Astounding Beyond Belief

Michael | 32 | genderqueer | he/they/she. Librarian, writer, kaiju groupie. Wikizilla forever.

[piccolo-deis]

The game I'm watching tonight is "guess the lesbians in the crowd"

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

[cauldronoflove]

when you talk about how long of a time coming this has been it's also good to remember how quickly these things have moved too. on monday of this week these women received their uniforms and gear for pre-season training camp, they got five days to train together. that same day ayami sato made a post about how she finally met most of her queens teammates for the first time, but there were still a few that hadn't made it yet. six days ago a ~dozen of these women were still in their national team uniforms playing qualifying games for the women's baseball world cup, i know the canadian players all roadtripped together right after punching their ticket in the tournament from rockford to springfield. more were en route from all over the world, there are over half a dozen countries represented in the league. as long as it's taken for this all to come together, when the train came through you had to get on while it was still rolling, there's been comparatively very little time to acclimate and prepare, but these women are some of the best in the world (who have largely had to make that distinction for themselves), and tonight we're going to see multiple 20+ year veterans of the game (sato, meggie meidlinger) alongside rising stars who all share the distinction of being the first women signed to play professional baseball in america in 70 years. i dont think i have a good closing quip, i hate how much compromise it's taken to get here and the pressures they'll have to play under, i've loved baseball my whole life, i'm really excited to be here

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

「BASEBALL GRAND ELDER」 MAYBELLE BLAIR HAS TAKEN THE FIELD

[caitthegreatest]

i've read some really interesting interviews with baseball grounds crews and the level of maintenance it takes to keep fields playable is bonkers

also one of the orioles guys from their heyday talked about how he'd let the field dry out before certain teams visited cause it fucked them up more, or would skip the daily grass trim just enough to affect the way balls bounced

[serosedflamio]

Freaky lil bug behavior

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

As someone who has not really followed any professional sports league besides MLB, it's pretty powerful watching the start of a new one. The Yankees (and 15 of the other teams) have been around for well over a century, and that much history comes to define a team no matter who's wearing the uniforms. But no one know who the New York Heights or Los Angeles Queens are yet, themselves included. Tonight we all start to find out.

[vancouver-lord-goldeneyes]

Can they lift the tarp up really high and then all sit under it together like the parachute in gym class

[polo-grounds]

Firebells and Hunters helping with the grounds crew stuff before the Queens and Heights play…. This is so important to me

[hrst-boruvek]

never watched an unboxing of a baseball field before

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

New York's intro significantly longer than the other teams, AS IT SHOULD BE

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

proton vpn save me... save me proton vpn

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Remember when I used to do one-day avatar changes? That was a fun bit. Anyway, WPBL Opening Day.

[buildarocketboys]

When you're googling Google for your Buffy fic to figure out whether the characters would be using Google in the summer of 2000 and then the Wikipedia entry for 'Google (verb)' includes this:

[anotherstrongaliens]

GODZILLA BATTLE LINE X DYNAMIC PLANNING!