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[***] Instead of spending their offseasons training or vacationing, professional baseball, football, and basketball players once tended to take their place in the traditional workforce. During the 1950s, Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Carl Furillo ran a Queens deli in the winter, and Hall of Fame New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle sold insurance in the summer. In the 1960s, Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown worked as a sales rep for Pepsi when he wasn’t breaking tackles. A few weeks after Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer shut out the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2 of the 1966 World Series,...

It’s over. The long offseason of Manny Machado can end after the All-Star infielder agreed to a deal with the Padres on Tuesday. The Post confirmed San Diego will give Machado the biggest free-agent contract in history — if not the biggest deal ever, which belongs to Giancarlo Stanton — meeting his reported 10-year, $300 million ask. This ends the saga that included the Yankees, White Sox and Phillies, all who met with the former Oriole. The Padres, one of baseball’s youngest teams, are an odd fit, yet they must picture the 26-year-old will still be a star when their...

We don’t know how they did it. But we know what they’ve done. Spring training opens in less than three weeks, and no one wants Bryce Harper. Or Manny Machado. At least no one wants them very much. What you hear all over baseball is the sound of one hand clapping as owners back-slap each other quietly for their marvelous miracle of salary subtraction. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed right-handed-hitting free agent outfielder A.J. Pollock for $55 million guaranteed for four years. That’s another door slamming on Harper. That Dodger trade of Yasiel Puig last month was done...

After a small medical holdup involving one of the prospects coming back, the Dodgers have acquired All-Star shortstop Manny Machado from the Orioles. Outfielder Yusniel Diaz is the key piece headed back to Baltimore in the deal. They’ll also receive minor-league right-handers Dean Kremer and Zach Pop, along with infielders Rylan Bannon and Breyvic Valera. The Dodgers will take on the entirety of Machado’s remaining 2018 salary, which checks in at about $6.3MM. Since starting out the year with an 8-20 record, it’s been all but certain that the Orioles would deal the impending free agent in exchange for more...

With the Yankees reportedly having "increased interest" in trading for Orioles All-Star Manny Machado as the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline nears, the Red Sox have also been in contact with Baltimore about the slugging shortstop, according to the Baltimore Sun. Machado, a free agent this offseason, is in the midst of his best season in the Majors, entering Tuesday hitting .309/.379/.555 before belting two home runs against the Yankees at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Per the Baltimore Sun report, a Red Sox scout was in attendance.

There seems to be no stopping the rumors linking the New York Yankees to Manny Machado. The Yanks have made a "strong offer" to the Baltimore Orioles for the star infielder, according to MLB Network insider Jon Heyman, who suggests that while the Bronx Bombers may not be the favorite, they clearly are a player in this sweepstakes.

Lies by omission by Media. Short video.

Former Miss Universe says she's done giving interviews about 'fat-shaming' after life story unravels: 'We will not be discussing the Trump subject any further' Alicia Machado will not give any more interviews on the way Trump treated her She blasted Trump for 'launching insults and are attempting to revive slanders and false accusations about my life, in order to humiliate, intimidate, and unbalance me. 'These attacks are cheap lies with bad intentions,' she said in a statement After Hillary Clinton put a spotlight on Machado's strife with Trump, the 39-year-old's dirty laundry spilled out into the public clip After Hillary...

Donald Trump is being assailed in the media for disparaging comments he made about Alicia Machado, the Venezuelan winner of the 1996 “Miss Universe” competition. Machado claims that Trump, who ran the Miss Universe pageant, called her “Miss Piggy” after she gained weight. Trump himself said earlier this week that Machado “gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem.” So let’s take a look back to the late 1990s, when the Miss Universe organization put Machado on a strict diet and exercise regime, and media outlets flocked to film her working out in a New York...

It’s an intervention in absentia. Trump’s not there, but when you’ve got a VP shortlister on this show, of all shows, urging Trump to cease and desist immediately, you’d better believe it’s going to get back to him. It’d be like Pravda publishing an open letter to the Soviet premier begging him to change course on something. When a political mistake has reached the point where your own house organs are inveighing against it, it’s objectively a major mistake.

