Sammie5436 Blogs

 Thursday was opening day for the Mariners and myself and many other fans were excited to see what the new look Mariners would bring to the ball park. The team had made an effort to offload players prone to striking out over the offseason in order to bring in players that can control the zone, get on base, and put balls in play. All of these things are supposed to help a team score more runs. Luis Castillo was the opening day starter and everyone thought this would be a game where the Mariners would be able to score some runs while the starter didn't need as much support as the team was giving him. This didn't happen.  The Mariners gave up 6 runs to the Red Sox while Castillo struggled with control for the game. He would leave the game with the loss. Seattle would end up scoring 4 runs on 8 hits over the course of the game. Boston scored 6 on 11 hits. With the struggles of the starter this wouldn't be a huge disappointment if not for the amount of strikeouts the offense had...

            The NASCAR/Indycar double header at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road course led to some of the most exciting racing NASCAR has seen in the last several years on a road course. The Indycar race showed what a road course race with only natural cautions could lead to. It led to a driver on what seemed like the wrong strategy after being last at the end of the first lap storm through the field to win the race in Scott Dixon. After watching that race, I was excited for the cup series race the following day because there would be no stage cautions.             The Xfinity series race was exciting but had the issue of a lighting delay for 45 minutes that led to NASCAR needing to make strange decisions at the end of the race in order to actually finish it. The last few laps of that race had people driving off track and hitting things but did not feature a caution becau...

              On August 11, 2023, the ARCA Menards Series raced at Indianapolis Raceway Park, a .688-mile racetrack that takes between 23 and 24 seconds to complete a lap. By the time the leader had crossed the start/finish line for the tenth lap there were already five cards one lap down. These cars were lapping over two seconds slower than the leader and there were more cars that would be a lap down shortly after. This is a problem in a field that consisted of only 24 cars because it shows that most of the cars that show up have no chance of winning.             Field fillers have been a part of stock car racing for most of the history of the sport, but this is normally in a field that contains 40 or more cars. In a 24-car field, there should not be over ten cars a lap down by the 20 th lap like there were during this race because it shows that equipment is the biggest...

  Censorship and forcing people to use language in a way that they want them to is a central part of how fascist governments get and maintain power. Often, these governments will censor things in the name of protecting children as a cover for their more sinister goals. In The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick shows the fascist German government that was victorious in the second World War to ensure that they maintain their power over the people in the conquered lands. In the real world, the allies defeated the fascists during the Second World War, in this novel the opposite is true and in the alternate history, a man has authored a novel about the alternate history that is the one we know. The fascist government must do everything they can to suppress this book because if people were to read it, they would see the horrors the Nazis perpetuated and continued to perpetuate. The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a fictional alternate history in this universe that shows the world as most ...

            This weekend, NASCAR driver Noah Gragson was suspended by his team, Legacy Motor Club, as well as the sanctioning body after liking a racist meme on Instagram in relation to the 2020 death of George Floyd. Journalist Daniel Mcfadin was the first person to uncover the like that Gragson left on the meme and broke the story. This has led to people being angry with him because they believe he ruined the career of Gragson by exposing his poor behavior. NASCAR has made massive strides for diversity and inclusion, but the fan base is still reluctant to change their views on people who are not white men.             It was the right decision to suspend Gragson for his actions because race teams and the sanctioning body do not wish to be associated with racism as they work to remove the association of auto racing with racism. It is likely that he will end up not being allow...

              Jerry Springer, the former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, host of The Jerry Springer Show and Judge Jerry Springer, and the man responsible for getting The Steve Wilkos Show its start has died today, April 27, 2023, and many trans individuals will be spending the rest of the day celebrating! During his time on television, Jerry Springer caused harm to trans people by using them as the punchline of many jokes and making many of his shows center around the idea that trans women are “traps” meaning people that are men who look like women in a way to trap a man into having “gay” sex with them. During my childhood, my father would often force me to watch The Jerry Springer Show after school and that was the only trans representation I had until I was an adult. Being a trans woman that didn’t start transitioning until age 26, I blame Springer for most of that and believe it is fine to speak ill of the dead in this case beca...

  I hate parenthetical citations; they annoy me, and I find that the people who think they are good for the flow of reading do not have any idea how distracting they are. If there is a sentence that needs a citation putting it in parentheses makes the reader not move through the document in an efficient manner. If the citation is with a footnote or end note it does not distract the reader and if the reader chooses to, they can look at the note to see where this information came from. They can also see through annotations at the bottom of the page whether the source is reliable or just valuable to the reader, and not reliable .   This is also the simplest way to cite information that still gives people all the information they need and ensures that the author is not stealing from the source material. There seems to be no reason for people to use anything other than the Chicago Manual of Style for their citations and I am begging people who choose to use the other formats to ex...

