Nats in shambles 😂😂😂

I’m sorry. Bringing Paul Goldschmidt back after the expected fall off the cliff second half is nasty work.

I would like to know what the Chicago Bulls plan is. What exactly are they working towards?

As always, I had a blast doing the @viewsfrom314ft.com pod with @pamsson.bsky.social. We talked about... ⚾️ The #Yankees' rather similar roster (and their messaging around it) ⚾️ Some of the RH bats still on the market ⚾️ The rest of the AL East ⚾️ My new pod & more

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

For my latest piece, I spent the weekend writing about sports' response to the killing of Alex Pretti, slave patrol resistance in 1850s Boston, anarchist calisthenics, and overcoming nihilism to ensure we abolish ICE. www.goldenstateofmind.com/general/1076...

STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (NBPA) AND ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS BY ICE

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

I’m still trying to figure out what the hell Stidham was thinking with that backwards pass. Also, what are the refs doing blowing that whistle?

Good. Stay away.

Spencer Strider knows what time it is.

There is a lot going on in the world, but when you have a chance to see Manchester United beat fraudulent Arsenal, you have to celebrate.

Don’t excuse my language when I say this: Fuck Arsenal. Glory United.

Federal agents in Minneapolis wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and secured the handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of video footage. Read more: https://wapo.st/4qGOx8M

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

It’s as if you have the power to demand every Democratic senator refuse to fund this bullshit, coward.

An ICU nurse does more in one day than an ICE officer does in their entire life

They executed an ICU nurse.

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

They loudest ones joined ICE

I’ve just been working all week on a roundup of local elections this year (things like sheriff) in blue leaning areas that collaborate with ICE. Look forward to sharing it soon.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

There is a dirty little secret in firearms training: instructors will all but tell you to do this because more shots fired reinforces the narrative at trial that you were actually afraid for your life

The AP reports that an ICE officer responded to those protesting the cold blood murder this morning by mockingly saying, “‘Boo hoo.’” “Agents elsewhere shoved a yelling protester into a car.” apnews.com/article/immi...

Reminder: after Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez in October, DHS tried to claim it was because she was armed. The gun never left her purse and she had a concealed carry license for it.

these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

After this Bellinger deal, I see no path for Spencer Jones with the Yankees.

Jon Heyman saying the Mets were involved in the Bellinger sweepstakes hours before they trade for Robert Jr. is embarrassing as hell. Just tell us you’re a Boras mouthpiece at this point. We all know what’s going on.

Friday afternoon, ABC News ran an interview with one of Mischief Toy Store's owners about the store's practice of giving away free whistles. Hours later, ICE agents showed up at their door. Here's my story (gift link):

This Cody Bellinger negotiation is odd IMO. I obviously have no idea what info Scott Botas has, but it feels like he and Cody are viewing a totally different market than literally everyone else in the industry.

There are some horrendous 49ers takes out there. Jeez. I don’t understand why people need to complicate things just to get an opinion off. You don’t need to be the smartest person in the room all the time.

Am I crazy or could this actually kill him if this bullshit actually worked?

Had a blast on the Views From 314 ft podcast with @pamsson.bsky.social! We talked... ⚾️ Trent Grisham's return to the #Yankees & why he can remain an impact bat ⚾️ Tatsuya Imai, the Japanese market & NY's rotation ⚾️ Jasson Domínguez's future Much more here:

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

The crash outs over Judge winning MVP again are delicious.

You can listen to the latest episode here: t.co/qklYLx5QPa

They have dumb dummies on this site too? Ugh.

I am amazed at how many people on Twitter don’t understand that 325 is more than 300 when discussing the Yankees failing to sign Yamamoto. The Dodgers made him the highest paid pitcher in baseball history. I would love LA too.

And why is there a concert in the middle of the game?

I’ll be that guy. It’s really hard to rationalize the stand up to cancer MLB campaign knowing a LOT of the people on that field voted for a guy who is actively dismantling cancer research and picked a meth head who hates vaccines as his health guy.

It took all of one day for “the peace in the Middle East” project to hit predictable, and probably planned, issues to arise. Shocking.

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

I am happy hostages on both sides are going home, but I have zero faith that war criminals whose whole identity is rooted in cruelty and destruction are going to be the brokers of peace all of a sudden.

I’m at the point now where the Aaron Boone era Yankees repeatedly fail in the playoffs because of a distinct inability to consistently rise to the level of the stakes in the playoffs. They simply do not elevate their games in the postseason. They have zero killer instinct. Toronto did and they won.

I’m not a big sports narrative guy but this Judge postseason thing looks real. I know he’s had hits but the playoffs are also about moments in a game. He isn’t creating nearly enough of them in the playoffs as he does in the regular season.

Luke Weaver is the new Mark Leiter Jr.