Victor LeMay

I retweet politics and athletics.

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

@TiffanyFong Texas is big you idiot

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

Calling it now: USA World Cup champions

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

That one guy that completely kills the vibe when he’s around

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Your bagels are Jewish
And they are delicious
But don't forget about hummus by the seaside
Israel in five

[no @zedonarrival]

and not for nothing the spurs are gonna be scary when their frontal lobes develop

[Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos]

Computah activate infinite RT protocol https://t.co/tJ8NXoar79

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning?

Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.

[Anthony F. Irwin @AnthonyIrwinLA]

Like, even if Fox makes that layup, you're still up three lol. You dribble through the basket and the game is OVER

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

Same dudes complaining about how the nba used to be physical and reminiscing on the 80s are crying that Wemby made Brunson get tf off of him (while making him look like a toddler)

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

@brhodes Shut up and dribble (talk about foreign policy)

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

Cruz criticizing someone’s masculinity will never not be hilarious

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ted Cruz on Talarico: "If you were making a list of 1,000 adjectives to describe this guy, 'masculine' would not be one of them. I mean, if a stiff breeze came by it would blow him over like a feather."

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

Will smith please slap Chris rock tonight

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

@botticellibimbo Spurs not rockets? This seems made up

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

@NateSilver538 It’s Saturday June 6th and Nate Silver is once again going in on Platner. You’d think Platner did something to him personally at this point. It’s getting weird.

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

Spurs starters are damn near high school seniors and knicks fans going crazy. Wait til their frontal lobe fully develops.

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

Name another place you can get (quality mind you) tacos for $2.29 these days! A dang burrito in SF is over $20

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

they got a wemby special at the taco spot

this is the highest possible honor a mexican can bestow upon a basketball player

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

@NateSilver538 Man Nate has been obsessed with platner lately. We get it man, you’ve made your point.

[James Connor @toJamesConnor]

The Post broke the story of @jamestalarico's smart and hot Latina girlfriend. Advantage Talarico.

[Victor LeMay @VictoriousLeMay]

Thinking of this tonight with Wemby and the spurs. If you’ve never done it you can’t relate.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

If you’ve never cried after giving everything you had to something that mattered, you’ve probably never given everything you had to something that mattered.

The UCONN women’s basketball team was undefeated, 38-0 for the season. But with a little over a minute left in their final four matchup against South Carolina, Kayleigh Heckel went up for a lay-up to cut the score to 9 and keep alive a tiny bit of hope. She missed. The camera zooms in on Heckel as she drops her head and tears began to flow. It was a harsh moment of realizing that the dream was over.

In 2024, Keisei Tominaga was captured crying on the sidelines with a minute left when his Nebraska team lost to Texas A&M in the tournament. Back in 2006, Adam Morrison had a similar reaction with a few seconds left, after Gonzaga had blown a 17 point lead in the sweet sixteen.

Will all due respect to Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own, there is crying in sport. A lot of it. And contrary to some of the talk on social media, it’s the opposite of weakness. It’s a clear signal of a genuine competitor.

We cry because we care. Tears are proof of our investment.

Psychologist Ad Vingerhoets at Tilburg University has spend decades studying crying. He found that humans are the only species that cries emotionally. And the primary reason we do it is it acts s a kind of communicative device. Tears signal to others that something matters deeply to us and we need support. It’s as if the tears are saying, “this thing matters to me more than I can say.”

As a coach, I’ve seen the toughest of competitors, athletes who are among the best in the country or even the world, break down from time to time. It’s one of the beautiful things about sport. For many reasons, it’s one of the few areas where we let the guard down, show what we really feel, and express genuine emotion. Sometimes, that means tears of joy, other times a crushing bitter disappointment that we can’t quite process. This is especially true for men, who often try to be stoic, thanks to a combination of culture and biology.

Yet, in the days before memes Morrison might as well have become one, as he “got murdered for it” and was “kind of shocked by how much negative feedback” he received. Heckel’s been met with a mixture of support and the sadly expected condemnation.

Those people are clueless.

From the sidelines, it may look like a weakness because you’ve never been in those moments. You’ve never given your all to something, risked greatness, and saw that dream get ripped away. When you step into the arena, you put it all on the line. And in sport, music, and performance arts, one of the few places that are the last bastions of reality. You can’t fake it, it’s all there to see, and there’s a clearly defined success or failure.

You have to care deeply to even be in that spot in the first place. No one made it anywhere close to fulfilling their potential, let alone the pinnacle of their endeavor by not caring. That kind of nonchalance is reserved for the sideline. It’s the cool kid in high school who tries to convince others not trying is the cool thing to do. All so they can protect their ego and say, “I would have gotten an A, made the team, won the tournament, if I had tried…”

Caring is cool. It’s also the only way you see how good you can be. Our brain has a kind of internal safety mechanism that prevents us from ever truly pushing to our limit. And for good reason. If a marathoner really ran out of glycogen or let their core body temperature keep rising, then serious illness or death awaits. Instead, we run a kind of inner calculation that says: is the juice worth the squeeze? Caring deeply is what allows us to push just a bit harder. It tells that safety mechanism, “Ya, we’re in a lot of discomfort right now, but this means a lot, so give us a little bit longer of a leash.”

So if I ever saw someone crying after a tough race, I knew that was an athlete I wanted on my team. It meant they cared. It meant the moment meant so much to them, that they could no longer put on a face, or hold things back. It meant more to them than they could verbally communicate.

We need more people with passion, who are willing to risk it all, to be have the emotions of the moment overwhelm them. It’s only by stepping into the arena and taking that risk that we find out how good we can be, and more importantly, who we are. The potential for tears is the price of admission.

Morrison got murdered for crying in 2006. Tominaga said it should be celebrated in 2024. He was right.

-Steve

[ꕤ @arisinterludes]

tell me why i got a bean and cheese taco in austin and those mfs used BLACK BEANS 😭😭😭

[beanie @hxlprncss]

One time I got a potato egg and cheese taco in Austin and it had mashed potatoes