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These tweets are definitive; reality is frequently inaccurate.

[Sam @slapNslide]

Watching college baseball makes you really appreciate home plate umpires in Major League Baseball. Idk if the college guys are even 50% on balls within 3 inches of the corner

[Scott Coleman @scottcoleman55]

Crazy how adding one hitter into the lineup makes it look so much better. Hopefully we do the same with Ronald in a week or so

[Zach Klein @ZachKleinWSB]

Not in Atlanta !
$3 soft drinks
$3 waters
$3 french fires
$5 cheeseburgers

[Nash @NashTalksTexas]

Georgia fans are chanting “just like football”

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.

Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.

I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.

This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.

I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"

"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."

"But the store loses."

"Yep. On purpose."

On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.

In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.

A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."

It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.

I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.

Some prices are not prices. They are promises.

I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.

The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.

Long may it spin.

[Pitchergami @pitchergami]

🚨 PITCHERGAMI 🚨

Jacob Misiorowski just threw a line that has NEVER happened in MLB history:

9.0 IP | 1 H | 0 ER | 0 BB | 15 K

PHI @ MIL
That's the 180th Pitchergami of 2026 and 1 of 83,405+ unique lines on record.

[Neal Parikh @npparikh]

Anthony Bourdain wrote about this. This was his pitch for Parts Unknown. Trust me, read the whole thing.

[Sam @slapNslide]

“Nolan Ryan isn’t top 5 all time” shouldn’t be the least bit controversial. Just a fact. Great pitcher, fantastic stat compiler.

[Joseph “Joe Mama” Mother @themccpin]

"Nolan Ryan isn't top 5 all time" is certainly a take

[Bengal @BengalYouTube]

The most insane pitching performance I have ever seen.
Jacob Misiorowski allows 1 hit, faces the minimum and strikes out 15 on under 100 pitches

There are no comparable starts in MLB history

[Rob Friedman @PitchingNinja]

Jacob Misiorowski. 15 STRIKEOUT MADDUX. 😳

9 innings, 0 runs, 15Ks, 1 hit. 0 BBs.

95 pitches. Most Strikeouts EVER in a Maddux!

[Nick @YouKnowRu]

All I know is, Ben Simmons woulda never done what De’Aaron Fox did.

[Sam/FIFA Brit @FIFABrit]

Worst part about the World Cup so far:

-Americans and Brits arguing about whose stadia are better

Best part about the World Cup so far:

-German guy discovering Waffle House for the first time

[Spielberg | 50 @spielberg50]

“Where’s the Horizon?”

[Sam @slapNslide]

Y’all is the greatest word in the English language, don’t gatekeep

[Rika Uindou @uindourika]

The most disastrous consequence of American globalism was Europeans saying “y’all” and “ain’t”. Its like seeing a dog hold a spoon. Very unusual and very scary.

[mary @theoceanblooms]

“ain’t” was used in works by charles dickens

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, per WaPo

[AT @BaseballWRLD_]

Shohei Ohtani now has the highest OBP and 2nd-highest wRC+ in the NL.

Shohei Ohtani lowered his ERA to 0.74, the best among all SP with at least 60 IP.

We’ve already seen 4 Ohtani MVP seasons and somehow 2026 will be his best year yet

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

the 120 fastest pitches thrown by MLB starters this year

[shakeia @curlyfro]

“he has arrived” is toughhhhh.

[Pittsburgh Pirates @Pirates]

BRYAN REYNOLDS. BALLGAME.