Heavy rains caused devastating floods across parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas last week, including in and around St. Louis, where the Meramec River crested at record levels and inundated homes and businesses in communities like Pacific, Eureka, and Fenton. Many smaller rural towns, lacking levees, manpower, and other resources, were hit even harder. At least 13 people were […]
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If you logged on to Twitter after the Cubs’ World Series Game 6 victory over the Indians last night, you might have seen what looked like the aftermath of a classic Twitter witch-hunt—one of those ritualistic crusades in which the outraged digital mob shames the villain-of-the-hour for the most heinous and unforgivable crime any person can commit: Bad […]
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Returning to Busch Stadium for the first time since choosing the Cubs over the Cardinals this past offseason, Jason Heyward stepped up to the plate Monday night and was booed by morons. It was hardly unanimous—there were a few cheers, too, and most fans looked like they were choosing to do neither—but it was significant. […]
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Cross-posted at Viva El Birdos. Let’s get this out of the way: Cardinals fans are racists. Some of them, anyway. It’s not exactly a controversial statement. It’s easy to find examples of Cardinals fans spewing some of the most vile racist rhetoric imaginable—and goodness knows there are oodles of Twitter accounts that’ll do the work […]
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All 30 Major League teams played Spring Training games on Saturday, and nearly all of them provided in-game updates on their official Twitter feeds. A few stuck to monotonous play-by-play, but most were more dynamic and engaging, their timelines full of photos and videos and graphics and Vines and GIFs and hashtags and emojis and […]
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