I’m a little bit trying to figure out whether I’m going to permanently stay in Ontario or BC and I have to say BC makes a strong case for itself by promising that this will be the final wintery Saturday night when I hurtle one hour closer to the grave
I would add: anything that sounds remotely like the iPhone text-message alert ding. That should be punishable with the electric chair.
Everybody else can give up you aren’t coming up with a home run celebration that’s more delightful—or more delightfully stereotypical—than Team Italy’s freshly brewed shot of espresso.
I also think the list tells you more about how different languages work than about any kind of cultural differences. I’m no expert but I think some languages (like German) create compound words in situations when English keeps modifiers separate: we say “walk like a chicken” not “chickenwalk” or w/e
I think it would be easy enough to come up with a similar list of words in English—off the top of my head: lope, stroll, strut, amble, ramble, hike, stagger, stumble, sashay, wander, pad, sneak, stomp, perambulate, shuffle, traipse, tiptoe, march, skip, step, trudge, tramp, stamp, etc., etc.
“He hung that shit on me” —Owen Cassie explaining how he sent that baseball into the stands
Murakami running the basepaths like a wound up bird.
Two runs away with one out and runners on second and third.
Getting awfully close to the mercy-rule-invoking run coming to the plate in Taiwan-Czechia.
Ernie playing left field; Brazil need ten runs in the bottom of the ninth to get to extra innings.
Could it cause trouble for his work visa?
Other Manny things he’s done: hit two dingers against the US
Victimless capitalism
If the WBC broadcast gives stats from last league season for professional players, they should give 2025 day-job stats for the Czech guys, like 325 plumbing house-calls made or 17 corporate audits completed or 372 litres of beer consumed (if there’s a university student on the team)
Sounds like you’ve been involuntarily recruited into an A/B test of their innovative Artificial Stupidity feature.
What I like about Markwayne Mullin is it's a dumb redneck name, but you throw an apostrophe in there—Mar'kwayne Mullin—and you've got a shifty slot receiver.
Oof Manny’s kid just ended an inning by striking out on a pitch clock violation which come to think of it seems like a very Manny thing to do
Vladdy brought a home run jacket to the WBC that’s my first baseman
Three games at once is too many
Glad the US has left Ernie on the bench for this game so I don’t have even slightly divided loyalties here.
Also didn’t Bo say he was going to join his brother playing for Brazil?
Shouts out to that Brazilian teenager who got Judge to GIDP
It’s a real missed opportunity that there isn’t a lib/lefty outlet that posts the score of every round he plays, just to drive that point home.
But @chrisgeidner.bsky.social is right of course, with the possible qualification that hiring her side-piece and carrying on with him so flagrantly that even the most buttoned-up news outlets were forced to mention it will probably be remembered, too.
That New Yorker notification reflects a degree of confidence about Markwayne Mullin that’s frankly hard to fathom
So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
Whenever he says anything involving numbers—his margin of victory, the number of weeks until he will announce some magic solution to a problem, jobs added, or here, the increase in weapons production—he transparently exposes his roots as a NYC real estate guy grade bullshitter.
Who doesn’t want to build their dreams?
Carney, please double/triple the Chinese EV cap so we can import those bad boys
I can’t do this anymore
