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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version)

@jontayler.bsky.social

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Eight-time winner of PEOPLE's Sexist Man of the Year award, three-time AL MVP, recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, third grade spelling bee finalist. Formerly a baseball words guy at FanGraphs and Sports Illustrated.

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 5h

White Sox fans watching Andrew Vaughn succeed elsewhere

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 5h

They gotta put Arte Moreno in that oil rig jail with the magnet boots from Face/Off

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 5h

Have Anthony Rendon go to school to become an AC tech

Yusei Kikuchi told Japanese reporters after his final start— which he exited due to cramping
— that because the weight room has no air conditioning, he always does his warm-up drenched in sweat.
He wanted the Angels to fix the lack of AC, but they never did all season.
10:01 AM • 10/11/25 • 146K Views

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 5h

DID YOU KNOW: the inspiration for Bernie Brewer’s look was infamous Chicago World’s Fair serial killer H.H. Holmes

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 6h

Liberty Media bribing Trump to deploy SEAL Team 6 and bring William Contreras back to Atlanta

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 1d

Dying at everyone on the Mariners being too tired to celebrate

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 1d

Average heart rate in Seattle right now has to be triple digits

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 1d

Josh Naylor stealing home would be proof of a higher power

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 1d

Rudolf Hess could've watched BACK TO THE FUTURE in theaters

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 2d

Boy we haven’t seen Orion flop that hard in Los Angeles since GREAT BALLS OF FIRE and SPEED ZONE came out in the same year

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 2d

Errorion Kerkering

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 2d

Blake Treinen warming because Dave Roberts has an 8:00 dinner reservation

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 2d

Same guy honestly

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 2d

I would get that jersey

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 2d

What if Roki Sasaki is the Japanese Phil Hughes

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 3d

Clips from VOLCANO but with different city names superimposed every time

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Alexander Abnos @anabnos.com · 3d

Hello! The Guardian is expanding our American soccer coverage. In the US, we're hiring:
• Reporters
• Asst. editor
• Audience editor
• Social video producer
• Sports biz reporter
These are all full-time, permanent, union positions.
www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

The Guardian announces plans to expand its global soccer coverage ahead of 2026 men’s World Cup in North America

Combination of seven new roles, including six in the US, spanning sports and business coverage, visuals, video and more

www.theguardian.com

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know that I'll ever get tired of Trevor Bauer getting his ass kicked nonstop at every level of organized ball in Japan

Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 3d

Gaijin Baseball's comment on the bottom captures perfectly how I feel

GE Galijin Baseball外国人野球 @GalinBaseball・5h
Trevor Bauer just gave up 5 runs to Nippon Express' corporate ball team in a scrimmage...

cp Gaijin Basebal/外国人野球 @Gaijin Baseball ・ 5h
Like, I know I should stop talking about him, but he just keeps giving us stuff to talk about.

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 3d

I'm a big fan of the markers that denote the actual wall that was on Wall St

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Forrest Plump @nahyoudoit.bsky.social · 5d

Ernest Goes Insane

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 3d

It'll forever kill me that the oldest extant remnants of New Amsterdam, pieces of a city now 400 years in the past, can be found directly in front of a Le Pain Quotidien