Jakob Zielinski

[Jakob Zielinski @jtziel]

@zenneau @MarucciSports Gotta love the box of screws. Cherry on top

[Zach Denneau @zenneau]

Broke a Marucci AP5 on 5/25 and filed a warranty. Nearly 2 weeks later, on 6/5, I got what I thought was my replacement bat in the mail. Ended up being a bag of screws, no bat. No apology from @MarucciSports and they put in another order. Replacement bat came today...

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

The FBI is holding a press conference right now on the details around this morning's sports gambling bust.

Here are some of the highlights:

1. Current and former NBA players and coaches Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier, and Damon Jones have been arrested.

2. This was an illegal gambling and sports rigging operation that spanned years across 11 states. In total, 30 individuals have been arrested (13 mafia members).

3. The case involves La Cosa Nostra (the Italian mafia).

4. Charges include illegal gambling, wire fraud, and extortion.

5. There are two separate indictments. The first involves six defendants accused of participating in a sports corruption scheme that exploited insider information involving NBA players and teams. The defendants leveraged their connections to place prop bets based on confidential insider information, winning tens of thousands of dollars per bet.

The second indictment involves 31 defendants charged with participating in a nationwide scheme to rig illegal poker games. The FBI says they used high-tech cheating technology to steal millions of dollars from victims in underground poker games that were secretly fixed.

6. The two cases are separate, but there are three overlapping defendants, including former NBA player and coach Damon Jones.

7. The FBI says that NBA player Terry Rozier told the defendants that he was going to leave a game early on March 23, 2023, with an injury. The defendants then placed more than $200,000 of wagers on the unders for his prop bets, with Rozier leaving the game after nine minutes. Those bets paid out tens of thousands of dollars in profits, and the defendants and Rozier counted the money at his house.

8 The FBI says that former Raptors player Jontay Porter was threatened to participate in the sports gambling scheme because of his gambling debts.

9. Teams that were bet on during the sports gambling scheme include the Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers, and the Toronto Raptors.

10. The rigged poker games occurred in the Hamptons, Miami, Las Vegas, and Manhattan.

11. The poker scheme targeted victims who were lured to participate in rigged poker games by the chance to play alongside former professional athletes. These athletes included Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones.

12. The FBI says that the defendants utilized altered shuffling machines to read the cards in the deck and then relayed that information to an off-site operator. The offsite operator — known as the "quarterback" — then sent that information to someone at the table.

13. The FBI also says that the defendants utilized other cheating technologies, including poker chip trays that read cards through hidden cameras, special contact lenses and glasses that could read marked cards, and x-ray poker tables that could read cards face down.

14. The FBI says that the defendants robbed a victim at gunpoint to acquire a rigged shuffling machine.

15. The sports gambling investigation is called "Operation Nothing But Net," while the poker investigation is called "Operation Royal Flush."

16. The FBI has been working on this investigation for four years, with victims losing at least $7 million.

17. One specific victim lost at least $1.8 million.

18. The FBI reviewed thousands of hours of video evidence and executed more than two dozen search warrants.

These are just accusations at this point. I am just pointing out details from the FBI's investigation.

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[Cream City Prospects @CreamCityPro]

Déjà vu tonight with Jackson Chourio squaring up a Daniel Palencia fastball.

[Stephen A Smith @stephenasmith]

Good work

[Remi Bunikiewicz @RBunikiewicz]

The Brewers are the best team in the MLB.

How are they doing more with less?

A Thread 🧵

[MLB Pipeline @MLBPipeline]

Andrew Fischer scores Jesús Made on his first pro hit for the High-A @TimberRattlers!

The @Brewers' No. 6 prospect was drafted No. 20 overall this summer out of @Vol_Baseball.

[Wisconsin Timber Rattlers @TimberRattlers]

Still thinking about @sirfischer3 pro debut last night like … 🔥🔥🔥

3 H | 3 RBI | 1 BB

#tratnation

[The Welsh @IsItTheWelsh]

No doubter HR! Marco Dinges with the Brewers his had a great year is rehabbing back, and absolutely destroys this baseball. One of the great pimp jumps you’ll see. It might have left the stadium. Driving in Andrew Fischer. #Brewers #ProspectOne

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

Andrew Vaughn has a 1.209 OPS through his first 15 games with the @Brewers! 😳

@YonderalonsoU and @JakePeavy_22 take a deep dive into the former No. 3 overall pick and the adjustments he has made at the plate.

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

"Everybody welcomed me with open arms... it's just a special group. It's hard not to get along with these guys."

Andrew Vaughn has a 1.128 OPS since joining the @Brewers!

MLB Network + @CoronaUSA

[Eric Hosmer @TheRealHoz35]

Dynamite questions for the youngster Misiorowski @Ken_Rosenthal 👎🏼

Really is disgusting they continue to let you in the dugout during these games‼️

[AJ Verhage @ajverhage]

It’s only a good thing for baseball when it’s a player from a big market apparently 🙄

Also don’t mind that a dozen other guys said no.

Mis is electric, I get it, he has only 5 starts but do you want to grow the game or not?

[Brian Callaci @brian_callaci]

Sorry to be corny, but youth sports are supposed to be extremely cheap and open to everyone. Learning teamwork and sportsmanship with kids from different backgrounds, that sort of stuff.

[AJ Verhage @ajverhage]

@pitchprofiler I want to get this framed and hung in my living room.

[Jack Stern @ByJackStern]

Location+ leaders among yesterday's starting pitchers.

Unsurprisingly, Woodruff was at the top by a wide margin.

[American Association @AA_Baseball]

June 25 Transaction: @KCCougars signed INF Darryl Jackson.

Jackson joins Kane County after playing collegiately for @uwwbaseball.

https://t.co/wG3bKbrbOf

[David Adler @_dadler]

Gameday 3D -- Jacob Misiorowski, extreme velo

102.0 mph 4-seamer
95.5 mph slider
91.7 mph changeup
89.1 mph curveball

All K's

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

The Milwaukee Brewers have the best record in baseball over the last 30 days 🤫

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

These two have been MAJOR factors throughout the month of June