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Sportswriter-turned-science communicator — here for a strange mix of posts about both. Formerly @awolice on Twitter. NJ native in Baltimore. 🫖 fanatic. @washingtonspirit.com season ticket holder. I'm still upset about the '01 World Series.
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Okay there’s been so much good baseball/softball today.

shoutout to the kid in oklahoma gear who hit a horns down at the camera during a softball game that does not involve texas

undeniably funny to see the Dodger baserunner thrown out immediately after doubling and doing the stupid wave celebration at second

Gosh, I hate facing the Dodgers.

LET’S GOOOOO! Live from Baltimore tonight — and your casual reminder that we need a basketball team up here 😊

NOOOOOOOO (says the fan who's had a months-long countdown to this Wednesday's Fever/Mystics game in Baltimore). 😭

My brain truly cannot compute how we, as a society, are supposed to sustain all that's happening. We're four months in and have already done irreversible damage in terms of drawing & retaining talent and brilliance. Every person's life is in some way touched by research that started at Harvard.

I never catch his name, but there's an @amtrak.com employee who routinely works the NE Corridor line and one of his go-to mantras is to wish people to "have a good day on purpose." He saw I was applying for something while riding Train 162 & went out of his way to wish me luck. What a gem he is!

Does the new Pope get a walkup song for his introduction?

This is the worst part

Okay, this is sweet.

Didn’t end the way we wanted — and, this week was so mentally draining that we didn’t make it down to DC — but HOLY MOLY, what a match. #WhenIRootIRootForTheSpirit

Update: @atom7895.bsky.social bought a brewery t-shirt and it instantly made a HUGE difference 😂

Fun fact: today, we discovered that the Washington Spirit jerseys (which I LOVEEEE for the record) are mosquito magnets! I’m notoriously like a beacon for all mosquitoes, but @atom7895.bsky.social is covered in them while no one else at this brewery is bothered. 😭

ALS is not incurable, it’s just underfunded. I woke up today having no idea it is Sarah Langs' bday, but with the urge to wear her Baseball is Best shirt out of the blue. @lindseyadler.bsky.social's beautiful tribute made me cry. And then I donated. lindseyadler.substack.com/p/birthdays-...

OMG how do you change that error call this late?! #Yankees If it takes 3 innings to determine the runner would’ve very obviously made the base, it probably wasn’t actually very apparent.

I have this syndrome. Let me tell you all, EDS is a bitch. Here is my story of diagnosis. I was not an athletic child. I was clumsy, and injury prone. As an adult I started to get more active. Once I started regularly lifting weights - with good form from a personal trainer - I began getting hurt.

Trinity Rodman, on her goal celebration which included faking another back injury: "Medical staff was freaking out, but I thought I had to do it." #uswnt

Love a science talk that kicks off with a Yankees shoutout @sciencetalkorg.bsky.social! #GoYankees

Been a while since the Yankees scored 20 runs in a game with fans in the stands. Hmmm

“I want to see where I line up with those guys and hopefully go out there and throw five shutout [innings],” Nestor Cortes, eager to face the #Yankees, said on Thursday. 😬😬😬

@mlb.com OK, all day I've looked forward to listening to this game on the MLB radio while getting my other work done. What gives? Why the blackout?

Everyone is getting gifted Atlantic subscriptions this year – birthday? Anniversary? Holiday? Bereavement? Atlantic subscription. This piece alone is why (but there are many other reasons that could be why): www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

There's never been a better time for there to be a better time

Everything in the world just keeps feeling darker and yet.. I pulled over my car crying from laughing when this played 😆

In case things weren't enough of a hellscape, we have duct cleaners in our house this morning... and one guy just 🤢 all over our basement sink. Asked his partner, who confirmed that he'd been sick all morning. WHY WOULD YOU GO TO SOMEONE'S HOUSE WITH NOROVIRUS?!

How am I both freezing cold and looking at a severe weather outlook for my city in this moment?

Yeaahh, I spent way too much of my time defending this sport. Hard pass. Meanwhile, to complete the juxtaposition, Scott Hamilton led an unscripted, heartfelt, moving prayer at the Legacy on Ice tribute, demonstrating what it actually means to be Christian-like.

I am here 👏 for 👏 it 👏

In other news: it is once again windy in Baltimore. How?!

Sam Coffey and Lynn Biyendolo just rushed Becky Saurbrunn at the desk (cute!). Becky: "I'm trying to be professional here!" (also cute!) Gonna be delightful to watch players interact with her in the media space at games.

Emily Sonnett is my president.

My toddler to every stranger that walks by us at a restaurant

SHE SENTNOR THAT BALL STRAIGHT INTO YHE GOALLLLL

Ally Sentnor!!!! 🇺🇸

And in case there was any question, any ounce of patriotism left in me is obviously solely because of the USWNT.

Double-screen night with USA v Canada and the #SheBelieves cup and I am somehow rooting so hard for the US in one and not so much in the other?

Quick name your favorite moment of the Rodgers era: Mine is when he said there can’t be any distractions in the locker room then floated the idea of being vice president