susan vavrick

@baseballsusan.bsky.social

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Retired & loving it! Nationals cranklet. Duuuval! (It’s a long story) Go Caps! Does anybody really know what time it is? I sure don’t. 1A absolutist. Engel v. Vitale is the hill I will die on. @edit_susan on the hellsite, 4 now. No DMs if I don't know you

Josh Bell of the Minnesota Twins
Paraphrasing the tweet in the screenshot plus added context: A protester atop the Douglass bridge has caused a shutdown of the bridge and South Capitol St between M St and 295. Consider transit if you're going to Nats Park or Audi field. What a monster of a clusterfck that is
A Cybertruck is parked in front of a red brick building. The rear end has FORD across the back in huge white letters
During spring training, the Nationals had pitchers and catchers stand in front of the group to explain their pitch sequencing in games. Many of the examples were positive, allowing batteries to explain why they chose the pitches they threw. Pitchers said it served as a learning opportunity.
A view of the field and scoreboard from the 1B side at Nationals Park, under a grey, cloudy sky.
Text message using anti-gerrymandering comments from Virginia Governor Spanberger and former president Obama as a reason to vote against an amendment to the Virginia Constitution. However, these comments are not recent and both have endorsed the amendment and urged people to vote yes.
A TV screen shows the Washington Nationals logo and white text reading Next Game Telecast: Thursday, March 26th Nationals @ Cubs Live Coverage at 1:30PM EDT All superimposed on a snippet of a baseball diamond: from left, a swath of green grass, the dirt basepath and white chalk baseline
Screenshot of Twitter posts about the unidentified loud noise heard in Loudoun County, Va.
Washington Capitals announcement that they have traded John Carlson to the Anaheim Ducks for some draft picks 🤬
Movie poster for the movie Bell, Book and Candle. Kim Novak at left is kissing James Stewart, who is holding a beautiful seal point Siamese cat. The movie title is above their heads in yellow, with their names at the top in white letters. Proving that male-centric thinking goes back decades, Stewart gets the left-side billing while Novak is on the right -- even though that is the reverse of how the actors are shown.
Game board of 5x4 squares
Driver's-side view of a four-door jeep. The hood is blue with "Let's Go Caps" along the side edge above the fender. The doors are white with large red hinges and the Washington Capitals logotype and Screaming Eagle emblazoned on them. And there's a white "Let's go Caps" decal in the bottom right corner of the rear window. The back end is red.
Cover of the Coil album "Musick to Play in the Dark": a dreamscape of a full moon in a dark purple and blue night sky. Evergreens with snow are below and in front of what appears to be a mixture of clouds, snow and fog. The image is one of cold, calm stillness, like a winter's night. The name Coil and the title are stacked above the moon in an understated lowercase sans serif typeface.
Stacked images of a smiling guy who has white hair (and a majorly receding hairline) and a thin white mustache and chin beard sitting in front of an open laptop. He's wearing a light grey sweater over a collared shirt and holding a tall, tapered white mug in his left hand. The top image says in white capital letters "I'm done being an expert in vaccines." The bottom image says "This week I'm a foreign policy specialist."
"Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, 'Oh crap, she's up' "
GIF of Stephen Colbert holding his head in many hands
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A sleepy leopard chilling on a rocky outcropping at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago
Five freshly griddled English muffins sit on a copper wire cooling rack
Puzzle grid with the answers showing in black squares
A puzzle board showing yesterday's answers in black boxes
Yellow text "We're going to need / a smaller violin" runs across the top and bottom of the image. In the center is Roy Scheider as Amity police chief Brody in the movie "Jaws," with a cigarette in his mouth
Looking at the field from behind home plate
i) the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, consistent with applicable law, ensure that State and local officials have, without the requirement of the payment of a fee, access to appropriate systems for verifying the citizenship or immigration status of individuals registering to vote or who are already registered; (ii) the Secretary of State shall take all lawful and appropriate action to make available information from relevant databases to State and local election officials engaged in verifying the citizenship of individuals
