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💜 the Padres(1972)Royals(1994) Huskers FB, SDSU Sports. Reluctant LA resident.

[KC Current @thekccurrent]

Argentina is taking over KC 🤯🇦🇷

[CAT🤎💙Baseball @cathyb314]

@bobfescoe @DustyLikins

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

It was two in the morning, the hour when even the bravest samurai retires to his bedroll, yet here, a fortress of light beckoned me from the darkness.

Every castle I have ever known has fallen. Fire, siege, taxes. Eight hundred years of my family learning one lesson: nothing stays open forever.

This house has never closed.

Not for storms. Not for holidays. Not for the hour when even the moon looks tired. I asked the waitress when they lock the doors.

"We don't have locks, hon."

No locks. I own walls, moats, and a sword older than this country, and I have never once said anything that powerful.

Inside, a cook was scraping the grill at 2 a.m. with the calm of a man guarding something. I asked if he was the night watch.

"I'm Darnell."

A trucker two stools down raised his coffee. "Place stayed open during the hurricane," he said. "FEMA's got a whole index about it."

An index. The government of this nation measures disasters by whether THIS HOUSE is still standing. In Japan, we measured a clan's strength by its castle. Same thing. Theirs serves waffles.

I ordered. I ate. I confess what happened next.

I did not want to leave. The night outside was large. The booth was warm. I am a grown warrior, and I sat in a yellow fortress at 3 a.m. feeling protected by hash browns.

A castle does not promise to stand forever. It simply leaves the lights on.

I drive past at night now. Just to check. The lights are always on.

Sentries of the griddle — I see you. Hold the line.

[CAT🤎💙Baseball @cathyb314]

@BrianOGrady21 Good luck BOG!!!

[CAT🤎💙Baseball @cathyb314]

@bobfescoe follow this guy too. Well with it.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

Craig Stammen was ejected after Ron Marinaccio was tossed for hitting Gunnar Henderson on a pitch that appeared to be retaliation for Xander Bogaerts being struck in the head earlier in the game

[Dean Ammi @AlgerianFooty]

I would like to thank the people of Kansas for the warm welcome they have shown to Algeria. 🇺🇸🫶🏼🇩🇿

This may have genuinely saved the World Cup + shows what true World Cuo values should be about. 🙏🏼

More here: https://t.co/DcUP3aLvQn

[CAT🤎💙Baseball @cathyb314]

@DustyLikins They came close

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

Complete game shutout ✅
Less than 100 pitches ✅
Minimum batters faced ✅
Career-high 15 Ks ✅
Fastest pitch ever by a SP (104.5) ✅

The reaction says it all

[CAT🤎💙Baseball @cathyb314]

@bobfescoe @DustyLikins

[Paul B/ Barbs @GeographyNow]

World Cup USA visitor's guide

#Travel #WorldCup #Education #FYP

[CAT🤎💙Baseball @cathyb314]

@Adam_Klug how stoked were you?

[Dan + Shay @DanAndShay]

Honored to be singing the National Anthem at the @FIFAWorldCup opening ceremony tonight! 🇺🇸

[CAT🤎💙Baseball @cathyb314]

@DustyLikins did @3guysinagarage produce this video??

[Gennaro Gattuso @fred16674]

World Cup fans....choose your best

[CAT🤎💙Baseball @cathyb314]

Good!!

[MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra]

Hot Diggity Dog “You just PISSED ME OFF”

Marion County FL Sheriff Billy Woods just went OFF on a piece of shit reporter who shifted topics away from a major sting operation to capture child sex criminals.

“Out of all this shit, you want to ask about another case? We’re talking about CHILDREN! — THAT (points to the sex predators) is what you need to be focused on— this press conference is solely for those pieces of shit right there.”

Drop a . If you approve his message

https://t.co/rkSoDvTTtc

[Lancesico 🇱🇨 @Bornakang]

Reason #5059 why women live longer than men

[WCVB-TV Boston @WCVB]

Scotsman Craig Ferguson arrives in Boston to a hero’s welcome after walking across the U.S. to attend the World Cup.

[Clyde 1 Superscoreboard @ClydeSSB]

🇺🇸 Scotland fans are taking over pubs in Boston as the World Cup gets underway! ⬇️

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

“Last year, I was so hyperfixated on all the negatives…”

@Royals slugger Jac Caglianone talks through the lessons he learned from his rookie season and getting his mind right at the plate.

[CAT🤎💙Baseball @cathyb314]

@bobfescoe mmmmm. Bbq

[Joe's Kansas City @joeskc]

Have you been to @Joe's Next Door KC yet? Grab a date and enjoy drinks on the patio or hang with the gang and cheer on the Royals over some smoked brisket tacos! Located across the street from the Original Joe's Gas Station. Come see the newest neighborhood hangout in KCK!

[CAT🤎💙Baseball @cathyb314]

@thestevenwoods @BenHigginsSD

[Foul Territory @FoulTerritoryTV]

Seth Lugo got hit with a 107 MPH line drive on his forehead and immediately left the game.

Brandon Nimmo rushed over to check on him after the play was over.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Brazilians might as well have spiritual connection with balls.