Providing @tangotiger.com’s plot with a bit more context, the best HR comps are from 2022 on, when humidors became standardized. When compared with @pobguy.bsky.social’s std dev measurements, I’m even more convinced that ball-to-ball inconsistency plays a part in all this.

Interesting!

Did Trump get his days/times mixed up? This isn’t supposed to happen till after the markets close on Friday.

hate to praise Massie, but this is funny

here’s your benny hill

Quality AB right here.

at last, someone has out-Metsed the Mets

make a wish theory of this admin is undefeated

“There’s—my God, I can’t believe it—Hunter Biden’s on the wing of this plane, and he’s smoking out of a glass pipe,” said the visibly alarmed Donald Trump

I just can't imagine what the future will be.

“The United States is a joke” really doesn’t narrow it down these days

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In future, please refer to me as “Friend of the Newsletter Dr. Meredith Wills.” 😊

Coach load of Belgians last night.

It is awful here today.

will say it forever: equal pay was a tremendously favorable deal for the men

I imagine the administration is going to try to cancel the rest of the World Cup games now.

Waiting for a matchup with Trump backing one team and Ted Cruz backing the other. Which curse is more powerful? 🔮

The US can still win the World Cup if Donald Trump has the courage

If you are part of a sports team that is in contention for a major title, you probably don’t want to have Trump get involved in any way.

Iran War disaster. Knicks game loss. Hail at Mt. Rushmore on July 3. Sandstorm in DC on July 4. 4-1 World Cup loss. Trump is like a traveling pestilence.

The Hill saw NPR’s story on Alito’s retirement and said, “Hold my beer.”

Nothing like @durhambulls.bsky.social hosting a World Cup Watch Party in the pouring rain. ⛈️ (After USA’s goal, they fired up the bull! 🐂🔥)

Loved chatting with @shaynarubin.bsky.social about 2026’s baseball weirdness. 🤪 (HELP! I NEED BASEBALLS! ⚾️⚾️🙏)

“After Sword emailed Rawlings asking to compare the 2019 [home run] ball…and the 2020 [dead ball] design,…MLB continued making and using both baseballs. If creating a more consistent baseball was the league’s goal, making and using two of them…was a funny way of showing it.” ⚾️⚾️👀

After that conflagration, they’ll have to drain the Reflecting Pool anyway.

Avignon FIFA

Upwards, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1929, (rotated, detail), 📸 by Lars Baron

Equality Before Death, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1848, 📸 by Mathias Schulz

In 2019, an MLB exec told Rawlings the league wanted its baseball to perform to what he called a ‘target leaguewide home run rate’ The next year, MLB started making and using two baseballs in at least three consecutive seasons. What could this mean for the 2026 rocket ball? issa new [eyeblack]

On one level Trump intervening with FIFA is disgrace, but on another level there's something perversely refreshing for Trump simply to be playing the same corrupt game FIFA and lots of other countries have played over the years rather than demonstrating unprecedented, unilateral corruption.

The USA is now hoping that corruption helps it in the World Cup. It truly is Donald Trump’s country.

Trump would find a way to inject brazen cheating into the most popular sporting event in the world… 😑

Being a woman rocks because if you use AI you’re stupid and if you don’t use AI you’re dumb

#RAISEIT🏴‍☠️

Trump "blinks" during the fireworks show in DC (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)

Fox News is just Trump’s fan cam Jumbotron.

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Absolute cinema.

Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.

It gives me no joy to report that the weather appears to be clearing here at the Great American State Fair, but fear not: there are still thousands of people who already waited in line once now waiting in a large, irritated crowd to get back in (Internet's fucked, text only for now)

Sometimes if people want to get hit by lightning you just let them

🍿🍿🍿

I feel like this is gonna come in handy…

Mother Nature has a chance to do the funniest thing. 🌩️⚡️

- Reflecting pool algae - Heat-related parade cancellation - Storm-related National Mall closure Mother Nature: 3 Trump: 0

I resent the “dude” assumption. #TeamTolkien