I own a manufacturing business. All this chaos is destabilizing my industry. This is the worst 3 month period I've had since the covid lock down. Prices skyrocketed during the supply chain disruptions, and never dropped back down. Now, I'm being hit with pre-emptive price hikes, in anticipation of these on again/ off again tariff threats. The main material I use is not manufactured in the US. Coupled with the nose dive consumer confidence has taken, my customers have scaled back on all projects, so the work load has died out. It's a disaster. Who wants to do business with a country that is completely unreliable, when they can take it somewhere else that has a stable goverment, with competent leadership?
A bottle of German tinted facial sunscreen
A bottle of La Roche-Posay daily lotion sunscreen
A view of the Nationals Park baseball diamond from the first base side. The Nats are wearing bright blue jerseys and white pants.
The view from the first baseline side at Nationals Park. Lots of empty blue seats in the outfield behind the grass.
Washington Nationals pitcher Jake Irvin is about to release the ball as he faces the Phillies' Alec Bohm in the top of the first inning. Nats' third baseman Paul DeJong and shortstop CJ Abrams stand ready to field any ball that comes their way.
A black-framed artwork by S. Preston commemorates the Washington Capitals 2018 Stanley Cup win. The Washington Monument is white on a red background, with the year 2018 in white above the point. At the monument's base the Cup appears as an upside down reflection in the blue Reflecting Pool. Caps great Alex Ovechkin's autograph in black is across the center of the monument. The 2018 Cup Champions logo is at bottom left beneath the print, with the artist's signature in gold to its right.
A skinny white ribbon of essentially illegible type running horizontally across a black screen
Video of too damn much snow falling into the woods
A screenshot of a hellsite post by the Milwaukee Brewers announcing that baseball legend Bob Uecker died Thursday at the age of 90. The post includes a lovely black-and-white photo of Uecker
A bread boule cooling on a round, copper-color wire rack
A very young Bryce Harper and his glorious hair are sitting at a table autographing photos of himself during the 2015 NatsFest. His right sleeve bears a patch with the Nationals' 10 Year Anniversary logo. A stemless wine glass in front has the Nats' red Curly W logo and contains a bunch of pens and Sharpies.
home parks, and the Florida traffic makes it unrealistic for players to commute to their respective camps. Burnes' wife, Brooke, gave birth to twin daughters on June 28. The couple already had a son, who turns 3 in March. For Burnes, a resident of Scottsdale, a city in the Phoenix area, the possibility of living year-round at home was a big part of the Diamondbacks' appeal, according to sources briefed on his decision.
A peaceful late autumn scene of a lake beyond sparse trees that are starting to lose their leaves but still have some orange and yellow foliage. The sun is low in the blue sky, a bit higher than eye level, shining between the trees and glinting off the lake. The far shore is lined with trees.
A grey striped kitten with a white chest is hanging off a rope. The words "hang in there" are beneath it.
A high-rise building along the Chicago River. The portion of the base that faces the river is all glass windows in a structure that is at about a 45-degree angle. From the side that end of the building looks like an upside down right triangle.
A list of the sports teams I root for: MLB: Nationals; NFL: Jaguars; NHL: Capitals; NBA: Wizards (casual observer); WNBA: Mystics; NWSL: Spirit
A prone, blissed out cheetah sunning himself on a rocky outcropping at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago
A square pillow with an abstract design that has a teal background overlaid with random ribbony splashes of white and bright colors -- purple, orange, red, turquoise. The racehorse that painted it, Metro Meteor, was one of the fastest sprinters on the East Coast.
A brook amid trees in full autumn colors
Aurora borealis, a mix of purplish pinkish colors, as seen above the trees and houses in my Northern Virginia neighborhood. An extraordinary occurrence here.
Screenshot of the linked story in phone app, with a link to external browser circled in red
A strange green thingie on the helmet of a Detroit Lions player
C&O Railroad mascot kitten Chessie, asleep nestled in a blanket. The image resembles the cat photograph being replied to