Vargas

What had increasingly felt like an inevitability in recent weeks became reality Sunday.The Dodgers optioned struggling rookie Miguel Vargas to triple-A Oklahoma City, after he entered the All-Star break batting .195 and in the midst of a five for 63 slump.Now, they’ll have to reevaluate exactly who to play at second base in his absence, facing a key roster question less than a month from Major League Baseball’s Aug. 1 trade deadline.Vargas’ demotion wasn’t much of a surprise.Despite arriving in the major leagues last…

It was wet, cold and beautiful.The lineup was weird, worrisome and wonderful.Opening day was opening night, the decade-long dynasty was riddled with holes, the summer’s best fans were bundled up and uncertain and yet ...The magic returned, stronger than ever, the Dodgers opening the 2023 season Thursday night against the Arizona Diamondbacks with an 8-2 win at a Dodger Stadium outfitted with a new and energized buzz.Folks shivered, but they roared. There were empty seats, but dancing in the aisles. This was an…

Alain Mesa, the actor behind Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 protagonist Alejandro Vargas, has told NME what he wants to see next from the character and what the role has meant to fans. Mesa is set to attend the BAFTA Games Awards today (March 30), where the actor is nominated for the Performer In A Leading Role Award — alongside the likes of Manon Gage (Immortality), Christopher Judge (God Of War Ragnarok), and Siobhan Williams (The Quarry). Ahead of the award ceremony, Mesa spoke to NME about the newfound recognition…

| Hexagon Comics USA continues to put back into print European comics, mostly written by Jean-Marc Lofficier, translated into English and distributed solely through his website, Amazon page or at conventions. Selling enough copies to make it more than worthwhile, as well as making certain comics available to a wider English-speaking audience. And repackaging work by familiar names in American comics before they made it big. Retailers can purchase Hexagon Comics at a 40% discount from distributor Ingram or from the…

Delicious Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez Why food tastes good According to Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s classic 1825 study The Physiology of Taste, which defined the field of gastronomy, eating a dish that has never been tasted before “confers more happiness on humanity than the discovery of a new star”. When people first arrived in the Americas, they found vast numbers of unfamiliar animals, including…

A set of useful pandas tools to successfully load and transform a JSON file(image by author using canva)Loading and doing Transformations over a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) file is something pretty common in the Data Engineering/Science world.JSON is a widely used format for storing and exchanging data. For example, NoSQL database like MongoDB store the data in JSON format, and REST API’s responses are mostly available in JSON.Although JSON works great for exchanging data over a network, if we intend to process the…