Wow. The Los Angeles Dodgers have re-signed Outfielder Andrew Toles who has schizophrenia and hasn’t played since 2018, so he would still have access to the team’s health insurance and mental health services.
Toles is not expected to play for the Dodgers this season and will likely never play again. Signing with the team will allow him to continue to receive treatment, including counseling, therapy, and medication.
The team was first alerted something was wrong when Toles did not report to spring training in 2019.
Later, the team learned Toles was found sleeping behind a FedEx building at Key West International Airport. Sadly, Toles is just a shadow of his former self.
He was taken to a mental health facility after the incident and the Dodgers recognized the tragic loss of his playing abilities and wanted to ensure he would always have access to care.
2023 is the fifth straight year the Dodgers have re-signed him.
This extraordinary story wasn’t learned about for years.
It gives you a glimpse that sometimes, good gestures are done for good reasons and not for publicity.
The secret to making peace w/ people who treat you like shit is accepting that it’s who they are. You don’t have to agree w/ how they behave, but take your energy out of wishing they were different
Once you remove your energy from their shitty way of existing, you’ll have peace.
i’m not trying to do a cheap “gotcha” but i’ve been listening to npr all day and it’s really dispiriting to hear wall to wall coverage of a few missing rich people who did a dumb thing in the ocean and barely anything about the hundreds of migrants presumed dead in the ocean
@russianbarbii@InternetH0F She was absolutely the worst the entire first half of the show but she turned around so much on the back half and was just looking out for her family as best she could just like Walt was 😭 she doesn’t deserve this slander imo
Never forget that the first Memorial Day was created by formerly enslaved Black folk in Charleston, SC less than a month after the Confederacy surrendered. On May 1, 1865 more than 10,000 freed slaves gathered at Washington Race Course and Jockey Club, parading around the race track and sang songs to honor the fallen they had buried the day before.