Layten Praytor

Associate Editor @DCEOMagazine | Past: (@DallasCowboys @DentonRC) | @MaybornUNT Alum | Opinions my own

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

Holiday career update!🎄

Super happy to share that I’ve joined @DMagazine/@DCEOmagazine as Assistant Editor! I’ll be covering all things business in Dallas, including a little sports business as well.

Very fortunate for the opportunity to be part of a prestigious publication!

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

Whoa

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

NEWS: A judge in district court in Lubbock County, Texas, has granted the injunction requested by Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby. He’s set to be eligible for the 2026 season.

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

oh my

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: The Browns are finalizing a trade that will send Myles Garrett to the Los Angeles Rams, sources tell @adamschefter, @rapsheet and @TomPelissero.

The Rams are expected to send Pro-Bowl edge Jared Verse, a 2027 first-round pick and other draft-pick compensation still being negotiated to the Browns.

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

Baseball will look so different in 2028.

[Jesse Rogers @JesseRogersESPN]

BREAKING: As expected, MLB proposed a hard salary cap to union officials today as part of the next CBA, sources tell ESPN. The salary floor for teams beginning in 2027 would be set at $171.2 million which includes player benefits with the ceiling at $245.3 million.

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

I don’t even have the words. Man

[NASCAR @NASCAR]

We are saddened and heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup champion and one of our sport's greatest and fiercest drivers. He was 41 years old.

We extend our deepest condolences to the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and the entire motorsports community.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

Might be the best relay I’ve ever seen honestly

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

ANDY. HYESEONG. WILL.

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

Oh this is perfect.

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

If being the best makes you bad, then so be it. #OpeningDayLA

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

TALK TO ME BRYCE

[SleeperMLB @SleeperMLB]

BRYCE HARPER TIES IT WITH A TANK TO CENTER

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

Every second of this has been awesome. This is the game baseball fans deserve to cap it off

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

THE FINAL IS SET! 🏆

Venezuela will play USA in the 2026 WBC Final tomorrow on FOX! ⚾️

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

Is it a strike? Doubt it. Will ABS correct this? I hope so. Is the U.S. moving on the WBC Final?

Well:

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

WOW.

Miller gets the call and USA is going to the Final!! 🇺🇸

[World Baseball Classic @WBCBaseball]

Team USA is headed back to the #WorldBaseballClassic Final for the THIRD STRAIGHT TIME!

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

BREAKING: Atlanta Braves designated hitter Jurickson Profar is facing a 162-game suspension after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug for the second time, sources told ESPN. News free at ESPN: https://t.co/Od2Cht2QUO

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

Every fanbase has these types, lol. And yet…

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

PCA didn’t mince words when comparing Cubs fans to Dodgers fans

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

This is the worst day ever

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

The Padres bring in Walker Buehler on a minor league deal

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

WHOA

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

The Texas Rangers are acquiring MacKenzie Gore in a trade with the Nationals, per @JonHeyman

A big upgrade to the Ranger rotation!

[Bob Nightengale @BNightengale]

The Dodgers are paying a grand total of $3 million in actual salaries this season to Shohei Ohtani and Kyle Tucker.
Ohtani is being paid $2 million with $68 million deferred.
Tucker is being paid a $1 million salary with a $64 million signing bonus due before spring training.

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

I pace around my living room during an eighth inning bases-loaded jam of a random July afternoon game like my happiness depends on it.

Multiply that by 10 in October. The rush never goes away.

[Sam Phalen @Sam_Phalen]

Genuine questions I want to put out there.

Is it fun to be a #Dodgers fan?

Obviously winning is fun. But when you make the playoffs 13 years in a row with 12 division titles…are the joys of success not completely diluted?

And surely winning with a team of purchased mercenaries isn’t as satisfying as winning with a homegrown core.

Part of the fun is the chase. Is it boring to know you don’t have to watch a single regular season game?

And surely losses don’t sting when you know for a fact you’ll be back next year and but even more players.

[Layten Praytor @PraytorLayten]

Yes, there is joy! I make no apologies for my favorite team doing everything within the boundaries of the rules to win.

I also don’t apologize for them being run by a hedge fund.

[Iain MacMillan @IainMacBets]

If I was a Dodgers fan, I don’t even know if I’d celebrate this.

Is there even any joy in winning a third straight World Series by just paying all the best players in the world way more than any other team could even think of paying them?

[Matt McCarthy @MattMcCarthy985]

Parity is bad for baseball. None of you want the Diamondbacks in the World Series. You want to watch the Dodgers so you can root against them. Tonight is another great night for the sport.

[Mike Piellucci @mikelikessports]

There’s gonna be an MLB lockout, and it’s gonna be for the wrong reasons