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MLB All-Star notebook: There’s Shohei Ohtani, and then there’s everybody elseSteve Greenbergon July 13, 2021 at 3:38 am

DENVER — White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodon watched Angels megastar Shohei Ohtani stroll past Monday on a promenade near Coors Field, shook his head and let out a little laugh.

“He’s built like a Greek god,” Rodon said.

That was one of the tamer compliments paid to Ohtani — major league home-run leader and American League starting pitcher — on All-Star media day.

Babe Ruth comparisons, anyone? There were a lot of those flying around. The Babe knew his way around a pitcher’s mound, too, you know.

“He’s a legendary figure,” Ohtani said through a translator. “It’s a huge honor to be compared to somebody like that. All I can do is try my best.”

Ohtani isn’t the only rock-star player here, but he owned all the buzz heading into Monday’s Home Run Derby. Never has a player been selected to an All-Star roster as both a position player and a pitcher. But letting it fly in the Derby, too? The size of the undertaking — all season long, really — is what impresses his peers most.

“The demands that are on your body to be a pitcher are intense, to say the least, and I can definitely speak to that,” said National League starter Max Scherzer. “So to be able to shoulder those workloads and also be able to hit as well, that’s just absolutely incredible.”

It probably worked out for the best for Ohtani that — despite leaving the yard 28 times — he was knocked off by the Nationals’ Juan Soto in an epic first-round bout that ended in a three-pitch “swing-off.” Ohtani has a second half of the season to contend with, after all.

The Mets’ Pete Alonso won the event with his 23rd homer of the final round against the Orioles’ Trey Mancini.

“I’m expecting to be pretty fatigued and exhausted after these two days,” Ohtani said, “but there are a lot of people who want to watch it and I want to make those guys happy.”

No brains, no problem

The Nationals’ Scherzer will make his fourth All-Star start, joining Hall-of-Famers Don Drysdale, Lefty Gomez and Robin Roberts (five apiece) and Jim Palmer and Randy Johnson (four each) as the only pitchers with at least that many.

“On every level for me, [picking him] was a no-brainer,” NL manager Dave Roberts said.

Contreras flap, continued

Cubs All-Stars Kris Bryant and Craig Kimbrel responded to catcher Willson Contreras‘ harsh words Saturday about the team’s effort and focus levels heading into the break.

“He wasn’t pointing fingers at anybody,” Kimbrel said. “I think it was just frustration at how we’re playing as a team.”

Bryant’s reaction was a bit more defensive.

“I just know that any time I wake up in the morning, baseball’s on my mind, the game’s on my mind, the pitcher’s on my mind, my approach is on my mind,” he said. “I never go into a game not ready to play. So I take this very seriously.”

Game Hen

How much does Sox closer Liam Hendriks like to punch the clock and get a game shift in? Enough so that he got in AL manager Kevin Cash‘s ear in hopes of making sure he gets an inning.

“I just want the phone to ring and hear my name called,” he said. “Whatever inning, whatever role, whatever, I just want to play.

“It’s part and parcel [of] that old-school mentality. I don’t want to take days off. If you start taking days off, you get complacent. And if you get complacent, that’ll be the end of you.”

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ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith apologizes for comments about Shohei OhtaniUSA TODAYon July 13, 2021 at 2:04 am

ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith has issued an apology and admitted he “screwed up” with his comments earlier in the day about Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani and his impact on the popularity of Major League Baseball.

“As an African-American, keenly aware of the damage stereotyping has done to many in this country, it should have elevated my sensitivities even more,” Smith wrote in a statement posted to social media.

“Based on my words, I failed in that regard and it’s on me and me alone! Ohtani is one of the brightest stars in all of sports. He is making a difference, as it pertains to inclusiveness and leadership. I should have embraced that in my comments. Instead, I screwed up.”

On ESPN’s “First Take” program Monday morning, Smith said that baseball’s home run leader not speaking English presents a problem for MLB from a marketing standpoint.

