rileychoo18

Optimistic #Mariners fan | Kris Dunn and Dom Canzone fan

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

“Working 9 to 5, yeah, they got you where they want you

There's a better life and you think about it, don't you?

It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it

And you spend your life putting money in his wallet (putting money in his wallet)”

— Dolly Parton, Rest in Power

[rileychoo18 @RileySchelfhout]

@sanjaromin @DKramer_ True, didn’t finish too strong. Would’ve loved to see him go 7 but he did get checked for injury too in the 6th

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

Julio Rodriguez wants to be the best player he can be for the Mariners: “I knew I was a rookie. I got it. But it’s one thing hearing people say it to you, and it’s a whole other thing to believe it. Like really believe it. It didn’t feel early to me. I’d been waiting my whole life for this chance. Since I was hitting the tennis balls my dad saved up money for back in the Dominican. Since I was playing with Hot Wheels on the floor. Since I was pretending to be Ichiro in Loma de Cabrera. It wasn’t early to me. It was right on time. And I wanted to deliver for the people of Seattle. I wanted to show them who I could be.

I went home that night and watched back my at-bats. I kept looking at the clock beside my bed. It was 1 a.m., then 2, then 3. And I was just watching different swings of mine, even good ones from other games, just looking for anything to help me out. I probably watched 500 swings that night before I passed out. I got to the park the next day and I found my hitting coach and I was just like, ‘What are we going to do? I know I can do this…. What am I missing?’ We chatted for a bit. Some technical stuff, some mindset stuff. But what it really came down to was this: Trust. I’d believed in myself my whole life. My family instilled that in me. And I’d always had confidence that the work I put in would pay off. But belief and confidence are different from trust. To me, trust is a whole other thing.

And it’s a word that has meant so much to me in my time in Seattle.

I want to tell you why.

I know I’m not the first Dominican player to have made it to the big leagues like I did. There have been plenty before me, and there will be plenty after me. But you know what we all have in common? At some point, as young men, we just had to jump — we had to trust in those around us. Our parents, brothers and sisters, cousins, friends, friends of friends. Anyone. We had to hope that they had our best interests at heart. Because it takes a village to make a ballplayer in the Dominican. I saw kids like me, kids with real talent, get lost along the way because they didn’t have the right people around them. But I was lucky. I had my dad. He was a ballplayer back in the day, and I think that’s where my passion for the game comes from. And my mom made sure I treated everybody well and played the right way.

They helped me see people for who they really are. And when I was considering my options for coming to America, I wanted to be around good people. The more time I spent talking with the Mariners, the more I started to feel something really special growing. In one of our conversations, they said something that really stuck with me: ‘We don’t want you to be anything other than the guy that you say you’re going to be.’ They looked at me, a 16-year-old kid, and put their faith in who I thought I could be. That’s trust. You get me?? That’s trust.” https://t.co/BZonqcKynS

@JRODshow44 | @Mariners

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

And people wonder why people have absolute furious anger towards garbage AI slop that pollutes all discussion

(Sent to me)

[Dan Szymborski @DSzymborski]

Example #12,355 on how people underrate baseball's inherent volatility: The Tigers, Jays, Mets, and Orioles all have winning records since the trade deadline, playing .622 ball collectively (~101 wins per 162).

[Cardinals Stats And Facts @STL_Stats_Facts]

It's crazy to me that a former MLB GM and someone who is paid to cover baseball doesn't know the answer to this question when the answer is incredibly obvious.

[Brendan Darr @BrendanDarr]

ESPN employees are talking about this album like their job depends on it

[Bob Dutton @ByBobDutton]

Wow, @Mariners. Just wow.

[beetle moses @beetlemoses]

Animorphs (1/3)

[James Schiano @James_Schiano]

The fact that half the owners are admitting that they're willing to (in some cases dramatically) increase payroll to help push for a cap lets us know how little we can and should trust them

[Tipping Pitches @tipping_pitches]

To the people (or owner bot farms) in the replies caping for owners, I don’t know how else to say this besides this:

You should not give billionaires what they want simply because they have lied and said they need it for a long time

[rileychoo18 @RileySchelfhout]

@RyanDivish Julio just killed a bird in CF, Ryan! Yankee fans are flapping their arms at him

[Mariners Minors @MiLBMariners]

Oh my goodness. Lazaro Montes hits an INSIDE-THE-PARK HR!

[rileychoo18 @RileySchelfhout]

@HiImSerenity 100% agree. If our SP goes 5 innings then someone in the ‘pen needs to get more than 3 outs. Ferrer can do it!

[Serenity @HiImSerenity]

Starting the inning Rucker against Garcia and Jazz when you could've left Ferrer in for them then gone to Rucker afterwards, even if "people are down in the bullpen" certainly is a choice lol.

[Tipping Pitches @tipping_pitches]

They’re selling the game to private equity right out from underneath you — just like they did with everything else in your life — and you still want to give them the salary cap they want

[Mariners Minors @MiLBMariners]

Boston Smith does it again! 2nd HR of the game, 5th HR this week & 27th on the season. Unreal.

[rileychoo18 @RileySchelfhout]

@Mariners Wow that’s actually an unreal catch from the Dumper

[rileychoo18 @RileySchelfhout]

@A_Jude @ByTimBooth Yuniesky betancourt and Jose Lopez! Jose might be there already, not sure