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[Sean Collins @ArchdukeCollins]

Just shake his hand, Cal 😢

#mariners

[Blowen’ Wilson🔱 @MarinersGlaze]

You can just call us CRAPASS

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Highlight package of a 52-year old Ichiro striking out Japan’s top high school girl baseball players wild. He legit does not give AF. Uses every pitch in his arsenal.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Ichiro Suzuki is 52 years old.

He last played in the Majors in 2019. He's already in the Hall of Fame. He has nothing left to prove to anyone on a baseball field.

On Sunday at the Tokyo Dome, he threw a complete game shutout.

127 pitches. 17 strikeouts. Zero runs.

Here's what the game is. Every year, Ichiro hosts an All-Star game against the best high school girls baseball players in Japan. It was created to grow women's baseball in a country where girls have had almost no path in the sport, and it's become one of the biggest showcases they get. Ichiro doesn't show up for an inning and wave. He pitches the whole thing, at full effort, because he believes treating them like real competition is the entire point.

And he was better this year than last.

In 2024 he threw a 116-pitch shutout with nine strikeouts. This year, two years older, he threw eleven more pitches and struck out eight more batters.

One Japanese fan summed it up perfectly online: what's most monstrous isn't the strikeouts, it's that after 127 pitches his velocity and command never dropped off.

Then he walked off the mound, sweat still on him, and did a 30-minute talk show, cracking jokes the whole time.

This is the same guy who, last month, hit eight home runs in the Mariners Alumni Home Run Derby. At 51.

Afterward, he explained why he keeps doing it.

"I wanted to see what my current limits were, and this gave me confidence in myself."

Ichiro collected 4,367 professional hits between Japan and the Majors. He's one of the greatest hitters who ever lived. And somehow, at 52, the more interesting story is what he can still do with his arm.

The man simply refuses to be done.

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[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

I think about this randomly and laugh

[bdub @burnsidebrian51]

@koon_jim98411 @shagbark_hick Was it the Democrats in Missouri that forced Anheuser-Busch to sell Budweiser to the Belgians, or was it a case of Industry Consolidation like when Pabst bought the Rainier & Olympia brands?

[Sword @SixtyCentSword]

Whenever I hate my life I pull this up bc it reminds me someone else really wants to be me and I’m taking that from them. It warms my heart

[Keifer @DannyVegito]

The song of the summer is this jingle for a liquor store in Wichita, Kansas that keeps coming up on my FYP

[Fr Dylan Schrader @FrDylanSchrader]

Thanks for the tip, nutrition app.

[AngryFatWhiteGuy @AngryFatYtGuy]

Honestly, this version of Vader is pretty based.

[Brandon Acosta 🇵🇷 @KinglyRed]

RIP to the man behind the greatest line read of all time

[rich @rich_roberts]

Ripped this off the Tok because the broadcast clip doesn’t do it justice and cut away from Fernando flipping the ball out of his glove, but just *listen* to the crowd groan when he does it lmao. All timer.

[mls reactions @mlsreacts]

This Stupid Sexy Tifo mix by @djsacrilicious slaps hard af

#rctid #sounders

[Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead]

This is like being a meth head and asking someone who's never done meth how they're going to get through their day without meth

[🇲🇽 Spencer 🇲🇽 @larss0ny]

the golden ratio

[c ✨ @marxiners]

the odyssey is a great reminder as to why you never piss off poseidon and then here are your seattle mariners with a disrespectful upside down trident we are never winning anything

[Brandy Jensen @BrandyLJensen]

you’re telling me Chris Nolan, the guy who ushered in the modern age of superhero movies, keeps making films about men who must reckon with their guilt over loosing horrors upon the world