#stanford softball

[aerinfrankellove]

Stanford to super regionals let’s go!!

[athleticperfection1]

Stanford Softball

[gayverlyearp]

baby with baby sized stanford foam finger

[fuckyeahcollegesoftball]

[travisdermotts]

NiJaree Canady you're my hero

[preciouspiastri]

listen i may be from the west coast but i want the 2 west coast teams in the world series to lose most

[hyperfixationsstation]

some people might say this is boring but this is the shit i live for

[stanfordsweater]

i think it's interesting to say that we don't see dean vulnerable often because, especially in the early seasons but continuing to the end of the show, i feel like we see him vulnerable all the time-- we're granted the gift of being the camera all those times he's close to tears, a stand-out example being in what is and what should never be when we see him on his knees crying over fake!john's grave, but there are many many other examples of him being very vulnerable/cracked-open to the audience that i feel people do a real disservice to by forgetting.

right off the bat we see him vulnerable in the pilot when he talks about pursuing john and sam reminds him he's going back to school:

where he has to take a second and remind himself that he doesn't get sam back, because sam has a life, and dean collects himself but won't even look at sam beyond a derisive glance when he says "i'll take you home."

what is this moment if not planting the seeds for when dean later says, in shadow, that what he really wants is sam with him and his family back together?

SAM: I mean, what are you gonna do when it’s all over? DEAN: It’s never gonna be over. There’s gonna be others. There’s always gonna be somethin’ to hunt. SAM: But there’s got to be somethin’ that you want for yourself— DEAN: Yeah, I don’t want you to leave the second this thing’s over, Sam. SAM: Dude, what’s your problem? DEAN: Why do you think I drag you everywhere? Huh? I mean, why do you think I came and got you at Stanford in the first place? SAM: ‘Cause Dad was in trouble. ‘Cause you wanted to find the thing that killed Mom. DEAN: Yes, that, but it’s more than that, man. You and me and Dad—I mean, I want us… I want us to be together again. I want us to be a family again. SAM: Dean, we are a family. I’d do anything for you. But things will never be the way they were before. DEAN: (sadly) Could be. SAM: I don’t want them to be. I'm not gonna live this life forever. Dean, when this is all over, you’re gonna have to let me go my own way.

and what is THIS moment if not dean being vulnerable? when he's reminded that the "something he wants for himself" is completely impossible because sam doesn't want it and dad left without a word by choice?

my best guess is that people don't read these moments as dean being vulnerable because he's turned away from sam-- in the pilot, he looks out the window and purses his lips and takes sam back to school. in shadow, he physically turns away from sam and grabs at the dresser and his expression shuts down when sam says no.

that doesn't mean that dean is necessarily angry or feeling possessive over sam, it's because dean can't show his vulnerability to sam (at this point in the show), because he has to be strong and he has to keep a lid on his problems or people die. deep down dean feels like wanting anything for himself is selfish and impossible. going back to what is and what should never be, that is the thesis of the entire episode: dean gets his deepest wish, and hundreds of people die. and he is broken over it.

DEAN All of them. Everyone that you saved, everyone Sammy and I saved. They're all dead. (...) It's like my old life is, is coming after me or something. Like it doesn't want me to be happy. Course I know what you'd say. Well, not the you that played softball but… "So go hunt the Djinn. He put you here, it can put you back. Your happiness for all those people's lives, no contest." Right? But why? Why is it my job to save these people? Why do I have to be some kind of hero? (begins to cry while talking) What about us, huh? What, Mom's not supposed to live her life, Sammy's not supposed to get married? Why do we have to sacrifice everything, Dad? (pause) It's… (Dean's lips tremble. Silence. We hear the sky rumbling. Tears begin to falls on DEAN's cheek.) Yeah…

but where my sam-as-POV theory about why people keep saying dean isn't vulnerable dies is that we see these moments, so how do other people interpret them? is it just a case of not remembering? do some people think i'm totally off-base with this?

[sunflowers4life]

Challengers - Softball

another challengers fic! very short, I'm sorry about how short it is, I just wanted to do a sweet little fic. hope you enjoy!

pairing: art x reader

“It’s still just hitting a ball, I don’t know why you’re struggling so much with this.” You had stated, watching as Art missed his 3rd ball you pitched at him. “The balls are bigger than a tennis ball.” “Well, that's very nice and all, but in case you didn’t notice, the bat is much smaller than a racquet!” You could hear the frustration building in Art’s voice, as apparently being good at tennis, did not make you incredible at softball.

You had got a scholarship to Stanford based on your softball skills, a sport you had been playing since you were young. Hence, the two of you had met once in the cafeteria, where you both continued to argue over who would get the last churro remaining. Art in the end had let you have it, only with the promise that you would get him one the next day. You, reluctantly, (yet secretly excitedly) agreed. 

It was roughly a month later after the churro debacle, and, after a lot of begging and pleading, you managed to get Art to come and try softball. It was late, so no one was at the field, and you were currently just pitching underarm balls at Art to see how far he could hit them. So far, he had hit one, about 2 feet in front of himself. “Ok Art. With this one, keep your eye on the ball, and don’t try to absolutely smash it, you’ll have more luck hitting the ball, alright?” Art nodded, although, by the crease in between his brow, you could tell this was genuinely annoying him.

Lightly, you pitched the ball towards him, and you watched as Art swung the bat around, and the bat made contact with the ball, a nice clink sounding after, before the ball was sent into the outfield. Art stood still for a minute, before running up to you, picking you up, and spinning you around in a circle, his cries of “I did it! I finally did it!” filling the empty field, and you couldn’t help but giggle at his delight, the absolute joy and excitement on his face reminding you of a puppy. Quickly, he pressed a kiss to your cheek, and you took immense joy in watching his face turn red, and him awkwardly mumbling an apology. You simply leaned in, pressed your lips to his reddening cheeks, and you're sure your own cheeks matched now. You really liked Art, he was a sweet guy, took interest in your interests, and had been a great friend. So, you decided, it was now or never.

“Would you want to go on a date?” Two voices echoed, and you realised that you both had asked the same question, Quickly, you fell into laughter, and again at the same time a “yes” echoed through the emptiness of the field. Art looked to the sky, and realised it was speckled with sparkles, the twinkling making the moment even more romantic. Art offered his hand out, one you eagerly took, squeezing it lightly, testing the waters. Slowly, Art pulled you out of the softball fields, a genuine smile on both of your faces.

[midnightcupiid]

✹ꕤ my family dr ꕤ✹

(yes, i made a dr for me to have kids)

ME

name: isabelle may barnes

age: 26, born july 5, XXXX

my fc: emilie kiser from tt (don’t ask)

job: stay at home mom

college: UCLA Anderson School for Buisness

likes: pilates, brunch, golf, watermelon, fashion, beach sunsets

dislikes: rudeness, improper ettiquette, zucchini, having nothing to do

MY FAMILY

my husband -

name: hayden parker barnes

age: 27, born may 25, XXXX

his fc: random guy i found on pinterest

job: CEO & founder of Kaltech Corp. (does not exist in this reality)

college: Stanford University, Buisness Management major

likes: brownies, football, his wife, golden retrievers

dislikes: biking, not knowing things, waiting in long lines, carrots

my kids(all girls) -

#1 - the oldest

name: paisley june barnes

age: 5, born august 13

fc: a mix of parents, scandinavian hairline(important)

school: greenwich academy for girls, lower school (kindergarten)(yes this is also a school in this reality)

activities: dance, softball

likes: strawberries, moana, the beach house, dogs, jewelry, light up shoes, the sunrise

dislikes: waking up early, broccoli, nighttime, dark colors, orange juice

#2 & #3 - the twins

name: rose juliet barnes(rosie)

age: 4, born june 2

fc: mix of parents, scandinavian hairline

school: greenwich academy for girls(pre connecting- basically preschool)

activities: ice skating

likes: peanut butter, mom’s hoodies, makeup, watching gilmore girls, the playground

dislikes: purple, golden oreos, late nights, sprite, horses

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name: eleanor wren barnes(ellie)

age: 4, born june 2

fc: mix of parents, scandinavian hairline

school: greenwich academy for girls(pre connecting)

activities: ice skating, violin

likes: grape jelly, the zoo, reading, staying up late

dislikes: ipad time, cucumbers(not pickles though), strawberry ice cream, monkey bars

#4 - the youngest

name: harper grace barnes(harpy)

age: 3, born september 21

fc: mix of parents, scandinavian hairline

likes: yogurt melts, mom’s stanley, walks in the stroller, the pool

dislikes: actual yogurt, the vacuum, yelling, going to bed

pets

name: rory(yes, after gilmore girls)

species, breed: dog, border collie

photo:

ok im dead i’ll do another post for house, beach house, etc!!! love you <3

[aerinfrankellove]

Go Stanford! I personally have a soft spot for their pitcher <3

[dhart4214]

SO CAL COLLEGE SOFTBALL: Our Look 2024's Top Teams

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[gayverlyearp]

should i go to stanford to watch softball or should i stay home and watch the pwhl finals game 1

finals are free and the stanford game is not and also i have never watched softball before while my team is in the finals. but leaving my house is good and im curious about what a softball game is like.

[treethymes]

It’s often said that under capitalism, relations between people appear as relations between things. The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker vanish into the Bed Bath & Beyond. But there’s a countertendency at work within the ruling class, among whom relations between things often appear as relations between people. Mr. Smith seems to have dinner with Mr. Brown, but behind the veil are the bank and newspaper sitting to sup. This is a virtue of the joint-stock model: Huge piles of capital, years of work extracted from labor and subsequently aggregated, meet as men. Capital’s fundamental drive for better-than-average returns means that no operator can be satisfied with a tie, but in order to function the system needs superficial competition on a stone platform of cooperation. In the fascist system competition is external, between nations, its various components conceived as parts of a single body. Individual interest is subordinated to that of the group. That was anathema to [Herbert] Hoover and his fellows, who saw individual interest as the prime mover, society’s engine. Capitalist collectivity emerges in two ways: First, there’s exploitation, wherein capitalists extract bits of value from their employees’ work and gather it up into lumps to reinvest. Second, there’s association, in which investors pledge their gathered lumps to a common cause. Unlike an enveloping fascist state, an associative state comes together like an interoffice softball league, via the ostensibly free and voluntary association of participants.

The stone foundation of capitalist cooperation cracked during the Depression, as near-term self-preservation undermined long-term self-interest. The “Popular Front” alliance between leftists and liberals offered a different model, a democratic state that mediated between capital and labor much the way the associative state mediated among capitalists. The idea had a lot to offer, especially in the face of fascists on the right and communists on the left. The Stanford athletic association treasurer [Hoover] was abandoned, nearly alone in his fidelity. But he grasped something the others didn’t: Financialization and economic democracy can’t blend. If property rights are subject to popular control, then investors will encounter the public as an obstacle, a variable to be managed. For example, banks loaned credit to farms based on existing prices, which were based on the current cost of labor. Improving labor conditions by picket was an attack on property valuation, which thanks to financialization made it an attack on property, full stop. The Roosevelt coalition brought together capital and labor under one roof, but one partner always sought to dominate the other.

Bill Camp was an odd choice for a New Deal bureaucrat, but the banker, cotton planter, and proud son of a Klansman was the right wing of the FDR team, one of the Confederate Democrats who hadn’t left the party yet, except for a single dalliance with the Chief [Hoover] in 1928. He was a link of continuity between Hoover’s agricultural administration and the New Deal version. When the Agricultural Adjustment Act came under legal challenge, Camp was introduced to the left side of the coalition, and he was shocked to discover that his very own lawyer was a communist. Camp knew one when he saw one, and when he realized that Department of Agriculture officials were planning to help the left-wing Southern Tenant Farmers Union get better conditions for cotton workers in the South—Camp’s ancestral stomping ground—he denounced them. Camp called a handful of his conservative politician friends from the cotton belt and they went over the head of the agriculture secretary, Wallace (the new one), straight to President Roosevelt. The next day the president fired the left-wing lawyers, and Agriculture reversed a pro-tenant rule interpretation. But Camp couldn’t forget about his commie lawyer, and when one of Camp’s local congressmen wanted to make a name for himself exposing liberal Reds, Camp fed everything he had on Alger Hiss to Richard Nixon, helping ignite the congressional Red Scare.

Herbert Hoover understood that the social forces Bill Camp and Alger Hiss represented—the plantation owner and the plantation worker—no government could bring into harmony. Capital by its nature dominates labor, and if it fails to accomplish that, it ceases to exist. The rule interpretation Camp objected to bound planters to their existing tenants, which was an untenable attack on their profitability, even though at the time they weren’t profitable at all without the government’s help. The conflict was inherent, and it didn’t take until the end of World War II for the Cold War to start or for liberals to reveal which side they planned to take. After George Creel lost the California gubernatorial nomination to the wacky socialist writer Upton Sinclair, he and FDR knifed the populist author. First they rewrote Sinclair’s platform to moderate it, then they cut a deal with the Republican incumbent, Frank Merriam, anyway—the same Merriam who called the machine guns to the San Francisco waterfront. Merriam trounced Sinclair, who waited patiently for the Roosevelt endorsement that never came. “He didn’t realize at first that communism was the threat,” Camp recalled of Creel, regarding the official’s work; “he became one of the greatest fighters [against communism].” So much for the New Deal.

[…]

Communism, Hoover and his allies saw, was not merely a political party running Russia or an economic philosophy. It was a real movement that threatened to abolish capitalist control over society and thereby destroy capitalism in its entirety. Communists were communists whether they realized it or not, even when they thought they only wanted better wages. It’s easy now to look back and see the Hooverites as victims of a paranoiac fantasy about the world—to see them either as the only ones who really believed the Marxist revolutionary rhetoric or as cynical operators stoking an arbitrary moral panic. But Bert knew the global revolution was real. He saw it in China, narrowly escaped it in Russia, confronted it outside the window in DC, and heard it tear apart his farm in California. They took his mines, and they would kill him and take the rest if he wasn’t vigilant, just like they did to his formerly privileged friends around the world. Still nursing his wounds from defeat but far from vanquished, Herbert Hoover devoted the rest of his life to winning the class war. Palo Alto became his watch tower.

Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto

[inkandguns]

The women’s NCAA Clearwater Invitational Women’s Softball game is on TV at the bar. Here’s some advantages over MLB:

-the players are better for heterosexual men to watch (they are hot)

-specific to this game but Texas is beating the Stanford team into the ground

-the players genuinely seem to care about each other, and winning the game

-the ball/bat contact sound is cooler than baseball

-none of these girls seem roided out

[kumarseo]

No. 20 Gators open NCAAs with dramatic walk-off win

11 hours ago Florida Athletics PALO ALTO, Calif. – The Florida softball team advanced past LMU, 3-2, in walk-off fashion in its first game of the Palo Alto Regional hosted by No. 9-seed Stanford. UF will face the winner of Stanford and Long Beach State Saturday at 5 p.m. ET. The Gators (37-20) rallied in the seventh inning for their sixth walk-off victory of the season to advance into the…