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[saxboy @saxboybilly18]

Texas is my least favorite MLB park in the US, suites all around the field so kids can’t get close to players except a weird steep right field. Then across the parking lot an empty stadium they built less than 30 years ago. Just a symbol of American failure and greed.

[Benson @Miggysbat]

Javy Báez involved in a slide/tag play is the greatest player in baseball history

[Zach Taylor @ZachTaylorSport]

Hot take:

The Ballpark in Arlington was an amazing venue & the franchise had no business building another stadium

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

Dude sounds more like Nicholas Cage than Nicholas Cage does😂

[That Guy Rocked NBA @NBAGuyRocked]

Thabo Sefolosha

That guy rocked.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Oklahoma weather girl asks for measurements on Facebook, clarifies she meant snowfall in broadcast:

[Marquee Sports Network @WatchMarquee]

On this day in 2016, the Cubs ended a 108-year drought and won the World Series!

(OTD x @Prevagen)

[Michael Halepas @MichaelHalepas]

Those of you that are watching the series need to know that ad on tariffs with my father is a cherry picked ad and why Trump flipped the bird to Canada

[Cubs Zone @CubsZone]

10 years ago today, the Cubs became the first team to ever hit six home runs in a postseason game 🤯

Kyle Schwarber, Starlin Castro, Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo, Jorge Soler & Dexter Fowler all homered. 💪🏼

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Carson Wolf @TheWrigleyWire]

Kyle Hendricks is expected to retire after the 2025 season, having spent nearly his entire career with the Cubs.

Hendricks played in 276 games with Chicago and was a huge piece of the 2016 team that won the World Series.

The Professor is a Cubs legend.

[Marquee Sports Network @WatchMarquee]

The @Cubs recognized Anthony Rizzo’s retirement with a tribute video ahead of today’s game.

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

"Go get yourself a good one here, Kyle. I got a feeling he's gonna try to throw that cutter again." - John Kruk, who felt Kyle Schwarber's 50th HR of the season coming.

[Jonathan Joestar @Jon_Gregg__]

Let the boy watch!

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The Other Guys is 15 years old today.
One of the most underrated comedies of the last 20 years. It's worth it for Michael Keaton's TLC references alone... not that he's making any.