"The Mountaineers are going to Omaha."
I love creating these kinds of videos. Here’s my look at @WVUBaseball making history, featuring the photos I took during the Super Regional.
The run by WVU Baseball has connected with people unlike anything I’ve ever seen.
I don’t have words to add to it, so here are the images that spoke loudest to me through the lens.
@wmattwells Very kind words. I felt like a kid getting to take photos.
Amazing team led by the remarkable @stevesabins
Congrats to all of you!! Well deserved.
@LouieGeech I was friends with Dr. Alsop’s son and we went to the WVU baseball camp. Coach Ramsburg was there the entire time. Learned more baseball that week than any other time in my life.
The Mountaineers are going to OMAHA for the first time in program history.
The players, staff, admin, families, fans, supporters, alumni, administration, and entire STATE did it.
The entire WVU baseball stadium locking arms and belting Country Roads together was cool as hell.
Authentically theirs.
Those are the moments that crystalize why college sports are so awesome.
Hardest working man at @MetroNewsSports is @joebrowvm an it’s not even close. From film to articles to TV, he does it all. The Harvey family respects the grind. Great watching him from a far this week at @TheWVSSAC boys basketball Tourney @Bigtomwv11@Hannah_Harvey21
Winfield's Ty Laughery, who has been battling Hodgkin's lymphoma, is back with his Generals' teammate tonight as WHS faces Ripley in the Class AAA Quarterfinals: #wvprepbb
Ondřej Satoria is a Czech electrician whose fastball barely tops 80 MPH.
Baseball took him from fields in Czechia to striking out Shohei Ohtani and becoming a celebrity in Japan.
Now, Japanese fans gave him a curtain call after pitching his final game.
The standing ovations Jack Hughes is getting everywhere he goes are further proof that the loud minority of mentally ill USA hockey haters live in an online fantasy bubble.
America loves you, Legend! 🇺🇸🦅
Watching @usahockey compete on the international stage felt like stepping back into the good old days, when you could fly the American flag proudly without someone side eyeing you for it. When representing this country was not controversial. When dominating in international competition brought people together instead of sparking a culture war.
For a moment, it felt like we remembered who we are.
There was a time when Americans did not filter every relationship through politics. You loved your neighbors. You showed up for your community. You probably did not even know who they voted for, and it did not matter. We were competitors abroad and neighbors at home. Strong. Confident. United.
Somewhere along the way, media outrage cycles, political opportunists, and even outside actors learned that division was profitable, and they have been feeding it ever since. But the reaction to this team proves something important. More Americans crave unity, pride, and shared identity than whatever this current mess has become.
That instinct, the one that swells when you see your country represented with grit and excellence, is still there. It has not disappeared. It has just been drowned out.
Most Americans want to stand shoulder to shoulder again, not scream across trenches dug by algorithms and insufferable talking heads. The hunger for unity is stronger than the noise. It would be smart to see that instead of fighting it.