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It’s time to pick the All-Star starters
Monday, June 29
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It’s time to decide the starters for the 2026 All-Star Game.
Phase 2 of All-Star voting is open — and you only have three days to pick the All-Star starters. So fill out those ballots now.
Shohei Ohtani and Ernie Clement are in already, because they were the top overall vote-getters in each league during Phase 1. But every other starting spot is up for grabs. And as the finalists at each position go head-to-head, the vote totals start from scratch.
Starting now, fans can vote for the All-Star starters once per day until Thursday at noonET. The winners will be announced on July 4on FOX.
Here are five key questions for the All-Star races:
1) Can Rice beat out Vladdy?
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has started four of the last five All-Star Games for the American League at first base. But fellow finalist Ben Rice — who’s looking to make his first All-Star Game — ranks eighth in the Majors with a .928 OPS and is tied for fifth with 22 home runs.
2) Can Caminero hold off Okamoto?
Kazuma Okamoto was a six-time All-Star in his 11 seasons in Japan, and now he could be an All-Star in his first season in MLB. He’s provided nearly all the power for the Blue Jays, with 19 home runs. But his opponent on the All-Star ballot is young superstar slugger Junior Caminero, who started last year’s All-Star Game and put on a show in the Home Run Derby. Caminero has 22 homers for the Rays.
3) Will Trout start his seventh All-Star Game?
Mike Trout has made 11 All-Star Games in his career and started six of them, and when he plays, he’s one of the greatest All-Star Game performers of all time. But he hasn’t made the game since 2023, and he hasn’t started it since 2019. Trout is one of the six AL outfield finalists on the ballot, though, and while he’s still working his way back from a hamstring strain, he hopes to be ready for the All-Star Game.
4) Freeman or Olson?
One of the heavyweight All-Star races is in the National League at first base, where the Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman and the Braves’ Matt Olson are going head-to-head. Freeman has started five of the past seven All-Star Games for the NL at first base; Olson has also made a pair of All-Star Games since he replaced Freeman in Atlanta. Both are having typically excellent seasons in 2026.
5) Will Soto start his first Midsummer Classic as a Met?
Juan Soto was an MVP finalist last year in his first season with the Mets … but he wasn’t an All-Star. That should change this year, whether it’s as a starter or as a reserve. But can he earn that All-Star start? Soto is one of the six All-Star finalists for the NL outfield, and rightly so — he’s batting .300 with 17 home runs and a National League-leading .972 OPS.
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WORLD SERIES STAR RETURNS TO TORONTO
Bo Bichette was nearly a Blue Jays legend forever, if only his home run off Shohei Ohtani in Game 7 of the World Series had stood up as the game-winner.
Bichette could have been right up there with Joe Carter in Toronto sports lore. Instead, that moment is just one of the many great baseball “What ifs.” But it will surely be on the fans’ minds at Rogers Centre tonight when Bichette returns as a member of the Mets.
The Jays and Mets open a three-game set in Toronto at 7:07 p.m. ET (MLB.TV).
It will be Bichette’s first game back in Torontosince that fateful Game 7, when the Dodgers came back to beat the Jays and clinch their second straight championship. A few months later, Bichette signed a three-year, $126 million free-agent contract that brought him to New York.
Bichette is batting .254 with 10 home runs and 46 RBIs in 84 games in his first season with the Mets, but he’s been great in June, with a .337 average and .932 OPS.
GAMES OF THE NIGHT
Besides Bichette’s return to Toronto, here are two more games to watch tonight.
Rangers at Guardians (7:10 p.m. ET, ESPN)
This is now a matchup of two division leaders. The Rangers just took over the AL West lead from the Mariners — but they lead that division with a .500 record at 42-42, so it’s a wide-open race. And the Guardians are tied with the White Sox for first place in the AL Central.
Padres at Cubs (8:05 p.m. ET, MLB.TV)
Both of these teams have moved up and into the top 10 of our latest Power Rankings. The Cubs rank seventh after a series win against the rival Brewers over the weekend, and the Padres rank ninth on the strength of their sweep of the powerhouse Braves last week.
AROUND THE LEAGUE
Here’s what was going on around the Majors this weekend.
• The Red Sox completed a rare four-game sweep of the rival Yankees — their first since their World Series-winning 2018 season. All in one series, Boston beat Cam Schlittler, got a “Flu Game” from Payton Tolle and turned Fenway Park into “Sonny Night Baseball.” But can they turn the momentum of the sweep into a second-half run?
