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Here are the details from TMZ: A rep for the California Highway Patrol confirms ... U.S. border patrol agents initially made contact with the 27-year-old near a checkpoint on the 94 Freeway around 12:30 AM. We're told the agents suspected something was wrong -- and contacted the CHP to check things out. After CHP arrived to the scene, deputies were convinced Cabrera was under the influence of marijuana and arrested him for DUI. Officials tells TMZ Sports ... Cabrera was hauled to a nearby station where officials drew blood. He was eventually cited and released to his mother-in-law. Last season, Cabrera was suspended 50 games by MLB after being linked to PEDs in the Biogenesis scandal. In 2012, Cabrera was arrested on domestic violence charges during spring training, but the charges were dropped.Cabrera, 27, has played 90 games this season, batting just .232. He's been on the disabled list since mid-August with a hamstring issue. He was reportedly set to begin a minor-league rehab assignment this week, but Padres manager Bud Black said Cabrera's hamstring wasn't ready.
More MLB coverage from Yahoo Sports:- - - - - - -Mike Oz is an editor for Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. or follow him on Twitter!A friend and former patient, who supplements her social security income by selling her departed husband’s collectibles on eBay was confiding in me about the troubles she recently had with Chinese buyers/schemers. She has been very happy otherwise with eBay and PayPal for the past 10 years, accumulating glowing buyers’ feedbacks and a 100 percent positive rating. Not all Chinese buyers are dishonest, of course, but it seems that there is in China, like there is in Nigeria and India, a group of schemers/fleecers making a good living buying fraudulently on eBay. EBay and PayPal employees turn their heads the other way. China is a huge market. EBay and PayPal are not policing buyers there, working on the formula they have adopted for the past five years: “All sellers are thieves, all buyers are innocent.” Only sellers deserve to be punished. The scam is simple and efficient.
It’s prevalent in China, but I am sure other far away markets are using it, too. Why not, they are getting away with legalized thievery. 1) At the last second a Chinese bidder places a high bid and wins the item. In 99 percent of the cases, he has no feedback and has been buying on eBay only recently… it seems… There is no way for the seller to fend those late automated bids. 2) The money is quickly paid via PayPal. The seller follows all PayPal directions, including the one mandating the item to be sent to the address given to PayPal by the buyer and given to the seller by PayPal. This is one of their “written in stone” rules. The item is carefully packed and sent to China, with, of course, a tracking number. Everything has been properly done and covered (or so thinks the seller). And then the nightmare begins. 3) Two weeks go by and the seller receives an email from the buyer that he/she has not received the item. The panicky seller contacts international claims and is told that the item is in China, has been in China for a while and has not been claimed.
The address provided to PayPal by the buyer and to the seller by PayPal turns out to be some hotel room or other undeliverable place. The seller emails the buyer to let him know that the item is in his post office in China. He has to go and pick it up. Meanwhile the buyer contacts PayPal and demands his money back while at the same time bombarding the seller with emails: Where is my item? Where is my item? Where is my item? 4) The seller, who has followed all the rules instituted by eBay/PayPal, receives a form letter from PayPal: “Dear So and So, we have ruled in favor of our beleaguered, innocent, mistreated Chinese buyer. $3,000 are being taken out of your PayPal account and refunded to him.” No representation, no recourse, absolute dictatorship. As soon as the schemer gets his money he goes to his Chinese post office (and I am sure some of the employees there are part of the ring) and claims the item. He has the piece and he has the money. In other words he stole $3,000 from that American seller, with help and solace from two American companies, eBay and PayPal.
He changes his buyer’s eBay identification and goes looking for another American victim. It’s kind of sad. I feel sorry for defenseless elderly Americans trying to eke out a living on eBay. Who is defending them against those foreign scoundrels? Time for eBay and PayPal to take a look at themselves and see what they are doing to those who helped them reach the heights they have attained in our modern world. Makes you sick, doesn’t it? And finally the “coup de grace”: The seller/victim receives a negative feedback plus dire warnings from eBay/PayPal. P.S. Thanks, Antique Trader, for allowing the powerless to have a voice.Scuf Gaming is a small Atlanta-based video game company that makes custom console controllers for professional and everyday gamers. From its inception five years ago, the company has partnered with top eSports gamers and teams to establish its products as the go-to console controllers in eSports.Over 90% of console pro gamers across titles such as Microsoft's Halo 5, Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, and Hi-Rez Studios' Smite use Scuf Gaming controllers, according to Duncan Ironmonger, CEO and co-founder of Scuf Gaming.Now the company is going mainstream by offering artists and presenters at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards
Xbox One and PC Scuf Infinity 1 controllers and accessories in the official talent gift bags and backstage gift lounge.The controllers can cost up to $195. They're just one of the many goodies in the Grammy gift bags for this year's show, which airs on CBS on Feb. 15.Scuf Gaming will have several Xbox One consoles available to test out the custom controllers in the Grammy gift lounge backstage in the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Adele, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Skrillex and LL Cool J might be found trying their hand with the controller on games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Halo 5: Guardians, Forza Motorsport 6, and FIFA 16."There is a natural connect between the top performers in the music industry and our audience of top gamers, so reaching out to the Grammy organizers to discuss our involvement seemed a logical next step," Ironmonger says. "Many of our fans are musicians, celebrities, and band members who regularly play video games both on tour and at home."Get Data Sheet, Fortune's technology newsletter.
One such band is Avenged Sevenfold, which worked with Scuf Gaming to release a Scuf Hybrid Avenged controller in 2013 and has a new Scuf Infinity 1 Avenged controller launching in a few weeks. Lead singer M. Shadows, who's a huge Call of Duty gamer, says video games have given artists a medium that used to be exclusive to MTV and radio."Opportunities that used to exist through these channels have dried up and now we feel the best ways to reach our potential fans is through gaming," Shadows says. "It's young, fresh, intelligent, and exciting."Lash Fary, founder and president of Distinctive Assets, says with so many gentlemen on the Grammy stage, his LA-based entertainment marketing and gifting company has always sought out cool tech items to satisfy the male artists’ love of gadgets."Gaming has been a hit in the past, so whether they are gamers themselves or simply get to return home after Grammy rehearsals and be a hero with their kids, we've included a couple great gaming-related gift items in the official talent gift lounge," Fary says.
Unlike a traditional controller, each Scuf controller is handmade by one of 200 employees after its been customized online by the gamer. That process is being re-created within the 5,000-square-foot gifting lounge by offering artists a variety of colors and accessories to choose from. Then they can play games while their controller is being built."Musicians understand the value of using professional tools and appreciate the unique customization that Scuf controllers offer," Ironmonger says.For more on musicians and Xbox, watch:Ironmonger is using the Grammys to establish additional relationships with musicians who game. The partnership with Avenged Sevenfold has been successful in extending the Scuf brand to the band's global rock audience, he says."Music is one of the few things that go hand in hand with gaming and eSports," Ironmonger says. "Many of our sponsored pro players and influencers play music during their live streams, practice matches, and scrimmages."Scuf Gaming, which filed 55 patents and had 17 granted for the technology that makes the Infinity 1 controller a reality, licensed its technology to Microsoft for its $150 Xbox One Elite Controller, which has been selling out at retail since it launched last year.