Mike Phili retweeted
At some point, baseball has to get back to valuing ballplayers and not just numbers on a screen. Give me the Freddie Freemans, the Buster Poseys, Hunter Pences, Pablo Sandovals, Michael Youngs, Ian Kinslers of the world. Guys who just flat out know how to play the game. Everyone wants to talk launch angle and exit velo, but what happened to valuing a quality at bat?” The 9-pitch battle that might end in an out, but forces a pitcher to show everything he’s got.
The guy who hits behind the runner, takes what’s given, or just refuses to give a pitcher an easy inning. Those at-bats might not look sexy in the box score, but they show up in the 7th, 8th, and 9th. Some of these dudes could absolutely leave the yard too. That’s the point. They weren’t one-dimensional. Somewhere along the way, we confused measurable tools with knowing how to win baseball games.
I’m not against analytics or hitting the ball hard, but there is an art to winning that you can’t fully measure. We need more guys who know how to play baseball, not just hitters, not just athletes, ballplayers. And I promise you, those dudes never go out of style
They don’t actually want to raise more tax dollars. If they did, they would have gotten ride of step up in basis and carried interest loop holes. Why don’t they do that?…
Mainly because if they did, not only would it hit the billionaires, but it would also hit the super wealthy people in congress and the people who lobbied for them to be there. Friendly reminder that hedge fund managers’ income is not taxed at the same income levels as you
Mike Phili retweeted
REMINDER: CBS lawyers and "Standards & Practices" cleared this face-plant for broadcast....
Hot take, he’s only saying this because the CFP sucked last year and after watching the SEC and B1G championships he realizes it has the potential to suck again.
🔥HOT TAKE from @joelklatt🔥
"We don't want Cinderellas. We want the best teams playing each other at the end... The NCAA basketball tournament is a joke. It's the dumbest tournament and the least fair tournament in all of sports."
Mike Phili retweeted
this would happen to me but i don’t have a head. i’m all head. sending love to puddles and the oregon community during these difficult times.
Mike Phili retweeted
Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open 👻
(via raygiubilo/IG)
Mike Phili retweeted
Not an apology
Not a retraction
And it was posted on @NYTimesPR, which has 88k followers, instead of @nytimes, which has 55 million
So a massive lie spread across the world, and now less than 1% of the people who saw it will ever see this pathetic little footnote
We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below.
ALT Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.
Mike Phili retweeted
New Rutgers President William F. Tate IV.....
"I didn't grow up in this participation trophy world. You come in second place, you put it in your pocket, go home and work on being first."
🎦 via @MaryAnnKoruth
I never want to hear how good of a GM Mike Elias is ever again. Great at drafting, but to trade for Trevor Rogers and then to follow it up with the pathetic offseason we had, vomit. Yeah, Charlie Morton is the answer. Idiot
