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Michael Baumann

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 4h

Il Lombardia starts in 3 1/2 hours

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 4h

Shit, the bottom third of my TV screen is starting to split

Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 4h

Sportswriters rooting for the game to end so they can file early enough to beat last call, but they're rooting for the game to keep going until restaurants start serving bloody marys with brunch

Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 5h

It is now NyQuil o'clock, friends

Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 5h

When the Phillies played mega long extra-inning games pre-ghost runner, they did the 14th Inning Stretch. I thought for sure I'd seen my last one.

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 5h

I think it'd be highly exothermic

Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sorry you can't add a guy with Tommy Kahnle's energy to a game like this. I don't remember everything from high school chemistry but I remember this.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 5h

Obviously it's too late for me. I am a washed and chopped unc, a hideous shambling corpse. But Eduard Bazardo is Yorman's brother, and not his son, and I am putting that one in the W column.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 5h

It really is a huge ass

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 5h

Why is Rob Lowe hosting a silly game show? Does he have gambling debts?

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 5h

What a truthful baseball

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 5h

I think you need to factor in how much more dangerous Kerry Carpenter is than Shohei Ohtani

original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 5h

"i watched that game yesterday and those intentional walks did not work, but i'd do it here" is some real arrested development energy

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 5h

Runners on first and second and nobody out is the only time when a sac bunt increases your run expectancy. I know you've spent almost four hours with AJ Pierzynski but don't let fatigue drive you to innuneracy

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 5h

What I want to know is why the fan who opens Bevo's pen in the Allstate commercial has a Swedish accent

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 6h

Oh cool, two of the best baseball games of all time and one of the worst baseball games of all time

Alex Speier @alexspeier.bsky.social · 6h

4th winner-take-all postseason game of 12+ innings. The others:

2018 Rockies-Cubs WC (13)
2014 Royals-A’s WC (12)
1924 Senators-Giants WS G7 (12)

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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 6h

Pretty simple from here: Naylor steals second. Naylor steals third. Naylor steals home.

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 7h

No kidding man, I'm convinced she's actually influencing this game somehow

Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 7h

They've said Andrés Muñoz's nickname about 8 times in the past 90 seconds and I'm gonna have a hard time getting "Future Is in the Future" out of my head

The cover art for "Señor Smoke" by Electric Six

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 7h

It wasn't the eyes, he was gritting his teeth so hard I thought he was gonna pull something in his jaw

Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 7h

Jorge Polanco with the most serious, "Oh my God I can't screw this up" face in baseball history as he rounded third

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 7h

Should've happened in the 40s too, Hal Newhouser blowing one by Pete Reiser

Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 13h

They look friendly and cheerful, what's not to like?

Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 14h

Am I naive or was it at one time unacceptable to be such a nakedly soulless capitalist creep in public?

Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 14h

The one upside of the Phillies losing is I can now catch up on Love Is Blind, which gives me some much-needed perspective. Because no Philly Sports Black Thursday is ever gonna make me as angry as Real Estate Mike

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 14h

Just a lifetime of wishing the Democrats were who the Republicans are scared they are

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