Kyle Grubbs

Go Cougs!!! Go Mariners!!! Tweets Expire

[Kyle Grubbs @KPGrubbs]

@ESPNFANSUPPORT Your app capacity was the issue, not on my side. Just own it and refund me.

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@espn @ESPNFANSUPPORT app not working to get into to watch #CWS little help here.

[General Kirby Moore @Genmoorecougs]

To Kirk Herbstreit, Keeper of the Mouse’s Coin Purse,

Word has drifted westward across the wheat fields and crimson hills of the Palouse that you have taken to lamenting the greed and excess of youth travel baseball. A curious sermon indeed, coming from a man seated atop the very empire that transformed college football from a proud regional tradition into a gaudy traveling circus stitched together by television contracts and bags of gold.

Good sir, spare us the pearl clutching.

For years your network rode through every conference in the land like railroad barons laying track through peaceful towns, leaving rivalry, tradition, and geography bleeding in the dust. ESPN and its broadcast brethren turned Saturdays into inventory slots, student-athletes into content assets, and conferences into disposable cattle to be auctioned to the highest bidder. You speak now of families trapped in a “Ponzi scheme”? Friend, your employers practically invented the modern blueprint.

The Pac-12 was not slain by Little League dads chasing plastic rings. It was gutted in broad daylight by television greed, by executives demanding ever-larger rights deals while commentators nodded approvingly from air-conditioned studios in Bristol. Schools now fly volleyball teams across three time zones on Tuesday nights so media shareholders may harvest another sliver of ad revenue between insurance commercials and gambling promos. Yet somehow the man cashing checks from the very machine that detonated regional college athletics wishes to scold parents for spending money on baseball tournaments.

Remarkable.

And let us not ignore the richest irony of all: a broadcaster profiting handsomely from the commercialization of amateur athletics lecturing others about the commercialization of amateur athletics. You have spent decades helping monetize teenagers carrying footballs before millions of viewers, all while networks negotiated billion-dollar deals behind closed doors. If there is to be a discussion about the morality of adults making fortunes from sports involving young people, perhaps the fellows seated at the largest banquet table ought not lead the prayer.

Travel baseball may indeed have problems. Excess exists. Egos exist. Costs exist. But at least most parents are doing it because they love their children and cherish time with them before the years vanish like summer sunsets over center field. Meanwhile, television executives carved apart a century of college football history because another yacht does not buy itself.

So next time the urge overtakes you to sermonize upon the selfishness of youth sports economics, perhaps glance first toward the glowing ESPN logo before mounting the pulpit.

Respectfully, though with a hearty scoff,
General Kirby Moore
Defender of the Palouse
Enemy of Media Cartels
Protector of Regional Rivalries

[Kyle Grubbs @KPGrubbs]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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@CityofRenton @CityofRenton

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@CityofRenton Will we get trash weekly?

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@espn @ESPNPlus please fix your app for #CollegeBaseball and add some content to your programming lineup on ESPN.

[Baseball America @BaseballAmerica]

Dax Whitney slo-mo 😮‍💨

The Oregon State RHP is the top-ranked arm in our 2027 college draft rankings.

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@BenLeftCoast 🔥🔥🔥

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@Delta please find a way to clone Keanne! Thank you! Amazing representative! 5⭐️

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Hi @CherylsDesserts, I didn’t order from you, but you sent me something, I am sure very nice, not sure who from because @FedEx didn’t deliver as you paid them to. I messaged them, but they said it was sent economy it’s not their problem. They did send a pic at the wrong house.

[Kyle Grubbs @KPGrubbs]

Yep, but negative or inflammatory content generates more clicks/impressions. Making broad generalizations about an entire group of dads based on a few interactions is unfair. Same as assuming every dad coach is only self-serving and doesn't genuinely care about the kids or the game.

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@MkeReed @jimshapiro I agree there is definitely a sweet spot, do you need to go to Dallas, Vegas, Omaha, San Diego…. In the same season, for 99.9% no, but does going to one or two make sense, for a lot of teams yes, especially if you live in a northern state. Also $2,000 is low.

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Collin and his buddy were at the park today and got to meet the legend @tomhouse. He could not have been nicer! What a great ambassador of the game! Thank you Tom for making these kids day.

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@CityofRenton Thank you!

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@OurLancerNation @CoachSeib @CoachSeib congratulations!

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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary