Will DeBoer

Athletic Comms at @suseagulls | Former 🎙 in D1/MiLB | Indiana native | @hopecollege alum | "May all your favorite bands stay together."

[The Mets Newsletter @metsnewsletter]

R.A. Dickey made it on Jeopardy!

[Greg Prince @greg_prince]

To hell with New York. I’ll sign it, anyway. #LGM

[Will DeBoer @WillDeBoer]

@Peterson_IsKing Ron Darling: "Alvarez has got to watch this runner on first."

[Will DeBoer @WillDeBoer]

@NYMhistory Heard he played football in HS - big if true!

[Noel Gallagher @NoelGallagher]

MANCHESTER 🐝
Heaton Park - One year!
#OasisLive25

[Dave Sessions @davesessions]

Maybe I'm an outlier on this, but I actually enjoy a little existential nihilism on a broadcast.

Like Vin Scully's famous line: "He's listed as day to day. Aren't we all?"

[Will DeBoer @WillDeBoer]

@rebekah_e_s I landed on Brighton because where I live and the South Coast are very similar, and our local college’s nickname is also the seagulls.

[Will DeBoer @WillDeBoer]

@HowieRose

[Steve Gelbs @SteveGelbs]

Juan Soto is an absolute monster.

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Ready for the roars to rain.

[SNY Mets @SNY_Mets]

JUAN SOTO IS AN ALL-STAR FOR THE FIRST TIME AS A MET 🔥

[Steve Gelbs @SteveGelbs]

Juan Soto has been named a starter for the NL All-Star team. His .971 OPS currently leads all National League hitters.

[MLB @MLB]

James Earl Jones performed an iconic rendition of the national anthem at the 1993 MLB All-Star Game 👏

The legendary actor memorably appeared in the baseball movies “Field of Dreams” and “The Sandlot.”

#July4th #MLB #USA

[Major League Soccer @MLS]

Here’s to the Stars & Stripes making more history this summer. 🇺🇸

Happy 250th, America. #July4th

[Howie Rose @HowieRose]

I have never seen or heard Bobby Ojeda tell this story before, but if you think he was a tough customer on the mound (and he was) read this entire story. Simply remarkable.

[Josiah Hawthorne @JosiahHawthorne]

On this day in history: July 2, 1863, the Confederacy got its butt handed to it on a platter by a liberal arts college professor on sabbatical.

Don't mess with college professors.

[George Kittle @gkittle46]

USA USA USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

🗣️ PLAY COUNTRY ROADS.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

'Take Me Home, Country Roads' plays in San Francisco Bay Area Stadium after the @USMNT Knockout Stage victory 🇺🇸