Grace

History Teacher, Follower of Christ, Former Stoa Debater & Coach, NWU Alumni.

[Grace @LeaderofOpp]

@jenteach13 I teach private, and they let us keep everything up. Not much summer cleaning provided but at least my room is how I left it in June!

[Brent Rooker @Brent_Rooker25]

I want to go to sleep but as soon as I do Cal or Julio or Riley or Kerry or someone will inevitably hit one 540 feet to win it and I want to be awake for that

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

Set your alarms, call your loved ones, tell anyone who will listen... we have GAME TIMES! #SeizeTheMoment

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

.@KelseyTuoc has penned a brilliant piece on the Southern Surge, and she had me at the headline:

“Illiteracy is a policy choice.” Amen.

Your must-read article for the week:

[MLB @MLB]

MAKE WAY FOR CAL RALEIGH 🔱

The Big Dumper is now the Mariners single-season home run KING 😤

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

Reunited and it feels so good (vibes only). #TridentsUp

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

We like what we see 👀

[Dustin Nickerson @DustinNickerson]

When the Mariners have both great pitching and timely hitting and comfortably win a game

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

This, by my colleague @willrahn, is just a total delight:

"Baseball is like love in that it’s essentially impossible to say something new about it. The crack of the bat, the smell of the field—that’s all been covered at length. Great writers, for whatever reason, tend to love baseball. Maybe it’s the rhythm, the slower pace that lets the mind wander. Watching a baseball game is a form of meditation—albeit one you hope will be interrupted by hugs and cheering and high-fiving strangers.

Let me tell you the story of one such interruption. I’m a Mets fan, a peculiar and unlucky denomination of the Church of Baseball. And for my Mets, last season was supposed to be a nothing year. Expectations were at rock bottom. They lost their first five games. By June, they looked snakebit, finished, over.

Fast-forward to October. The Mets had remarkably made the postseason. But by Game 3 of their Wild Card bout against the Brewers—a consistently good team despite their middling payroll—they once again looked lifeless, and were trailing 2–0.

I turned off the game somewhere around the seventh inning and took my dog for a walk. I tried to buck up by reminding myself that they’d made the playoffs against the odds, that the season should still be remembered as a success, that we had a great team to build on for 2025.

In other words, I was depressed as all hell.

But as I walked back to our apartment, I texted my wife and asked her to put the game back on. Mets baseball was a major part of our courtship and, last year, her pregnancy. Our then-unborn baby had already experienced some 20 games, which is a lot of emotional turbulence for a fetus to handle.

Now we were home, huddled on the couch, late in her third trimester, to watch the season end. It was the top of the ninth inning in an elimination game. Exhausted by travel, the Mets had yet to score a run, and still trailed the Brewers 2–0.

Up to the plate stepped Pete Alonso, a great slugger having an off year. The night before, he’d literally tripped over his bat, setting up a double play that lost the game for the Mets. Now he was facing Devin Williams, one of the best closing pitchers in the game today.

And then, a miracle: With two Mets on base, Alonso hit a home run, putting the Mets ahead 3–2. I briefly left my body—I think dissociation might be the clinical term—but quickly returned as my wife grabbed and kissed me. We felt like we had just witnessed something impossible. It was like watching the atom split or the sun explode.

There were few cheers in the ballpark. The game was in Milwaukee, the Brewers’ hometown, and in a matter of seconds Alonso had ended their season. He ran the bases and gave a chef’s kiss to the crowd. And when he was finished, the whole team was waiting for him by home plate, tears in their eyes, jumping for joy.

I think that’s what it’s like to go to heaven. You round the bases and suddenly, all your old friends are there, weeping with joy because you are back together again. Show me another sport that brings you so close to the divine."

https://t.co/4QOmF3Up8n

[Rodney @_ChanFace]

FROM THE OFFICIAL WASHINGTON STATE DOT ACCOUNT??? 😭😭😭

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

"On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and freed the last enslaved people in the Confederacy. When we celebrate their freedom, we celebrate America itself."

Please read @CondoleezzaRice on Juneteenth in @TheFP:

https://t.co/I59vv4dRkD

[Kira @Kiradavis]

In 2020 I wrote about my discomfort with Candace Owens. I was skewered by rabid fans& got private messages from fellow black conservatives saying they agreed but were too nervous to say anything publicly. Is it time to say "I told you so" yet? "The Trouble With Candace" https://t.co/XBnD77fR2U

[Grace @LeaderofOpp]

A Masterpiece
https://t.co/zkeocVAbO0

[Roland Oliphant @RolandOliphant]

Zelensky stakes Ukraine’s own claim to Soviet victory day, with a characteristically powerful and well delivered speech. Reclaiming May 9 instead of viewing it as irrevocably contaminated. Quite bold

[Megyn Kelly @megynkelly]

It’s hard to read this draft opinion & not feel deeply for the pro-life advocates who have worked tirelessly for five decades in the hopes of one day reading these words, or for the pro-choice advocates who have worked equally hard to avoid them.

[Lookout Landing @LookoutLanding]

me: oh no I wonder if the tough strike zone is getting to julio, that must be so discouraging

julio:

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

This is one of the greatest videos the internet has ever seen.

[Karol Markowicz @karol]

Fascinating read on Israel's new role in the world, by @LahavHarkov. Ukraine Learns the Israel Lesson https://t.co/UAt5aCPCnN

[Grace @LeaderofOpp]

👀
MyNorthwest: Mariners to slash prices on food, beer at T-Mobile Park.
https://t.co/efKEV0rpnG