Ty Kelly unearths minor-league baseball’s darkest secret: The lunches, dear god the lunches

Minor league baseball is hanging by a thread. The one-time bedrock of America's pastime is crumbling from years of neglect and the MLB wants to tear the whole damn building down. Back in December, the MLB's plans for the liquidation of 42 MiLB teams—as well as the reduction of the draft from 40 rounds to just over 20—leaked to widespread condemnation from players and fans alike. Stories like Aaron Judge's might cease to exist, we worried. Entire regions of America might be cutoff from live baseball entirely, fans said. It was, and remains, a sad story. If Mets minor leaguer Ty Kelly's recent thread about the conditions minor leaguers face on a daily basis is to be believed, however, then perhaps a swift, merciful death is actually for the best. We apologize in advance if you're reading this on your lunch break.
https://twitter.com/tykelly11/status/1227353071782526977
There's NOTHING wrong with that lunch. Nobody should feel bad about what they eat to pinch..

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Shaq roasts a former teammate with embarrassing, old NBA Dunk Contest clip (again)

Paras GriffinShaquille O'Neal's “Shaqtin' a fool” segments have become a staple of TNT's NBA coverage in recent years. But on Wednesday, the Hall-of-Fame big man dug through the archives to roast a former teammate on Twitter. Again.
With the NBA Dunk Contest on tap this Saturday, Shaq looked back to the 1996 edition which he and Penny Hardaway (Miss that duo!) attended as a member of the Orlando Magic. Although Shaq and Penny didn't enter the contest, they completed as many successful dunks as Orlando's Darrell Armstrong, who had a rough go of it.
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Armstrong's final attempt wound up being a reverse layup and has gone down in Dunk Contest lore. And Shaq loves to remind people of the embarrassing moment. Here's his tweet from Wednesday:
https://twitter.com/shaqtin/status/1227608299161497600
And here's a very similar Shaq tweet from last year:
https://twitter.com/shaqtin/status/1096812184..

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We’re sorry, but donating 60 million anonymous dollars to Binghamton University baseball is just sick

The year is 2020 and the feel-good-story reserves are running perilously low. Good deeds have become mythological creatures. Generosity a folk tale passed from tribe to tribe, generation to generation. Happiness is a vestige of a bygone era that your grandparents barely even remember. So it brings us no pleasure to say this—no really, we're miserable—but said it has to be: Whoever just anonymously gifted Binghamton University baseball $60 MILLION DOLLARS for a new stadium, is a sick, sick son of a bitch.
https://twitter.com/binghamtonu/status/1227294211462062080
Listen, we love baseball as much as the next red-blooded American idiot, but this is out-of-touch to the point of unhinged. This is worse than Jeff Bezos buying yachts worth more than the GNP of Latvia. THIS IS BINGHAMTON BASEBALL ARE YOU SERIOUS??? Here's a list of things that could use $60 million a hell of a lot more than this blood diamond dealer's beloved Bearcats:
Cancer research
Forest fire prevention
Chil..

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