Eric Mitton

The Red Sox are the leading contributor to the childhood obesity crisis

@DevinD33 Dunrobin Castle is pretty. Mostly, find a small town and eat at a good restaurant. I enjoyed learning all the history. Edinburgh Castle is awesome and there is a ton of history. Scotland is amazing.

@DevinD33 Scotland is one of my favorite places ever. Loved Eilean Donan, Isle of Sky was cool, if you get a chance we really loved St Andrew's. Cool town and the golf was awesome, super affordable to rent clubs and play a round on one of their courses.

We are planning a trip to Ireland and Scotland what are the must sees or visit? I have never been on a sight seeing vacation before. 🫣

FIFTY DAYS 🤙

The AL’s 3 best records belong to the Rays, Yankees, and White Sox. The Red Sox are 10-0 against them in the past month.

That’s a clean dozen! 🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹 NOTHING CAN STOP THIS TEAM!!!! Above .500 #dirtywater #162er

THE BAT SLAM 😮‍💨 ARE YOU KIDDING?!

New BYU basketball notebook. David Okwera eligibility update from what I’ve heard from Australian sources. Potential huge boon for BYU as graduated seniors seek to get a fifth year of eligibility. Sources tell me BYU is in contact with Jaxon Kohler. vanquishthefoe.com/byu-basketball…

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My 583 Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2,632 (Helmet Losses)    (Consecutive Games)             🤝 Never Being Broken

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BYU's athletic department was valued at $500M+ and its football program at $366M+ as of late 2025, and the Cougars brought in more than $153 million in revenue in just their second year in the Big 12, all while collecting only a partial conference revenue share. They've become one of the fastest-rising brands in the league. Rewind and the setup makes sense...For more than a decade, BYU ran as a football independent with ESPN as its media home, a rare deal that put a single program in national windows on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2. It gave the Cougars a national brand most non-power schools never get close to. When BYU joined the Big 12, that ESPN deal folded into the conference's broader media rights, and the program traded some of its old autonomy for security, revenue and a seat at the Power Four table. The brand has only grown since. Here's why I'm incredibly bullish on BYU specifically. Most people look at that fan base and see television ratings. I see buying power. BYU has one of the largest, most loyal and most nationally connected followings in college sports, and that base does far more than show up on game day. Alumni, families and businesses tied to the community spend, hire and buy all year round, which adds up to an enormous amount of collective economic activity. Turn a passionate national base like that into real economic value and you have a commercial engine most programs can only dream about. BYU is built for exactly that, and it goes well beyond media rights and ticket sales. I'd bet on BYU's trajectory over the next few cycles. The media platform gave the Cougars national reach...their people are what turn that reach into staying power. I'm as bullish on BYU as any brand in college sports right now. @BYUCougars

About 250 years ago a quirky moral philosopher named Adam Smith discovered a chain of logic whereby the selfish desires of man would result in widespread prosperity. It’s one of the greatest discoveries of all time. Here’s how it goes… 1.Selfish desire seeks wealth, status, security. No virtue required. This is the raw material, as unpromising as it sounds. 2. In a market with property rights, you can’t take, you must trade. Theft and fraud are policed, so the only legal route to someone else’s money is offering them something they want more. Self-interest is channelled through voluntary exchange. This is the crucial valve: the baker serves your bread not from benevolence, but because it’s how he gets paid. 3.Every voluntary trade creates value for both sides. Nobody trades unless they prefer what they’re getting to what they’re giving. So each transaction is positive-sum by construction. Wealth isn’t moved; it’s made. 4.Competition forces the selfish to serve better. You’re not the only one chasing that customer’s money. To win, you must offer more value, lower prices, or something new. Greed disciplined by rivalry becomes, functionally, service. The customer becomes the boss of every capitalist. 5.Prices emerge as signals of what people actually want. Millions of trades compress dispersed knowledge - scarcity, preference, urgency - into a single number. No planner needed. High prices shout “make more of this” and falling prices say “stop making this.” The cure for high prices IS high prices. 6.Profit directs capital toward unmet needs. Profit is the reward for spotting something people want but can’t get, and losses are the punishment for guessing wrong. Capital flows automatically toward solving problems and away from waste - a self-correcting search algorithm running on selfishness. The profit motive pulls the greedy person towards genuine service and efficiency. 7.The pursuit of advantage drives innovation. The only durable way to out-earn competitors is to do something new - create a better product, a cheaper process. Each entrepreneur trying to get rich makes the previous solution obsolete and the average person’s life better. 8.Specialisation and scale compound productivity. Competition pushes everyone toward what they do best; trade lets them exchange it. Output per person rises. 9.Rising productivity spreads as falling prices and rising wages. Competition doesn’t let producers keep the gains forever - they’re competed away to consumers. The luxuries of one generation (cars, flights, antibiotics, computing) become the staples of the next. The rich get richer, but the poor get richer too. 10. Prosperity becomes self-reinforcing and civilising. Wealth funds education, health, science, and even the welfare state that redistributes it. Commerce rewards trust, reliability, and cooperation with strangers (doux commerce). A system built on self-interest ends up producing the most extensive cooperation network in human history: millions of strangers coordinating to put breakfast on your table. The hockey stick after 1800: from ~$3/day for all of human history to a 30-fold rise in living standards wherever this system took hold is pure magic.

