Ken

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[Brendan Miller @brendan_cubs]

Pete-Crow Armstrong.

[MLB Nerds @MLBNerds]

The first player to 7.0 fWAR in 2026: Pete Crow-Armstrong.

It’s July 25th.

[Elon Altman @ElonAltman]

LeBron’s the first person to move from Bel Air to West Philadelphia.

[Ken @kenfucious]

@stiiillwaiting The oddest part about you guys is that Framber sucks now, too.

[The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru @Garrett_Archer]

The claim elections are fraudulent is not an evidence-based claim.

[Ken @kenfucious]

@Andrew_FBB Owen Caissie

[Carson Wolf @TheWrigleyWire]

Pete Crow-Armstrong is now MLB’s all-time leader in 5-star catches since the stat began being tracked in 2016.

Last night, he recorded his 33rd career 5-star catch, passing Kevin Kiermaier.

Even more impressive: PCA needed just 62 opportunities. Nobody else in the top 10 has fewer than 100.

[Ken @kenfucious]

@coleadamss It feels like ages ago now, but Morocco v Netherlands was A++ entertainment.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

France when you speak French: Please don't.
France when you speak English: We speak French here.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Cindy McCain, the wife of John McCain, just endorsed and announced she is raising money for Democrat Katie Hobbs for Governor in Arizona. This is huge.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

They did not.

Or, they did and knew their audience would not.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Reminder:

To create thousands of fake voters, you'd need to first create thousands of fake social security entries.

And you'd need to create fake residences, where the mail wouldn't go undeliverable.

Then you'd need to create fake identification for these people to show up and vote.

AND

There would be a record of all of these fake voters, with full name, DOB, and address. You'd be able to point to specific entries.

Because whether or not you registered, and whether or not you voted, is a public record.

[Bobby Fakename, Esq. @BobFakeNameEsq]

Appointing Lindsey Graham’s sister — who by any metric is woefully unqualified— is genuinely fucking insane. Being a senator is not a lordship. He wasn’t the goddamn Lord of Riverrun. Why can’t Republicans be serious about anything?

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

[Carson Wolf @TheWrigleyWire]

Over the last 85 days, PCA leads MLB with a 1.022 OPS.

The best defender is baseball has been a top hitter in baseball for nearly three months now.

[Ken @kenfucious]

@Andrew_FBB Charlie Hough

[dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DandyGeorgism]

“And every four years when the World Cup comes around, we will say that we’d dominate if we had a stronger youth program.”

“And will we develop a stronger youth program?”

“We will not.”

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

Tonight, in Mexico City, is the most expensive game in sports history -- relative to the price and stadium size.

The cheapest seat for Mexico vs. England, four hours before kick, is $4,585.

There are 87,523 seats in Estadio Azteca!

[AT @BaseballWRLD_]

“Describe the Cubs season in 2 games”