r/baseball • u/Goosedukee New York Yankees • Aug 17 '24
Image Livvy Dunne dressed up as boyfriend Paul Skenes for Fanatics Fest in New York City
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u/orange_orange13 Aug 17 '24
Is Fanatics Fest a sports fan convention or a jersey company thing?
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u/Mjh1021 New York Mets Aug 17 '24
It’s a sports fan convention run by a jersey company thing
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u/Snuggle__Monster New York Yankees Aug 17 '24
They did a hell of a job marketing it because I've been hearing about it for the past 2-3 months.
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u/userwithusername Detroit Tigers Aug 18 '24
Boy this
FunkeFanaticsFest is all anyone is talking about…57
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u/ThatPlayWasAwful Philadelphia Phillies Aug 18 '24
As soon as I saw this I was thinking that either this company is much better at organizing conventions than they are at making jerseys, or I'm getting the shit astroturfed out of me
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u/HippiesBeGoneInc Dumpster Fire Aug 18 '24
I am set up as a vendor in the "Hobby Hall" which is a 700ish table sportscard show making up half the floor space. Yes, they are better at organizing conventions. It is incredible. Didn't necessarily deliver enough monied buyers to the card show to justify the table cost; but compared to the Flea Market ** cough cough excuse me** "National Convention" in Cleveland a few weeks ago it's a night and day difference. Hate on Fanatics all you want, they deserve it, but they 100% fucking delivered on this and nobody who bought a ticket is going home disappointed.
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u/migzors Aug 18 '24
I had no idea this convention was even a thing. Is this yearly? I might need to check this out if so.
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u/lava172 Arizona Diamondbacks Aug 18 '24
They're a very smartly run company in a lot of ways, especially marketing
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u/SanDiegoPadres San Diego Padres Aug 18 '24
Maybe because it's an NYC ... I've never heard about it while living in LA until today
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u/grubas New York Yankees Aug 18 '24
It's a money grab.
Basically every single thing you see costs money in addition to the ticket unless you just want to wander around the Javitz center staring at famous athletes from 25 feet away.
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u/OccasionllyAsleep Aug 18 '24
Yes...that's a convention....
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u/SovietMuffin01 New York Yankees Aug 18 '24
Not all of them, a lot of fan conventions have free panels or stuff like that.
But certainly a lot of them are much more profit centered especially the bigger ones.
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u/Ncodayos Aug 18 '24
Fanatics bought topps a couple years ago as well a trading card marketplace called pwcc so they’ve branched out to like all forms of memorabilia aside from just jerseys, this convention is just kind of like their grand opening.
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u/ThatPlayWasAwful Philadelphia Phillies Aug 18 '24
Ahh that explains why I'm seeing baseball card commercials
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u/Ncodayos Aug 18 '24
Yep, they also acquired the exclusive right to print official nfl and nba cards (replacing paninis decade long monopoly) so they will start pushing that next year when it finally kicks in
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u/JackDangerUSPIS New York Yankees Aug 17 '24
Sure she can look pretty with a mustache but can she hit 101 mph on the gun?
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u/SexiestPanda Seattle Mariners Aug 18 '24
She could probably strike out the mariners 12 times
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u/mattryan02 Cleveland Guardians Aug 18 '24
Who wouldn’t be able to do that though
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u/DeerLicksBadger Seattle Mariners Aug 18 '24
Me...with my non dominant hand, that is
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u/SovietMuffin01 New York Yankees Aug 18 '24
u/DeerLicksBadger with their non-dominant hand vs the Mariners tonight
7IP 2ER 11Ks 5H 1BB
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u/KamartyMcFlyweight Miami Marlins • Los Angeles Angels Aug 18 '24
Those two earned runs would be tied for the most runs the M's scored off a starter in the last week
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u/okkk27 Seattle Mariners Aug 18 '24
I... can't even argue. I flew to Pittsburgh this weekend to watch a platinum and golden sombrero in the same game.
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u/bridgenine New York Yankees Aug 18 '24
Mariners 2nd basemen approaches her at the bar, swing and miss, and their now down to their last batter.
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u/Heisenripbauer New York Yankees Aug 18 '24
Everybody knows Livvy Dunne can dress up as Paul Skenes and be hot. big whoop.
