Finn🌊

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

two frames: - first frame: lady yells "Why can't you be normal?" - second frame: Game 7 of the World Series with the caption "[screaming]"

players' last games should match their careers:
charlie morton got a curveball strikeout and a tearful tribute
joey votto went out arguing a strike call (votto was right)
max should get to eat an entire team and possibly an umpire like saturn devouring his sons, but as a little treat

oh that cannot happen

FUCK. YOU.

A closer look at Josh Naylor’s shoes ✨👀

Baseball is a sport that gives us the defensive player hurdle and that's beautiful.

An ereader on top of a cutting board against a green checkered towel. The screen shows the cover of Recipe for Trouble by Dylan Morrison, which features two men cooking against a dark periwinkle background.

A 5-star reader review! 'One of the top non-spicy MM romances I've read over the last year. I loved this book! It warmed my heart.' There's also a small image of the cover of Recipe for Trouble by Dylan Morrison, which features two men cooking against a dark periwinkle background.

A 5-star reader review! 'This book should absolutely be savoured, mouthful by delicious mouthful, but I've never had much restraint and so I just gobbled it right up in two days and I do not regret my life choices.' There's also a small image of the cover of Recipe for Trouble by Dylan Morrison, which features two men cooking against a dark periwinkle background.

A 5-star reader review! 'An utterly compelling, emotionally layered, highly original romance, which manages to be both laugh-out-loud funny and heartache-inducing.' There's also a small image of the cover of Recipe for Trouble by Dylan Morrison, which features two men cooking against a dark periwinkle background.

RECIPE FOR TROUBLE is OUT TODAY! in ebook/audio/print a.co/d/ee50VJW! but you can also find it via bookshop.org, b&n, libro.fm, many places! talking up my own work is not an area of strength! i hope you enjoy my loving queer homage to the golden age of romcoms in this trying time!

@TXRangersPR tweeted
Semien paced A.L. second basemen in fielding percentage (.996), committing just 2 errors in 493 total chances. The 13-year MLB veteran led qualified A.L. 2B with 5 defensive runs saved (FanGraphs), while ranking 3rd with 7 Outs Above Average (Statcast).

@TXRangersPR tweeted
Seager's career-high 16 defensive runs saved (FanGraphs) were 12 more than his total in 2024 (4) and 2nd-most among A.L. shortstops this season to only TB's Taylor Walls (17). Among A.L. SS with 800+ innings played, Seager's .988 fielding pct. (4 E/340 TC) was the highest.

@JaredSandler tweeted
The Rangers set a MLB record for the highest fielding percentage in a single season.

Fittingly, the Rangers have FIVE Gold Glove Finalists

P Jacob deGrom
2B Marcus Semien
SS Corey Seager
OF Wyatt Langford
OF Adolis Garcia

The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year.

It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.

yeahhh. a foundational piece of this movement its insistence that trans people are unreliable narrators, even on ourselves. this limits our ability to spread info outside our own circles, however true said info is! if your credibility has not been eroded in this way you gotta pick up the baton

how the fuck is this game still happening

At the risk of sounding flippant about Current Times (which I assure you I do not “lol”) I’m here to say! After a long day doing your little best to stem the rising tide if fascism, what better to try & soothe your soul to regroup tomorrow than a lovely book that believes in the best of us.

much as i'm not shocked, it is *unbelievable* to me universities are banning talk of ... me. myself. my existence. what the hell, folks.

this is why you can’t give an inch to transphobes. they are driven by hate and no amount of kindness will make them even momentarily soften. it is a militant ideology.

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care.

#DidThisToday

This is a big deal!

@JeffWilsonTXR tweeted
I passed this along during the @DLLS_Rangers Podcast, but forgot to share it here:

The 2025 #Rangers set the single-season MLB record for team fielding percentage at .99112, passing the 2013 Orioles (.99104).

WE'RE IN BAYBEEEEEEEEEEEE

Everyone come together and give Donovan Carrillo all your best vibes NOW

Figure skaters love to pick the worst cover of a song you've ever heard in your life

Blue #4, by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1916, 📸 by Mitchell Leff

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Hi! Former library worker and constant library user here. I'd like to add: If you don't consider yourself a "reader" the library still has SO much for you! Audio books, DVDs, music, digital databases, makers spaces, classes, clubs, games, etc. Many offer FREE passes to local attractions like... (1)

Your friendly local online librarian approves this message. 👍

Your librarian also reminds you #libraries also have media, and some even check out games, museum passes, etc. So yea, read a book or two, but need a media break, we got you covered too.

having fun is in fact never hard when you have a library card

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people