Linda Holmes

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Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Oh God, I should probably be doing one of my jobs right now.

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Rookie pitchers, man.

This Nats game is now essentially two hours old. It’s the bottom of the fourth. It’s 13-5. There has already been a rules issue over emerge the ball is out of play if it’s sitting on the ledge behind home plate and nobody can find it.

I don’t like the current discourse for any number of reasons, but I sure wish it could be conducted with a little less brutally dehumanizing language about old people.

The Nats are up 9-0. At the end of the second inning.

In general, I like the pitch clock, but it’s really been hard on the “da-da-da-dut da-daaaaa, CHARGE!” industry.

One more amazing thing for a Saturday morning starting a week of vacation: Did you know that if you have MLB.tv, you can just sit and eat breakfast while watching recent condensed games where the Yankees lose?

Especially for single people, the most underhyped tool for the kitchen is an eighth-sheet pan. I just made six breakfast sandwiches I can keep in reserve by scrambling six eggs, pouring them in an eighth-sheet, baking them up, and cutting them in squares. You gotta get an eighth-sheet.

Libro.fm is rad. 100 percent recommend. I have not looked back.

I want more folks to know about libro.fm as an alternative to Audible or Spotify or other shady corps. It’s 100% employee-owned and works like Audible, except your credits support an indie bookstore of your choosing instead of Amazon. Go listen to a disabled author for Disability Pride Month! 💙📚

Same audiobooks. Different story.libro.fm Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

Finally, the thought in my head, expressed perfectly.

A lot of people expressing certainty that this or that move will lead to this or that outcome and I'm like what time traveling Sports Almanac did you get? No one knows shit.

Who told Apple TV that when you air a baseball game, you put the batter’s name in tiny white print in the lower right hand corner, which is not where ANYBODY will look for it? Is this another thing where Apple is convinced it can make everything look cooler?

Every time I watch the Braves, I am again reminded that among several embarrassing things about them (the name, the iconography, the racist chanting) you have to leave room for those ugly, ugly Quikrete patches they wear.

The Angels’ announcers are shit-talking the Cubs’ City Connect uniforms. I honestly think they’re not that bad compared to other ones I’ve seen.

Once a year, I am reminded that my wonderful dog not being afraid of fireworks makes no sense to me given his long list of fears, but I am happy he’s happy.

The good thing about the Phillies is that they get all their problems out in one game and get absolutely clobbered, and then you can hope things will be better tomorrow. Get it all out of your system! Throw bad! Hit bad! Pitch bad! Catch bad! Okay, have a beer and get some sleep.

Holy moly. What is going on over there is grim.

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

A thing that’s still good is baseball, so I shall note that I love Trea Turner’s little sliding mittens. #phillies

I am told the bat is still stuck in the net at Wrigley Field. It is stubborn. I resolve to be the bat.

The new BEVERLY HILLS COP movie isn’t very good, but I’ll be damned if you cannot see, from time to time, the really unmatched comedic charisma that Eddie Murphy has trying to peek out.

Whether you play Cinematrix or not, I highly recommend this delightful look at what it’s like to run a trivia game people really like. From my friend, my former roommate, the legend and onetime TWoP recapper, Joe Reid. www.vulture.com/article/cine...

Cinematrix Clarifications & Corrections, Vol. 1www.vulture.com A chronicle of pedantry, delusion, and bliss from the game’s first 100 grids.

It’s been interesting watching the Phillies continue to do pretty well without Harper OR Schwarber OR Realmuto, plus Marsh sat tonight because it was a lefty pitcher. Not long ago, the knock on them was kind of “just a handful of home run guys and no finesse.” Hmph!

When I worked in Minnesota in the legislature, there were bills every year to legalize fireworks. And there would be hearings. And people would be like, “Pfft, who testifies against this? Busybody neighbors?” The actual answer was firefighters and doctors, mostly. Especially eye doctors.

Horrifying. All, if you know young ppl who will use fireworks these next few weeks, please do what you can to either discourage them entirely or make sure they use them safely. Hundreds of young ppl will be in the ER with firework injuries this month. Many of these injuries will be life altering.

This is still not a great place for sports highlights, but the clip of the Phillies getting a bat stuck high in the net at Wrigley Field is fun.

I wrote in 2012 (!) (see below) that I thought the play Zac Efron was going for was the Ryan Gosling play, and while he hasn’t had that level of success, I for sure think if you watch A FAMILY AFFAIR, you see a really similar (and solid!) leaning into “dorky hunk” comedy. www.npr.org/2012/04/21/1...

What Zac Efron's Beard Means For Men And Women In Hollywoodwww.npr.org Zac Efron really wants to be taken seriously, and six years after High School Musical, he makes an interesting case study in sexy movie stars for girls and for women.

I went to a massive big box store to get something the other day (not a lot of choices in the location where I was), and it was so vast and there were so many choices and so much was locked up that it would have taken 45 minutes to pick up something that should have taken ten minutes tops. I left.

Noticed this at big chain stores the last couple times I was in NYC. Both times, in different parts of the city, I just walked a few blocks to a non-chain drugstore where nothing was locked down. Either the indie stores are taking massive losses, or this isn’t really about theft.

Surprisingly enough, FAMILY AFFAIR on Netflix (Nicole Kidman as sexy mom) is really cute. I liked it much much better than the Anne Hathaway one, which I never believed for a second in almost any respect.

Canceled both the NYT and the Post. Enough.

When the announcement about the Hallmark KC Chiefs movie dropped, Jessica Reedy said to me, “I hope you know they’re going to want you to talk about this on the radio.” She was right as usual. www.npr.org/2024/06/29/n...

Hallmark teams up with the NFL and Kansas City Chiefs to release a holiday romancewww.npr.org Hallmark is teaming up with the NFL and the Kansas City Chiefs to make a holiday romance movie, capitalizing on Travis Kelce's relationship with Taylor Swift.

Yes, very smart, recognizing that the main reason to read The Great Gatsby is the information contained in each sentence.

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

As always, the game had one real MVP.

We should be talking about the real issues, like the Phillies’ CityConnect uniforms.