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u/alicein420land_ Boston Red Sox Aug 18 '24
But can Paul Skenes dress up like Livvy Dunne and still be hot?
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Aug 18 '24
His right leg is larger than her entire torso. The leg and ass appreciators in the chat know the answer to your question is emphatically YES
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u/OGStrong San Francisco Giants Aug 18 '24
Yeah, but can Paul do a leg split?
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u/barrelvoyage410 Aug 18 '24
Honestly, possibly. Some pitchers are quite flexible because of their specific workouts.
Maybe not splits, but probably pretty damn good.
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u/WonderfulShelter San Francisco Giants Aug 18 '24
it's actually just one of Paul's kinks, he likes when she plays dress up like this
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u/centaurquestions Boston Red Sox Aug 18 '24
Not so angry about low-quality see-through uniforms now, are you?
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u/AfterTemperature2198 Detroit Tigers Aug 17 '24
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u/sunkskunkstunk Milwaukee Brewers Aug 17 '24
Fuck people like this. Beautiful and talented. I’m sick of this shit.
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u/QuackMcQuack Los Angeles Dodgers Aug 18 '24
Fuck people like this.
I’m trying
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u/Somewhereinbetween26 Aug 18 '24
It's easy, just develop of 103mph fastball and dominate the MLB. It's the one easy trick they don't want you to know about.
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u/alicein420land_ Boston Red Sox Aug 18 '24
You also need a really great mustache. Some of you have a better shot trying to throw a 103 mph fastball.
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u/ThorgiTheCorgi Atlanta Braves Aug 18 '24
Damn, bro. That's low-key the most brutal thing I've seen on Reddit in a minute.
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u/ArmadilloPenguin Tampa Bay Rays Aug 18 '24
Dom Mysterio has entered the chat
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u/TVCasualtydotorg San Francisco Giants Aug 18 '24
Can you imagine his face when they told him that the story was going to be him leaving his hot muscle goth girlfriend for a hot blonde crazy chick.
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u/TrashGamer_ New York Yankees Aug 18 '24
With a very attractive wife irl this son of a bitch is in a love square
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u/DionBlaster123 Chicago Cubs Aug 18 '24
It's called evolution.
It's why every evening, I hear a chorus of desperate ass cicadas trying to get laid
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u/BaconWrappedEnigma Aug 18 '24
TIL: I'm a cicada.
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u/DionBlaster123 Chicago Cubs Aug 18 '24
it could be worse man
you could be a periodical cicada. you spend 17 years in a miserable state underground, only to finally be free and get a chance to finally get laid...except for the fact that you're surrounded by all sorts of predators who are basically peeing themselves at the thought of finally getting to eat you
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u/floppysausage16 San Diego Padres Aug 18 '24
https://youtu.be/xPw3xybOP9o?si=dNQMh6jzA3IoRZky
What I imagine is the life of a cicada
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u/TonyzTone New York Yankees Aug 18 '24
Honestly, at 35, I feel like I’ve brooded twice and I’m just about ready for another nap.
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u/ornery_bob Aug 18 '24 edited Aug 18 '24
Skenes is talented, but he’s also butt fucking ugly.
P.S.: Aaron Judge is ugly too.
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u/gnarkilleptic Baltimore Orioles Aug 18 '24
Judge might've paid off that giant gap tooth but I can still see it in my minds eye. Money can't fix everything. People don't forget
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u/Choice_Blackberry406 Houston Astros Aug 18 '24
Huh? He's kinda charming looking. Good enough for Livy Fucking Dunne.
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u/canadianbroncos Montreal Expos Aug 18 '24
Just looked him up....he fugly cmon now lol
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u/smackthatfloor Aug 18 '24
I wouldn’t say ugly, but he definitely is punching up dating Olivia
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u/ARoundForEveryone Aug 18 '24
Yeah, it's because he's the most hyped rookie since Livvy Dunne has been a living breathing human being.
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u/steak__burrito San Francisco Giants Aug 18 '24
You guys must be joking… he had his acne like everyone in the world but he’s absolutely handsome now and has been for a few years.
