Bods

Mayor of Negative Town. Sports Info or whatever for WMU. 1994 Flight 7 Flint Junior Golf Association Champion. Doc Emrick once said my name on TV.

[Western Michigan Broncos 🐎 @WMUBroncos]

Congratulations to @danbart3 on being named to @SilverWaveMedia's Top Athletic Directors in American list!

📰 https://t.co/HZhFuGJxAB

[That Guy Rocked MLB @MLBGuyRocked]

Kenny Lofton

That guy rocked.

[Dan Bartholomae @danbart3]

Had the great fortune to spend time recognizing our ELITE Faculty member Dr. Ashlyn Kuersten, Professor of Sociology & Director of the Cold Case Institute. She’s the recipient of the MAC Outstanding Faculty Member. Whether on the field or in class, the best in the MAC are at WMU!

[Bods @Bods27]

Hall of Fame Mustache, too.

[MACtion @MACSports]

Congratulations to 2026 MAC Hall of Fame Inductee: Eastern Michigan's Jim Streeter!

@EMUAthletics | #MACtion

[Western Michigan Football @WMU_Football]

Western Michigan Announces Kickoff Time For 6 games.

🔗: https://t.co/W2VvoLpgg0

[MLB @MLB]

James Wood with the most casual home run robbery 😮‍💨

[Bods @Bods27]

Happy WMU Athletic Strategic Communications Staff Lunch at Martell's Day, to all those who celebrate!

[Bods @Bods27]

#MACtion

[IndyStar @indystar]

Ball State University is settling a lawsuit brought by a former employee it fired for making a critical social media post about Charlie Kirk. Read the story: https://t.co/sAByuXcfp8

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[The Athletic MLB @TheAthleticMLB]

Joey Votto hasn't spent retirement looking back at baseball.

He's earned a sushi chef accreditation in Japan. Became a certified yoga instructor in Spain. Surfed in Ireland. And more.

Along the way, he says, “it helped my well-being.”

Read for free:
https://t.co/7z6NK6VUlZ

[Burke Granger @burkegranger]

Tanner Mally's remarkable season has come to an end for @WMUBaseball. Wire-to-wire in the regular season batting champ (.446). 2nd in D1 in OBP (.554). 5.3% K rate. 47 combined HBPs/BBs compared to just 13 Ks. 19 SB. Name to know for draft in July.

[Bods @Bods27]

Happy @electric6 Show in Grand Rapids Day to all those who celebrate.

See you tonight!

[MACtion @MACSports]

🎥: Listen in with Broncos head coach Billy Gernon as he gets his squad ready for the 2026 MAC Baseball Championship!

@WMUBaseball | #MACtion

[Chris Wittyngham @ChrisWittyngham]

The youth sports industrial complex affects every sport. Prioritizing making money over creating environments for kids to have fun and develop.

Any sport in which the US has to seriously compete with the rest of the world will see them fall behind in years to come

[Western Michigan Baseball @WMUBaseball]

Former Bronco All-American Bill Lajoie is on the ballot for the @MSHOF Class of 2026 in the Contributor Category!

VOTE: https://t.co/5LnVkYqUy4

[Bods @Bods27]

Weirdly enough… I think all the times I got in the old Buster suit was after I had graduated.

[Sickos Committee @SickosCommittee]

OSKI!

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[Cleveland Guardians @CleGuardians]

The Reds come back in state this weekend.

#GuardsBall

[Clint Hurdle @ClintHurdle13]

I kept this story in my pocket for a long time....

In Pittsburgh, September 15th is Roberto Clemente Day.

Every year the whole organization fans out across the city. It's like Christmas. Roberto's family is there, Vera and the boys.

My first year as manager was 2011. We celebrated. We shook hands and moved on.
We didn't win.

19 consecutive losing seasons.

2012 rolls around. Same day, same celebration. We had another losing season, our 20th consecutive.

After the ceremony, Roberto Jr. walked over.

"My mom wants to talk to you."

We went into the dugout. Me, Vera, and her three sons.

She spoke in Spanish. I played four years of winter ball so I understood enough. She wasn't angry, but she was passionate. And I kept hearing Roberto's number come up.

Roberto Jr. translated.

"My mother wants you to know that there cannot be a 21st losing season. That was Roberto's number. It would be a disgrace to his legacy."

She was staring right at me.

Before I could even think about what to say, words came out of my mouth:
"I promise you, Vera. That won't happen."

Roberto Jr. looked at me and said, "You made my mom a promise. I hope you can keep it."

I said, "I hope I can keep it too."

I didn't tell my coaches. I didn't tell the players. I told my wife. That was it.

The next year, 2013, we broke the consecutive seasons losing streak. Ended it at 20.

On Roberto Clemente Day that September, Vera came walking across that field.

And I probably got one of the most meaningful hugs I've ever received in my life.

The players did all the heavy lifting. I just got the hug.

Some promises are worth making before you know if you can keep them.

@Pirates

[Bods @Bods27]

@CamAllenFB @BradenSteely Yeah but he cut his hair, tho….