"How many unread texts do you have on your phone? For some people, the answer is a flat zero, with that little red bubble giving them an uneasy feeling every time they see it. Others, though, are unaffected, with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of messages waiting to be read and responded to. As it turns out, the Los Angeles Dodgers are much like the rest of us when it comes to our phone habits."
"Freshly signed star outfielder Kyle Tucker is in club zero. "I don't like having unread text messages on there so I try and at least look at them and get rid of them. So, zero," he said. Pitcher Evan Phillips said he's "a little OCD" about clearing his notifications. "If I'm with my phone, zero," he said. "It's like the first thing I do is try to go through and like, clear it all out. I can't stand seeing the bubble.""
"For other players, however, that notification bubble seems to pose no problem at all, and they may not be aware if it's dozens, hundreds or thousands of messages awaiting a response. World Series hero Miguel Rojas estimated that he had 600 unread messages, but when he checked, he was low by almost 1,000 messages. His home screen showed "1,131 on WhatsApp, 412 on regular text message," prompting him to acknowledge that he'd "cut myself""
Los Angeles Dodgers players display a wide range of unread-text behaviors. Several players, including Kyle Tucker, Max Muncy, Teoscar Hernandez and Freddie Freeman, keep zero unread messages and clear notifications quickly. Evan Phillips describes an obsessive tendency to clear the notification bubble immediately. Shohei Ohtani reports about four to five unread messages, while Alex Call and manager Dave Roberts leave a few messages as reminders, with Roberts keeping fewer than a dozen. Other players tolerate large backlogs; Miguel Rojas discovered more than a thousand unread WhatsApp messages and hundreds of regular text messages.
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