• The Miz has officially broken the 105 mph mark. Jacob Misiorowski threw a 105.5 mph fastball on Saturday, smashing his own record for the fastest pitch thrown by a starter in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008). The only pitcher to reach a higher velocity than Misiorowski is Aroldis Chapman, who threw a 105.8 mph pitch in 2010 and a 105.7 mph pitch in 2016.
• Kyle Schwarber became the first hitter to reach the 30-homer mark this season with a go-ahead blast in yesterday’s series finale against the Mets. Schwarbs is now on pace for 59 home runs this season, which would be one more than Ryan Howard’s franchise-record 58 in 2006. And the race is on between Schwarber and Bryce Harper to see who can get to the 400 career homer milestone first.
• Junior Caminero isn’t just an All-Star finalist, he’s on a home run barrage right now. Caminero has homered in four straight games and has seven homers in his last six. That’s tied for the most homers in a six-game span by a hitter age 22 or younger in the Modern Era (since 1900), matching Bryce Harper in 2015, Willie Horton in 1965 and Boog Powell in 1964.
• Hunter Goodman’s three-homer game for the Rockies on Saturday brought him to 25 home runs on the season — tied for second most in the Majors behind only Schwarber. Goodman became the first National League catcher since Johnny Bench in 1970 to hit at least 25 home runs in his team’s first 83 games of a season, and just the fourth catcher in MLB history overall (along with Bench, Cal Raleigh last season and Pudge Rodriguez in 2000).
• Royals rookie Carter Jensen has extended his MLB-best hitting streak to 19 games. That’s a new Royals rookie record, as Jensen broke a tie with Maikel Garcia’s 18-game streak from July 26-Aug. 16, 2023. It’s also the longest hitting streak by a rookie catcher within a single season since Buster Posey’s 21-game streak from July 4-28, 2010.
$2.5 MILLION FOR AN OHTANI ROOKIE CARD? SOLD!
When it comes to highly coveted collectibles, rookie cards and 1-of-1’s are king. And the king of them all? A Shohei Ohtani 1-of-1 rookie card, of course.
Last night, a 1/1 Ohtani 2018 Topps Chrome SuperFractor, which was graded 9.5 out of 10 by Beckett, sold for more than $2.5 million via Goldin Auctions.
The very same card sold for roughly $139,000 in November 2022. Since then, Ohtani has won three MVP Awards and two World Series championships, while the market for high-end trading cards in general has flourished.
The crazy thing is, this SuperFractor isn’t even Ohtani’s highest-selling card! A Topps Chrome Gold Logoman Autograph Card, which included both Ohtani’s signature and a game-used gold “Logoman” patch commemorating his 2024 MVP Award, sold for $3 million back in December.
But according to Goldin, the $2.5 million paid for the SuperFractor constitutes the highest public sale price for any rookie card of Ohtani.
Obviously, investing in Ohtani’s greatness at the top end of the collectibles market comes at a steep price. But with the two-way juggernaut the favorite to take home his fifth MVP Award this season, and the Dodgers yet again holding the best record in baseball, this SuperFractor may prove — again — to be a savvy investment.
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MLB Finally Remembers the First Amendment
After pressure from Congress and the Department of Justice, Major League Baseball finally came to its senses. Commissioner Rob Manfred announced this week that there will be no punishment for three San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.
Imagine that—players who quietly expressed their faith nearly got into trouble while the league had no problem turning baseball games into June political rallies.
MLB’s own policy says special uniforms should be rare. Yet every June, the Giants and Dodgers receive a special exemption that forces Christian players into an unnecessary choice: compromise your faith or become the story.
Baseball should be about balls, strikes, and home runs—not ideological loyalty tests. Religious liberty doesn’t take June off, and neither does the First Amendment.
I applaud Senator Josh Hawley and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon for standing up for religious liberty. For too long, faithful Americans have been told to keep their beliefs to themselves while every fashionable political cause received a standing ovation. Thankfully, President Trump has begun restoring common sense—and equal treatment under the law.
President Trump Goes Three-for-Three at the Supreme Court
President Trump scored three important victories before the Supreme Court this week, reaffirming something Washington too often forgets: immigration laws actually mean what they say.
The Court upheld the administration’s authority to end “temporary” protected status programs that had become anything but temporary, reinforcedcommonsense immigration enforcement, and rejected efforts to rewrite our immigration laws from the bench.
For years, activist judges and open-border politicians have treated immigration statutes as optional suggestions. This week’s rulings were a welcome reminder that Congress writes the laws—and presidents are supposed to enforce them.
Elections have consequences. So do judicial appointments.
Another Rogue Judge, Another Roadblock
Apparently, another unelected federal judge believes proving you’re an American citizen before voting in American elections is simply too much to ask.
