Stephen Vaughan

just a sober #forthelou and #sicem fan

[Stephen Vaughan @StephenfromVA]

Pinning this. If you see me tweeting it’s usually about one of these teams.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Four Supreme Court justices have argued that Donald Trump can change the Constitution with an executive action, BUT JOE BIDEN CAN’T FORGIVE YOUR STUDENT LOAN DEBT.

It’s rigged. Burn it all down.

[Dealin' the Cards @DealinTheCards]

Willson Contreras just hit a 421 foot homer off Miles Mikolas

[Stephen Vaughan @StephenfromVA]

Maybe it’s just me but I feel like the offense started off hot last year and cooled off the same way. Definitely a disturbing trend to see 2 years in a row.

[Miklasz @b_miklasz]

The #STLCards quiet offense at Busch Stadium didn't just start this week, OK. Here are the monthly rates in power stats at home:

Slugging .408 in 1st month, .373 in May. .341 June
HR/game: 1.4 in 1st month, 0.92 May, 0.50 June
AB/HR: 23. 6 in 1st month, 34.6 May, 64.8 June

[Dan Graca @DanGraca]

If this isn’t peak Mets, I don’t know what is. Holy hell 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

“We do a Watergate twice a day” is a crazy way to confess your own corruption…

[Ally @OhMyItsAlly]

‘Sure it was a little corrupt, but it’s nothing compared to the shit we’re doing now’ is quite a fucking thing to admit out loud

[That Guy Rocked MLB @MLBGuyRocked]

Jim Edmonds

That guy rocked.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.

[Brandon Kiley @BKSportsTalk]

129 MLB pitchers have thrown at least 100 innings since July 1 of last year.

Only four of those pitchers have been worth negative WAR over that stretch:
Mitchell Parker
Matthew Liberatore
Erick Fedde
Miles Mikolas

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The writers aren't stuck. They're performing stuck, because the real answer makes the whole problem vanish.

Bond has been recast five times since 1962. Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, Craig. Six men, one name, and not a single film ever explained how the same spy kept reappearing with a different face. Audiences never blinked, because the series trained them to treat 007 as a job title that outlives whoever holds it.

Casino Royale proved the hard reset works at full power. In 2006 the producers tossed out 20 films of continuity and restarted Bond at his first kill. No transition, no apology. It pulled $616M and relaunched the entire franchise.

So Craig's death only creates a crisis if you read Bond 26 as a sequel. Read it as the seventh reboot and the problem evaporates. The next 007 won't wake up in any shower. He was never in that explosion.

Horowitz is agonizing over a continuity problem the franchise abolished decades ago.

And the "headache" earned its keep. Amazon took creative control in March 2025 and inherited a full year of free press arguing over how to resurrect a character who was never coming back as the same man anyway. You cannot buy that much attention for a property sitting between installments. Blowing Bond up on screen was the cheapest marketing the series has ever run.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.

1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.

2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.

3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.

4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.

5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.

6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.

7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.

The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.

[The Spy Command @TheSpyCommand]

The makers of the next movie should *ignore* NTTD. Casino Royale (2006) was a reboot. For the new movie, reboot it again. It's not that hard.

[Stephen Vaughan @StephenfromVA]

Yes. That idea is crazy.

[Bill That CFB Guy @Bill_CFB_Guy]

Baylor HC Dave Aranda is in a win or your fired scenario. He will most likely need to win at least 8 games to keep his job. So let's say that Baylor does fire Aranda, who are the replacement candidates?

A few people I have talked to are thinking along the same lines I am. Bring former HC Art Briles back for a proper send-off. Let's say 3-5 years. He brings his son Kendal with him. Kendal is currently the OC at South Carolina.

Let the 2 of them be together for a few years. When Art hangs up his whistle, Kendal takes over as the new HC of Baylor.

Is this idea crazy?

[Brenden Schaeffer🎳 @bschaeffer12]

Arenado gets a reception before he even bats tonight at Busch.

He just got roll called by Tarps Off, followed by a "Thank You, Nolan" chant.

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

In my boss’ office demanding 3 months PTO for religious reasons (White Boy Summer)

[Scott Drew @BUDREW]

A ton of points scored between these two Baylor Greats!! 🐻🏀

[MusChampion @Less_HumbleTeej]

The dumbest person you know said that any school would have done the same thing if they were in Texas Tech’s shoes

What Tech did was utter embarrass and debase themselves before waiving the white flag anyway

I would argue NO other school would have done that

[Bud Elliott @BudElliott3]

I know Sorsby is turning pro but can they please release the rest of the Texas Tech admin hostage podcast series?

[Brandon Kiley @BKSportsTalk]

You don’t trade this version of Dustin May, you extend him.