Paul Newcomb

Trying to find intelligence within 140 characters

[Ben Ranieri @BenRanieri10]

Lately as the feeling of finality for this baseball season sets in, I’ve been spending more time listening to Rick Rizzs. Despite how gut wrenching this season has been, he called today’s game as if it was game 7 of the World Series. 41 years with the Mariners and he was as giddy as he could possibly be describing the last out. He’s an absolute treasure.

I hope you can spend these last few games listening to him because you deserve it, and so does he.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Trump Pledges That If Voters Defeat Socialism In November, They Will Each Get An Equal Redistribution Of Wealth From The Government https://t.co/qe16k9ucsf

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Every single politician rn

[Caleb Wait @calebwait]

Here is a side-by-side comparison of Bryan Johnson and Ben Sasse’s answer to Ross Douthat’s question about death.

[Shane Morris @GShaneMorris]

Wild that @DouthatNYT 's quest to charitably interview every villain from C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy has already come to an end. Such a great podcast.

[Seattle Times Sports @SeaTimesSports]

Will the Mariners fire Dan Wilson? It doesn't seem likely, writes @RyanDivish: https://t.co/wtqP0XXVCW

[Adam Jude @A_Jude]

Rick Rizzs, tears in his eyes, gets the biggest ovation of the night when it's announced he has been unanimously elected to the Mariners' Hall of Fame.

[Daniel Kramer @DKramer_]

Luis Castillo on the impact he hoped he made with the Mariners (via interpreter):

"For me, I always tried to be a good person to everyone on the team -- a good person and good teammate. Just thanking everybody in the organization, for always treating me so well."

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

From the mound to the clubhouse and throughout our community, thank you for everything, Luis 💙

We wish you and your family nothing but the best with the White Sox.

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

It's easy to say you hate big tech, hard to cancel your Amazon Prime subscription.

[The Rest Is History @TheRestHistory]

Tom Holland meets a fan

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@VP: "You will hear a couple small but loud voices today speak obsessively not of our national greatness, but of our national imperfections... They will tell you that America is just another country where the weak struggle against the strong, and if they acknowledge that there is anything to be proud of in our history, they’ll say it’s the fact that sometimes the powerless have won a zero-sum battle. They’re wrong..."

"What I’d ask you to do, my fellow Americans, on our 250th birthday, is to reject the two dimensional view of your fellow citizens, and reject the two dimensional view of your country. Reject that America is a place for zero-sum thinking, because it is not. Our history is one of people carving a great civilization out of the wilderness. Reject the view of your nation that sees only its sins, but not its grace and its greatness." 🇺🇸

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

I love this country. I’m proud of this country, its people, its history. I’m an American, and will die an American, and as long as we stand for it America, as framed and intended, will live. So stand for it. Happy Independence Day. 🇺🇸

[Luke Arkins @luke_arkins]

That’ll fix it.

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

We've got #BaseballSky 😍

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

“Let’s make sure we get no more PayPals, Teslas, SpaceXs, Neuralinks, Starlinks . . .” Just illiterate, destructive, sclerotic nonsense.

[Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy]

Read Faulkner.

You can read his work a hundred times and I promise you that you still won’t know the story.

[Steven Godofsky @sgodofsk]

George Will's son Jon has Down syndrome. In 2013, he wrote this celebrating Jon's 40th birthday.

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

Have a month, @JRODshow44 🔥

🔹 10 HR – 1st in AL
🔹 17 XBH – 1st in AL
🔹 69 TB – 1st in AL
🔹 .590 SLG – 2nd in AL

[Luke Arkins @luke_arkins]

#Mariners definitely in a bad stretch thanks to recent injuries and suboptimal run production. Naturally, this misfortune is weighing on fan morale. But…

The starting rotation is healthy, deep, and talented. If this continues to be the case, the M’s can win the AL West.