 Imagine how surprised I was to wake up and find out that alongside Lewis Hamilton cocaine was trending. My first thought was this was another racist attack against Lewis Hamilton by the Verstappen family, who have in the past accused the 10-time world champion of using drugs. What I saw was somehow worse. Worse by quite a significant margin. Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla, Solar City, and other companies, who is currently in the process of buying Twitter, tweeted that he was buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in it. When this drink was first brought to market there was cocaine in it, cocaine was legal at the time.2 Coca-Cola is a popular drink that many people of all ages enjoy, and cocaine is a drug that can lead to addiction and other health problems up to and including death. There have been some studies showing the cocaine can be used in some medicinal fields such as dentistry using it in Soda would do more harm than good. Billionaires are not smarter than everyone because o...

  On Sunday at Talladega coming to the checkered flag Kyle Larson set off an accident that ended up crashing both 23XL owned by Denny Hamlin out of the race. Kurt Busch and Bubba Wallace had been on track for a good finish in the race before this. Instead, neither car saw the checkered flag.   On Monday Denny Hamlin shared a meme that implied Kyle Larson a driver of Asian descent, who was once suspended for the entire 2020 season for saying the N-word, could not drive because of his ancestry. This led to many reactions from people in the NASCAR community, some believing he did nothing wrong, others wanting there to be some punishment for his actions, and then of course myself who called for his arrest.   Many people believed that Hamlin did not cause any harm by sharing the racially insensitive meme and nothing should happen to him, NASCAR did not agree with this and has informed him he must complete sensitivity training and begin the process by the end of this w...

  It is Autism acceptance month; my birthday is in two days. I want to talk about something that happened last week Thursday as well as what I expected to happen that didn’t, but I expected it because the last time I was in a similar situation the thing I expected is what happened. I am autistic and this happened because of that. I was in class on Thursday, and it was trans day of visibility, a day where I started off very happy and excited because I am also trans. We happened to be learning about the difference between good and bad presentations, in the begging of class the instructor gave a presentation on trans history. This was very good, the part where she discussed the trans/gay panic defense was very overwhelming for me. Because of this I ended up becoming nonverbal, which has happened to me in classrooms before. Not for a long time mainly because I haven’t been in school in a decade. The last time this happened the teacher noticed and got extremely upset, they screamed ...

Today is two years since the first time I posted a video to TikTok. It was a cringe video that has since been deleted . It wasn’t the first time I have existed online, but it was the first time I decided I want a presence there and that I have a right to take up space. Since then, I have posted a number of things to various platforms .   Over the course of the last two years across all forms of social media I have gathered over 100 million impressions, I only have been keeping a spreadsheet of everything for the last month, but even with just my main account on TikTok where I have 56,000 followers, I gained 65 million impressions in the year 2021 alone. I also had a single tweet get over a million impressions when I called former NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace a jackass.   I have learned that there are a lot of toxic things about social media and people are willing to say and do things that they would never do in person because of the anonymity being online seems to provide...

 Last year the Haas F1 team brought in two rookies one the son of a 7 time champion that many people have high expectations to someday carry the mantle at Ferrari. And the other a Russian driver with a lot of money that barely got the 40 points needed to get a Super License to compete in Formula 1. In late 2020 their was video of Nikita Mazepin the second of those drivers groping a women. This led to the We Say No to Mazepin movement on social media where people on social media shared that hashtag and the reasons they felt Mazepin did not belong in F1. They ranged from not wanting a sexual predator in the sport and his dodgy driving in the junior formula.  Today Haas announced just a few days before the opening test in Bahrain that they have terminated their contract with Nikita Mazepin as well as the company owned by his father Dmitri Mazepin, Uralkali. This is in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  While I believe that Mazepin who finished 21st in the 20 drive...

      There was a lot of news in the NFL yesterday. The National Football league is the biggest sports league in the United States and one of the biggest in the entire world. The most watched television program of the year is usually the Super Bowl(February 13, 2022 18:30 EST TV NBC Radio Westwood One) often drawing in over 100 million viewers from around the world.      The first piece of news was Tom Brady officially announcing his retirement and not at any time offering an apology to Adam Schefter or Jeff Darlington who both reported he was retiring over the weekend. To be inducted into the pro football hall of fame as a player you need to have been retired for 5 years. This means he would be able to be inducted in the class of 2027. Tom Brady should not have to wait for this arbitrary deadline and as long as his retirement paperwork has been filed with the league office he should be being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton Ohio with t...