“I don’t think it helps that the No. 1 face is a dude that needs an interpreter so you can understand what the hell he’s saying,” he said.

After a storm of criticism, Smith tried to clarify his remarks in a two-minute video, saying he was trying to make a larger point about an issue that all sports face.

“In the United States, all I was saying is that, when you’re a superstar, if you could speak the English language, guess what, that’s going to make it that much easier (and) less challenging to promote the sport,” Smith said.

However, he didn’t specifically apologize to Ohtani or the Asian community in the video.

And that apparently led to the formal, written apology he issued later in the day.

“In this day and age, with all the violence being perpetrated against the Asian-American community my comments — albeit unintentional — were clearly insensitive and regrettable,” Smith wrote.

If there was any question about whether or not the issue could then be considered closed, Smith made sure of it in his closing words — promising to address his comments “more extensively” on Tuesday morning’s edition of “First Take.”

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Getting COVID shot is patriotic thing to doRick Telanderon July 13, 2021 at 12:24 am

OK, I’m just going to say it: Get your damn shots, people!

I’m speaking to all able-bodied, qualifying Americans who don’t have pre-existing health conditions, transportation issues or any other valid reason for not getting the widely available — free — COVID-19 vaccine.

Pointedly, however, I’m speaking to those deluded anti-vaccine Cubs players and all the other elite athletes who won’t get shots.

I’ve had it with the we-don’t-want-to-hurt-anyone’s-feelings-or-shame-anyone-into-doing-something-they’re-not-comfortable-with approach. I’ve had it with the bribery to get citizens to do the right thing. Giving gift certificates, hunting licenses, lottery tickets and amusement-park rides to people just so they reluctantly will acknowledge they live among fellow humans who need each other to exist — it’s unseemly, vile and immoral.

The Tokyo Olympics, already delayed a year because of the pandemic, will have no foreign spectators. Once at a smolder, COVID now is raging in Japan.

The viral fire might happen again here, too. The Delta variant is now the dominant strain, and it’s more contagious than the original.

Public-health directors tell us people who haven’t been vaccinated make up nearly all recent COVID hospitalizations and deaths.

Do those head-in-the-sand Cubs realize this viral scourge, which has killed more than 600,000 Americans and 4 million people worldwide, is what is called a pandemic? Any recollection of that word from high school science, fellows?

Viruses mutate slightly each time they move to a new host, and a mutation occasionally will lead to a more viable, more dangerous strain. And the way that virus can live on is to have ready hosts available, so that it has a place to go and replicate. Otherwise, the virus dies out.

If everyone in our country got a vaccine, COVID would all but disappear. It’s that simple.

Yet there are the Cubs, who have been asked by Major League Baseball to get 85% of the team vaccinated for relaxed mask and gathering protocols and for the betterment of society. As patriots.

But nope. Not even close. Most major-league teams have crossed the threshold. Not our Cubs.

A bunch are fine doing nothing. Hey, nobody’s got COVID around them!

Terrific.

Do they realize the only reason they’re fine is because more than 100 million of their fellow citizens have stepped up and gotten their shots? Those Cubs deniers thrive on others’ courage, sacrifice and duty.

Polio, a terrible disease, has been eradicated in America since 1979 because children must get four vaccine doses before entering school, no questions asked. There are many other diseases we mandate vaccines for.

No, the COVID vaccines aren’t perfect, but they’re the best defense we’ve got.

True, COVID vaccines don’t have approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The reason for that is the approval process takes years. But the vaccine has been approved for emergency use — and this is an emergency, remember?

”As a global citizen, it’s the best way I can help make the pandemic end sooner,” U.S. Olympic climber Kyra Condie said about getting the vaccine.

Then there’s U.S. swimmer Michael Andrew, 22, a likely medal winner, who won’t get the vaccine.

Why?

His family is very religious, he has said, and ”kind of, I wouldn’t say a conspiracy-theory type of family, but we’re definitely on the side where we look for what other methods are there.”

