Report: Cubs Turned Down Jordan Montgomery for Cody Bellinger Deal
Report: Diamondbacks Explored Montgomery/Bellinger Trade With Cubs
Previewing the Diamondbacks Checklist at the Winter Meetings
D-backs Top 40 Prospects in 2024: No. 2 Slade Caldwell
The 5: Questions for Diamondbacks as winter meetings get started
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MLB’s Winter Meetings begin Sunday: What should fans expect from the annual baseball gathering?
Roki Sasaki, Japanese pitching star, reportedly to be posted during MLB Winter Meetings
Juan Soto free agency: Yankees and Mets reportedly up their offers to above $700 million
Sources: Giants, Willy Adames agree on 7-year, $182M deal
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/42837911/sources-giants-willy-adames-agree-7-year-182m-deal
Source: Tyler O’Neill, Orioles reach 3-year, $49.5 million deal
Each team’s biggest need entering the Winter Meetings
https://www.mlb.com/news/each-mlb-team-biggest-need-entering-winter-meetings
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This day in history:
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This day in baseball:
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The foil seals on medicine bottles were placed due to poisoning incidents.
The Tylenol poisonings of 1982 was a widespread crisis that involved U.S. consumers dying or falling ill from Tylenol. It was later found that the bottles had been laced with potassium cyanide. To restore the faith of the public in the product and the company, Johnson & Johnson patented the seal to prevent further tampering incidents. This is also the thought behind the “Do not accept if seal is broken.” warnings that we see with other products.
The Mayo Clinic made glow in the dark cats while trying to find a cure for AIDS.
This was mainly due to the specific protein in their bodies that was fluorescent green. They also used this protein to discover if their tests worked out or not. Glowing was a sign that the tests were successful.
Bald eagles don’t sound like in the movies.
If you’ve seen a Western film, the iconic bird screech comes to mind. However, you’d be surprised that it’s not actually the sound of a bald eagle. The piercing call that most people associate with the bird is actually a sound made by another bird of prey: the red-tailed hawk. Hollywood uses the red-tailed hawk’s cry because it has a more dramatic effect. Real bald eagles would actually chirp rather than screeching.
