Ellis Metz

Communicator and social chair at @JarrardInc. Throws: R / Bats: R. Roll Tides equal endorsements. [INSERT BOILERPLATE] ###

[Ellis Metz @efmetz]

@goflyingboxcars Any changes to game times tomorrow? 2pm?

[Ellis Metz @efmetz]

And now I see! 👍

[Chris Jones @EnswellJones]

Spent the last few days recording the audiobook version of Legs Hearts Minds—available for pre-order! coming June 2!—with two very metal studio engineers, and there is nothing like walking into a room every morning knowing that you are someone's career rock bottom.

[Ellis Metz @efmetz]

@EnswellJones Man, I missed the comeback announcement but am thrilled to hear you’ve been writing. Will there be an audiobook version?

[Melissa @iamtheriffraff]

I hate it here.

[Ellis Metz @efmetz]

@JuuseBox74 Need the shirt.

[Riley @Riley3203]

@nate_oatsb Couldn’t believe what I was seeing either

[Brett Usher @UsherNBA]

wtf man

[Alabama Baseball @AlabamaBSB]

𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.

@thejustinlebron I #RollTide

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

> Republican gets elected President.

> Cuts benefits for the poor.

> Cuts taxes for the rich.

> Starts a war in the Middle East.

It's crazy how it’s always the same thing every single time.

[Chuck Culpepper @ChuckCulpepper1]

So on the 4,167th and final day of a job so exhilarating that I'd swear at least 4,000 of the days qualified as very good or better, the coffee came with whooshing thoughts of the 11 years and the four months and the 27 days.

The brain tore through the datelines from 17 countries and 43 states, the three World Cups, the four Olympics, the 10 tennis majors, the 20 golf majors, the 11 men's Finals Four, the 28 College Football Playoff games, the 10 Kentucky Derbys, the tour of Jordan-Oman-Kuwait-United Arab Emirates, the 46 days in the peerless Australia -- I mean, come on, really? -- the depth of the beauty of South Koreans, and those times when I looked in the mirror (briefly) and saw a lunatic.

Maybe the looniest would be covering a game in Seattle on a Friday night, then a game in Clemson on that Saturday night (with Lamar Jackson on the field looking even more dizzying than usual). Or was it the Boise on a Friday night, the students swimming into the frigid river for a goal-post chunk after midnight, then the one hour of sleep, then the Indianapolis on a Saturday night? No, wait, wait, it had to be this: Novak Djokovic winning the French Open in Paris on Sunday early evening, then U.S. Open golf preparations starting on Tuesday . . .

. . . in Los Angeles.

Non-deranged people might find such a sequence unfair; for whatever metabolic reason, I just kept giggling.

Well, something surpassed all of that, somehow. To be part of the Washington Post Sports department was to be a part of an exemplary human experience, a rarefied collegiality, a beacon of collaboration and a near-bewildering scarcity of envy. For just one thing, I never, ever thought, way back last century, that I'd inhabit a world and a staff where everyone would treat my husband as one of the group, where a deputy sports editor would say, in a kitchen, near the end of a holiday party, "Alfonso! Come over here and hug me!" All of it reinforced that on the medal stand of life, human collaboration deserves a spot and maybe even the gold, for its curious capacity to bolster seemingly all 35 trillion of our cells.

I love these forever teammates all so much it probably annoys them, and they call to mind a relic of a show always worth unearthing. It's Episode 168 of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," the episode she titled, "The Last Show," when the WJM newsroom staff works a final news show and has a last group hug, and Mary wishes to emote, and Lou wishes not to emote, but then Mary gives a stirring speech and then the ever-gruff Lou relents and, in a quaking voice, says something resonant all the way clear into February 2026:

"I treasure you people."

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

update: four minutes into the first event of the Winter Olympics, there has been a power outage

[Ellis Metz @efmetz]

@htmldon @CalebHemmer Bless you.

[Brandon Zimmerman @BZSEC]

Vance from Georgia tells @finebaum that a tree fell through his house into his bedroom 10 minutes ago.

When asked why he decided to stay on the line, Vance says there was nothing he could immediately do about it, and assures us that he and his dogs are OK.

"I was on hold and thought, 'Well, what are you going to do? There's nothing you can do this second.'"

Unfazed, Vance goes ahead asks Paul a question about LSU's transfer portal class.

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

As insane as this sounds, it’s true: Pam Bondi sent Minnesota officials a letter today saying ICE would leave the state if Minnesota turns over its voter files to the Trump Administration.

They’re openly using state violence as a bargaining chip to seize election infrastructure.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

A statement from the family of Alex Pretti, obtained by CNN:

"We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.

The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

“The [ICE] agent took the child out of the still-running car, led him to the door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”

This family did every single thing they’ve been asked to in order to seek asylum here. Yet in less than 24 hours, this kid and his Dad were nabbed off our streets and sent to Texas, using tactics that can only be described as pure evil.

Where is our humanity? Where have our shared values of gone? How can we justify using a little boy in a bunny hat and Spider Man backpack as bait?

You may have voted for the President under the guise that he was only going after thugs and criminals. He lied to you.

[Jamaica Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation @JBSFed]

We are feeling very Olympic today! We have qualified 3 sleds for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

#MilanCortina2026 #WinterOlympics #CoolRunnings #Jamaica
@jamaicaolympic @milanocortina26 @iocmedia @IBSFsliding

[Allie Berube @allieberube]

Kids getting AFTER it on the ice in the Hershey Bears intermission game

#ElectricFactory

[Harris Meyer @Meyer_HM]

“Four detainee deaths in one week is a red-hot crisis,” said Cho of the CLUA National Prison Project. “There is no question in my mind that this represents a clear deterioration of medical care and the worsening conditions in ICE detention.”
https://t.co/F9VArjoixf

[Alabama Track & Field @AlabamaTrack]

Etched her name in history forever.

Doris Lemngole becomes the first student-athlete in @UA_Athletics history to win @thebowerman - the highest individual honor in collegiate track and field.

@yea_ala | #RollTide