This week, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan temporarily blocked implementation of President Trump’s SAVE Act, claiming it threatens voting rights. In reality, the SAVE Act does one simple thing: it requires proof of citizenship before someone registers to vote in a federal election.
Here’s what I find fascinating. Democrats insist illegal voting almost never happens. Yet they fight tooth and nail against every effort to make sure it never happens.
A recent lawsuit revealed that roughly 50,000 Arizona voters were registered without documented proof of citizenship. President Biden carried Arizona in 2020 by fewer than 11,000 votes.
If proof of citizenship changes nothing, why are Democrats so desperate to stop it?
Washington has developed a fascinating new rule: asking someone to prove they’re an American before voting is somehow “controversial.” Somewhere along the way, common sense became controversial.
The Constitution isn’t self-enforcing. It requires elected officials—and judges—willing to enforce it.
More Homes. Less Bureaucracy.
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act this week, and I proudly support it.
Instead of throwing more taxpayer money at the housing market, this bill attacks the real problems driving prices higher by cutting unnecessary regulations, increasing housing supply, streamlining environmental reviews, and limiting the ability of massive institutional investors to corner the housing market.
American families shouldn’t have to compete against billion-dollar investment firms or foreign interests to buy their first home. Homeownership remains one of the best ways families build generational wealth, and public policy should reflect that.
Unfortunately, an electronic voting card malfunction prevented my vote from being recorded before time expired. I immediately submitted my official statement to the Congressional Record making clear my intended YES vote.
Let me be perfectly clear: I fully support President Trump’s efforts to make housing more affordable for hardworking Americans.
The Senate Needs Fewer Excuses and More Backbone
House Republicans have done our job. We passed the SAVE Act to ensure only American citizens vote in American elections.
Now it’s sitting in the United States Senate.
Apparently, Senate Republicans have convinced themselves that asking Democrats to publicly defend noncitizen voting would somehow be politically risky.
News flash—that’s exactly why you hold the vote.
If Democrats truly believe proof of citizenship is unreasonable, then let them explain that position to the American people on national television.
Instead, we hear endless excuses about procedure, political realities, and Senate traditions.
The Senate wasn’t created to be a museum where good legislation goes to die. It was created to debate bills and vote on them.
For too many senators, the filibuster has become an excuse for inaction rather than a tool for debate.
That is one reason I proudly cosponsored legislation this week that would repeal the 17th Amendmentand returning the selection of senators to state legislatures, restoring the Senate’s original purpose as the voice of the states instead of a permanent campaign stop.
America doesn’t have time for excuses.
The House has acted. President Trump is leading.
Now it’s time for the Senate to do its job.
Court Confirms What I’ve Said for Years: Presidents Are Not Kings
For more than a decade, I’ve warned that presidents have abused the Antiquities Act to lock up millions of acres of public land with the stroke of a pen. This week, a federal appeals court finally agreed on an important point: the President’s authority under the Antiquities Act is not unlimited, and courts have the power to review whether a president exceeded the authority Congress actually granted.
That’s a major victory for the Constitution, for the separation of powers, and for every American who believes no president—Republican or Democrat—is above the law.
When Congress passed the Antiquities Act in 1906, its purpose was straightforward. It allowed presidents to quickly protect specific archaeological sites, historic landmarks, and scientific treasures on federal land from looting or destruction. Congress even included an important safeguard: any monument must be limited to “the smallest area compatible” with protecting the object in question.
That seems simple enough.
Somewhere along the way, however, “the smallest area compatible” became “as many millions of acres as we can get away with.”
Instead of protecting a historic cliff dwelling or archaeological site, modern presidents—particularly Democrat presidents—have increasingly used the Antiquities Act to place enormous swaths of the American West off limits to the people who live, work, hunt, ranch, mine, and recreate there.
The numbers tell the story.
For decades after the law passed, presidents designated relatively small monuments. Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower each protected fewer than 500 acres. John F. Kennedy designated fewer than 1,000 acres.
Then came the modern era.
President Jimmy designated roughly 56 million acres. President Bill Clinton nearly six million. President Barack Obama more than 550 million acres. President Biden added more than 20 million acres of his own.
That’s not preserving an artifact. That’s making land-use policy without Congress.
This week’s ruling arose from Utah’s challenge to the massive Obama-era Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monument designations. While the court did not decide whether those monuments themselves were lawful, it rejected the notion that presidents possess virtually unchecked authority under the Antiquities Act.
That matters.
For years, opponents argued that once a president declared a monument, courts were essentially powerless to question whether the designation complied with the law. The Tenth Circuit disagreed. It recognized that when Congress places limits on presidential authority, those limits actually mean something.
Imagine that.
