steps into the role representing Division One after retiring from nearly a decade as General Manager of the Rainbow Municipal Water District. Guess he’s swapping…
In the end, this is not a story. In yet another episode of corporate maneuvering dressed in glossy press releases, Cushman & Wakefield proudly announced its role in facilitating a $49.5 million deal that highlights the unchecked commodification of vital industrial spaces. Hill Companies, LLC, a Greenwood Village investment firm, has offloaded Studio 2200—a massive, 233,194-square-foot facility in Carlsbad, California—to IDEC Corporation, a multinational giant…
At the Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard, where the San Diego-based USS Zumwalt—lumbering titan of bureaucratic ambition—lay in drydock, welders and engineers moved with an almost ecclesiastical focus, reworking the innards of a ship that was born both too early and too late. The twin turrets, relics of a system so prohibitively expensive it was abandoned in a silent bureaucratic shrug, were gone now, replaced by…
I am a Facebook voyeur, and I have been guilty of shameless schadenfreude. Several years ago, I got a friend request from a man I didn’t know, but we had friends in common, so I accepted. All I knew is that he was a widower in his late 70s. He sent me a nice message. But after a few months of seeing his posts, I…
Ok, politics fans, it’s time to get past the shock and awe of Donald J Trump inching past Kamala Harris to become President of the United States on January 20. Nope, not a mandate. The media, by and large, has conceded their independence, starting with the Morning Joe hosts, the choreography of three major east coast newspapers disposing of their political editors, and the biggest…
San Diego County, as far as weather is concerned, often carries the smug air of a guest at the Thanksgiving table who neither brings nor takes too much—just clear skies and dry streets to boast about, while its neighbors to the north dabble in calamity. This week has been no exception. While Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo have been slapped about by…
In the surging foam of the Pacific swells, where the boundless blue mirrors heaven’s depths, there came again to Southern California’s shores a band of oceanic hunters, their presence rare as an albatross amid the doldrums. These orcas, sovereigns of the sea, whose brief sojourns here once stirred both awe and marvel, now returned, their black-and-white heraldry glistening like banners of some ancient, aquatic knightly…