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00:00The feds are investigating a youth baseball company that was created and owned by the

00:04Major League Baseball Players Association for misusing millions of dollars. Is nothing sacred?

00:11Not even the kids? The MLBPA is the union for all of the big baseball stars you love. Shohei Ohtani,

00:17Aaron Judge, all of them. Now, they created a company called Players Way, which is based in

00:21Florida. The company has spent 3.9 million bucks, but has not brought in nearly that much money,

00:28which is, of course, what made the feds perk up. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn,

00:32yes, the very same one that brought you last week's big sports scandal with the mafia and the NBA,

00:38they're also investigating this, according to ESPN. Players Way launched in 2019 as the official

00:44youth development initiative of the MLBPA, and it's supported by both current and former players.

00:50If you have a kid that plays club sports of any kind, you know how this works, but maybe not this

00:54part. The executive director of the association, Tony Clark, allegedly approved big, fat six-figure

01:00payments to Players Way, which an ex-official called a, quote, total waste of money. Then,

01:06last year, an anonymous complaint was filed accusing Clark of self-dealing, misuse of resources,

01:12and abuse of power. It also added claims of nepotism because his daughter once worked for the group.

01:17As if that weren't enough. Players Way held only about a dozen events between 2019 and 2024,

01:24but once word of the investigation got to them, surprise, all of a sudden, more events. Now,

01:29no charges have been filed yet, but this is one I'm going to be sure to keep an eye on.

01:33One of the most watched elections in the country is just four days away, and it's a dead heat. In the

01:39New Jersey governor's race, Democratic Congresswoman Mikey Sherrill, who led by a whopping 20 points this

01:44summer, is now ahead by just a single percentage point against a Republican rival, Jack Cittarelli,

01:5049 to 48 percent, according to the latest Emerson poll. Now, if past his prelude, Cittarelli could

01:56be in even better shape. Here's why. In 2021, a widely viewed polling average undercounted his

02:02performance against now term-limited Governor Phil Murphy by five points. In 2024, President Trump

02:08lost the state to Kamala Harris, but performed better than anyone would have expected, losing by less

02:12than six points. But before the Cittarelli campaign starts blowing up their red, white, and blue

02:17balloons, it bears mentioning that early voting data is looking pretty, pretty good for Mikey Sherrill.

02:22Fifty-four percent of votes cast early have been registered Democrats, and just 28 percent are

02:27registered Republicans. As I've talked about on the pod a few times now, New Jersey as well as

02:32Virginia, that governor's race there, and the New York City's mayoral race, they're all being closely

02:37watched for any signs that could help handicap next year's midterms for either party nationally.

02:42Who's responsible for a first grader shooting his teacher? That's the question at the heart of a

02:48headline-grabbing civil suit in Virginia. Abby Zwirner survived the shooting, and now she's

02:53suing the school's principal, claiming she repeatedly ignored warnings from multiple teachers that the

02:58boy had a gun, allegedly saying at one point he has little pockets. Lawyers for the now former

03:03principal, Ebony Parker, argued, quote, no one could have imagined that a six-year-old first-grade

03:08student would bring a firearm into school. Agreed. No one would imagine that. But the point the victim

03:14is making is that she didn't have to. Allegedly, she was told, again, multiple times. And it seems

03:20that she might have a case. The school district's director of human resources testified that days

03:25after the shooting, Parker admitted to her that she was told the boy had a gun in his backpack

03:2990 minutes before the incident occurred. Now, this is a civil case, but Parker is also facing

03:34criminal charges of child neglect. The boy's mother was sentenced in 2023 to two years in prison on a

03:39similar charge for her son taking the 9mm handgun out of her purse. The child was not charged and is

03:45currently being raised by relatives. For more on this story and everything else you could possibly

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