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I WOKE UP TO MY GLORY DAYS.

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@TMobilePark @austincooksey_ no way

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@austincooksey_ @RaiseTheTrident Great after today he's a M's HOF'er. Put him in the Derby next weekend

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

What if a 13-year-old orphan gets a pair of Michael Jordan’s old shoes at a thrift store? What if the shoes get struck by lightning and imbued with magical properties? Will he play in the NBA? How elite would he be? Will he eventually get adopted by his teammate Morris Chestnut?

[jame @kloogans]

love when i get a good hand

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@HarmlessSunset They are touring in September with my favorite band "whores"

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@TheMeleeJames @yallreadyknow20

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@CatholicPacman This would be a cool addition. Could choose photos from past games or could have a photoshoot in your home stadium posed however you'd like. Also I miss The SI covers every week in the old games (and real life).

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@100ThingsUtah @CollegeFBonX They had Adrian Peterson I think that has to count for SOMETHING.

[deb in real life @DDDurango]

Moonsault to the dick was a finish back in my day

[Gary Treeman @PurpyNFL]

“Guys with the board where it’s at, I think we can trade back 20 or so spots and get a talent we really like”

Mike Vrabel on enrichment break at the Stop Fucking Dianna Russini So Much rehab facility-

[Daniel Kramer @DKramer_]

Misleading: Not last night's game

Invasive: Duh

Insensitive: Suffered a stroke *2 months ago*

Irrelevant: Mariners. TV doesn't do walk-off interviews after losses

No, this was a stroke victim back at work for the first time -- weeks ago -- trying to regain her bearings.

[Congressman Michael Baumgartner @RepBaumgartner]

These all kind of suck. 🇺🇸

[Angie Mentink @AngieMentink]

Currently asking AI how to handle going viral for using AI. 😅

In all seriousness, I'm late to the AI party. Earlier this season I experimented with AI to see if it had any questions to add to my list for my postgame coverage. We've come a long way from pen and paper when I started in 1997

Always learning.

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@joannadangerfd I remember gold digger being more controversial. Idk if it was because my parents had just divorced. Or if the censorship of the N word was so laughable. I think JW is a timeless beat that works anywhere. GD was perfect "piss off the parents" timepiece.

[Seattle Met @SeattleMet]

After an offseason stroke, @Mariners broadcaster Angie Mentink refused to stay sidelined. Here’s her comeback story 👇🏽
https://t.co/O2rg2kFdUF

[Nick Krupke @NickKrupke]

“I’m convinced now that if we had ten wrestlers as tough as her, we’d win a national title and I’m not saying that just to be silly. It’s true.” The Wonder Woman of Wrestling @FGHS_Athletics @LinfieldWrestle is headed to the Hall of Fame. @fox12oregon https://t.co/AILkLX2aGE

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph.

Both pilots are dead.

Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years.

A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when.

The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day.

The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country.

Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years.

Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday.

The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement.

The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision.

The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.”

One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.