Max McDulin

@SharpFootball This is how midwestern men show love to each other 😂

The constant comps of “oh this guy on the Sox is similar to PCA” or “the Sox have their own PCA” need to stop. Do the Cubs have their own Mune? This city has 2 baseball teams that are doing their own thing with their own identities that you can’t compare in the slightest.

@xanbarksdale I miss when sports coverage was about the players and the on field content of the game, and not sensationalized debate about the rules. They’re getting the rules right- great. Let’s focus now on the game and the players.

This is the first time I've heard this... MLB umpires have 2 way microphones and are in contact with the ABS operator during the game getting feedback on their strike zone. Personally, I think that's a tremendous use of the technology to help get more calls right.

@TheConnorPils C Trent is representing an angry and depressed fan base. Nothing worth your time or grace.

It’s so pathetically hilarious that opposing fans’ best cope is “OmG YoUr fAnS gEt tOo eXciTeD” I get it — most teams don’t get 30,000+ on a rainy Monday in May. Certainly not the Reds.

Your negativity and lack of joy in the game you cover has slowly killed boys and girls like mine’s joy in baseball. I’ve tried for years to understand your negativity, depression, and livelihood. I don’t. I Never will. The Reds and their community deserve better. Your negativity killed my joy for baseball. I won’t let the next representative of our city, community, and culture, do that ever again. Sorry you’re so depressed. Stop shoving it into our faces.

In addition to its stench, Wrigley Field must have the worst sight lines in baseball, because the crowd seems to think every ball the home team hits in the air is going to be a home run

@FBGreatMoments Vonta Leach. Talk about declaring a presence? Lead blocker was an understatement when you watched men follow him into the hole. 6 ft, 260 pounds of muscle, machine, and fierce forward energy. Undrafted- played with that chip. 3x All Pro 3x Pro Bowl Super Bowl Champ

Name a fullback you actually remember by name.

I have a working thesis that part of why culture is stuck is that the Boomers refusing to leave the stage means we’re still all playing our generations roles in the culture from 20 years ago. Everyone is still living in 2006 socially even as we all have two more decades of age.

@Travis_L_Brown In the words of Arnold Palmer “Remember the kids.” Remember the children and remember your own inner child. Banana ball is excellent at that, and never tries to be something it isn’t. We could all let a little more banana ball into our lives.

Now that I am connected to a better cell signal outside the stadium, seeing a lot of Banana Ball hate in the mentions. Yes, it is unserious baseball. Yes, I am a pretty old-school baseball guy. But, man, was that just hours of of fun and non-stop smiles. Seeing it through the eyes of some of the kids in there was really special. They couldn’t get enough. And the players were legitimately upset after the loss. Means something to them to play well. Sometimes unserious makes for a fantastic night.

@Thebestfigen A human is still needed to stitch a baseball, yet the con man tech goons are telling you AI is going to solve all world problems. lol

All official MLB baseballs are hand-stitched at the Rawlings factory in Costa Rica. No one has yet created a machine that can do it with the necessary precision. Each one has exactly 108 double stitches (216 in total).

This question hasn’t really been answered confidently in a full ten years for many industries. Not because we don’t need people- but in my point of view- 2 major reasons. A hoarder’s economy (stagnant wages, poor entry level wage, harder promotion paths), and a tech lobby that has convinced public servants (through bribes both legal and otherwise) that people don’t matter, machines do. Both have to give. Jobs, tasks, and duties are for people, and they also deserve a greater share of the pot.

One of my daughter's biggest concerns right now is "will there be any jobs left by the time I get done with college", and it seems like no one has a cogent answer.

@whitesox Love this. This is America.

Today at Rate Field, 25 candidates from 15 different countries were sworn in as U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony!

@realteaemoji It’s pretty crazy that this has become a radical take

I think a full-time salary should be able to buy you a neat, clean apartment to live in and electricity and internet and groceries to put in it, and I think it's weird to pay someone an amount of money for full-time work that would not achieve that

@zynaftersex Excellent music choice

Reminder you pay tuition to use the whole campus.

@lacherbauer Why does everything “need to be” more than what it is. Pittsburgh is a sustainable and strong American city. Steel was a chapter there, but it is now time for a new one. Keep letting the people write the story of their communities. The less OCD control the better.

Pittsburgh, without question, is American Chongqing. Pittsburgh needs to start producing 20% of the world’s steel supply again so that it can return to a path of development and build its own supertall skyscrapers with horizontal skypark.

@PanasonicDX4500 @johni_sweeney The gaslighting has truly become next level

Am I the only one who remembers a year ago when a bunch of teenagers said we had to cut the funding to like Sesame Street and AIDS prevention because we were on the verge of financial collapse? Did we all just imagine that?

Howell says he felt 'a jolt of electricity' when he saw that familiar '513' area code pop up on the phone when Bengals called to draft him.

@brianknotts @cstegmaier I couldn’t agree more 🫡

@maxmcdulin @cstegmaier It’s just nice when there’s a ball game on, regardless.

We used to be a proper country. Braves on TBS. Every night in the summer. 7.05p. Don, Skip, Pete, and Joe. Now, watching the Braves is a combination of playing Where’s Waldo and an obtaining an Act of Congress.

A +++++++++++++++ @Bengals

That Sal is a real crowd pleaser