NYT is out here victim blaming a body of water

I like the challenge system but one thing I hadn't considered about the MiLB trials vs full ABS is that they were exclusively low-stakes games. Now I'm thinking we're a few regular season games affected by bad, unchallengeable calls - or even just one playoff game - away from going full ABS in 2027.

ACAB includes umpires.

"No one should ever score more than 81 points" (which wasn't even the record btw) is a new level of hysteria from Kobe fans, which remains the most profoundly embarrassing cults in the NBA.

This is a pretty standard breakdown of those different terms and I’m not sure why this has received the reaction it has.

“In an age that treats vulnerability like weakness, Wembanyama’s boundless passion feels almost radical.”

Ignoring my own biases and the rule of thumb that pre-midterms is too early for determining presidential prospects: "Popular purple state governor" is the sort of candidate that "conventional wisdom" says should have a good shot but when was the last time someone like that was a party's nominee?

I’m running for city council as the only politician that’s not afraid to say that I actually want to make the city more dangerous. We’re going to give everyone a knife and see what happens.

The list of potential candidates is pretty bleak if you want a president who will not only work to reverse the damage Trump has done but also ensure that a presidency like Trump's never happens again. Many voters will look for that in 2028, and no candidate represents that more clearly than AOC.

Nope. Not interested in a system that makes “lousy players on expiring contracts” an asset for tanking teams. It makes the NBA fan experience worse. Also, baseball has way more “offseason business” than others. Arbitration, rule 5, DFAs and other moves on the margins. No one wants more of that.

I went to two different high schools with a clear "most famous alum" and I still don't know how to determine who is more famous between Frank Thomas and Sharon Tate to answer this.

Everyone thinks that wherever they live has the worst drivers because those are the ones they have to deal with. I can confidently say that Kentucky would do terribly in this competition. The drivers here are fine, and the biggest issue is really when they’re overly polite to the point of confusion.

I think it could be a key early game advantage for me but, after factoring in other skills, it may be good for only 10-12 points before everyone else has become familiar enough with the terrain of the court for that advantage to disappear.

Imagine asking the ICE goon that just assaulted you to stand still so you can scan his QR code.

The people of Minnesota will prevail, don't you worry about that.

It probably is something of a detriment to wait longer between games. But when the main playoff narratives are "lower-ranked teams losing proves they don't belong there" and "if a top-ranked team loses, it's because it's rigged", it sure does feel like the media is just coddling the big programs.

I feel like we can make My Morning Jackass happen.

It would be a pretty good bit if some random team that finished 4-8 posted a nearly identical statement right now.

I was going to joke about Netflix making a Casablanca “sequel” called Play It Again, Sam - one of the more famous “movies misquotes that pop culture ran with” - and learned that there’s a Woody Allen movie by that name and that’s probably a big reason that people think that is the real quote.

Detroiters: The Movie

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

Sixth straight season that a Will Smith is a World Series champion. What a dynasty.

Thinking about which team would be most likely to have someone become part-owner and install themselves as manager for 50 years and, guess what, it’s still the Athletics

I strongly disagree on the idea that Platner passes the smell test. A lot of people have said they've caught a whiff of Fetterman on this guy and the Nazi tattoo was very much a moment of "ah, that's where the odor is coming from".

they should always let the pitchers hit tbh

The intentional walk to Vlad Jr. in the 4th has me thinking that MLB needs to try disincentivizing that next. Make it two bases and it goes back to being a pure desperation move. And I think Vlad Jr.’s K in the 5th shows why it’s a dumb move as-is. You rob yourself of momentum when you play scared.

A fun thing about the ALCS and NLCS this year is that you have one team that everyone in America is rooting for (the Mariners), one team that everyone in Canada is rooting for (the Blue Jays), and one team that everyone in Japan is rooting for (the Dodgers). Also, the Brewers are there.

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

The NL West has a collective run differential of -181 with four out of five teams on the positive side.

They’re firing people for nuanced responses that politely get across the idea of “chat shit get banged” so my takeaway is that we can drop the pretense.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

Pope Leo has announced the canonization of the first “millennial saint”: the balloon boy, who made it all the way to heaven in that damn thing

Announcers got off easy with the Spanish spelling, that should be Urionabarrenetxea in the original Basque.

Ken Griffey Jr. should be in Smash

my political PAC is called Fourth Way and it's based on throwing sandwiches at goons

If my life was in danger and I needed to choose someone to score a goal to save it, I’d go with Jansen Wilson because all he does when there’s a big moment is score bangers.

Furthest I've been: N: London E: Napoli S: Daytona W: Las Vegas Weird list of cities tbh

dude, your soda and your boots rock

Love to see my whole timeline dunking on a team. It’s a bit of that “old Twitter” magic finally arriving at Bluesky.

Generally, criticism feels more worth posting and will garner a lot more engagement than posts that are like “I think this thing is fine!” With the Bananas specifically, it’s a reaction to the team’s universally positive reception & the insulting notion that baseball “isn’t fun” w/o these gimmicks.

While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle. https://trib.al/ayccoO7

He's stupid enough to think that he can actually upend the system when he'll most likely just siphon off Republican voters in whatever elections this party contests - which, since he's petty, will most likely be GOP-held Senate & House seats. So I'm not exactly in a hurry to discourage him.

I just weighed an unpopped bag of popcorn and a pack with two hot dogs left to get a better grasp of the weights in play here. That answer (both around 4 oz) is probably less interesting than the fact that Ryan's post prompted me to do that in the first place. Anyways it's probably hot dogs for me.

Obviously you don’t swing. There’s no way that pitch hits the strike zone.

best meme i ever made

Insane

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

I need you all to see the hype video that this person made to sell their 1994 Geo Metro