There comes a point in every adult's life where they can afford the snack they want financially, but not calorically

In keeping with this theme ... the Red Sox have now executed a sacrifice bunt in six straight games for the first time since 1993. And they've won them all. They haven't had a streak of at least seven games with a successful bunt since 1946. This must go right up the backside of every analytics addict who thinks every team should play the same way.

There’s nobody who has watched Ted Lasso that won’t be very happy for this guy. True true Football is life ❤️

"Mormonism's critics said modern scholarship would dismantle the claims of the Church. That has not happened. Mormon studies is embraced in academia, and the claims look better with age." They assumed the claims would collapse under a microscope. The opposite happened. Mormon studies went mainstream. The world’s top academic publishers print it. Major universities teach it. Scholars outside the faith take it seriously. That was not supposed to happen. Take the Book of Mormon. Critics called it an obvious fraud, the work of a conman. Now serious scholars, including non-Latter-day Saints, analyze it as a complex and sophisticated work. Literary structure. Naming patterns. Ritual forms. The conman theory is dead. Take the theology. God with a body. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as separate beings. Critics called these ideas wildly unchristian. The Harvard Theological Review published the research showing many early Christians believed exactly these things, centuries before later councils ruled them out. Take the temple. Critics called it invented and bizarre. Then a Methodist biblical scholar built her career mapping ancient temple worship, and the parallels were hard to miss. Covenant-making. Ritual clothing. Symbolic progression. These patterns are ancient, not modern. Take the Book of Abraham. Long treated as the weakest link. Then ancient Abraham texts surfaced decades after Joseph Smith died, telling details of the same story. Details found nowhere in Genesis. A Yale scholar reviewed it and said it recaptures archaic Jewish religion with enormous validity. Whatever Joseph was doing, guessing doesn’t explain it. A frontier faith with a founder who had an elementary education and spent his life in near poverty was supposed to wither under modern scrutiny. Instead it earned a seat at the academic table.

Some highlights from ESPN’s idiotic FPI 2. Texas: Missed CFP last year 5. Georgia: Hasn’t won a CFP game in the past 3 seasons combined 8. Alabama: Blown out 38-3 in the CFP after being given a charity bid despite being blown out in the SECCG 9. LSU: Went 7-6 and fired their coach 16. Tennessee: Went 8-5 17. Penn State: Went 7-6 and fired their coach 18. Florida: Went 4-8, fired their coach, and have been a laughing stock for years 19. Clemson: Went 7-6 20. Mizzou: Went 8-5 21. Auburn: Went 5-7, fired their coach 22. South Carolina: Went 4-8

It's that of year again where we watch the media over inflate the SEC as though they didn't lose to every single P4 opponent that they faced in the CFP last year.

Last year ESPN FPI didn’t have eventual national champ Indiana in initial Top 25 rankings & its No. 1 team Texas didn’t even make playoffs. Also didn’t rank Texas Tech. Good times