Aesthetics and memes

Like, the good luck charms that many baseball fans practice are absolutely a form of ritual magic from an anthropological standpoint, there's no question there, but imagine what American baseball would look like if Protestants didn't have this whole hangup about ritual magic being Satanic and thus didn't need to maintain plausible deniability. Just openly casting curses on the opposing team, Roman style.

My issue with Magic Baseball Mud isn't that I don't understand its purpose. I know it's really about standardisation; if the league didn't dictate the exact composition of the mud they use to take the shine off of new baseballs, each team would have their own formulation, and they would absolutely being Doing Shit to that mud in an effort to obtain some imagined advantage. Rather, I object precisely because I do know what it's for, and I want to live in a world where every team is playing stupid games with their mud and professional baseball players need to develop specific strategies to deal with the unique texture of their opponents' balls.

the pope being a chicago white sox fan really speaks to how strong his spirit is because he watched them lose 121 games last year and maintained his faith in god

BREAKING: the Chicago White Sox will be allowed to choose one candy each from the candy aisle if they win their next game.

"The idea made me horny" is a good enough reason to write anything.

we need more pathetic female characters written by authors who don't hate women

to be clear since this is making the rounds: she has to be an absolute loser in no way that can be pinned on her gender. no "i'm just a girl tee-hee" stuff. straight up just a loser (nondenominational)

addendum: she must be the most important person in the whole narrative

& it turns out you earn a base hit if the ball goes into the pitcher's jersey!

Reblog to cast healing for your homies.