Andrew didn’t go away to college. His mother, Tina, explained to ESPN awhile back: ”Michael doesn’t need to be inundated with sex and drugs and ideas from liberal professors.”

Swell.

Another U.S. Olympian who won’t get vaccinated is veteran archer Brady Ellison, 32. He rather would take the risk of getting COVID for a second time, he said, ”than the risk of a vaccine.”

For various reasons, no authorities are mandating that athletes get vaccinated. Not even in the military. If I had the power, I would mandate it. Get a shot or get out. Wouldn’t matter whom you were.

Private companies can make rules like that. A hospital chain in Texas fired everyone who wouldn’t get vaccinated. Completely legal.

One painful irony is that America has more vaccine than it needs, while much of the rest of the world is begging for doses. To be an American and thumb one’s nose at such bounty is simply wrong.

Olympians will be tested for COVID daily. Deniers such as Andrew and Ellison will be watched extra closely. But there’s no guarantee in Tokyo or anywhere about anything regarding this virus.

Viruses are cagey. They can be beaten, but their best chance for winning is human ignorance, superstition and selfishness.

Athlete deniers are unpatriotic cowards. Did somebody need to say that? I think so. And I just did.

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Grief counselors in short supply with gun violence risingClaudia Lauer | APon July 12, 2021 at 11:15 pm

PHILADELPHIA — As Brett Roman Williams stood at the Philadelphia medical examiner’s office staring at a photo of his older brother’s face, a familiar feeling welled in his chest.

Williams’ father was shot and killed in 1996, when Williams was 11, and the ebb and flow of grief had washed over him for 20 years.

But, in 2016, when his brother was shot to death, Williams reached out to a grief counselor to help him cope.

Now, Williams serves on the board for the organization where he once sought solace. He’s trying to provide that same kind of support to others. But the demand is far outpacing the supply of counselors because of rising violence.

With more than 270 homicides in Philadelphia the first half of 2021, the city has been outpacing the number of killings in 2020, when 499 people were killed, mostly shot to death gunfire — the highest homicide numbers in more than two decades. The number of people wounded in shootings also has soared the past 18 months.

Williams is chairman of the board for the Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia, which provides counseling to people affected by violence. He said there were 174 people on the waitlist at the end of June, compared with about 30 people a year ago.

“Hurt people, hurt people,” Williams said. “And this is a pivotal moment in Philly, because there are a lot of people hurting in this city right now.”

Natasha McGlynn, the organization’s executive director, said the agency has provided counseling since September to 425 teenagers who were shot or who have lost family or friends. She said counselors are seeing layers of trauma and revictimization as gun violence increases.

Crime has been rising nationwide after it plummeted in the early months of the pandemic, with many cities seeing the type of double-digit increase in gun violence that’s plaguing Philadelphia. The Biden administration has sent strike forces to Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., to help take down gun networks.

Biden has encouraged states to use COVID-19 relief money to hire police or additional counselors. Philadelphia is among the cities joining a federal effort to expand and enhance community violence interruption programs. Williams’ group and others that provide counseling to victims are applying for grants to hire more counselors.

Lynn Linde, chief knowledge and learning officer for the American Counseling Association, said there already was a shortage of mental health professionals, especially in rural areas, when the coronavirus pandemic hit. Add the economic, emotional and other losses from the pandemic and lockdown, and now waves of gun violence across the country, and, Linde said, most mental health professionals are stretched to their limit.

“I don’t know anyone who has openings,” she said. “And there are a lot of mental health professionals who are working extra hours and just burning out.”

For the counselors at places such as Philadelphia’s AVP, who treat only people experiencing trauma and loss from violence, the rise in violent crime is the reason they are stretched thin.

There were more than 1,800 people in Philadelphia shot and wounded last year. The city already has reported close to 900 gunshot victims in 2021 — 150 more than the same time in 2020.

