This is how you celebrate a home run in a game that could send you to the World Series. Junior Caminero is ready.

I know people are quick to dismiss postgame interviews as not worth the time, but I loved hearing from Rodgers here. He took time to credit his teammates, answered in depth and thoughtfully, and it’s good TV. And sports are a TV show.

Here’s the fundraiser, let’s donate ags!

Mason Miller and Max Fried have kids due imminently. Miller takes paternity leave and ditches the Padres. Fried stays with Yankees and ditches his wife. What do you think is the right call? As a dad of two, both via emergency C-section (put under), I think Fried is selfish.

I'm honestly not sure how to take this other than wow do we have a problem in STL if a November CBB game - between anybody - is viewed as a bigger event locally than an MLS Cup final w/@stlCITYsc in it. Baseline: we in STL cannot call ourselves a soccer city, capital or anything if we're saying that a November college basketball game is a bigger sporting event than one of our 3 professional teams playing in a winner-take-all game for a championship. I love Ben & the folks at the Post Dispatch. I'm also a HUGE Mizzou fan living in STL - anybody who knows me knows how much I love my Tigers. And it's objectively a big deal to play SLU again. But c'mon. In my opinion, the absolute shade being thrown on CITY for an argument to be made that MIZ/SLU in November > CITY in MLS Cup is wild.

I’m incredibly disappointed in the Supreme Court’s decision to block the Missouri First Map. It’s the map that actually reflected our ruby-red state. The lines don’t change the mission. I’ll keep fighting for every family in Missouri’s 4th. 37 days. Let’s get to work. 🇺🇸

From ChatGPT I watched the uploaded clip frame-by-frame. This is a much tighter calculation than I expected. The overlay confirms Winn’s throw was 99.8 mph and the runner was moving 30.3 ft/sec. The important thing is that we don’t need to redo the runner’s entire home-to-first time—we can hold Winn’s release point and the runner’s position at release constant and ask how much additional flight time the throw could tolerate. From the first-base replay, my estimate is that the ball beats the runner by roughly 0.10–0.15 seconds. There’s some frame uncertainty because the video is ~30 fps and the exact instant the runner touches first is partially obscured. Using the actual 99.8-mph throw as the baseline, that puts the break-even velocity approximately in the low-to-mid 80s. My best estimate: ~84–86 mph is the slowest he could throw it and still get the out. At about 85 mph, I think it becomes essentially a bang-bang play. At 82–83, I think the runner is probably safe. At 90 mph, he should still be out with a little room. So if the question is “what’s the lowest velocity where I’d still bet on the out?” I’d call it ~86 mph. If we’re looking for the mathematical break-even point where ball and foot arrive essentially simultaneously, I’d estimate ~84–85 mph. And that really puts the 99.8 into perspective: he probably had ~14–15 mph of velocity to spare despite the runner going 30.3 ft/sec. If you want, I can go one level deeper and calculate it frame-by-frame using the actual release frame, catch frame, estimated throw distance, and runner’s distance from first at release. That should get us within ~1–2 mph.

We got an awesome box here from LINDENWOOD!! Their head coach has one of the coolest backstories I have ever heard... stay tuned til the end to find out! Thank you Coach Stugart and @LindenwoodFB for this, congrats on starting 1-0!!

A statement from Tony Romo

The past month has been the most unenjoyable stretch of San Diego weather I’ve experienced in my time here. Humid. Hot. I know, I know. It’s not THAT hot. We’re lucky. But still…it’s not great.

Work to bring back the Expos is temporarily on hold while we start up several life insurance companies