phteven

he/they. you are stronger than you think; the only limits are the limits of our imagination, so dream out loud 🫶

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

Ohh there’s a good back story!

Walmart didn’t just “resist” Tap to Pay… they waged a full 12-year cold war against it starting the exact day Apple Pay launched in 2014.

They helped lead a secret retailer cartel called MCX that tried to kill Apple Pay with their own competing system called CurrentC, which spectacularly flopped and died.

The reason is data.

Apple Pay hides your card so the store never sees the real number or full identity.

Walmart Pay forces you into their app so every single item you buy is permanently linked to your profile.

They wanted surveillance more than customer convenience.

They lost!

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Six years ago today we had the greatest “apology” in sports broadcasting history.

Cannot believe this happened

Nick Castellanos hits a home run while Thom Brennaman tries to apologize for using a homophobic slur

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

On the last day of the 1941 season, Ted Williams was hitting .39955.

Officially, that rounds up to .400.

His manager offered to sit him. He could have walked away as a .400 hitter without lifting a bat.

He played both games of a doubleheader instead.

Understand what was at stake. Hitting .400 is the most romantic number in baseball. It had been done a handful of times and it was already becoming rare.

Williams was 23 years old. If he sat, the record book would say .400 forever.

He refused.

His reasoning, as he told it for the rest of his life, was that he didn't want to be a .400 hitter with a technicality. He wanted to earn it standing in the box.

So on September 28, 1941, in Philadelphia, Ted Williams played a doubleheader against the Athletics with the single most famous batting average in American sports hanging on it.

He went 6 for 8.

He finished the season at .406.

Nobody has hit .400 in a Major League season since. Eighty five years and counting. It has become one of those records people quietly assume will never be broken again.

And here's the part that makes the whole thing even more absurd.

Ted Williams lost nearly five full seasons of his prime to military service in two different wars. He was a Marine fighter pilot in World War II and flew combat missions in Korea, where he crash landed a burning jet.

He still finished with 521 home runs and a career .344 average.

His final at bat, in his last game in 1960 at Fenway Park, he hit a home run. Then he ran the bases, went into the dugout, and never came out to tip his cap.

And when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1966, he used his speech to argue that Negro Leagues greats like Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson belonged in Cooperstown too. That was 1966. He didn't have to say that. He said it anyway, and it's cited as one of the reasons the doors eventually opened.

Two games he could have skipped.

Eight at bats he didn't have to take.

Six hits, and the last .400 season anyone has ever had.

For more stories like this, follow us on any platform @thesportsontap

[Disney Parks @DisneyParks]

The news we’ve all been waiting for 💨 Dreamfinder + Figment 🎩💜

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

Living in Ukraine for 4 years has really left me unable to empathise with anyone startled by a phone alert.

The social media meltdown about it is precisely why young Ukrainians refer to this type of person as "the unbombed."

I'm begging you folks to gain a little perspective.

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

THE TAMPA BAY RAYS HAVE THE BEST RECORD IN BASEBALL

[Frank Ammirante @FAmmiranteTFJ]

MLB Player Futures: Junior Caminero

UNDER 34.5 HRs -115 (1u at BetRivers)

Caminero goes from a minor league bandbox to a pitcher's park in Tropicana Field.

May take time to adjust to the batter's eye there.

Caminero had a 100 wRC+ on the road last year (160 wRC+ at home).

[In play, fun(s) @TJenksTampa]

Totally normal one in Sacramento:

• Nick Martinez 101-pitch complete game

• Junior Caminero (league-leading) 35th HR

• Taylor Walls 1st AND 2nd HR of the year

• Carson Williams pinch hit HR

• Richie Palacios multi-hit game

• Victor Mesa and Yandy Diaz both add a HR

[phteven @phteventho]

WE ARE TIED LFG

[MLB @MLB]

Félix Hernández tossed the first pitch prior to tonight's @Mariners game 👑

[Nintendo of America @NintendoAmerica]

Manaphy will teach you Dive, a move that allows you to move freely underwater in the upcoming #PokemonPokopia Ver. 2.0.0 Free Software Update.

Once you have learned Dive, you can swim along with Water-type Pokémon and build places for relaxation or even a crop field underwater.

[BMORE Reeta @theNFLchick]

Took that man’s adderall and he never was the same. Go to hell MLB

[Roku @Roku]

Jimothy made it all the way to Roku City. 🦝

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Vin Scully reciting the “Field Of Dreams” speech.

If you have two free minutes today I highly recommend to watch this

[phteven @phteventho]

i stand for my mom ❤️

[phteven @phteventho]

okay that whole segment just made me cry bc that was so sweet???

[aether @bluewdrift]

my therapist changed my life when he taught me there are 4 types of conversation:

1) small talk (weather, etc)
2) swapping (you tell a story, I tell a story)
3) listening (you tell a story, I listen/validate)
4) problem-solving (you tell me a story, I help solve the problem)

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

Norway’s biggest TV channel is broadcasting the team’s return home… and Haaland is carrying a RACCOON 😭

[phteven @phteventho]

man i love baseball