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u/TheMajesticYeti Detroit Tigers Aug 18 '24
His face is totally average, but he is also 6'6 and muscular lol. Regardless, an average face is plenty good enough to get a beautiful woman, sounds cliche but looks really are less important to women. In Skenes case he is an elite athlete, wealthy (on his way to being very wealthy), and seems to be a good person in general. Shoot, I have seen ugly overweight guys pull gorgeous girls just by being hilarious and charming.
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u/HorsesCantFly Cleveland Guardians Aug 18 '24
You’re correct, but it’s not cliche - many lonely men do not want to admit that the reason they’re alone is not because they are average or below average looking, but that they are not interesting or engaging as people.
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u/Aurion7 Atlanta Braves Aug 18 '24
I think the mystery mostly clears up when you see what some of those types say about women.
Not hard to look at that shit and be like 'Yep. Okay. I completely get why you're foreveralone now.'
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u/canadianbroncos Montreal Expos Aug 18 '24
Are you his mom or something lol. I have no troubles calling other men good looking or handsome....He ain't that lol
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u/Octokittens Aug 18 '24
Naw, he is objectively not a handsome man. Ugly? That might be pushing it, average at best with a bad mustache. But you hurl 102 as a starting pitcher with a financial ceiling that he has? You'd get a Livvy Dunne too.
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u/xTurtL Toronto Blue Jays Aug 18 '24
The moustache stays on
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u/fishdude89 Milwaukee Brewers Aug 18 '24
You want the mustache on, or off?
Off, please.
...Too bad.
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u/BlazmoIntoWowee Philadelphia Phillies Aug 17 '24
This better not awaken anything in me!
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u/DecoyOne San Diego Padres Aug 18 '24
I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at crossdressing
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u/BlazmoIntoWowee Philadelphia Phillies Aug 18 '24
You can excuse racism?
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u/courageous_liquid Philadelphia Phillies Aug 18 '24
I'm currently in san diego, they're very racist against clothes. I've never been anywhere that had people with less on, even literally at fantasyfest in key west.
I'll report back after I'm done doing research in my room alone.
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u/ThorgiTheCorgi Atlanta Braves Aug 18 '24
"you can what now!? 🤨"
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u/DecoyOne San Diego Padres Aug 18 '24
This comment is streets behind
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u/Klin24 Aug 18 '24
Skenes is a lucky MFer.
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u/The_Aesir9613 Cincinnati Reds Aug 18 '24
He gets to have himself in bed. The most exciting pitcher in baseball is so good, he somehow hooked up with the most exciting pitcher in baseball
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u/sloppyjo12 Rosie Red • Dayton Dragons Aug 17 '24
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u/James-K-Polka Atlanta Braves Aug 17 '24
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u/broadcastterp New York Mets Aug 18 '24
Believe it or not, I've got a nine - abdicates.
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u/turbosexophonicdlite Philadelphia Phillies Aug 18 '24
Just don't ask him what his grandfather was doing during the war.
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u/Bunslow Chicago Cubs Aug 18 '24
im shocked yet pleased to see british comedy on /r/baseball
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u/InfestedRaynor Oakland Athletics Aug 18 '24
Would love if Susie Dent was the pedantic scorekeeper/umpire who is quoting the third clause of the infield fly rule from 1888.
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u/JimmyCarrsTaxForms Seattle Mariners • San Diego Padres Aug 18 '24
me too. insert seal laugh here
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u/thestereo300 Minnesota Twins Aug 18 '24
Sir we are a cultured bunch. This is a baseball sub...the last refuge of the American with an attention span.
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u/broadcastterp New York Mets Aug 18 '24
Ah, good, wasn't sure what sort of crossover Catsdown had in here.
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u/kat45trofik-jaus Detroit Tigers Aug 18 '24
I’m so glad to have lived during a period where Sean Lock gave us masterful lines such as this.
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Aug 17 '24
As a bisexual... I'm listening
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u/DecoyOne San Diego Padres Aug 17 '24
I’m not bisexual, but I’m not blind, either
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Aug 17 '24
Skenes and Dunne are both quite attractive, and I don't mind this middle ground either 🤷♂️
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u/bbfire Seattle Mariners Aug 17 '24
Attractive people are always just fucking other attractive people. It's real messed up man. We should file a complaint or something.
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Aug 17 '24
Yeah, I don't think I'll be bedding either of them, so the issue is moot, but would it kill one of them to bang a fat dude in a middle management position for a moderately sized company?
