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Padres $3.8B Sale Spurs MLB Salary Cap Debate, Red Sox Eye Sweep · Sunny Mornings Boston

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  Good morning and a warm welcome to your show,
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston. I'm your host, Melissa,
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  and it's Wednesday, August 19th. You'll be interested
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  to know. 66 years ago, today, in 1960. The Soviet
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  Sputnik V spacecraft safely returned two dogs
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  alive after a successful orbital flight. marking
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  a humane and scientific milestone in living spaceflight
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  experiments. This achievement demonstrated that
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  living beings could survive launch, orbit, and
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  reentry, advancing confidence for future human
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  spaceflight and inspiring international interest
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  in space science. So now you know. And now, it's
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  time for the weather report. This morning there's
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  patchy fog and it feels like 72 degrees with
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  2 mile per hour wind. The sunset will take place
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  at 7 .36 and it will rise again tomorrow at 5
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  .57. It looks like we're in for some patchy fog
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  before 8 a .m., then mostly sunny with a high
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  near 86 accompanied by a light southwest breeze
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  around 6 miles per hour. If you're inland, it
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  will hit a high of 86. Tonight, expect mostly
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  clear skies with a low around 69 and light winds
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  around five miles per hour. The near shore buoy
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  at Cape Cod Bay reads 70 degrees for the water
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  temperature. Looking ahead in the weather. Thursday
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  is mostly sunny with a high near 83 and a light
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  north wind. A cool night follows with lows near
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  65. Then Friday stays sunny with highs near 79
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  before a cooler breezy weekend as highs fall
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  to near 76 on Saturday with a chance of morning
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  and overnight rain and showers likely Saturday
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  night into Sunday. Then showers and a chance
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  of thunderstorms lingering into Sunday night
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  with lows around 65. Bonjour, food enthusiasts!
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  So stop on by and don't forget to tell them.
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  Sunny mornings send you. In local news, Nye Massachusetts
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  Startup Hubs made Time Magazine's first list
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  of the best incubators and accelerators in the
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  United States, including two in the top 10. Boston
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  -based Mass Challenge landed in the number two
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  slot on the list, joined in the top 10 by the
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  Harvard Innovation Labs at number six. This recognition
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  highlights the vibrant startup ecosystem in Beantown.
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  showcasing its commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship.
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  For more local news, you can stream NBC 10 Boston
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  News for free 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
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  wherever you are. Now onto sports. It may seem
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  odd that the sale of the San Diego Padres and
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  the Los Angeles Lakers would become a flashpoint
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  for Major League Baseball's push for a salary
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  cap, but make no mistake, the league and the
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  Major League Baseball Players Association are
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  already teeing it up. For all the talk by Major
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  League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred about
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  listening to fans regarding implementing a salary
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  cap, Underneath the surface is something tied
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  to it that would massively inflate owner profits,
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  increased franchise valuations. On Monday, Major
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  League Baseball's owners unanimously approved
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  the record -setting $3 .8 billion sale to the
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  new ownership group of the San Diego Padres.
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  Meanwhile, Mark Walter sold the Los Angeles Lakers
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  to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner for an eye -popping
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  $12 .5 billion. in local sports. The Red Sox
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  go for the sweep this afternoon at Fenway, first
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  pitch 4 -10 against Arizona. Boston has taken
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  the first two of this series by a combined score
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  of 20 -5, including an 11 -1 blowout Monday night.
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  Peyton Tully gets the ball against Brandon Fodd.
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  The Sox are 68 -58, winners of two straight.
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  and the Bats have been rolling all series. A
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  weak Diamondbacks club and a hot lineup make
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  this a good spot for Boston to finish it off
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  and carry some momentum into the stretch run.
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  Meanwhile, Jason Tatum is already grinding for
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  next season. The Celtics posted workout clips
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  of him hitting one -legged threes in fadeaways
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  that racked up a quarter million views, plus
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  footage of him and Joe Mazzulla in a boxing session.
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  Tatum played just 16 games last year recovering
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  from a torn Achilles. And with Jalen Brown now
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  in Philadelphia, he is set to shoulder a bigger
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  offensive load. The Seas looks ready for it.
