Sara Sanchez

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Words about baseball. Defending everyone breaking the unwritten rules.

A screengrab of the Wrigley Field camera from Sports World that shows the Marquee saying CUBS WIN! after an 11-0 defeat of the Tigers
You cannot see the plays that happened that you missed between innings on the MLB.tv app. Only their ads. Late stage capitalism for the loss.
How I score the Manfred man bullshit
The Red Sox win 14 in a row
Pink clouds over the most beautiful ballpark in the world
A scorecard showing Jamo giving up two home runs in the first inning at Wrigley Field
The top 10 qualified hitters in MLB by wRC+
Willson Contreras celebrates as the Red Sox 13th win their in a row
A scorecard with an 8-4-2-5-3 double play
A fan at the dedication holds a "Won before I die" sign in the crowd
Mike Montgomery at Wrigley Field
A gorgeous baseball sky over the outfield at Wrigley Field
A very faint rainbow over the historic scoreboard
A scorecard and Wrigley Field in the background
A footling polish with a lime margarita at Wrigley Field
A brunette in a blue dress and Cubs headband waiting in line at Wrigley Field
A screenshot from wikipedia that reads: Elections in the People's Republic of China occur under a one-party authoritarian political system controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).[1][2] By law, all elections at all levels must adhere to the leadership of the CCP.[3] Since the 1949 proclamation of the People's Republic of China, elections have been highly constrained by the CCP's monopoly on power, limitations on free speech, and party control over nominations.[4][5][6] Elections are not pluralistic as no opposition is allowed.[7][8] Limited direct elections, except in the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, have occurred only at the local level people's congresses and village committees, with all candidate nominations preapproved by the CCP.[9][1][10] Rory Truex, a researcher of Chinese politics at Princeton University, states that "the CCP tightly controls the nomination and election processes at every level in the people's congress system...the tiered, indirect electoral mechanism in the People's Congress system ensures that deputies at the highest levels face no semblance of electoral accountability to the Chinese citizenry."[8]"
An absolutely farcical "argument" from a former Professor who is bemoaning the fact that liberal women don't want to date him in an op-ed. I personally would be embarrassed to put this out in the universe, but you do you, guy....oh right. He says: "“I have no problem with Democrats, but would be difficult for me to develop a friendship with one who has blindly been to a No Kings rally, suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome, uses the biased legacy media as their only source of 'truth,' wants Israel to be put in its place, requires unlimited immigration and voting without an ID, desperately aims to completely abolish ICE, allows biological males in women’s sports, and denigrates all MAGA as fascists or Nazis, without understanding the real meaning of those words.”" Okay. Whatever.
A screengrab showing that Willson Contreras hit a ball 491 feet against the Dodgers during the NLCS in 2017 and yes the author of this post was at this game.
A guy on a motorcycle with a huge USA decked out Yeti in the sidecar
A screengrab from Twitter shows Jude Bellingham reaching out to 17-year old Gilberto Mora and offering to exchange jerseys after a wild England v. Mexico game at the Azteca
A brunette in glasses and a green Mexico jersy
Bob Nightengale tweets: "No hard feelings from last year's heated incident: Commissioner Rob Manfred makes sure that Bryce Harper is an All Star after being bypassed by fans and player ballot with 'Legend Pick'
A screengrab of two elite sports takes with Rodger Sherman tweeting WORLD'S #1 ARCHIPELAGO NOW AND FOREVER and Holly Anderson quoting it with SHOW ME TEN BETTER VOLCANIC ISLANDS, YOU CANNOT
A ridiculous scorecard at Wrigley Field
A brunette in a bandana at Wrigley Field
A scorecard at Wrigley Field
A brunette and a guy in a Mexico hat
The flags howling out at Wrigley
The Cubs DJ wore an old school Ryne Sandberg jersey on the Cubs float during the Pride parade
A brunette in sunglasses at Pride
A brunette in glasses in a pitching ninja Cubs Rotowear shirt
A screenshot of a Jonathan Lemire tweet that reads: "It was kind of as I was walking away," Pierzynski said. "I said, "Hey, White Sox are in first place." "[Pope Leo] just looked at me and goes, 'Oh, I'm watching and paying attention, don't worry.' And he just kind of smiled at me."
The Miz has thrown five pitches between 102.1 and 105.5 miles per hour to open his start against the Cubs.
A screengrab from Evan Drellich at Twitter that quotes Bruce Meyer, interim head of the MLBPA saying: "I will tell you with all honesty, I have never seen this degree of unity at this point among agents and players. I think, honestly, the league has done us a favor. Because their proposals are, in fact, so obviously and extremely bad for players at all level, that it's actually been a benefit for our unity. "Anybody who's banking on major league baseball players cracking: it's never happened. It's not going to happen. That's why we're the only ones who don't have a salary cap."
A full Modelo soccer beer thing
A brunette in a Mexico kit at the pub for the game!
Cubs pitcher and translator in Mexico kids during the postgame
A screengrab of the current front page of the online NYT that has a headliner of "Mamdani's Picks Sweep New York House Primaries" plus " Veteran Democrat's Stunning Loss Reflects Mayor's Pull on Leftist Base" and "Schlossberg's Defeat Dampens Dream of a Renewed Camelot" LOL"
Marcus Semien facepalms at a terrible call against the Cubs
A screengrab from the linked piece that reads: "We don’t need to do any detective work to figure out where the savings go. As was the case with the league’s parallel salary cap proposal, which management disingenuously promoted as a way to improve competitive balance, this proposal is part of the ever-continuing quest of owners to transfer money from the players’ pockets to their own. Based on pretty much every example ever, the money saved will not offset consumer costs, and I’d be shocked if it was redirected to improve the pay of team staffers, who tend to take in reduced salaries for the privilege of working in baseball, or minor leaguers."
Screengrab of the Wrigley Marquee cam that shows lots of people using umbrellas and at least misty conditions by the ballpark at 12:15PM
A graphic from the Cubs game showing that they already have Boyd, Martin, Palencia and Taillon on the 15-Day IL with Harvey, Hodge, Horton, Miller and Steele on the 60-Day IL.
A graphic from the Cubs pregame showing that the Cubs have had the most IL stints in the NL and second most in MLB
The Cubs on top of the trending topics on Bluesky, the sports app.
Richmond ballpark
Rain imminent at Wrigley Field
A screenshot of the Mexico v. South Africa game information that has the date, time, channel and not time zone for #reasons
A square from the Sunday Night Bingo card that reads: "Hunter Pence v. Craig Counsell: Swing Mechanics"
The Cubs were second in the league in home runs allowed coming into today's contest where they gave up SEVEN long balls (admittedly, two of those were on catcher Carson Kelly).
The Giants won 18-3. The wind was blowing out at Wrigley Field today. Only one team seemed to take advantage of that. Pretty much everyone is to blame.
A screengrab from the piece linked in the quoted post that reads: "Decentralization, like democracy itself, is something we have to fight for. Absent deliberate effort, the default trajectory runs toward centralization, because centralization is convenient, and convenience wins in the short term. Which means the decentralized alternatives have to be genuinely better, not just philosophically purer. The centralized platforms won the last round because they removed friction. They didn’t ask users to manage config files or understand network topology—they said “click here and it works,” and most people took that deal. Any decentralized successor that requires users to become their own sysadmins will lose the same way the last generation of open protocols lost. What’s different now is that we’re closer than we’ve ever been to having decentralized systems that are actually more convenient and more empowering, where the user experience is competitive with the centralized incumbents, and the democratic benefits come built in rather than bolted on. The goal is to build systems where those two things point in the same direction."
A scorecard in the left field corner at Wrigley Field