The Constitution wasn’t written to give any president a blank check. Congress writes the laws. Presidents execute them. Courts interpret them. That’s how our system is supposed to work.
I’ve long argued that decisions affecting millions of acres of public land should involve Congress, state governments, local communities, and the people whose livelihoods depend on that land—not unilateral decrees from Washington bureaucrats.
This decision doesn’t end the fight over federal land management, but it is an important step toward restoring constitutional checks and balances.
The Constitution isn’t self-enforcing. It requires public officials—an
d courts—willing to enforce it.
This week, the court did exactly that.
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Good morning. It’s Sunday. Here are today’s top stories.
- The Federal Trade Commission has sued an influential medical organization, seeking to prevent it from allegedly misleading patients about the benefits of “gender-affirming care” for children. Here’s what we know about the consequential case.
- U.S. forces launched a new set of strikeson Iranian targets on June 27, as back-and-forth exchanges test the resilience of a peace framework adopted by both countries last week. Iran launched drone attacks against Bahrain, and a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz was struck by a projectile.
- More than 1,400 people have been confirmed dead as rescuers in Venezuela race against time to search for survivors after two powerful earthquakes struck the country this week.
- The U.S. Justice Department’s commission on religious liberty challenged the separation of church and state in its draft report.
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FTC Sues Group Behind Child Transgender Surgery ‘Playbook’: What to Know
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued an influential medical organization, seeking to prevent it from allegedly misleading patients about the benefits of “gender-affirming care” for children.
In a complaint filed on June 17, the Trump administration and four states have asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to issue an injunction against World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) affiliates.
They allege WPATH violated the FTC Act and similar state laws that protect consumers from unfair or deceptive business practices.
“Children, but especially their parents, must have complete and truthful information when making decisions to purchase medical services,” FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said in a statement.
The lawsuit added to mounting international scrutiny for WPATH, which has denied wrongdoing.
‘Standards of Care’
Transition doctors founded WPATH to promote the financial interests of the medical transitioning industry after losing support in 1979, according to the lawsuit.
WPATH developed “standards of care” (SOCs) to address insurance coverage losses. That led major health insurance companies to rely on the SOCs’ determination of medical necessity.
The standards limited procedures to adults, but that changed over the years.
The government’s complaint focuses on WPATH’s most recent SOCs, updated in 2022.
The latest WPATH standards removed age restrictions on life-altering gender surgeries for children, including penis and breast removal, with almost no exceptions.
Political pressure, instead of science, pushed WPATH to eliminate age restrictions, the government alleges.
WPATH misled the public by asserting that pediatric medical transition was the “standard of care” and medically necessary for gender dysphoria; that the effects of puberty blockers are reversible; that cross-sex hormones improve mental health; and that breast removal for children is safe, effective, and “consistently results in better health and quality of life,” the FTC alleges.
WPATH also allegedly omitted or minimized important information in its standards. The FTC argues that the group failed to meaningfully disclose the side effects of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, such as sexual dysfunction or the inability to breastfeed after a mastectomy.
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Creating Nostalgia Today: What Will Your Children Remember?
The word “nostalgia” derives from two Greek words: “algos,” meaning “pain or grief,” and “nostos,” meaning “homecoming.” Traditionally, the term referred to an acute pain associated with homesickness. It was even included in some medical manuals and treated as an ailment that afflicted those far from home, such as sailors or soldiers. Over time, its meaning has shifted to refer primarily to a yearning for a prior time or a desire to “come home” to the halcyon days of the past.
The bittersweet caress of nostalgiacan come over a person suddenly, initiated by the simplest things: a half-forgotten melody, the smell of freshly cut grass, sunlight and long shadows on a familiar street, or an old book covered in dust. These triggers link us to formative memories. We wish we could return to them, but we witness those memories from behind an impenetrable glass wall.
For adults, some childhood experiences become heavily perfumed with nostalgia over time. Whether it was hunting with Dad, having picnics in the backyard with siblings, watching a favorite movie with cousins, or reading a book with Mom, over time, these experiences take on more meaning than they had in the moment.
The accessories of these memories—the old shotgun, the battered picnic basket, the faded book cover—remind us of the joys (and sorrows), the activities, the emotions, the places, and especially the people that formed us at our most impressionable ages, when all the world was new.
Nostalgia is more than just an interesting quirk of adulthood.Nostalgia has a formative effect as we age. The things we feel nostalgia over continue to shape who we are and write our story; they are an expression of that which is most precious to us.
In this way, nostalgia can still refine and reinforce our priorities and even our worldview in adulthood. Its irrational, visceral quality causes us to react instinctively to certain triggers, placing particular weight on them and what they signify, sometimes without conscious thought. (More)
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