MJ Samuelson

Too close to the pink dome. Probably peaked early. Wife, mom, geek, opinionated baseball enthusiast, reforming Christian. Didn't used to be angry.

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

Read to your kids. First night home from the hospital and every day until they can read to you, and then read more. Read Goodnight Moon and Old Yeller and Flyguy and Magic Treehouse and Harry Potter and Berenstain Bears and the Bible and biographies of heroes and more.

[Hannah Ward 👩🏻‍🏫 Mom (x3) | Learning Designer @HannahWardEdu]

If I seem grumpy lately it's because I'm reading piles of recent national surveys about why parents don't read to their kids for my dissertation and... Y'all. 😐
"My child prefers screentime."
"I find it boring."
"It's useless."

[Doug Russell @DougRussell]

To better understand Bob Uecker’s significance to Brewers baseball, he called both Hank Aaron’s last MLB home run and Jackson Churio’s first.

[Adam Loewy @LoewyLawFirm]

The great thing is we will get past next week, sit a new Congress, watch them do next to nothing and then starting in JUNE, the 2028 Prez campaign will kick off and it will be 17 months months of endless chatter, prediction markets, and campaigns.

Will never end.

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

@AshleyLMcCully The “my food choices cannot touch on the plate and they can’t mix ever” crowd is winning in a lot of places. 🤦‍♀️😢

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

@longhornderek Oh, I wondered where we were in the election calendar, apparently the “Derek Ryan is a secret leftist” is a few days late this year!

[Kathleen O'Toole @O_TooleKathleen]

@Rubio stood at the Acropolis and traced America's roots to ancient Athens.

Many of today's students wouldn't know how follow him: AP World History doesn't cover ancient Greece, and the ancient-world AP course the College Board promised in 2019 never launched.

A century ago, schools swapped history for "social studies" and taught kids to analyze greatness instead of aspire to it.

Here's my latest, at @RealClearEd.

https://t.co/ZMgSmEnKa9

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

Might have to pin this one.

[Tori Sari @hellotorisari]

I really don't need a “Sunday night reset.” I need a medium sized inheritance and five consecutive business days where nobody needs anything from me.

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

There are many legit uses for AI but the sloppy, copycat-looking political ads (video or otherwise) really should not be one of them. Use your skills, people, or if you don’t have them, please just stop.

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

@VinceLeibowitz The strawberry candies are a treasure

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Bret Saberhagen was 21 years old when he shut out the Cardinals in Game 7 of the 1985 World Series. He'd won the Cy Young that year too, going 20 and 6. Four years later he went 23 and 6 with a 2.16 ERA and won it again.

In Kansas City his best seasons kept landing in odd numbered years, 1985, 1987, 1989 and 1991, and nobody ever really explained why. He's fourth among Royals here.

Who's first among Royals for you?

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

Our high school theater classes put on “You Can’t Take It With You” and having seen it I now need to rewatch the Capra movie and the padawan wants to watch too so what I’m saying is, protect fine arts funding and thank me later.

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

Holy moly.

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

We have on the Longhorn game, but I have the MLB app open to follow WS game 2. Life finds a way.

[Tyann ⚾️ 🏁 @Tyann98]

IMAGINE BEING A PERSON WHO DOESN'T WATCH THE WORLD SERIES HOLY SHEET

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

@longhornderek That’s choice!

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

The year before, at the All-Star Game in KC, commentators were tolling the bell for the Royals. Then this happened, this improbable, beautiful run.

I still get chills.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

The 2014 Royals' Wild Card Game comeback ended with Salvador Perez delivering the walk-off hit. Kansas City had waited years just to get back to October, and the postseason run that followed had to survive this game first.

That's what makes the clip more than one walk-off. It became the opening scene of a Royals run that fans had been waiting decades to experience.

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

VisionQuest needs a scene where Paul Bettany does this with James Spader. But also, it's always a good time to rewatch Master and Commander.

[Patrick J. Wolf @PatWolf]

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Friday

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

@AshleyLMcCully @dallascowboys Oh that’s a bummer 😕 But at least you have something on the calendar?

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

@yashar It was a CMA showcase, probably done in part to avoid making the upcoming CMA Awards all about Dolly. There were some good moments but it did flat; odd choices for performers and the complete absence of the Parton family. 🤷‍♀️

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

@jeremybmazur If it’s anything like the Christmas Music Agreement of 2007, that’s more or less akin to horse thieving.

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

@smgttu98 Interesting! Statewides?

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

Anyone else notice the extreme lack of political mail?

[MJ Samuelson @mjsamuelson]

@1davidguenthner It is bizarre. We got That One Mailer yesterday but other than that, just a lot of mail for Real Green Lawns and Valpak.