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After yesterday’s game, Jac Cags has the highest average exit velocity of anyone in baseball. #smallsamplesize
June 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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205+ Hits, 138+ Runs, 159+ RBI, 134+ Walks,
any 162-game span in MLB History:

Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams, Aaron Judge
April 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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slack2thefuture.bsky.social
Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.
A screengrab from Twitter. HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks: “Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism” David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply: “Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”
April 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Dallas Goedert to the Colts is my official prediction.
April 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The largest paying crowd in the history of Wrigley Field was the day Jackie Robinson made his debut. Wrigley is the only park left Jackie played a game in. Mike Ryoko was a kid at that ballpark that day and he wrote about it. Take a minute and read this today.

press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...
A newspaper clipping from Mike Ryoko part one: Jackie's Debut a Unique Day All that Saturday, the wise men of the neighborhood, who sat in chairs on the sidewalk outside the tavern, had talked about what it would do to baseball. I hung around and listened because baseball was about the most important thing in the world, and if anything was going to ruin it, I was worried. Most of the things they said, I didn't understand, although it all sounded terrible. But could one man bring such ruin? They said he could and would. And the next day he was going to be in Wrigley Field for the first time, on the same diamond as Hack, Nicholson, Cavarretta, Schmitz, Pafko, and all my other idols. I had to see Jackie Robinson, the man who was going to somehow wreck everything. So the next day, another kid and I started walking to the ballpark early. We always walked to save the streetcar fare. It was five or six miles, but I felt about baseball the way Abe Lincoln felt about education. Usually, we could get there just at noon, find a seat in the grandstand, and watch some batting practice. But not that Sunday, May 18, 1947. By noon, Wrigley Field was almost filled. The crowd outside spilled off the sidewalk and into the streets. Scalpers were asking top dollar for box seats and getting it. Part II: I had never seen anything like it. Not just the size, although it was a new record, more than 47,000. But this was twenty-five years ago, and in 1947 few blacks were seen in the Loop, much less up on the white North Side at a Cub game. That day, they came by the thousands, pouring off the northbound Ls and out of their cars. They didn't wear baseball-game clothes. They had on church clothes and funeral clothes·suits, white shirts, ties, gleaming shoes, and straw hats. I've never seen so many straw hats. As big as it was, the crowd was orderly. Almost unnaturally so. People didn't jostle each other. The whites tried to look as if nothing unusual was happening, while the blacks tried to look casual and dignified. So everybody looked slightly ill at ease. For most, it was probably the first time they had been that close to each other in such great numbers. We managed to get in, scramble up a ramp, and find a place to stand behind the last row of grandstand seats. Then they shut the gates. No place remained to stand. Robinson came up in the first inning. I remember the sound. It wasn't the shrill, teenage cry you now hear, or an excited gut roar. They applauded, long, rolling applause. A tall, middle-aged black man stood next to me, a smile of almost painful joy on his face, beating his palms together so hard they must have hurt. Part III: When Robinson stepped into the batter's box, it was as if someone had flicked a switch. The place went silent. He swung at the first pitch and they erupted as if he had knocked it over the wall. But it was only a high foul that dropped into the box seats. I remember thinking it was strange that a foul could make that many people happy. When he struck out, the low moan was genuine. I've forgotten most of the details of the game, other than that the Dodgers won and Robinson didn't get a hit or do anything special, although he was cheered on every swing and every routine play. But two things happened I'll never forget. Robinson played first, and early in the game a Cub star hit a grounder and it was a close play. Just before the Cub reached first, he swerved to his left. And as he got to the bag, he seemed to slam his foot down hard at Robinson's foot. It was obvious to everyone that he was trying to run into him or spike him. Robinson took the throw and got clear at the last instant. I was shocked. That Cub, a hometown boy, was my biggest hero. It was not only an unheroic stunt, but it seemed a rude thing to do in front of people who would cheer for a foul ball. I didn't understand why he had done it. It wasn't at all big league. I didn't know that while the white fans were relatively polite, the Cubs and most other teams kept up a steady stream of racial abuse from the dugout. I thought that all they did down there was talk about how good Wheaties are. Part IV: Late in the game, Robinson was up again, and he hit another foul ball. This time it came into the stands low and fast, in our direction. Somebody in the seats grabbed for it, but it caromed off his hand and kept coming. There was a flurry of arms as the ball kept bouncing, and suddenly it was between me and my pal. We both grabbed. I had a baseball. The two of us stood there examining it and chortling. A genuine major-league baseball that had actually been gripped and thrown by a Cub pitcher, hit by a Dodger batter. What a possession. Then I heard the voice say: "Would you consider selling that?" It was the black man who had applauded so fiercely. I mumbled something. I didn't want to sell it. "I'll give you ten dollars for it," he said. Ten dollars. I couldn't believe it. I didn't know what ten dollars could buy because I'd never had that much money. But I knew that a lot of men in the neighborhood considered sixty dollars a week to be good pay. I handed it to him, and he paid me with ten $1 bills. When I left the ball park, with that much money in my pocket, I was sure that Jackie Robinson wasn't bad for the game. Since then, I've regretted a few times that I didn't keep the ball. Or that I hadn't given it to him free. I didn't know, then, how hard he probably had to work for that ten dollars. But Tuesday I was glad I had sold it to him. And if that man is still around, and has that baseball, I'm sure he thinks it was worth every cent.
April 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.
mims.bsky.social Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Apr 9
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”

Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.

The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.

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Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
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April 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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American Dream: Fail Up
March 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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90 seconds of Antonio Gates dropping sweet lefty jumpers on Alabama in the 2002 Tournament:
March 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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4 innings of bullpen work without a hit or walk by the Dodgers to start 2025
March 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Seahawks seem like an odd landing spot for Kupp. My money is on JSN to our target Kupp
March 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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If you or someone you know has negotiated a fantasy trade with Chuck Schumer, plz message. I'm working on a story.
March 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Dre Greenlaw is such a great signing for the Broncos. I’m also happy with the Javonte Williams landing spot.
March 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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March 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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I think George Pickens gets moved this offseason
March 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Jon Gruden reviving famous pre-draft staple with ‘Gruden’s QB Class’
Jon Gruden’s QB Camp ran for nine seasons on ESPN, becoming a pre-draft staple before vanishing alongside its host in 2018. Now, it appears to be making a comeback — just not on ESPN. Gruden, who left the Worldwide Leader long before his scandalous…
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March 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Brady waiting on Stafford to stumble in
February 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Choose one film from each of your 30 favorite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still.

#Filmsky 🎥 #MovieSky 🎬📽

1/30

PT Anderson

There Will Be Blood (2007)
Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview in PT Anderson's "There Will Be Blood"
February 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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February 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Gulf of Mexico shrimp and gulf of American shrimp and the American shrimp looks raw and busted as hell
February 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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In October, the Chiefs traded for DeAndre Hopkins, the Bills traded for Amari Cooper, and the Ravens traded for Diontae Johnson. They have a combined 0 receptions on 1 target in the divisional round of the playoffs
January 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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No timeout?
December 29, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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November 15, 2024 at 3:59 AM