So baseball-wise, losing stinks. However, the team didn’t look bad. Several really hard hit balls right at people, or we could have had more runs. Even if Painter did get that start for trade value audition reasons, I was really glad that he had a solid start and showed a lot of composure.
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Everybody’s got a silent dipshit clause.
Andrew BaggarlyGiants say they are suspending paying Harrison Bader's salary pending results of their investigation into his scooter accident.
Looks like the reports it was going to be Painter are holding up, although I will say it still shows on the MLB app as TBD.
NBC Sports PhiladelphiaKyle's back!
“Obviously, he’s not better than he was prior to that” is an all-time manager comment.
Amanda MullMy bf is a Giants fan and this coming out one fact at a time over several hours last night was fun. “He was already injured and got hurt out drinking…on a scooter…which he crashed…into a truck? …a FIRE ENGINE? …IT RAN OVER HIS FOOT? HE DID THE SAME THING IN COLLEGE??” nypost.com/2026/07/31/s...
The new ESPN podcast about the Ohtani (not) gambling story is interesting. Still really, really hard to make sense of the sequence of events (which is not the same as suspecting anybody of anything other than what we know, to be clear). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
On the one hand, sure. On the other hand, people are not reliably good at identifying LLM output, and I now *frequently* see examples of “this is AI” used as a weapon against somebody whose opinion people don’t like, and it’s incredibly difficult for them to prove it isn’t.
Tits McGeeOh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts
I’ve seen a lot of Oscar speeches; I don’t think any kicker has stuck with me quite like just imploring the audience: “Make art. Make art.” With the addition of “tanks,” which has charmed me out of my shoes since the first time I heard him say it in 2005. youtu.be/qx8yLvb0gZM?...
Just effortlessly magical with an audience, while fixing a string. youtu.be/BlO4w1OAa34?...
This was spontaneous, as I understand it. He heard her in the crowd. youtu.be/TWrrYikn4Fk?...