Melissa Baese-Berk

I love baseball so much. #flythew

Apologies for typos. It’s the palpitations. Or the staying up too late.

Them: How’d you spend your Thursday night?
Me: Staying up to late, voluntarily watching a sporting event that makes me nauseated and have heart palpitations while trying not to scream and wake the sleeping toddler.

I love going to a show during playoff baseball where people are screaming updates to each other from the bathroom stalls.

I’m so glad the cubs get to play baseball tomorrow and they respectfully ended the game before this concert starts. #flythew

Oh, what am I up to? Just quickly recovering from one 3 hour barf fest before the next one gets super barfy. #flythew #gocubsgo #dirtywater

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TEXT: Final: Red Sox 3, Yankees 1 IMAGE: Aroldis Chapman stands and shouts on the mound in celebration at Yankee Stadium following the final out.

Game 1. Game Won.

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I love playoff baseball so much, but I’d sort of forgotten the specific brand of nausea it induces for me. #flythew

Good sports weekend! #scoducks #gocubsgo etc etc

The Ducks game is on in a family friendly restaurant with my toddler. What could go wrong??

Both my teams are in the playoffs and it’s a weekend of meaningful regular season games. What more could my baseball loving heart want?!

We had guests today so I’m just now catching up on the Rizzo retirement extravaganza and doing my best baseball crying.

My kid (2;10): “I want the children to laugh. I want them think me funny.” Apparently, he’s channeling me before teaching.

It’s nights like tonight that I’m reminded the Cubs gave up Kyle Schwarber for literally nothing.

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I have a very very good memory for names and faces and learned the names of the (10) kids in my kid’s preschool and their parents on the first day, which led to this from my husband:

“You’re so good at names, it’s a shame you don’t like people more”

Linguistics is the best! (And maybe also helpful!!)

Why are we watching so much of this child cosplaying as umpire?

The Wrigley organist playing Hamilton is the MOST in my wheelhouse thing ever.

Wrigley Field’s pregame hype video is unparalleled.

I was okay until the Ozzy fact and now I’m a mess.

Just discovered today my baseball obsessed kid will not be allowed to be a Paw Patrol fan because they have some sort of Aaron Judge/Yankees propaganda which he discovered today. This clearly cannot stand in our house.

Haven’t done great research, but I’m pretty sure he has championed easier name changes and easier birth certificate changes and has mandated that Illinois insurance coverage has to include gender affirming care. I can dig some more if that’s helpful for you!

Yeah, Pritzker isn’t my dream politician by a long shot but he’s been MUCH better as governor and adversary to the current administration than I’d guessed he would be.

For sure! That happens twice at my journal. I screen everything as editor in chief and then the associate editors also can (and should!) desk reject if they think the paper shouldn’t go out

The nicest thing you can do if asked to review a paper to say yes (and do the review). But a very very close second is to say no as quickly as possible and to suggest another person or two who might say yes.

The impact of segmental familiarity on incidental suprasegmental category learning Previous research on tone category learning has suggested that the learners' familiarity with the segmental composition of tokens can impact learning. However,

A new paper from the lab! My former student, Jonathan Wright, led this project.

Tone learning! Implicit learning! Segmental familiarity! Demonstrating that middle-aged and older adults can learn language stuff too! This paper has it all!

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I often make a typo “beset” when typing “best”, which adds some real flavor to the signature.