ric sanchez
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i edit stories @theathletic.com and watch a lotta baseball
Mookie Betts after having that sorta funny in-game interview moment 8 years ago
i truly feel awful for Gen Z and Gen Alpha. the endgame of decades of slashing education funding and then optimizing for those lowered standards. they've really been failed and sold out at every level.
earlier this year Dodge ran an AI-generated Boston Tea Party ad with the wrong American flag that they subsequently had to edit out
if anyone’s wondering what it’s like to be an Angels fan, Mozeliak saying “i think our draft strategy should be to select the best player available” is eliciting excitement, borderline elation from the fanbase (H/T @beyondthehalo.bsky.social)
opening my phone and immediately seeing 4 separate discourses about 4 separate topics that make me wanna walk into traffic
more perspectives on the Angels from MLB players... “Winning isn’t even a top-five priority.” “There’s not a lot of pitching development happening with the Angels.” “The way they handle their minor leagues is weird. You get optioned out of the big leagues and sent to A ball.”
Montana now leads the Big Sky Conference in former athletes who have appeared on Love Island US (2). Go Griz?
sorta interesting that AI slop aesthetic has moved from Piss Filter to whatever you’d call this
imagine showing a non-baseball fan these two photos and being like "so these guys are pretty much the same"
Egypt’s World Cup team was training in Spokane earlier this week which means there’s a nonzero chance that Mo Salah has seen the Garbage Goat
haven't seen the Nats give up such a back-breaking grand slam in California since
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