Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams, of nine players each, that take turns batting and fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball which a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "runs". The objective of the defensive team (fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners' advance around the bases. A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The team that scores the most runs by the end of the game is the winner.
Baseball’s origins from various bat-and-ball sports are hard to trace, but it is commonly accepted that it developed in the United States and Canada starting around the 1830s with the US’ first officially recorded game occurring on June 19th, 1846. While the sport is nicknamed “America’s Pastime”, it’s also popular in Latin America and East Asia with a multitude of countries having their own leagues and many of Major League Baseball’s past and present stars coming from around the globe.
Major League Baseball’s lengthy history lends itself to a multitude of topics (racial segregation and the continued discrimination black players faced in the integration-era, Curt Flood sacrificing his career for the players’ right to free-agency, the systemic encouragement of drug abuse from greenies to coke to steroids to opiates all come to mind even before recounting any specific games), since far better writers than me have written exhaustively on those topics and this post is going live for an opening day delayed by labor disputes, I’m going to focus on the recent CBA and the future of the MLBPA in the oldest comment on this post (this is already getting kinda long).
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Batista: I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith, as there’s a deep drive into Santa Clara by Che Guevara, and that’ll make it a 4-0 insurgency. I don’t know if I’ll be putting on the presidential uniform again. I don’t know if it’s going to be for the plantation owners. I don’t know if it’s going to be for my bosses at Langley
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I had a dream that someone shot George Bush and I was very excited to shitpost about it
Asked the landlord to remove some really abusive clauses from the prospective lease and they just told us to fuck off lol. The search continues.
Gonna ask for a $3 raise tomorrow and will accept nothing less than a two dollar one. I know what my co workers make, I given a demo of what a $2 raise will buy then. $3 gets them what I've been doing and two more things that I've purposefully not been doing even though I can. Anything less and I do less work.
If you confess your crimes in a twitter thread with "what crimes did you do" prompt, you can never get charged with them because that would be entrapment.
CW: suicide
What's this bullshit they're pushing now about weed causing people to commit suicide? "In Colorado, THC is the most common drug found in teens who die by suicide." What a fuckin statement, couldn't be because they live in COLORADO or because depressed, alienated people use weed to cope. Blaming a largely harmless plant for deaths caused by the crushing weight of neoliberal hell is another fucking level of bullshit.
They say, "Go for a walk to help your depression and chronic fatigue." I go for a walk. I get fatigued. There are no benches for miles. I sit on the concrete and stare at the cars. All the grass is enclosed by fences. All the trees are scrawny and choked by the emissions of a relentless stream of automobiles. I am depressed. I finally make it home. I am exhausted. I will try this again, and again, and again, because I have no other ideas.
Shout out to the kids in school who would wear gym shorts 365 days of the year, snow and all. I don't know what you were on but damn were you committed to it.
