ball is afterlife

i don’t know if this is useful to you but once i was in the psych ward and thought max verstappen was sending me messages through the red bull ads on the unit TV to reassure me that everything would be okay in the end

(anonymous, 5/13/25)

sometimes, i get very very anxious about the thought that i’m about to die, especially when i’m about to sleep. something that is weirdly calming is viewing an afterlife in a positive light. one thing i think is a very beautiful gorgeous image or thought is that people essentially volunteer as spirits to help other favorite sports teams or hurt their least favorite ones. people often talk about “the spirit of Notre Dame” for ND football, but when they do, it often involves a deceased head coach or player while i think that that may be true, i think the other people folks invoke, a loved one no longer with us, is even more beautiful. so many people’s midwestern dads and grandpas and moms and aunts and uncles all buying in and going to South Bend, Indiana every saturday in the fall to help out becsuse they loved it so much. there was also the time my dad told me that when the Angels made the playoffs in 2014 less than a month after my grandpa had passed, a thing that helped him was the thought that “dad was gonna help us win the world series!” my grandpa was never into sports that much, and when describing his throwing form, my grandma just used the r slur. the Angels got swept that season, and still haven’t made it back, but whose to say he wasn’t trying!

(anonymous, 5/9/25)

hi spiritbox idk if this is anything but everytime the nba draft has come around for the last 5 or so years I always think about Terrence Clark and his accident and how he was ceremoniously drafted by the NBA after it. I always felt that it was weird that they waited until pick 15 to do it. I don’t know exactly what bothers me about that but I think it’s something along the lines of cramming that tribute into the middle of the draft, right after the lottery where most people start to tune out, instead of putting it at the beginning makes me feel like they didn’t want to impact the most exciting part of the draft. But something like that should be bigger than viewership or draft hype or whatever. Just felt like the NBA had the wrong priorities and it made what otherwise would be a very nice moment feel empty. Also I often think about how every rookie has so much potential, and this kid could have had an amazing career and been known by basketball fans everywhere just like every kid with a hoop and ball dreams of, only to now probably be a piece of niche basketball trivia years down the line or something. Remembered for entirely different reasons than he ever hoped. idk if that’s anything. hopefully this is anonymous.

(anonymous, 5/6/25)