Padres & fans travel to Anaheim to take series from the Angels Padres win their 5th consecutive series, Mason Miller chases Padres history, the NBA Playoffs kick off with a banger from Wembanyama, SDFC struggles to match last year's success, and more!

Finally caught the Padres live and in-person yesterday. Have to say, good baseball team!

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

This should be a bigger story. 

Scientists are more concerned than ever that a critical current will collapse soon and wreak havoc on North America and Europe.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Hey why is this score backwards

A grid photo of 16 different characters all played by the legend Tim Curry.

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

[laughing and crying at Hanif’s Wolves response]

Well, now I hate ABS.

this is like a miracle

no basketball player - maybe no sports player - has ever had the hype that LeBron James did as a kid

he came into the league with his expectations set at “if he doesn’t finish top 10 all time he’s a bust”

he somehow exceeded them

NEW: This might be the perfect visual metaphor for the war in Iran.

Courtesy of today’s Virginia Tech Spring game.

what is the charge. what crime has been done

ALL RISE FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

I do miss working with a bunch of NBA reporters during the Playoffs because they are all simultaneously joyful and miserable until the Finals end.

Great, shocking reporting on the origins of the Supreme Court maneuver that has enabled Trump to impose his agenda without full-blown legal review. Roberts resented the Obama admin’s EPA and wanted quick protection for oil companies.

The president of the United States is bragging about being able to write his own signature.

I’ll see you Sunday!

Oh boy, the Hornets are going out sad?

The Districts on Apple Music Listen to music by The Districts on Apple Music.

I found these kids when they were teenagers playing loud-as-hell music. They were, inexplicably, incredible live.

They have since moved to L.A. and their genre has shifted (Apple calls them psych pop) but all of it so good and interesting and entertaining.

a man wearing sunglasses and a blue shirt is sitting in a car with canal 4 film hd on the screen ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a blue shirt is sitting in a car with canal 4 film hd on the screen

"Sir, San Diego Padres sold for $1.5 billion more than any other MLB team."

Dean & John Spanos:

hey wait, i think i have a band you might enjoy.

On the off-chance that he hasn't heard yet, I would love if someone could record Dean Spanos' reaction to the news that the San Diego Padres sold for $3.9B.

What if you view it through the lens of ‘vanity project’?

I can not conceptualize having a billion dollars, much less enough billions of dollars that I can spend $3.9B buy a baseball team.

Therefore, I have no idea if it was too much money. Or not enough. Or the exact right amount.

Money's not real.

Gotta spend money to make money.

Padres nearing $3.9B deal to be sold to José Feliciano & Kwanza Jones The Padres have new owners to go with their 8-game winning streak and their sweep of the Seattle Mariners. The Sockers and Gulls prepare for the playoffs. There's a lot going on!

For the first time in about 15 years, the San Diego Padres have (just about) been sold to new owners.

Looks like we finally know who won the bidding war for the San Diego Padres.

He’s spiritually Italian.

Now more relevant than ever!

I dunno if it’s Stammen or just this cast of characters but this version of the padres doesn’t feel like a Manny Machado team and that’s a great thing

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...