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Nicklas Bäckström on Swedish Stereotypes

#nicklas backstrom #washington capitals #hockey

clicked into the high a game bc i'm bored or whatever. there is a fog situation occurring in. whatever this place is. or perhaps a ghost in front of the camera

okbluejays

how this game is reaching you:

based--ball

the catcher is disappearing into the ad behind the plate

skydomeforever

Check out my new batting stance

#baseball

i have got to go to another riverdogs game

#those bleachers are calling me like the green goblin mask #allison.txt

stereomike

#thank you mr scherzer #max scherzer #toronto blue jays #baseball

stromcuzewon

haven't been to a mooseheads game in person for over a year and apparently they made some changes to the arena.... the main one being a gigantic moose bust that flashes red eyes and shoots smoke out it's nose when we score

stromcuzewon

update: it's eyes turn green when the other team has a penalty

stromcuzewon

THE GREAT MOOSE HAS DECLARED A POWER PLAY

randomencounters

Encounter: junior league hockey god

#incredible #hockey

antspaul

definitely something that complicates the role of WAGs is that the entire elite sports apparatus really does function on the unpaid labor of women… including but not limited to WAGs. at the youth level it’s the mother but at the elite level these men really rely on their female partners to do so much for them that allows their elite athletic lives to function. steven ortiz talks about this a lot in The Sports Marriage: that athletes choose wives that become their second mothers to do all of the things that mommy always took care of for them when they were boys. excerpts:

all this considered it makes sense why wags might consider themselves ‘women in motorsport’.

LET ME BE CLEAR I AM NOT SAYING THEY ARE.

but the way that this patriarchal sport functions and determines who is successful actually calls for the existence of wags, who see themselves as extensions of their partner’s career because being the partner of someone with that particular career is not just their entire identity, it’s also really the only way they spend their time. their partner’s career success relies on their existence—at least, that’s what they tell themselves.