Matt Ford

I was pulling for Korea, but that’s a great win by Taiwan after a rocky start to this tournament.

Bonkers that the first two walk-off HRs in WBC history both happened today.

Walking it off for Puerto Rico in San Juan has to be an incredible feeling

427 feet, what a beauty

Kyle Schwarber has postponed the American Century of Humiliation for another day.

Tell them to score some runs

Hell of a catch by Trayce Thompson.

Really kind of morally offensive how much contempt these people have for curiosity.

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol The memorial honoring officers who defended the Capitol was required by law to be installed by March 2023.

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police quietly erected overnight at Capitol

And I bet he could still send one 425 feet.

For some reason even Farewell Season Unc Kershaw didn’t have this effect on me.

Albert Pujols in manager glasses

Nothing has hammered home that I’m in my mid-to-late 30s quite like seeing Manager Glasses Albert Pujols.

Great defense by the Brazilians.

Part of the reason that the GWB administration spent so long convincing the U.S. to invade Iraq is that it took that long to move enough forces into place to do it.

A split screen of NCA/DOM and PUR/COL

WBCmaxxing

this is not incidental!

to be a liberal/pluralist of any kind requires accepting that other people will see things differently than you do and that you have no sanctified monopoly on the One Truth.

this is what illiberals hate about liberalism. it’s the starting point for many.

graphic with the quote, "When a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it's front-page news. I get it, the press only wants to make the president look bad."

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's response to US troops dying

4. In the rules summary displayed to users at the time the Market was opened and during the period when most trades were placed, Defendants prominently represented that “if Ali Khamenei leaves office before March 1, 2026, then the market resolves to yes.” This language was clear, unambiguous, and binary: if Khamenei left office for any reason—including death—the Market would resolve to “yes” and holders of “yes” positions would receive the full contractual payout. 5. On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran. News outlets began reporting that Khamenei had been killed. Khamenei’s death was subsequently confirmed. By any reasonable interpretation of the Market’s terms, Khamenei had “left office” before March 1, 2026, and the Market should have resolved to “yes.” 6. Instead, after Khamenei’s death became public, Defendants invoked a socalled “death carveout” provision—a fine-print mechanism designed to allow Defendants to avoid paying consumers what they were owed when the predicted event occurred through its most foreseeable scenario. Under this provision, Defendants asserted that if the leader “leaves solely because they have died,” the Market would

Lawgeeks, here's the complaint against Kalshi for not paying out the bet on "Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader" because he died.

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"It's maintained at CBS" is going to provide zero comfort to CNNers.

I do not have words for the revulsion I feel over this.

There’s a college basketball game leading into tonight’s WBC match-up and it’s nothing but foul-baiting. What an awful place for the sport to be in.

Napoleon low key the funniest guy in European history because he was like “what if I promoted officers based on how good they were at army and recruited troops who actually liked my country“ and it was basically the same as unleashing Godzilla.

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

Should’ve paid Kenneth Walker III

Gunsmith and no idea.

Apparently she’s in the only room in America without a cell phone

I’ve never switched to C-SPAN 3 faster in my life

CNBC Sport: Paramount may unwind WBD's sports strategy if merger goes through WBD's sports strategy it has deployed since it lost NBA rights may not make sense if it's acquired by Paramount.

Interesting read (albeit a paywalled one) on how the Paramount/WBD merger and the imminent NFL rights renegotiations are going to upend sports broadcasting:

AI Woke JFK would put up Jordan numbers in The Villages

We’ve got to spread baseball to more countries. I want to see Transylvania vs. Mongolia in the next WBC.