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  In top news, State Farm is sending $5 billion
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  in dividend checks to customers. Millions of
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  customers are receiving checks after the company's
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  largest dividend in history was announced earlier
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  this year. More than 7 .2 million checks have
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  been mailed since payments began on July 31st,
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  with another 3 .8 million set to go out this
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  week, according to Steve Baldwin, a spokesperson
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  for State Farm. Customers with an auto insurance
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  policy enforced between January 1st, 2025, and
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  December 31st, 2025, are eligible for a refund.
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  The average refund will be $100 per vehicle,
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  but exact amounts vary based on premiums paid.
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  In business news, Prediction Market platform
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  Kelshe, in a regulatory filing on Tuesday, revealed
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  it is seeking to launch perpetual futures tied
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  to equity indexes. This latest move aims to expand
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  beyond its prediction market's offerings. which
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  began in late May when Kalshi first received
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  approval for perpetual futures tied to cryptocurrencies.
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  Perpetual futures, colloquially known as PERPs,
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  are contracts without expiration, allowing traders
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  to track asset prices continuously. Kalshi's
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  U .S. 500 PERP would tie to the Mercubi U .S.
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  Large Cap Index, tracking the largest 500 companies
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  in the U .S. Last month, Kalshi proposed perps
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  tied to precious metals and is now seeking approval
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  for perps linked to industrial metal copper.
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  Kalshi stated perps had over $90 trillion in
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  global volume in 2025. In crypto movement, Bitcoin
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  is unchanged at about $64 ,000. Ethereum is up
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  1 % to just over 1 ,900. And XRP is unchanged.
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  at $1. Moving on to a more local vibe. In our
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  community spotlight on health and wellness, we
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  are working with a national Pilates studio to
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  bring you some free classes, so listen up. Check
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  out Club Pilates with several locations in the
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  Boston area. Pilates presents a comprehensive
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  wellness approach, cultivating strength, reducing
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  tension, and elevating mental well -being. Scientific
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  research affirms its benefits. So now you can
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  check out Club Pilates for a free class. With
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  locations in Canton, Wellesley, Hingham, Brookline,
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  and Framingham, just be sure to tell them Sunny
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  Morning sent you by. And now, back to the show.
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  Let's talk tech. Against all odds, SpaceX finally
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  towed Starship into port after 24 days at sea.
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  The spacecraft splashed down in the Indian Ocean,
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  intact after flying halfway around the world,
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  from SpaceX's launch base in South Texas. Engineers
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  expected the ship's life to end with a fiery
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  disintegration after toppling over, just as past
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  Starships have done. A recovery ship towed the
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  spacecraft engine first several hundred miles
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  across the Indian Ocean to Christmas Island and
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  Australian territory. SpaceX announced the ship's
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  arrival on Tuesday. A team of SpaceX engineers
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  is on their way to conduct additional analysis
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  on the vehicle before attempting to return it
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  to Starbase. Paramount Plus' two -part masterpiece
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  spy thriller is exactly what Day of the Jackal
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  fans should watch next. Viewers have numerous
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  options in the spy thriller genre, from Netflix's
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  The Night Agent to Slow Horses on Apple TV. A
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  standout addition is Peacock's The Day of the
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  Jackal, which premiered on November 14, 2024,
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  earning an 84 % rating from critics on Rotten
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  Tomatoes. As its second season approaches in
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  2027, The Agency, which debuted on November 29th,
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  2024, offers fans high -stakes intrigue. With
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  an impressive cast and a gripping storyline,
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  The Agency is becoming a must -watch in the genre.
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  Well, all righty, folks. It's time for the quote
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  of the day. And today, our quote comes from the
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  American astronaut and physicist, Sally Ride.
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  And she said, And that's a wrap for this morning.
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  You can check out our Instagram, YouTube, and
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  TikTok for some captivating aerial videos with
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  local news and the weather reports. Had an amazing
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  day, my good friends. We'll see you tomorrow
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  with another episode of Sunny Mornings in Boston.