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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...

My beloved fighting Illini did it better

Baseball is not for the faint of heart. It will fuck you up. Good & bad. And you’ll be back for more.

Hey listen you know you can splash in ANY liquid into the sauce for finishing the pasta, right? It doesn’t have to be the pasta water. It can be anything. Sink water. Wine. Chx stock. The idea is just the pasta does its last minute of cooking in a slightly watery sauce, which it helps reduce.

Three bear cubs sit closely together.

Cerbearus

That look means Bobby is ready to fight. Just ask Nikola Mirotic

Nikola Mirotic knows.

Absolute fucking nazis

Married her yesterday.

That’s fantastic

I had a prolonged LOL at your suggestion to stack Kyler and Bryce on top of each other wearing a trench coat. So good!

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

This is a must listen every week. I listen to a lot of podcasts, most are good or very good. This is the best.

no one has ever said this. no one has ever even experienced it as the sort of passing thought you immediately bat away because it’s disgusting

the worst show in sports, for over a decade

still can't get over what we learned today that the actual story is elon musk just copied enough of wikipedia word-for-word for grokipedia to be useful but rewrote all articles related to him to be more favorable, leaving out facts he doesn't want people to see or talk about

Guy who signs up for Peacock to watch the NBA, falls in love with the first two seasons of Girls 5EVA on non-NBA nights, and then righteously cancels Peacock when he finds out they didn't pick up the third season.

One thing about Brian Kelly is that nobody likes him

Never been closer to

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

An aunt is any woman who 1. Knows your parents 2. Sees you 1 or more times per year on average 3. Notices how tall you've gotten

im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied

Ayo Dosunmu being Trae Young’s daddy

Big Trae Young feature story on ESPN today: www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

To this I say:

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

The Lakers Whistle is not a meme, it lives even when the Lakers have no actual stars in the game.

TRUMPET MEME

NATIONAL TIGHT END DAY

Fantastic