Hillary Clinton can't win on her own merits. This election is a referendum against Trump. She has to destroy Trump to win, and being that she's Hillary Clinton, she is willing to destroy whoever comes in her way. The Clintons have no conscience when it comes to power. She has wanted this for most of her adult life, and she was thwarted by a change agent 8 years ago. She doesn't want to be thwarted again, although she is ironically running on the same positions that Barack Obama touted as "change" 8 years ago - just even further left. Hillary...

<p>In a now infamous 2005 episode of 'La Granja,' Alicia apparently had sex in front of the cameras with Spanish TV host Fernando Acaso.</p> <p>Machado was engaged to Philadelphia Phillies baseball star Bobby Abreu at the time.</p> <p>He quickly called off the wedding after clips of the show appeared online.</p>

With a couple clever tweets, Donald Trump has baited the entire lying mainstream media into proving how little regard they have for truth and objectivity yet again. This time, the lying media is actually denying the existence of Alicia Machado’s sex tape, a tape that: Was broadcast on Spanish national TV in 2005 with millions watching. Was admitted to by Alicia Machado herself over 10 years ago. Caused Machado’s then-fiance baseball star Bobby Abreu to break off their engagement. Has been viewed more than 4 million times on YouTube alone in the last 6 years. Has been on seedy porn...

Hillary Clinton’s newest presidential campaigner and Donald Trump’s former Miss Universe has another dirty little secret: an x-rated sex tape. News broke earlier this week that Alicia Machado was linked to a brutal attempted murder, what else don’t we know about this beauty queen? ... Hillary Clinton failed to mention any of this information while bringing up Machado as her new supporter at the first presidential debate.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took to Twitter early Friday morning to go to war with his latest campaign nemesis: former Miss Universe Alicia Machado. During the debate earlier this week, Democrat Hillary Clinton brought up Trump’s past weight-shaming comments about Machado, who was Miss Venezuela when Trump took over the Miss Universe beauty pageant in 1996. Machado, now a well-known actress in Latin America, says Trump once called her “fat,” “ugly” and “Miss Piggy,” among other things. In tweets posted a little after 5 a.m. on Friday, Trump brought up reports indicating that Machado was once accused of driving...

In 1997, Donald Trump talked with reporters about Alicia Machado's weight -- as she sat next to him on a stationery bike.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Well, my friends, it's taken a train wreck to get another train wreck off the front page. I'm not happy about it. I'm not happy about a lot. I'm sitting here, I'm ticked off today. I'm a combination of ticked off, if I said depressed, you people would get worried, and I don't want to get you worried. I'm a little depressed. This is just absolutely absurd that a 20-year-ago Miss-whatever seems to be dominating the presidential election all because the Drive-By Media need it to dominate the presidential election because if we get back to issues...

This election has had a lot of surprises. A lot of nasty surprises. But right at the end of the first debate on Monday, Hillary Clinton let out what has become the nastiest surprise of this entire election. That nasty surprise is attempted murderer, attempted porn star, cheater, liar, back-stabbing drug kingpin anchor baby mama Alicia Machado. Whew, that’s a mouthful. Let’s back up here a bit. Hillary Clinton is no stranger to controversy, especially controversy that is somewhere between flagrantly illegal, sickeningly immoral, and obviously treasonous. From Whitewater, to Benghazi, to the Clinton Foundation, to the now numerous e-mail...

Full Title: Oh Dear, Clinton’s Latest Campaign Surrogate is a: Murder Accomplice, Hard Core Porn Star and Drug Lord Concubine… This has to be the worst campaign vetting in the history of failed campaign vetting… Or the most horrible exploitation, Clintonian level exploitation, of a very troubled woman…. You decide. Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton’s entire campaign narrative is now centered around, and vested in, using a former Miss Venezuela, Alicia Machado, as an attack surrogate against Donald Trump.