M.E.H.

Texan living in the NW, father to an amazing daughter #SeizeTheMoment🔱 #GoHawks #HookEm🤘

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

We've got #BaseballSky 😍

[Texas Football @TexasFootball]

Earn everything 🤘

[Texas Softball @TexasSoftball]

there’s no bond like this 🥹🤘

#HookEm

[Jordan Moore @iJordanMoore]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a softball hit like this. This might be the best softball swing i’ve ever seen.

[The Right Time with Bomani Jones @righttimebomani]

The Wemby-Chet beef is REAL 😳

“He brings something out of Victor that ultimately renders himself useless.”

@FanDuelPredicts

[Texas Baseball @TexasBaseball]

is this heaven? no, it's Austin 🤘

#HookEm

[claire de lune @ClaireMPLS]

i’m just gonna say it: some of yall aren’t qualified for self checkout. if you don’t have an internal sense of urgency and fine motor skills, leave it to the professionals cause the rest of us are trying to keep it pushin

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

Alimber Santa is the second player in MLB history to pitch in a no-hitter in his MLB debut, joining:

Bumpus Jones of the Cincinnati Reds on 10/15/1892, who threw one all himself

h/t @EliasSports

[Daniel Kramer @DKramer_]

Colt Emerson, first career hit -- first career homer.

A big "Welcome to The Show" moment for @MLBPipeline's No. 6 overall prospect.

[M.E.H. @HickcoxMartin]

@Softykjr It started when they didn't put Cal on the IL when his injury first happened. Also doesn't help when you start multiple guys hitting under .200. They do need some kind of spark. Mayne start by beating the White Sox this week. 0/6 against the Padres is rough 🤦‍♂️

[MLB Pipeline @MLBPipeline]

The Mariners are calling up MLB's No. 6 overall prospect for what would be his big league debut, @DKramer_ confirms.

The 20-year-old SS has the highest-graded hit tool (65) among 900 ranked prospects: https://t.co/HgyARvYdoL

[MLB @MLB]

what the sign says

[claire de lune @ClaireMPLS]

we have a new “get a load of this guy” meme

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Tenets of an Old, Itinerant Texas Road Photographer (me)

1) Always stop to photograph old service stations, restored or not.

2) Always stop to photograph longhorns and, especially, roadrunners. Roadrunners portend good things.

3) The time to take the photograph is when you see the photograph. Don't assume you'll go back and find it some other time. Turn around RIGHT THEN, go back, and take the photograph, even if you have to hurdle across four lanes of traffic and take out a traffic cone or two to do so. Okay ... so I'm kidding about that last part. Sort of.

4) There are good photos to be taken in every town in Texas but they are not always apparent at first. Sometimes it pays to park on the side of the gas station and make yourself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, relax, and look around kind of sideways at things.

5) When somebody says something like "this probably wouldn't interest you," invariably, what they say next is of tremendous interest. "What's that? You say you have a bank vault door that Bonnie and Clyde walked through in your barn and you're about to install it as the door to your man cave?"

6) It's always about the sky.

7) Bluebonnets have been so done to death that not every bluebonnet vista makes for a good photograph. It is hard to resist their siren call, however, when you see them on the side of the road. They suck your vehicle over to the shoulder and cause you to slow down so violently that the driver behind you curses you. And careful where you trundle! There are rattlesnakes and chiggers out there.

8) Any person named Russ, Russell, or Kenny is inherently trustworthy, the exception being if they do not drink coffee. Also, as an aside, I have had similarly good experiences with every Betsy I have ever met.

9) Slow down. It's hard enough to really SEE Texas on foot, let alone at 60 mph. Pray for forbearance from the drivers behind you. Because, as a great Texas barroom sophist once said, "the road is long and the road is narrow but all God's children gots to pass."

10) Don't let traffic get you down. It's a necessary evil, the plaque in the arteries that gets you where you think you need to be. Be a placid Buddha. Put on that Willie Nelson "Teatro" CD and ... flow.

11) It's hard to take a bad photo of an old barn and especially of an old corral, but be alert to hidden patterns and revelations while traipsing about them ----- and to rusty nails, too.

12) People who work in Dairy Queens often cannot answer the simplest question about their town. I'm sorry, but it's true. Fortunately, there is almost always some sympathetic soul wearing a beat-up John Deere hat who will say, "Oh, the old Stewart cemetery is down 3rd street. Just take 3rd street straight west out of town and it'll be about two miles on your left."

13) McDonalds actually makes decent coffee, and there are times when the sight of brightly-lit Donut Palace against a softly-illuminated morning sky has been enough to make me weep.

14) That 200 mile stretch from Dallas to Austin feels like 450 miles. You die 1000 tiny deaths on that piece of I-35. Particularly late at night, when it becomes a twisted, torturous odyssey, and not in a good way.

15) Texans are just about the nicest people on earth and will help you every chance they get.

More later, as they occur to me.

From @TracesofTexas

Shown here: One of my own photos. Bluebonnets, tree and sky east of Temple in April, 2010.

[Alex Mayer @alexmayer34]

Most recent players across @MLB to hit a home run in all 3 games of a 3-game series & record a stolen base in that series!!!

Cal Raleigh (April 20-22, 2026)
Julio Rodríguez (July 11-13, 2025)
José Ramírez (July 7-9, 2025)
Cal Raleigh again (June 20-22, 2025)

🤩 #TheMayerGWS

[Daniel Kramer @DKramer_]

You do not see that every day...

[LC @laurencowling]

what in the actual

[M.E.H. @HickcoxMartin]

@Mitch_Seattle Dan continues to get in his own way. Give Raley some damn at bats against lefties. Legumina should never pitch in high leverage sits

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

This evening, the president posted this, literally presenting himself as Jesus. He’s not doing anything to stave off the anti-Christ allegations. If any Democrat president did this, Evangelical Christians would implode. But will they speak out against this? I highly doubt it.

[MLB @MLB]

J-Rod lights up the crowd in Seattle 🔥