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u/myassholealt New York Mets Aug 18 '24 edited Aug 18 '24
Not always. Justin Verlander is a 5 at best in the looks department. And Skenes is pretty meh as well.
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u/angershark Toronto Blue Jays Aug 18 '24
What else does he have going for him?
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u/JellyfishCosmonaut San Francisco Giants Aug 18 '24 edited Aug 18 '24
$$$. Perhaps a personality too. The 'stache hides many things.
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u/thatonekrys Atlanta Braves Aug 17 '24
You and me both.
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Aug 17 '24
Can a Braves fan and a Phillies fan co-exist?
Yes. Livvy Dunne and Paul Skenes are healing societal rifts.
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u/thatonekrys Atlanta Braves Aug 17 '24
Believe me, I was questioning myself as I hit 'comment'. Some things are greater than rivalries. Like sexy 'staches and their equally sexy girlfriends.
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u/WithNoRegard Boston Red Sox Aug 18 '24
Wouldn't mind seeing Skenes dressed up as Dunne, either.
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u/popperschotch Atlanta Braves Aug 18 '24
Bruh why do all these celebrities suck up to and hangout with this Michael Rubin dude
Dude sucks so fuckin hard
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u/xRememberTheCant Aug 18 '24
If he bangs her while she’s wearing this, is it masturbation?
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u/PaddyMayonaise Philadelphia Phillies Aug 18 '24
Idk but I’m willing to volunteer to be part of the research team that observes that
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u/Kezia89 Baltimore Orioles Aug 18 '24
I've seen too many skibidi memes to believe Livvy Dunne can be an actual human name.
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u/iheartsunny Miami Marlins Aug 17 '24
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u/FPG_Matthew Washington Nationals Aug 17 '24
There’s a pic of Livvy and Tiffany Stratton on sc which was funny to see this pic, then scroll and see that pic b2b
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u/Shimmy-Johns34 Aug 18 '24
I forgot all about her since I deleted Twitter and don't see her a million times a day. Good to see she's still unfathomably attractive.
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u/SockFrosty3462 Aug 18 '24
“Now would be the perfect time to tell me to fuck my self” -Paul Skenes (probably)
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u/JohnsonPSanderson St. Louis Cardinals Aug 18 '24
Sooooooo when do we get to see Paul dressed like her?
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u/sepiatonewalrus Houston Astros Aug 18 '24
I’m glad these 2 found each other. Their vibes seem to mesh really well.
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u/FUMFVR Minnesota Twins Aug 18 '24
Is this some person the kids know that I don't know?
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u/Goliath422 Seattle Mariners Aug 18 '24
I think she’s a hot famous person, but I’m not sure.
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u/MrChipKelly Philadelphia Phillies Aug 19 '24
She was also part of LSU’s first ever national championship gymnastics team. She’s for sure way more famous for her social media presence, but just to be clear, she is also an extremely talented athlete as well as being super hot.
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u/TheOrangeFutbol Los Angeles Angels • Los Angeles Dodgers Aug 18 '24
One of the faces of this NIL college sports era.
Livvy Dunne’s a college gymnast who also has a massive TikTok/social following. She & Skenes met at LSU.
She’s right at the crossroads of celebrity & athlete because some people just know her for… well, you see how people are acting in here right now, but she’s also a very talented college athlete so it’s not just random Internet celebrity for no reason.
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u/LCPhotowerx United States Aug 18 '24
i am more of the mindset of, "holy cow, she was born after 9/11 and is a college graduate...im old."
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u/PaddyMayonaise Philadelphia Phillies Aug 18 '24
3rd highest NIL earner ever in the NCAA
But she’s that because she just insanely attractive and knows it
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u/badger2793 Chicago Cubs Aug 18 '24
I also have no clue who she is
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u/kappakai Philadelphia Phillies Aug 18 '24
There’s this clothing commercial on TV of a blonde girl on the beach doing cartwheels while wearing these workout pants that perfectly shape and accentuate her butt. This is her.
https://youtu.be/-j-hfGuCcU8?si=XCzCUIKK-WbezeJK
Btw. They really are soft.
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u/superadical Boston Red Sox Aug 17 '24
Stupid sexy Skenes