Adam Garber, executive director of CeaseFirePA, a statewide nonprofit group, said people are aware of the killings but less often the other effects of the violence: the lifelong injuries, the trauma, the fear that forces parents to keep their children indoors.

“We are missing all the damage underneath that is permanently altering the lives of so many people,” Garber said.

Elinore Kaufman, assistant professor of surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia, said there are two times to three times more gunshot survivors than fatalities at her trauma center. The number of survivors has increased as trauma treatment has improved.

“The goal is to help people to survive, and we’re very good at that part,” Kaufman said. “We get people through that most acute time. We are not as good at helping people get back to a full and complete life.”

She said the hospital is working on a program to provide patients with a peer mentor to help them connect to programs that offer help including counseling, applying for victims’ assistance or finding education and a new career if their injuries prevent them from returning to their jobs.

Latrice Felix’s son Alan Womack, Jr. chose to live in an upscale suburb of Philadelphia, spending most of his time at the gym or with family, in part to avoid the violence he saw in the city.

But Womack, 28, was killed on Feb. 28, 2020, during a fight outside of his gym. Felix signed up for counseling at AVP shortly after her son’s death but was on the waitlist for about six months before someone had an opening.

Womack played Division II basketball at Fisher College in Boston and often trained people at the gym. He would FaceTime his mother sometimes 10 times a day and come home to steal her “good bananas” or make sure she was doing OK.

Womack worked with young people who had been involved in the criminal justice system, trying to steer them to better choices.

More than 1,300 people came to his funeral, including a friend from college who told Felix that Womack had let him sleep in his dorm room when he was struggling and use his meal plan card so he wouldn’t go hungry.

Felix has had a hard time with her son’s death. She doesn’t accept the police determination that the man who shot him was acting in self defense, but there were no cameras in the parking lot.

“I didn’t want to die,” she said of how she felt after her son’s death. “But I didn’t want to live, either.”

While she waited for counseling, she shared her grief with friends and discovered that she knew 20 people who had lost their children to gun violence in and around Philadelphia in 2020. She’s working to raise money to start a “grief cafe” where people who have lost someone can come and talk about their loved ones and where they can talk to a therapist.

“People think you bury your child, and life goes on,” Felix said. “But they don’t see how sometimes you can’t get up out of bed, how you start crying when you’re driving down the street for nothing.

“I want to normalize counseling, especially for the African American community.”

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Chicago drill rapper gunned down outside Cook County Jail after fiance puts up bailJermaine Nolenon July 12, 2021 at 11:01 pm

Chicago drill rapper Londre Sylvester was killed in a hail of bullets as he walked out of Cook County Jail over the weekend, a day after his fiance had posted his bail.

Sylvester, 31, who performed as KTS Dre and Kutthroat Dreko, was standing with a 60-year-old woman in the 2700 block of South California Avenue when a car pulled up around 8:50 p.m. Saturday and two gunmen fired off dozens of shots.

Court records indicate Sylvester’s fianace had put up $5,000 on Friday to secure his release on charges of violating a previous bond in a 2020 gun case.

It was not clear why Sylvester did not walk out of the jail until the next day, or how the gunmen knew he would be leaving then. The Cook County sheriff’s office deferred comment to the Chicago Police Department, which declined to release any more details of the attack.

Police reports identified Sylvester as a member of the Lakeside faction of the Gangster Disciples, and mugshots show he had the words “Kill To Survive” tattooed on his neck beneath what appeared to be a gun sight.

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Sylvester was struck in the face and chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The woman, 60, was struck in the knee and taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was listed in good condition.

Another woman, 35, was standing nearby and was grazed by a bullet to her face, police said. She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and was also listed in good condition.

