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If You Went To Sleep, Sorry But You Are Not Forgiven | Defector I think we can all agree we got cheated last night, and to be technical about it, it was still last night—at least on the West Coast where the nice people live—when Freddie Freeman hit the 609th pitch...

If you went to bed before the conclusion of that 18-inning marathon World Series game, Ray Ratto has a message for you:

The Blue Jays bar at the end of the world There are no roads in and out. Only planes can get you there, and of course, boats. But that's only if Frobisher Bay isn’t frozen over (which it is for about nine months of the year). Canada’s norther...

This is an absolutely delightful read:

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Yoshinobu Yamamoto retired the final TWENTY hitters he faced 🤯

Alabama Didn't Just Execute a Possibly Innocent Man. They Tortured Him. Anthony Boyd’s nitrogen gas execution lasted over 20 minutes. He gasped 225 times. He maintained his innocence until the end.

Alabama Didn't Just Execute a Possibly Innocent Man. They Tortured Him.

The "Abbott Elementary" baseball team 👀

Show creator and star, Quinta Brunson, put together a team with Abbott characters ⚾️

Stream the episode featuring Kyle Schwarber and a trip to a Phillies game on Hulu!

Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitchers,
6+ innings, 8+ strikeouts, <=4 hits allowed:

in 162 regular season games --> 16 times
in 6 postseason games --> 5 times 😮

Very excited for the yelling about nerd stuff on the Glasnow hook when most of the analytical people I know, myself included, would have left him in for the 7th

The Dodgers pose for a team photo on the field after their walk-off win in LA. They wear black Dodgers NLCS shirts.

The @Dodgers are movin' on 💪 #NLCS

I think it’s fair to say @frankstampfl.bsky.social and I are on opposite ends of the “knowing lord of the rings” spectrum

first time in 93 years that someone's hit 53+ homers in a season and batted over .330 doing it

Another Fantasy Baseball Today regular season in the books! That's now five full seasons on the podcast and I couldn't be more grateful! I want to thank everybody who supports FBT, whether it's the podcast, watching on Youtube, or consuming our work on the CBS Sports website. We appreciate you!

The Guardians were as many as 15.5 games behind in the division in early July

This is the largest deficit overcome to tie or take the lead in a division (1969-on) or league (1900-‘68)

Their 11-game Sept deficit is the largest Sept deficit overcome to tie/lead

h/t @EliasSports

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The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

I think the Phillies are coming out of the NL. Very complete team

No matter how hard MLB might like, in this current moment, to disentangle Roberto Clemente’s race and ethnicity from his legacy, that’s impossible. It’s dishonest and dishonorable, sure, but you also cannot talk about Clemente and what made him important without that. Great piece.

Clemente, who got used to being slapped with labels throughout his life and who came from a place that has lived in a colonialized limbo for over a century now, didn't pause a moment to consider whether the people affected by a disaster thousands of miles away were within his required circle of empathy or help. He took action, with conviction, because those people were worth as much to him as he himself was. We haven't resolved the colonial status of Puerto Rico in any satisfactory way, and life there gets more precarious by the year, as economic forces and climate change conspire against it. We also haven't resolved the sense of twice-baked alienation Clemente so often felt early in his baseball career. Preferring to read the direction of the wind and blow with it, the Commissioner's Office has abdicated any responsibility to address either issue. It can't be that way, for those of us who care a bit more about the game and the world it's played in than do Rob Manfred and his cohort. The history of American influence (sometimes imperialist, sometimes colonialist, sometimes covert, sometimes salutary, sometimes calamitous) in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezuela and other places is inextricably connected to the growth and development of baseball. In a sport awash in Spanish speakers and immigrants and supported by no small number of people who sound and look like those players, baseball has a huge, urgent duty to speak up each September—not just about the virtue of a great throwing arm and mission work, but about the relationship between the U.S. and many of its neighbors, and about how wide our circles of empathy ought to sweep. The league doesn't want that conversation right now, so please, start it yourselves. Otherwise, we'll be paying just two-thirds tribute to the legacy of Clemente—and letting too much water flow under the bridge.

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Oh boy

The United States Supreme Court saying that it's perfectly fine for federal agents and the police to make indiscriminate stops and interrogations of people based on their color, race, ethnicity, and the language that they speak is the effective end of civil rights in this country.

Maybe Greg Amsinger can tell us the Powerball numbers, too?

How crypto billionaires took over Trump’s political machine Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC has raised more than $40 million from crypto elite. Here’s what that means for the future of the GOP.

Really don’t love how confident the cryptosphere seems that it can buy Trump and the future of the GOP, and how extremely correct they’ve been so far about that bet

"A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.”

This was Vin Scully's call of Henry Aaron's 715th home run. Tonight Major League Baseball cut off the first sentence, starting it with the "What a marvelous moment" part because they don't want to anger the white supremacists who run our country and of whom Rob Manfred is an ardent supporter.

the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

Dodgers block ICE agents from entering stadium in Los Angeles, team says — NBC News ​The baseball team reportedly had plans to announce assistance for immigrant communities in L.A. on Thursday.

Messing up the money now

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"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

100%. and watch the word choices they all use to describe the protestors.

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 38 people, including children, as Noem visits Israel Gaza's Health Ministry said 3,785 people have been killed in the territory since Israel ended a ceasefire and renewed its offensive in March.

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Bad man

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students