This great article about the explosion of kids playing baseball in Bhutan comes with the one of the hardest baseball photos of all time https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/bhutan-hopes-to-be-next-great-baseball-country
Bhutan hopes to be next great baseball country

The Official Site of Major League Baseball

MLB.com
@kate, found an AMA by DeSantis from 3 years ago, BTW — "I’m Matthew DeSantis, founder of Bhutan Baseball & Softball, and I am creating a baseball federation from scratch AMA!": https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/k9xxie/im_matthew_desantis_founder_of_bhutan_baseball/
I’m Matthew DeSantis, founder of Bhutan Baseball & Softball, and I am creating a baseball federation from scratch AMA!

Baseball was first introduced to the highest country on earth, the Kingdom of Bhutan, in 2013. Shortly after Bhutan transitioned from a monarchy...

reddit

@kate

Great photo. The location of the shot is a statue near Thimphu called Dordenma, on the edge of a ridgeline. Gonna be a hell of a time retrieving fly balls there!

@kate That's a great culture clash image right there. I wonder if the Buddha will object to getting hit with a foul ball?
@kate @paparatti Throw in some dogs and books and this is a photograph of my soul
@kate what if they bean Buddha?!?!
@seriouslyjeff Someone needs to tell MLB to lay off the filters tho, especially someone who scrolls down and sees the unfiltered alternate from the same scene (which sucks to say because yes-fuck-yes that pic why eff with it)
@stuntbox ha, hard agree! Still what a freaking amazing scene!
@kate sequel to Shaolin Soccer, Shaolin Shortstop.
@kate Skimmed too fast 🧠: Why the heck are they playing baseball with explosive butane gas? 😅
@kate i would absolutely play this baseball themed soulslike
@kate definitely a really cool story
@kate Thinks "Don't strike the Buddha."

@kate deSantis?

-name sounds familiar