Chicago police work the scene where 3 people were shot, including 1 person who was shot and killed, in the 2700 block of South California Avenue, in the Little Village neighborhood, Saturday, July 10, 2021.
Chicago police work the scene where 3 people were shot, including 1 person who was shot and killed, in the 2700 block of South California Avenue, in the Little Village neighborhood, Saturday, July 10, 2021.
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Dozens of yellow, numbered evidence markers — typically used to denote the location of shell casings– stood massed on South California Avenue as police combed the street in a light rain Saturday. A bloody shirt lay on the sidewalk that led to the exit where prisoners are released from the sprawling jail complex.

A woman who had gone to the jail to visit a detainee Saturday said she heard what she thought were fireworks going off as she talked with another visitor at the entrance to a parking lot a block south.

“We were talking from car to car and I looked at her and said, ‘Those sounded really close,” she told the Sun-Times. “Moments later, I heard two pops in front of the visiting area, then more in a cadence that couldn’t be anything but gunshots.”

The woman, who asked that her name not be used, said they ducked inside their cars and waited for the shots to end.

“When the shooting stopped, a Cook Country [sheriff’s officer] said to me, ‘Young lady, I think you better move your car,’ and at first I laughed it off because I didn’t believe him, but he was serious and told me those were gunshots.

“I can’t stop thinking to myself that had I not stopped to talk to my friend, I could have been in that area when they were shooting,” she said. “I was supposed to be over there.”

Court records indicate Sylvester had been jailed in June for violating conditions of his bond in the 2020 gun case, but had been living under house arrest since last December with a GPS monitoring device.

A judge had granted him four hours each Thursday to leave the house to run errands, but sheriff’s officials claimed he’d violated those conditions by visiting “various locations in Chicago and Wisconsin” on June 11.

Sylvester’s public defender called for a bond hearing, claiming Sylvester was arrested June 11 “after running errands during the allotted time on the allotted day of the week.” Judge Lawrence Flood set bond at $50,000, requiring a deposit of $5,000.

The gun case stemmed from an April 2020 arrest when someone reported Sylvester carrying a gun in his car in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Officers spotted Sylvester behind the wheel of a white Jaguar sedan, parked beside a pump at gas station in the 8200 block of South Halsted, according to a police report.

When they approached the car, officers saw that Sylvester, who was on parole for a 2015 gun conviction, had a 9mm Glock pistol in his lap.

One of the officers tried to grab the gun from Sylvester as Sylvester put the car in gear, the report states. Two officers struggled with Sylvester and wrestled him out of the car.

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Former Orr basketball star claims self-defense in deadly shootingMadeline Kenneyon July 12, 2021 at 11:20 pm

A former Orr Academy High School basketball star was defending himself when he shot and killed a man who chased him with others and ran away with his dog in Pilsen, the college athlete’s defense attorney said Monday.

There were several “armed robbers” who went after Raekwon Drake Saturday, so it is “ludicrous” that Cook County prosecutors think they have enough evidence to convict the 22-year-old with murder, Drake’s lawyer Frank Himel said.

However, prosecutors had earlier pointed out that the victim, 26-year-old Martin Palafox, let the dog go before Drake and his girlfriend repeatedly beat Palafox as he was lying on the ground.

Drake finished off the attack by shooting Palafox in the head, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said.

While Judge Charles Beach said he understood the theft of a pet could be traumatic, he said it was “curious and perhaps odd” that Drake left his dog outside to be snatched while he presumably went inside to retrieve his gun.

Drake, who was shot in the leg during the incident, remained hospitalized at Stroger Hospital and did not appear at his bond hearing Monday where Beach ordered him held without bail.

Drake had joined Post University men’s basketball program after transferring from Wabash Valley College in Mount Carmel, the Waterbury, Connecticut school had tweeted.

He planned to play at Post this upcoming season, Orr basketball coach Lou Adams told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Drake was walking his dog near his apartment around 6 p.m. when a group of approximately three men started to chase him around the block, Murphy said.

Drake eventually ran into his apartment, leaving the dog outside. The group of men went on to take the pet and started to walk down the street in the 1800 block of South Paulina Street before Drake came back outside with a gun and fired approximately four shots in their direction, Murphy said.

