BUNTING MANIPULATES PITCHER APPROACH AND SETS THE TABLE FOR FUTURE MOMENTS
With 2 outs and no body on in the 3rd inning, losing 4-0, @Brewers Manager Pat Murphy told #9 hitter David Hamilton to lay down a bunt in a seemingly unimportant at bat.
Why?
Because Murphy knew Hamilton was known for bunting and they could set the table for a future at bat and big moment later in the game where he’d get a pitch to hit.
And that’s exactly what happened.
Hamilton bunted.
Hamilton got out.
But in the 5th, in Hamilton’s next at bat, he got a pitch in the heart of the plate and singled scoring a run and bringing the Brewers within 1.
And in the 9th, Hamilton did it again, homering on a get me over slider and extending the Brewers lead to 6-4.
You bunt to create future moments, and the Brewers did just that.
#BuntLife
Ukraine blew up three buildings in Russia and a bunch of American Reddit arguments stopped mid-sentence.
The buildings were Yandex data centers in Vladimir and Kaluga. Yandex is basically Russia's Google. Its network collapsed twice after the strikes, and Kommersant reported the fried servers could take up to six months to fix.
Then people started checking Reddit. Several big US political subreddits lost a huge chunk of their activity within hours. One analysis found an Irish politics sub down as much as 80% in traffic tied to a single data center. German subs dropped too.
Now for the honest caveat. This is correlation. Real Russian users lost internet too, and a regular guy in Moscow going offline looks exactly like a troll farm going offline in raw traffic data. If the numbers bounce back in a week as operations reroute through VPNs, the story shrinks.
But one detail keeps nagging at me. Russia's digital development minister went to the Defense Ministry on Monday to talk about protecting Yandex's data centers. You don't ask the army to guard a search engine unless something more important than search runs inside it.
And think about how hard this normally is to prove. Reddit spent a year investigating the Internet Research Agency and banned 944 accounts back in 2018, and that took a special counsel investigation on top of the platform's own work.
A power outage did the same job in one morning, by accident.
@AustinPlanet Contreras couldn’t catch a cold when he was with the Braves. They had to replace the brick backstop from all his misses. Believe me I sat there.
Alabama has had so many blown calls go in their favor against Georgia I didn’t even remember this one from 2024. Hilarious that they’re seriously crying about officiating. 😂😂 All of Bama’s success since Kirby left can be attributed to favorable officiating and Covid.