As baseball fans (Go Royals! Sorry, I know Rich is a ChiSox fan), my brother and I agreed that we'd do most about anything to get an episode (at least) counting down Rich's favorite baseball movies. Or a re:view of Star Trek 3. Dealer's choice.

"I think I am here to chew bubblegum and to kick ass. And I am all out of bubblegum."

You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post

This is an accidentally honest answer. What she's saying in code is:
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."

What harms transgender people harms us all. This #TransDayOfRemembrance, we honor the transgender and gender-nonconforming people who have been killed this year.

Remember, AFA EAP is always available at 800-424-2406.

Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners.

Non-Fiction is a jam for sure. And the Ballad in Urgency-Wiser Time 1, 2 punch is pure sublime magic. Finally, I was elated when I learned the piano intro to Descending. RIP Old Weird Ed.

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

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Late night #PowderBlue post: George Brett, circa 1980 #Royals

#Baseball

When you live in a gerrymandered state, you can’t just vote better.

That’s the point of gerrymandering. To take away your vote and voice. To silence you.

Can't wait to see how crappy Adam Hamari's @umpscorecard.bsky.social score will be tomorrow. Dude has been questionable for as long as I can remember.

Features the most amazing bookending of any album ever. Period.

Clayton Kershaw sucks It was Pride Night at Dodger Stadium on Friday evening. As is usually the case on Pride Night, the home team wore a rainbow version of their logo on their cap. Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw donned the rainbow cap but he made an addition to it: [insert photo of Clayton Kershaw with a Pride cap with a bible verse citation next to it]. That writing is a citation to Genesis 9:12-16, which is a passage in the Bible which is commonly used by homophobic Christians who are part of what they call the "Take Back the Rainbow" movement. They claim that the LGBTQ+ community stole the rainbow symbol from God and they view it as their mission to "rescue" gay people from what they consider to be a sinister movement.

Clayton Kershaw has been around long enough and he's a big enough deal to where (a) vanishingly few reporters would ask him about this; and (b) even if they did, he'd have some canned response on which no one would follow up, but he knows goddamn well what he's doing here. Whether or not Kershaw actively adheres to the Take Back the Rainbow movement, he's endorsing it with that bit of Sharpie on his cap. It's in keeping with his past sentiments surrounding Pride Day in which he decided to police those who could or could not take part in it and used the controversy he himself created in order to get the Dodgers to commit to moving up a Christian identity promotion in response. It was shitty behavior then and this is shitty behavior now. As was the case with those Tampa Bay Rays players who, a few years ago, tore the rainbow logos off their caps and jerseys in protest to the team's Pride Night, I expect nothing to happen to Clayton Kershaw for blatantly undermining the team's public-facing messaging and violating selectively-enforced rules about defacing one's uniform with personal messaging. Indeed, it would not shock me if people in and around the game defend Kershaw on a "hey, everyone has a right to freedom of speech" basis. Not that he even needs the defense. He pitched on Saturday night after I and others had pointed out the thing he did with his cap. As far as I can tell, not a single person asked him about it after the game. It was all "Kershaw tosses seven scoreless innings against the Giants!" But ask yourself: what would happen if a player wrote a message of protest next to the American flag-logos or the camouflage logos teams wear on their Fourth of July or Memorial Day and Military Appreciation caps? If you think the response to such a thing would be benign – if you think people would ignore it and merely focus on what the player did on the field – then Colin Kaepernick has a bridge to sell you.

Today's newsletter is one of the few places where you'll read about Clayton Kershaw defacing his Pride Day cap with a bible verse widely used by homophobes to discredit the LGBTQ+ community.

Imagine if it was someone doing that to an American flag cap logo. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Will Donald Trump be condemning and disowning this alleged assassin? Will MAGA and Fox be asked if they contributed to his ‘radicalization’? Will Dems insist Republicans tone down their rhetoric as the GOP did in reverse after the attempt on Trump’s life (by a Republican)?

As a man who was a fellow frosh in '93, I can hear this picture and it sounds like "Linger" by the Cranberries followed by "Fade Into You" by Mazzy Star.

This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.