Been banging this drum for years, and only more loudly since I had to actually spend time with a youth sports team, and yet the usual take on all of this remains that somehow youth athletics are the purest and best pursuit you could put your kids through.
Newspaper excerpt from a Friday evening Seattle Times story: "Arozarena felt disrespected when Raleigh wouldn’t shake his hand prior to his first at-bat in WBC pool play. Per multiple sources, Raleigh had made it clear to Arozarena that he couldn’t shake hands, following a Team USA philosophy agreed upon by the players. But Arozarena attempted a . . . "
So, per the Seattle Times, it's apparently not just Raleigh, it's a team-wide decision to not shake hands. Out of UNITY and SERIOUSNESS. Which is rich given (a) none of Raleigh's teammates came forward to defend him; and (b) his manager is mailing in games because he doesn't know they count. LMFAO
Glory be, the stadium sounds are back
At least they’ve now acknowledged the situation and clarified it’s an audio problem coming from the stadium.
It makes the whole thing sound like a generic YouTube highlight reel.
We love ESPN (or perhaps the 3. Liga) inexplicably playing a music bed under the announcer instead of *the stadium noise*
WAIT IS THE SOUND GUY PLAYING “FORTUNATE SON” FOR A USA VICTORY?!??
LOL
#WBC
It was blowing my mind that people were doing the "ironic" patriotism thing at the Olympics without getting their asses kicked and now it's so much uglier
good luck getting people to go to the new school if you start cutting the actual reasons people go there. has never been cheap!
everyone gangsta until they actions have consequences
MLB requires you Know a Guy or Bring a Brand to EVERYTHING
This is so corny
Team DR has a moral and ethical requirement to prevent this group of living and breathing Thin Blue Line Punisher Tattoos from fulfilling their dream: eating cold McDoubles with a decomposing pedophile
They made Aaron Judge the captain and Mark DeRosa the manager. They designed corny from first principles.
I mean, WWII, surely.
i always forget is this the guy whose squadmates say is lying about killing bin laden
I hate these fucking freaks so much
every time you miss a crosswalk in a captcha, a waymo runs over a child
This is about Painter's start where there appears to be at least 3 sinkers labeled as 4-seam fastballs and possibly 3 sweepers masquerading as sliders.
People publishing their pitch modeling/stuff+ models directly after starts where at least 10% of the pitches are mislabeled by Savant is just very funny. It reminds me of @seidler.bsky.social's piece about slurves and how there were sliders and curves being mashed together and viewed as 1 pitch
This is indicative of a mindset which essentially says "there can be no such thing as scholarship or intelligence when it comes from a group I've been conditioned to demonize" and we'd all be better off if we realized these people are simply like this. There's nothing to persuade here, it's bigotry.
WIRED named the DOGE operative accused here of planning to take Social Security data to his new job. It's John Solly, and he works for the government contractor Leidos, a company that has millions in contracts with SSA.
read more here:
this was Thiel making it very explicit in 2010
this is shocking only if one is not remotely familiar with the history of Palantir, Thiel and Karp
newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Mirelurk-lookin’ ass should crawl back into the Potomac bogs where he belongs
Wishing the absolute worst to this person as soon as possible so he can't inflict even more harm on ordinary people.
