Davis Schneider's hitting .290/.395/.551 since the break, it's a hell of a time to be an Eastern High School alum
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Davis Schneider's hitting .290/.395/.551 since the break, it's a hell of a time to be an Eastern High School alum
Big UW fan who's excited to see Steve make good
Choosing to sit in your car all day waiting to pick your kids up is so bizarre to me I assumed there must be some sort of other structural failure at play here
Serious question: Do these schools not have buses?
This is the strangest home run you're ever going to see and it could only happen at Fenway
You have always known ball
Ordinarily this would be a confusing non sequitur but if I had a Dante Hall jersey I too would wear it every chance I got and tell everyone I met about it
Truly, you guys' hearts are in the right place but you need to get like 9 percent better at irony
I don't want to do Bsky Discourse but in the clear light of day I want to mention that I've made this joke at every concert I've gone to for years and never once got an earnest "well that's what everyone looks like" response on Twitter
Or that Greg Abbott lit into the mayor for not ordering an evacuation, even though the highways serve as overflow storm drains and filling them with cars would've turned a natural disaster that mostly caused property damage into one that caused massive loss of life
Never mind that Harvey disproportionately impacted poor and predominantly black neighborhoods that were built in areas that were designed to flood in the first place, or that flooding is an inevitable consequence of putting that much asphalt over swampland
I don't think Patrick actually thinks Musk will even put a shovel in the ground on this, it's all about funneling public money to an ideological fellow traveler. But having lived through catastrophic flooding in Houston it's a very dangerous project to screw around with
When Liam shouted out New Jersey some guy a couple rows behind me yelled "Fuck New Jersey!" like he didn't know where he was
It's where New Yorkers have to go to experience culture
Don't feel bad they didn't even play Parklife
If you're at the Oasis show and you see me, come say hi. I'm the balding geriatric millennial wearing ironic vintage sports gear
Why is this athletic unicorn in his third year at South Carolina instead of a school that's produced a good passing offense in the past 10 years? Well the actual receiving part can be a little touch and go
I was telling the room of non-SC fans this while the ball was still in the air
(chicken noises)
There are times I don't feel like an old man and times when I go absolutely berserk for a wide receiver finishing a block
I love Shane Beamer to death but his taste in offensive coordinators is the kind of thing your friends discreetly take you aside to have a kind but firm talk with you about
Please the VP has never moved fast in his life
I totally forgot about him so at least in my mind he's on the way out
Tbf that was my reaction too, I was just more concerned with the forwards
We just brought all these guys in! Clearly Arteta wants to use them
Even assuming Kiwior gets sold Arsenal is two-deep with legit Champions League-level defenders across the back four and every one of them except MLS can play center back
I don't use Threads anyway but this would render it absolutely useless to me. I can get mindlessly scrolling through random videos or photos but for text...why?
OK but seriously this is an absolute ton of defenders
It's like finding out most people prefer to drive by steering with their feet and working the pedals with their hands. I cannot put myself in that frame of mind
Why follow anyone at all if not to have your feed curated by people you're interested in
I just want to say I am shocked/appalled/gobsmacked/scandalized to learn that anyone ever uses the For You/Discover tab at all, either here or on Twitter
My increasingly close-held crank take is that we need to be way better about casting off childish things, or at the bare minimum recognizing they’re for children and feeling weird about that
Long tradition of 80 contact/20 power guys balling the fuck out hitting into that giant outfield
They just seem like nice kids and I'm glad they're having fun
I'm not proud of how invested I've become in the Kyra Cooney-Cross/Myles Lewis-Skelly workplace friendship
No kidding
Oh that was Hosmer's single-digit homer year. I guess that team really did win the pennant on bullpen and outfield defense alone
The 2014 Rangers is just Elvis Andrus Effect but the Royals that year had four different guys make at least 10 starts in the 2-hole, including Eric Hosmer, what's going on here
I see The Bandwagon also covered this today, but I went back through historical playoff odds and found that it's been a very, very, very long time since a pennant race was as dead as early as the NL pennant race is now
Published this last night, about the happenings at the Vuelta through six stages, including UAE's tactics and the protest against the Israel-Premier Tech team
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
With Dallas Baptist selling out and going to a major label, there's a power vacuum for Evangelical grifter schools
I just started The Anarchy recently, it's cooking so far
Here's my look at the first six stages of the Vuelta a España. There's so much to say I completely forgot to add the Odd Christian Eiking joke I'd had teed up all afternoon
Genuinely: strikeouts were invented in 1997
Whoever told the Phillies the division title would be decided on run differential was lying, but it seems to have had a positive effect
For sure. At the place I went to before I moved, I ordered a medium that was not hot in the slightest, so at this new restaurant I figured I could handle hot and I have not miscalculated this badly in a very, very long time
I don't want to change the way anyone cooks, I just want to be able to make an informed decision.
Far be it from me to drown small businesses in nanny state regulations, but when I come to power I'll require Indian restaurants nationwide to give first-time customers a pamphlet titled, "OK, no bullshit, this is what 'spicy' means here"
Brother we are building tomatoes here that are beyond your ability to fathom
The most New Jersey news possible. I'm overcome with patriotism.
