Steve (sports teams of dubious quality enjoyer)

Wilber Sánchez @wilberdata SOURCE: The Milwaukee Brewers have formally withdrawn from a previously agreed $1.0 million pre-agreement with a 13-year-old international shortstop prospect from the 2029 class after the player tested positive for a banned substance, according to sources. The prospect is affiliated with Fortuna Academy.

Maybe, and this is me going out on a limb perhaps, teams shouldn't be entering into deals with 13-year-olds

We should be protecting the freedom to vote, not restricting it. Congress should once again reject the anti-voter SAVE Act: bit.ly/4tmVIor

Sports bet slip from Rivers Casino it shows a $45 bet on the White Sox to win over 66 games. It would pay out $85.05.

Pitchers and catchers reported to spring training and I'm confident in the White Sox offseason and young talent. Confident enough that I think they'll move into being mediocre/kinda bad rather than really bad and this- one of about a dozen "official" sports bets I've made in my life- will pay out.

The Presidential Job Approval Center part of their website remains up and numbers show that DJT has the lowest average approval rating of any President and that he's the only President to never achieve 50% approval. His whole life is masking his insecurity over knowing that he's an unpopular loser.

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

We are literally cooked

Yeah, sometimes the political spectrum here seems to range from "Vote Blue no matter who" to "Marxism is my personality", which are both problematic, but people who think either of those are worse than MAGA probably need to touch grass or at least visit somewhere else on the internet for perspective

"THE LIBRARIANS” packs a riveting punch on the alarming surge of book banning." - The Utah Review

Starting TOMORROW, Feb 9th at 12pm ET, stream THE LIBRARIANS for FREE on the PBS YouTube channel and app!

Okay. Well. Baseball.

even if you don't care about sports you gotta admit it's awesome that this guy had to hear to his face how the world feels about him

Thorpe had a 3.03 ERA and 1.01 WHIP over his first 7 MLB starts before getting blown up in his last two because his elbow was blown out. We'll see how he does post-TJ, but he's still only 25. He may not end up being Dylan Cease, but I think there's still a pitcher there.

What Trump posted would get just about everyone fired if you did that at your job.

I’ll never get over that we have lower standards of conduct for the Presidency than any other job

This is what the WaPo lost its entire foreign affairs press corps for?

It doesn't place in the Top 500 things to be concerned about, but I hate how we now have to be constantly vigilant about the most deeply unserious, incompetent shitty people because they could have an apparatus behind them to give them great power.

MLB players strike deal to be turned into AI characters that can chat with fans Major League Baseball players have agreed to let a tech company create AI characters of themselves that can chat and interact with fans

Everything is stupid now

That's my congressional rep!

So you're telling me that scientists and doctors might know more about Trans athletes than guys who talk about "protecting women's sports" while simultaneously posting laugh reacts and mocking comments on any story about women's sports? Also that Trans men exist? It's so hard to know who to believe

I was in a weird subset of people who just thought of it as a place that originated Rickrolling and Lolcats "before" it became toxic, because I didn't use it and was naive enough at the time to be unaware that it always has been a toxic cesspool and those things were "sanewashing" for it.

So, let's get this straight. Christopher "Moot" Poole created 4chan as a gathering place for hentai and CSAM enthusiasts, started /pol/ the day he met with Jeffrey Epstein, then /pol/ memed Trump to the presidency and birthed Qanon, a conspiracy theory in which Trump is a good person who hates CSAM.

Ah, I understand the racists are upset that one of the most beautiful women in the world was cast in a film as one of the most beautiful women in the world

Haha... Yeah, I forgot about that. They undermine their own argument.

I don't think this was any sort of deliberate slight by the Sox and I'm sure part of it was Frank having an axe to grind with Kenny and yeah, he wasn't "the first" in any category- but he's still more or less right on this one...

Toronto Bluejays Facebook post with a graphic featuring several Black players it reads "Part of our history. We're proud to celebrate Black History Month and those who helped us get here today." With the image reading "Celebrating Black Excellence" on the image.

Frank was the best player in White Sox history. He's right up there with Barry Bonds as the best hitter in the '90s (I said HITTER, yes, Griffey was a better overall player). To include him, the Sox could've done "Celebrating Black Excellence" like the Bluejays did (and he's in THEIR graphic).

This is a big part of it. But I'm sure if I dig enough someone said "Well akshully, this was only a list of firsts" as if that was the point.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50

Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Screenshot from Groundhog Day, Bill Murray stars as Phil Connors, the quote is "It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be gray, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life."

Hiding doomerism behind a screen cap from a beloved movie because "IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY!"

A digital illustration of a groundhog all dressed up in fancy morning dress: big shiny top hat, cutaway coat with tails, bow tie, waistcoat with watch chain, pinstriped pants and shoes with spats. He’s standing on a hillside covered in yellowish green grass. It’ The sky is gray and hazy and there’s a bare tree in the distance. There are patches of snow on the ground and crocuses coming up. He’s casting a long shadow forward within which is lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

So QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.