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Soto, who has had legal troubles off the field with marijuana, was seen walking into the White Sox clubhouse wearing dark tinted sunglasses and carrying two extra large pizzas and a Pink Floyd album.

Bryant’s agent, Scott Boras, renegotiated the third baseman’s contract to include a selection of magazines and newspapers that will be housed in his client’s new commode.

"Ya'll think ya'll can just come in our town, drink our beer, dance at our honky-tonks and cheer for your Blackhawks like ya'll was at ya'lls stadium," said Predators PR manager Bubby Brisco, Jr. "But let me tell ya'll something: That ain't how it's gonna be."

In keeping with the tradition of being part of a team that hasn’t had too much success in the past eight years, Cubs owner Tom Ricketts is ditching the Cubbie blue to join the boys in red.

Some off-the-field distractions have left fans of the team feeling a little bit frustrated and despondent. Thankfully, a new PR campaign generated by the Cubs brain trust has totally turned any negativity around and generated what many people are calling the happiest, most wonderful, feel-good success story in the history of social media.

“Look, I’ll make a pickoff move sometime this season,” said the obviously perturbed southpaw on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight. “Just because you don’t do something for two years don’t mean anything. I got some cool, elite next-level pickoff moves up my sleeve that I’ve been working on, I’m just waiting for the right time to debut them. But for sure, sometime this year. Probably by June."

"Did I come back?" asked Rose, who logged a combined 40 minutes in a loss Wednesday to Orlando and a win Thursday over Miami. "That's up to God to decide."