No Penn State grad could produce a groove like that
The one benefit of my brain turning into mush is that I keep forgetting that Brian Schottenheimer is the Cowboys' head coach and once every few weeks I relearn this fact and it makes my day.
is he really?
The definitive pop rock banger of 2024
I'm just gonna be honest with you: It's the thing I'm most proud of in my entire career
I will also have an invite, and I am hungry to collect souls to add to my branch
Like, the median voter doesn't know who their congressperson is offhand, and your average Republican talks in 30 layers of racist euphemism that you need to spend 12 hours a day online to understand. How is that language not massively off-putting?
I know "radical woke indoctrination" is in-group signaling, but after almost 20 years of this shit I'm mystified that right-wing candidates win elections when they all talk like this guy
the double-take I did to make sure the Kairat fixture was at home
Well there's a cat in here so if they know what's good for them they'll be Yard Sparrows
I would guess some kind of sparrow, but the only little birds I know on sight are the eastern goldfinch, the tufted titmouse and anything that's had a baseball team named after it
Hey Bird Sickos, what are these guys?
Baltimore native and New York Yankee star Mark Teixeira is gonna do some hilarious cosplay
Kyle Bradish lost his first start back from Tommy John but he looked terrific. Pity his worst pitch of the night interrupted a quote from his wife about how great he is
Yeah somehow all the levers of power are held by amoral self-interested people with no concept of the greater good. People you wouldn't play Halo with because they all they do is spawn camp
This sounds like an incoherent crank opinion but I see the logic. Norm erosion, lack of shame, regulatory capture, exploitation of inaction by neutral observers, it's all in there.
I swear you see something new in MLB every damn day, Tucker's throw in hits Matt Chapman at first base and pops the ball to the backstop allowing another run to score and Chapman to go to 2nd
Yes, but it's gonna be a minute before I can get around to cleaning it up and putting it back online. If I haven't gotten back to you this time next week, bug me until I do it
one thing I can't think about too much or I start screaming is how much money goes into advertising medicine that could be put into researching/producing/subsidizing medicine
it's also like... if one or two people in the sample group gets a migraine after taking the drug, it's a potential side effect. who designed this garbage-ass free market pharma game? it becomes dumber the more you learn about it.
lmao
So the point is to make people watch a team they have no connection to, but I might loosen the time zone restrictions when I make new pairings next year. But in the end, you can do whatever you want!
If anything it's far funnier than it seems
Yeah but when they figure it out they are going to go absolutely nuts in the Championship next year
I'm a proud alum of the University of Throwing Good Money After Bad
Remember that thing I had everyone do earlier this season? I finally went through the survey data and learned some stuff
I know my number is higher than that, because I've left that much on the table to leave a job I hated. More than once, actually.
As an aside, I would like to think my price at least crosses the seven-figure threshold, but again, we'll never know unless someone offers me a big enough bribe
Could be. The only way to know for sure is for a nefarious, shadowy figure to write me a series of progressively larger checks until I cash one
Tell me about it. I know there's a dollar amount for which I'd sell out everything and everyone I love, but it's a grave failing of science that I'll never know what that dollar amount is.
first principles, clarice. simplicity. read marcus aurelius. of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? what is its nature? what does he do, this man you seek?
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Yeah I missed flag guy first time around because I was trying to see what they'd written on the banner, and when I looked again he was dodging a motorcycle cop
Christian said this was Decathlon-AG2R but Bruno Armirail (in the French ITT champion's jersey) isn't in the frame. Israel-Premier Tech is the other team in this race that wears a medium blue kit with light sleeves, so, yeah, I have a guess about what these people are protesting
I was filled with sadness seeing Cubs fans in early June overwhelmingly say Kyle Tucker was their team's best player
Currently on the starting ramp: Dries de Pooter
The real answer is I'm rooting for Magnus Sheffield and Filippo Ganna to go berserk and drag Egan Bernal into the race lead
Well the first team to start has a rider named Lars Craps
The Vuelta a España team time trial is starting on Peacock, in case you want to see one of the weirdest-looking spectacles in sports
A more rigorous social science experiment would probably have follow up surveys to account for this, but tbh I don't think you could get an IRB to sign off on a design that Manchurian Candidates its subjects into watching more Rockies games
Remember that thing I had everyone do earlier this season? I finally went through the survey data and learned some stuff
used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
He did say he goes to one wedding a year and he already used this year's on his daughter
Ben McDonald just said that if he got an invite to the Swift-Kelce wedding he wouldn't go. I can't believe they just let you lie like that on TV.
Yeah I wish we lived in a world where "dude" was universally understood to be an inclusive term
"Fuck off, bitch, fuck off" Yells Contreras mid-bat toss Six-game suspension
I've been a devout proponent of the stance that "bros" and "dudes" can be of any gender, but my objection here is that "unc" is not even appropriate for all or even most men
