'til the roof comes off

#the worst is when a kid fucking dies #and his parents try to raise awareness that your kid could fucking die #but all they get is other parents telling them their kid died because he was bad at football (via @unpretty)

all my alters become walters when i pitch the baseball of success

i’m sort of begging the general tumblr population who considers themselves against/above sports to think about why exactly that is. actually i think that there’s a lot that the Average Tumblr User would like about, say, baseball or hockey or basketball or football or volleyball or figure skating, etc etc etc. this goes for playing but doubly for watching. why do you preclude yourself from something you might enjoy. have you ever actually engaged with it or have you stereotyped yourself out of it. what would happen if you sat down to watch a game or competition of any given sport and enjoyed it. what if you found a bunch of other people that also enjoyed that sport. what if you picked a player or a team to follow. what if you let yourself get swept up in playoff season or the world championships. what if you allowed yourself to feel a little devastated when your favorite player loses the title or gets traded to another team. what if you experienced the full spectrum of human emotion and connection that sports could offer you. what then