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These look like the teams from Baseball Stars 2026, the 37th annual entry in the universally beloved, multi-billion dollar sports video game franchise.
Team hat designs for the 2026 World Baseball Classic are out:
January 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Mom: Find a funny Christmas video to send back to her. But not too funny. Normal funny.
Me:
a star wars character is saying `` it 's a trap '' .
ALT: a star wars character is saying `` it 's a trap '' .
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December 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My kid, apparently Arsenal-pilled: "Not now, Dad. I want to watch this free kick."
September 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Can confirm: I beat Watson in a test game and still brag about it and the "Get out of AI Free" card they gave me.
September 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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In defense of Michael Bradley, whose long and distinguished and bizarrely vitriol-inducing USMNT career will be honored tomorrow. (And whose body of work really never should have required defending in the first place.)

Column @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Steely and strangely divisive, Michael Bradley’s playing career cut to the id of US soccer fandom
US Soccer will belatedly honor one of its most accomplished players on Saturday – as good a time as any to re-assess his groundbreaking career
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🚨🚨You can now pre-order my book, THE LONG GAME, on the United States men's national soccer team and its messy rise from total international irrelevance to, well, TBD!🚨🚨

I spoke to ~150 players/coaches/etc. and got fresh stories and unprecedented access!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722130...
The Long Game by Leander Schaerlaeckens: 9780593653876 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The gripping account of the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026. For almost half a century,...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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August 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Have we tried disguising McGlynn in a goalkeeper's uniform so he has enough time to get the ball lined up on his left foot?
a fat man in a hockey jersey is holding a hockey stick on a rink .
Alt: Kenan Thompson in D2: The Mighty Ducks
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July 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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still kind of enjoying The Bear but I think we as a people deserve a prestige TV show about a Waffle House instead of this fine dining bullshit
June 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Kids a few blocks down from us are now "Inscribe dozens of the cool S on the sidewalk in chalk"-years-old, which I feel certain is an age cohort in the pediatric literature.
June 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My kingdom for a set piece goal.
June 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
We're priests of the papal conclave
We congregate in the nave
We cast our votes and pass our notes
Inside our little enclave
Together in the Vatican
That's where we get democratic in
a group of knights standing in front of a wall with candles
Alt: a group of knights standing in front of a wall with candles
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May 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My kid: Don't you think this one is funny?
April 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
My kid: What is this song even about?
Me: I'm pretty sure it's about forgetting your wallet in El Segundo actually.
March 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
First day of school today in Austin, and the family of kids that last year all had matching Messi Inter Miami jerseys have moved on to Lamine Yamal Spain kits.
August 20, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Has someone tried telling Mbappe this is actually the World Cup?
July 9, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Taking this Ohtani thing to its logical, Jordan-esque conclusion and pretty much already have a treatment for Space Slam (2027) worked out.
March 21, 2024 at 1:55 AM
My kid in the car, after listening to [OBVIOUS]: Based on what he says, I think he should go. Because if he goes, there will be trouble. But if he stays, there will be double. And that's worse.
January 19, 2024 at 2:36 AM