Kevin

Spotted in a bookstore in Edinburgh, my buddy Ryan Foley's book 1978, about a seminal year in the evolution of modern football. Buy it!

From Pitch Publishing.

#englishfootball #footballhistory #footballnostalgia #pitchpublishing #newbook #newreleases #2025bookreleases #writerslife #writers

Two redheads on the field for the #RedSox tonight.

We're slowly taking over baseball.

I'm currently helping my daughter (pre-law undergrad student) with cover letters for summer internships at the Southern Poverty Law Center and States United Democracy Center, very proud of her civic-mindedness and dedication to inclusion and justice.

Gloves drop as soon as the puck does in the USA-Canada Four Nations game, followed by two more fights in the first 9 seconds. Gotta love it.

I had no idea the Canadian flag was that young.

This is my shocked face.

TIL that Cooper was selected by the Cardinals in the 1970 Rule 5 draft from the Red Sox, and then returned to Sox after spring training in 1971.

The sun rises over JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Florida. There's a golden glow and sunflare across the outfield in the empty ballpark.

Good morning Fort Myers...and hello Bluesky! 👋

thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight

2025 MLB Farm System Rankings For All 30 Teams Baseball America's preseason 2025 MLB Farm System talent rankings are here, headlined by the Boston Red Sox.

The Boston Red Sox are No. 1 in our annual farm system talent rankings for the first time in our rankings history (which stretches back to 1983).

The Tigers #2 ranking is also a best in org history.

www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2025...

@atlbravesofficial.bsky.social great #HankAaron was born #OTD in 1934.

He had a hammer.

Not for nothing, but announcing that the US is taking over Gaza the same week you’re neutering the FBI’s entire counterterrorism program isn’t that smart from a security perspective.

The greatest third baseman of all time, and a dashing redhead to boot, much like a certain sports artist you may know.

Michael Jack Schmidt, color pastel on paper, 2024.

I'm in.

But I want you to ponder the implications of this literal Bond villain being given the keys to so many aspects of our government, and to consider his motivations and self-interests as he continues to do what he’s doing.

#USAID

I say this not out self-preservation or self-interest; I don’t think my job is at risk, although in these last two weeks, now that we’ve sailed straight through the looking glass, who knows?

So to see Elon Musk tear USAID down so quickly and with such callous glee (he boasted on X that he “spent the weekend feeding USAID into the woodchipper” and that “USAID is evil” and that “USAID must die”) is upsetting and ominous.

I helped out on searches for other USAID-funded projects, most of them focused on bringing potable drinking water and sanitary sewer systems to developing countries in Africa, providing massive gains in the fundamental quality of life for these underserved areas.

I was able to recruit an appropriate candidate for the role, and I’ve remained in the civil engineering industry since then, which has given me a career satisfaction that I value greatly.

A Requiem for USAID:

I've been a recruiter in the civil engineering industry for over a decade. One of the first searches I worked on was for a Chief of Party for a rural roads rehab project in Liberia, the firm was partnering with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

I haven't seen any of the Best Actress performances that were nominated this year yet, but I *can* say Pamela Anderson was really goddamn good in The Last Showgirl. Transcendent. I never felt like I was watching Pamela Anderson, only the character on the screen. I wish she had been nominated.

The Knuckler, color pastel on paper, 2025.