Aleck-With-Ink

West-Coast Virginian. Ancestral Northumbrian. Architect. Runner. Words, 'Birds, Timbers, Thorns, buildings, bats, bees, trees, HTC, Rose City.

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

College sports have become a profit operation, the FIFA Club World Cup was a disaster, and the MLB All Star game was ruined with pitch challenges and the goofy tiebreaker.

Applying a strictly business and marketing lens to anything ruins everything.

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

The #ASG mini home run derby tiebreaker is absolutely stupid. Please, never again, @MLB

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

Once again, McSweeney's is spot on. Poignantly, painfully so.
https://t.co/qqH09RLmfE

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

Nobody cares on this platform, but this is someone who made our modern world a little more human.

Joseph Rykwert, Architectural Historian Who Challenged Modernism, Dies at 98 https://t.co/QXslB6ZaoB

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

To the outside observer, the GOP played a lot like NY: erratic, sloppy, and obnoxious. Brute force was their only tactic. They, too, deserved to lose.

The difference is that baseball is played in the open, and when there is a cheat, it's easy to spot. Politics, OTOH. Sigh.

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

I like baseball, I hate politics.

I saw parallels btwn the #WorldSeries and #Election2024: CA vs NY, two well-funded organizations, more alike than they like to admit.

The difference is that LA was better prepared, charismatic, and clutch. NY got the wipeout they deserved.

[Boniface Billy @signifyingwolf]

artists are disaster relief

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

@AlainnFocail Surprised they didn't send them a Limo to the stadium.

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

Mookie Wilson or Mookie Betts?
#WorldSeries #Postseason

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

Who would you take in the MLB #postseason: Keith Hernandez or Kike Hernandez?

#WorldSeries2024

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

The ending of the Timbers season, the Orioles season, the empty stands and aimless direction of UVA football, the dissolution of my favorite food co-op...all these things that gave me a sense of community (and occasional joy) now just compound my sense of loss. Love hurts. 💔

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

Without fail, we get into Halloween season and somewhere I hear Rhiannon playing and then I have to watch this live version. I do not make the rules.

https://t.co/QesXaMBqnr

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

Does anyone else ever feel like they are their own evil twin?

I struggle to reconcile the hard worker, dedicated runner, loving partner side of me with another side that is an absolute nihilist, loafer and malcontent.

Every day feels like a war between two sides of my being.

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

@josephus77 @whotfisjovana Zapfino Palatino

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

You can't spell October without O's...let's freaking GOOO!

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

@picklesbaseball Birds, hon.

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

@Orioles Counting my sick days here on the West Coast...

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

@BritishOrioles @JohnOHareOK What a find. Is that Barter Books? I love that place. In any case, viva Northumbria! (and go O's...)

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

"Never underestimate a public school teacher."
—Gov. Tim Walz

In a night of superstars, this is the guy getting me to stand up and clap. Of course, I'm a military BRAT and the child of a public school teacher, what do I know?

#DNC2024

[Aleck-With-Ink @KeithAlnwick]

@Orioles @kevinnbrown It's not just the voice, it's all the small things he does :)