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5-at-10: Friday with Braves’ final grades, Caitlin Clark angst, A’s leaving Oakland, election emails

AP photo by Gregory Bull / Atlanta Braves starter Max Fried pitches during a playoff game against the host San Diego Padres on Wednesday night.
AP photo by Gregory Bull / Atlanta Braves starter Max Fried pitches during a playoff game against the host San Diego Padres on Wednesday night. AP photo by Gregory Bull / Atlanta Braves starter Max Fried pitches during a playoff game against the host San Diego Padres on Wednesday night.


Let’s handle our business. We will start this morning with the new I got this week from my friend Phil Sklar, co-founder and the CEO of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum. (Yes, it exists; it’s in Milwaukee.) They are releasing the Brody Malone — the Olympic medaling gymnast from North Georgia — bobblehead this week. That’s cool.

(And no, Spy, I don’t need a bobblehead since my head is so overly large that bobbling it would not be physically possible. Shut it.)

Also, here’s Paschall with college football and Hargis with prep football. Rules are rules, people. Know this.

As for the Rushmores, let’s go this way: