Chris Batchelder

Founder/CEO BoomSeat Partners

[fOx @fOx1257067]

It’s strange watching old George Carlin clips now… because half the crowd laughed, and now people watch it in silence like he was reading the future out loud.

[Hoops @Hoopss]

Wemby whispered to Bismack Biyombo and Mason Plumlee as they checked in...

They both immediately picked up DIRTY fouls on Jared McCain 🤔

[Chris Batchelder @batch864]

@PabloTorre

[JBond @jbondwagon]

For the first time ever, a Filipino American player will win an NBA Championship

With Knicks now in NBA Finals & Thunder vs Spurs locked at 2-2, we’re sure that 1 of these Filipino Americans will win a ring:
> Jordan Clarkson, Knicks
> Jared McCain, Thunder
> Dylan Harper, Spurs

MABUHAY KAYO! 🇵🇭🏀

[Chris Batchelder @batch864]

@desi0re Hopefully that’s a nickname

[Chris Batchelder @batch864]

@lescoggi I figured it out. It’s under history.

[Ali Tekin @alitekintr]

BBC Culture, en iyi 100 diziyi listeledi. Kaydedin lazım olur.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Actually, you misunderstand the purpose of the long shower. I'm not doing anything in there. I am literally staring into nothingness and using the sensory input of falling water to temporarily wash away some of the horror of corporeal human life.

[Mikey Smith @mikeysmith]

Trump is now describing in some detail the Montreal Cognitive Test, which doctors use to spot the early signs of dementia, and which he proudly declared his doctors have made him take three times. He thinks it’s an intelligence test.

[Travis J Davidson @TravisSkol]

Jokic was never the same after JWill didn’t flinch.

[Chris Batchelder @batch864]

Any chance this dude was named Leroy Jenkins?

[Fox News @FoxNews]

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump releases CCTV footage of the alleged shooter at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

[Marge @maggistratus]

Quite possibly the most Oklahoma post of all time https://t.co/WxaqnecJvi

[frye @___frye]

has RFK tried just coughing really hard

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

I laughed too hard at this.

Wait for it… 😂

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Prince died 10 years ago today on April 21, 2016.

There are no bad Prince stories, but Matt Damon’s story about meeting Prince is a good one. RIP

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

To my Oklahoma family;
this piece comes straight from the heart.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt.
Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it.

I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives.

When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more.

I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game.

Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker.

But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go.

He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career.

What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it.

So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down.

There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller.

They belong to children.

There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore.

As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed.

That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present.

The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter.

Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained.

We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection.

When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.”

Then he said something I will never forget.

“Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.”

In that moment, basketball felt different.

Not smaller, but clearer.

Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity.

From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me.

On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured.
https://t.co/XfNLliRVaO

[Longhorn Football Edits✍️ @UTFootballEdits]

sooners Spring Game entrance went as expected!!! 🤣🤣

[Brandon Rahbar @BrandonRahbar]

OKC’s 1st round pick from the Clippers is officially slotted in the #12 spot.

7.1% odds to jump into the Top 4.
86.1% odds to stay at #12.
6.7% odds to move down to #13.
.1% odds to fall to #14.

[Chris Batchelder @batch864]

Welcome back, @richeisen.
@SportsCenter

[Shane Lowry @ShaneLowryGolf]

I’ve been lucky to experience some cool things in my career…today was another @TheMasters ☘️