Scott Fry

Chronic RTer, sports enthusiast & beer lover

[David Covucci @DavidCovucci]

ahh what's there to be concerned about. spreading your lobbying bills out across three llcs is perfectly normal, not shady at all

[Brett Kollmann @BrettKollmann]

Humans have evolved for 300,000 years. Whether through cosmic curiosity or some deity's divine will, who knows.

We've invented writing. Agriculture. Math. Music. Smoked brisket. We've destroyed, created, and discovered.

And what do we have to show for it - private equity.

[Pitchergami @pitchergami]

🚨 PITCHERGAMI 🚨

Dylan Cease just threw a line that has NEVER happened in MLB history:

8.0 IP | 1 H | 0 ER | 3 BB | 11 K

TOR @ SF
That's the 253rd Pitchergami of 2026 and 1 of 83,478+ unique lines on record.

[Geoff Schwartz @geoffschwartz]

A -6 bat for an 18 year old? Going to murder someone with a line drive.

[JR Ross @jrrosswrites]

NEWS: @DavidCCrowley today ended his campaign for governor, telling WisPolitics in a statement that it has become clear that he won’t be the Dem nominee.

Crowley said most important thing now is for Dems to come together to defeat GOP gubernatorial frontrunner @TomTiffanyWI.

[Dan Shafer @DanRShafer]

Major news in the Democratic primary for governor: David Crowley is ending his campaign.

[Rob Friedman @PitchingNinja]

A's Fans Shame Chant.

After Eury Pérez is removed with a Perfect Game thru 7.

And just like that, the perfect game is gone.

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

fireworks outside the visiting team hotels all night.... extreme heat and storms interrupting games ... unprecedented, suspicious administrative ruling undoing a suspension ...

sorry world you're on CONCACAF turf now. these concacolors don't run baby

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The bee hotel from the garden center probably isn't actually helping bees. It might even be hurting them. But a well-designed one actually can work.

Scott MacIvor, a researcher at the University of Toronto, set up 200 bee hotels across the city and monitored them for three years. What moved in: parasitic wasps, spiders, earwigs, and ants. Some native bees did use them, but the clustered design made it easy for disease and parasites to spread between nests in ways that wouldn't happen in their natural, wild habitat.

The problem isn't the bee hotel so much as how the bee hotel is built. Here's what university extension programs say most commercial hotels get wrong:

1. Pine cones, bark, moss, and loose organic filler are confirmed by NC State Extension to be essentially unused by nesting bees. They attract other insects and hold moisture.

2. Bamboo tubes are flagged as "controversial" by Utah State University Extension because the diameter is typically too large for most native species and the material can't be safely cleaned or inspected.

3. Holes shorter than six inches produce almost exclusively male offspring, skewing the population. Most commercial hotels use short tubes.

4. No maintenance plan means disease, mites, and parasites accumulate year over year. Penn State Extension says a hotel without annual cleaning using an emergence box fails within three to four seasons.

The deeper issue: about 70% of North American native bees actually nest in the ground, not in wood or tubes. A bee hotel does nothing for them regardless of design quality.

What IS recommended instead of a commercial hotel: drilled untreated hardwood blocks with holes between 3/16 and 3/8 inch in diameter, at least six inches deep, tilted slightly downward to prevent moisture, cleaned annually using an emergence box, placed facing southeast in a sheltered spot near flowering plants.

A well-built, well-maintained cavity nest can genuinely help mason bees and leafcutter bees, and they need the help. But what's sold at most garden centers doesn't meet that criteria and the research reflects it.

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

26+ RBI in a 10-game span, RBI official since 1920:

2026 Dansby Swanson
1939 Joe DiMaggio
1933 Jimmie Foxx
1931 Lou Gehrig
1930 Lou Gehrig
1929 Mel Ott

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

The American Conservative crowd has been trying so hard to repair Vance's image for 2028 as a "peace" candidate but they did not account for him being a massive moron and publicly confessing the cynical logic behind the MOU, which is not grounded in anything like principle but concerns over midterms

[The Lever @LeverNews]

Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. took four months off from Congress, fully paid, to treat depression. Time and again, he’s voted against paid sick leave legislation.
https://t.co/oQ6MFN9xJM

[Brandon Kiley @BKSportsTalk]

The #STLCards have three position players age 26 or younger currently on pace for a 5+ win season.

The Cardinals have *never* had three position players age 26 or younger in the same year produce 5+ win seasons (per @baseball_ref).

[Matthew Kobach @mkobach]

I now demand all brackets to be designed in a circle

This is beautiful

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Canada built bridges for bears, and the bears used them.

So did wolves, cougars, elk, moose, lynx, wolverines, bighorn sheep, black bears, deer, and almost everything else trying to cross one of the busiest highways in the Rockies.

The Trans-Canada Highway cuts through Banff National Park for 82 km. For decades, it did what highways do: split habitat in half, severed migration routes, isolated populations, and turned animal movement into roadkill.

So Parks Canada tried something that sounded ridiculous to a lot of people at the time: they built wildlife bridges and tunnels.

They look nice, but they're far from a decoration. Forested overpasses wide enough for grizzlies and elk. Dark underpasses for cougars and black bears. Fencing along the highway to keep animals off the pavement and guide them toward safe crossings.

At the time, critics called it a waste of money and editorials opined that animals would never use them.

Fortunately, animals don't read opinion pieces. Since monitoring began, wildlife have used Banff’s crossings more than 250,000 documented times.

Grizzlies took years to trust them. Elk started testing them while they were still under construction. Different species chose different designs: grizzlies and elk tended to prefer wide, open overpasses, while cougars and black bears often used narrower underpasses.

The results were not subtle. Wildlife-vehicle collisions dropped by more than 80% overall. For elk and deer, they dropped by more than 96%.

Banff now has one of the most studied wildlife crossing systems on Earth, and countries around the world have looked to it as a model.

[Tipping Pitches @tipping_pitches]

but I was told by Major League Baseball that a salary capped league meant that all owners can afford to run their businesses, so they won’t need to cry poor for more taxpayer handouts?

[Evan Drellich @EvanDrellich]

Forget eliminating Shohei Ohtani-esque, $700 million contracts in free agency. If the owners have their way in baseball’s labor negotiations, Alex Rodriguez’s $252-million signing from a quarter century ago wouldn’t be allowed in the future either.

https://t.co/I8dJ18IMMd

[Zerigala @Zerigala69]

I'm CRYING Wolves really got COVID test, paternity test, and driving test on the same team 😭

[Bart Winkler @BartWinklerShow]

PFT did more to explain what is happening with the USMNT in one video than Alexi Lalas will do throughout this entire tournament

[Sickos Committee @SickosCommittee]

The NCAA spring season is done - congrats to ALL of the champions!