Kaz

Upland Birds & Horse Player

[Fitzwilliam @Fitzwilliam__]

🎥 | YORK REWIND

🗓️ 2012

FRANKEL sauntering to victory in the Juddmonte International under Tom Queally for Sir Henry Cecil.

@yorkracecourse

[NYRA (🎪) @TheNYRA]

THE CHAMP IS BACK! 👑

SOVEREIGNTY, the reigning Horse of the Year, wins the Grade 1 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga under @JuniorandKellyA for trainer Bill Mott!

[Stephen R Power @racingblogger]

What have we just witnessed! 🤯🤯🤯

🔵 Fortitudine a brother to G1 hero Rebel's Romance wins by half the track on debut for Charlie Appleby in monstrous style.

[Gino Hard @GinoHard_]

One of the CRAZIEST streaks in sports has been extended another year 🤯

With Rasmus Andersson reaching the Stanley Cup Final, a former teammate of Jaromir Jagr has now appeared in the Final in 46 straight seasons 🏆

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

It was always an awkward moment when someone needed the red bat.

“Yeah, Billy, you can play but you gotta use the red bat.”

“But I wanna use the yellow bat like everybody else.”

“Motherfucker, you went 0-for-46 yesterday. The yellow bat is no longer an option for you.”

[Jacob Turner @TheJacobTurner]

A PARENT’S JOURNEY THROUGH YOUTH SPORTS:

Age 5: “He’s got a cannon.”
Age 6: “He’s the fastest kid out there. Coach said so.”
Age 7: “Rec ball isn’t challenging him anymore.”
Age 8: “We tried out for select. Obviously made it.”
Age 9: “$2,800 for the season. Plus uniforms. Plus tournaments. Plus hotels.”
Age 10: “Cooperstown is basically a family vacation, right?”
Age 11: “He needs a hitting guy. And a pitching guy. And probably a mental performance coach.”
Age 12: “I’m not a crazy sports parent. The OTHER parents are crazy.”
Age 13: “We changed schools. For academics. (And also baseball.)”
Age 14: “Showcases are a requirement at this age.”
Age 15: “Ya his ranking just ticked up. We’re cooking.”
Age 16: “He just needs to get seen by the right school.”
Age 17: “The D1 schools want him to walk on. He’ll earn a spot by sophomore year.”
Age 18: “Okay, D2 is actually really competitive.”
Age 19: “He’s redshirting. Strategic.”
Age 20: “He’s focusing on school now.”
Age 21: “You know what? He’s so much happier.”

Roughly 7% of high schoolers play in college.

About 1.5% of those get drafted.

Less than half of draftees ever play one day in the big leagues.

The odds of our kids going pro are somewhere between “struck by lightning” and “find a $100 in old shorts.”

I love youth sports (all my kids play a bunch of them) just keep a good perspective my friends. ✌️

[Kaz @BTownKaz]

@mstanton1975 Devils Disguise

[Bradley Weisbord @BradWeisbord]

Awesome bit @andie_biancone. We are going to miss @FanDuel_Racing. We need this content, it’s crucial for GROWTH. Hopefully the industry can figure out where to direct the daily player and not continue to fragment them. Fanduel = great content /most tracks

[Seattle Mariners ON Tap @MarinersONTap]

The Mariners fleeced the Yankees so bad it reached Seinfeld ⚾️

[G. @CR0SBRINI]

this is my favourite video of sid, EVER.

[Brilyn Hollyhand @BrilynHollyhand]

Rep. Wesley Hunt: "What's funny to me is you're mad at the guy who found the fraud, but not mad at the people who wasted your money."

[Kaz @BTownKaz]

@kurt13warner Tart cherry juice. Read up on it

[BOXING n BBQ @BOXINGnBBQ]

The grandson of Muhammad Ali, Nico Ali Walsh, just testified in front of The U.S. Senate against The Muhammad Ali American Boxing Revival Act.

He says if the bill is passed it shouldn’t have his grandfather’s name on it.

Below is the full speech:

[Kaz @BTownKaz]

@DakotaPheasant Bird dogs are truly special. We are blessed we get to spend time in their world.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

No KINGS!!!

Their reign in power controlling America…

Chuck Grassley: 51+ years
Chuck Schumer: 45+ years
Mitch McConnell: 41+ years
Nancy Pelosi: 39+ years
Maxine Waters: 35+ years
Bernie Sanders: 35+ years
Etc

Trump: 5 years and 3 months

But Donald Trump is a King?

Scam.

[Mitchell Blair @mblairYQR]

The Toronto Maple Leafs announced their parade route this afternoon.

[Sam Taylor @Sam_C_Taylor]

Kinda random, but can you imagine if St. John's Dylan Darling, Florida's Rueben Chinyelu, Purdue's Oscar Cluff, the Memphis Grizzlies' Jaylen Wells and Detroit Pistons' Isaac Jones were on the same team? Maryland's Myles Rice and Isaiah Watts might have thrived on that squad too.

[vassilis (∎, ∆) @TziokasV]

I have been discussing the infamous WA Millionaires’ Tax with many people the past weeks.

I have been a Seattleite for almost 10 years now and my social circle is pretty diverse (Big Tech execs, entrepreneurs, non-tech/regular jobs, social workers etc).

It's very interesting to me that a) there are zero people who support this and b) the argumentation of why this is wrong is not coherent. Which is funny on its own because it means this Tax is wrong in so many ways.

The reasons I personally hate it:

> i have 0% confidence the State can use this extra money smartly/efficiently/effectively. it's 2026 and I still don't feel safe to walk with my kids in downtown Seattle. end of discussion
> from a meta/postmodern pov, all this is performative. the only purpose this Tax serves is for local progressives to perform a victory lap VS the bad rich guys. you can even see it from photos like this 👇. they play in a fictional robinhood type of universe.*
> this income tax may not apply to most people in WA but the trickle down effects in the local economy are already visible in conjunction with the already extremely high taxes in gas/sales/property. and I am not referring to howard schultz moving to florida (imo this is irrelevant). i am referring to local small business owners/entrepreneurs (https://t.co/PrbwtUxOVX)

I love Seattle so much and I truly hope it will have a thriving future. But there is a very pessimistic (and likely) scenario that Seattle, due to this Tax + the effects of AI in Big Tech, will end up as a mix of today's Detroit + summer destination whose economy depends on a 2-month tourist period.

[Kaz @BTownKaz]

@SenSanders Term limits

[Kaz @BTownKaz]

@HawkEmDownChris Tom Peabody ......aka the human bruise.