#Sports

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[theonion]

“We immediately reached out to his agent to improve our chances of keeping Aaron Rodgers as far away as possible from our franchise. This puts us in a much better position than many of the other teams in the league who now risk acquiring the former Jets quarterback because they waited too long to make an insultingly low salary offer or mock his weird beliefs and idiotic conspiracy theories.” At press time, several NFL teams reportedly entered a bidding war offering high draft picks to any franchise willing to suffer Aaron Rodgers.

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[a-titty-ninja]

「Number 17」 by Cacn | Twitter

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[alanfromrochester]

even as a sports nerd, I had heard of lefty batters having an advantage seeing righty pitchers, but not the idea of lefties getting to first base slightly quicker (which would make a difference on close throws).

Also fielding angles make lefties better suited to certain positions

The more I learn about baseball, the more interesting it seems, which is weird because I'm not really a sports person

Anyways I wanna share something neat that I learned but I'm gonna preface this by saying that I'm not "into" baseball. I'm just visiting the baseball zoo and reading the little blurbs the have on the cages

With that out of the way, when you swing a bat, your momentum naturally goes with the bat, right? So for righties, immediately after batting, their momentum starts to take them to third base, meaning they have to fight against the bat's momentum before running to first

But for lefties, the bat's momentum is already taking them to first! Apparently lefties can, on average, reach first base a sixth of a second faster than righties

Apparently it also makes a difference in receiving a pitch, since a righty receiving a pitch from a righty will see it coming from behind their shoulder, but a lefty receiving a pitch from a righty can clearly see the ball

Because of this, they started bringing in lefty pitchers to counteract the lefty batters and the result is a sport with 2-4x as many lefties as the general public

[oddwomen]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979

[cumpletesoccerfanatic]

Manuel Neuer 🔥🤤

[theblvcksupreme]

Kevin Randleman

[strathshepard]

Jean-Michel Basquiat photographed by Maripol in 1981 – the year he sold his first painting, to Debbie Harry of Blondie, for $200

[retrocgads]

USA 1993

[cumpletesoccerfanatic]

Olivier Giroud

[doublescribble]

Victor Wembanyama, Aaron Nesmith, Myles Turner, and Obi Toppin 2024-25 NBA Regular Season

[saucingitup]

and this is why baseball is the best sport (see also: these baseball sidequests)

[theblvcksupreme]

[animentality]

[lizardsfromspace]

Meanwhile, in the world of football, the Pop Tart Bowl had an anthropomorphic Pop Tart who asked to be lowered into a giant toaster, holding a sign saying "DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE"

The toaster then spat out a human-sized Pop Tart with a face for the winning team to eat

And they devoured the edible mascot ravenously