No one was injured at that point.

Orr's Raekwon Drake (25) looks to drive the lane verse Mt. Carmel.
Raekwon Drake (25) when he played at Orr looks to drive the lane verse Mt. Carmel.
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Palafox, who had been holding the dog, dropped the animal as he attempted to run away. But Drake’s girlfriend allegedly began punching and kicking him while he was on the ground. Drake joined her, hitting and kicking Palafox before shooting him as Palafox remained on the ground with his hands in the air, Murphy said.

When Drake and his girlfriend tried to run away, one of the other men from Palafox’s group fired back, striking the couple, Murphy said.

Palafox, of Joliet, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Drake’s girlfriend was hit in the right shoulder and also taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was listed in good condition, authorities said.

Prosecutors didn’t mention in court Monday whether Drake’s girlfriend would be facing charges.

The entire incident was captured on various video surveillance cameras on the block, Murphy said.

A handgun was recovered from the window well of Drake’s apartment when a search warrant was executed, Murphy added.

Himel stressed that his client has no criminal history and is “not someone that’s predisposed to this type of conduct.”

“Certainly there’s a chance he can be found guilty of first-degree murder but more likely there’s a chance he could be found guilty of a lesser offense,” Himel said. “… And more likely than that, there’s going to be 12 people [in a jurors box] that are going to say, ‘At gunpoint, you tried to steal my dog from me, and so you getting shot is justified.'”

A 2018 graduate of Orr, Drake was a three-time Sun-Times All-Area basketball selection. To put that in perspective, current Los Angeles Laker and Simeon graduate Talen-Horton Tucker made the team once and former Morgan Park and Illinois star Ayo Dosnumu made it twice.

Drake led the Spartans to Class 2A state basketball championships in 2017 and 2018, which began a streak of four consecutive state titles for Orr. The 2017 Spartans were featured in Rick Telander’s award-winning series “A season under the gun.”

Adams said he’s known Drake since he was in eighth grade and still talks to him two or three times a week.

“I know the kind of heart he has. He takes care of his grandmother. I don’t know what happened with this situation but he’s a good kid,” Adams said.

Drake is expected back in court July 30.

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Man dies weeks after Back of the Yards shootingSun-Times Wireon July 12, 2021 at 11:22 pm

A 19-year-old man who was wounded in a shooting last month in Back of the Yards on the South Side has died.

Ivan Almaguer was pronounced dead at 10:20 p.m. Sunday at Kindred Hospital Chicago North, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

On June 1, he was in the 4700 block of South Ada Street with two other people when someone fired shots from a passing gray SUV, Chicago police said.

Almaguer was struck in the head and hand, officials sad. An 18-year-old man was shot in the foot and the third person suffered a graze wound to their thigh.

An autopsy found Almaguer died of his gunshot wounds and ruled his death a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said.

No arrests have been reported.

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3-year-old boy grazed in Lawndale shootingSun-Times Wireon July 12, 2021 at 11:38 pm

A 3-year-old boy was hurt in a shooting Monday in Lawndale on the West Side.

He was riding in a vehicle driven by a 24-year-old woman about 3:55 p.m. in the 3700 block of West 16th Street when someone unleashed gunfire, Chicago police said.

A bullet grazed the boy in the lower back, police said. The woman drove to Loretto Hospital, where the boy was in good condition.

No arrests have been made. Area Four detectives are investigating.

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Man fatally shot in GreshamSun-Times Wireon July 12, 2021 at 10:23 pm

A man was killed in a shooting Sunday in Gresham on the South Side.

He was inside of a residence about 4 p.m. in the 8600 block of South Lowe Avenue when someone opened fire, striking him in the chest, Chicago police said.

The 35-year-old was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 4:30 p.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Though his identity has not been released, an autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds and ruled his death a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said.

No arrests have been reported. Area Two detectives are investigating.

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