Tommy Acuff

A kid who works for us is getting married today.

I worked retail for 25 years, which meant I worked Saturdays for most of 1997-2022. I didn't get many off, and if I'm being honest, it sometimes bugged me having to use a Saturday off for a wedding.

A Wednesday wedding appeals to me very much.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

I'll drive. I may have to work the bullpen game 2

This is why you make the trade for McKenzie Gore.

This is why.

They're so scared. Of everything.

They think that being the biggest and toughest and meanest means they won't be scared anymore.

Tied into that is the need to punish the people who live the lives they wish they did.

you have to admit "can you make a documentary about a contemporary subject that never directly quotes anything he ever said or did" is kind of an interesting challenge from an artistic perspective

That's all we got? One god Damn hit?

One hit? One God Damn hit?

National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I seem to recall the right storming the Capitol on January 6th and beating police officers with the U.S. flag.

Battle doomscrolling by passing 5 small pleasures in life:

1. My wife touching the back of my neck.
2. The smell of rain on a dry summer day
3. A fluidly turned double play
4. Fried Pickles from Toot's
5. When you hear Sam over Cap's comm.... on your left......

What a terrible time to have a conscience.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

This morning, I have a weird feeling that somebody like San Francisco or Texas are going to sneak their way into the postseason and wreak havoc.

They should have made Michael Peña Ant-Man.

Woooo.

Willi Castro.

Wooo.

I don't know if I miss going to Dragon Con, or just going someplace with 14 people, piling into 2 hotel rooms, getting drunk and eating like shit for 4 days.

a woman in a red suit says it was embarrassing netflix ALT: a woman in a red suit says it was embarrassing netflix

Fucking hell. Gods bless Boyd. This entire pitching staff deserves better. Wouldn't have mattered if they'd traded for a monster starter. Wouldn't have given him run support either.

Ranking the 3 Zero Sugar root beers I've tried in the last couple weeks:

1. Barq's
2. Mug
3. A&W

This is the reverse order of how I would rank their sugared versions.

Today started well, but ended kinda bullshitty.

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:

1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;

2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;

3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

It is a pity that Warren Oates passed before he could show up in a Coen Brothers flick.

Nothing says Peace Prize like deploying armed troops to the streets of your cities.

Finished When the Clock Broke by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social. Strong read, especially for those of us who lived through the 90s and have spent the last 10 or more years wondering how we got into this handbag.....

I like statcast games.

Even if I never glance at the stats. They talk primarily about the game

That's what I appreciate about it.

Fucking Brewers.

"When is it safe to eat Hulk Hogan"

My pre orders for a couple of Marvel epic collections were showing $60.

They've priced me out of the hobby.

Listening to the Jurassic Park soundtrack as I mow.

Not impossible that a giant lizard will jump out of the wild and eat me.....

Yup