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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 11h

Diane Keaton directed this banger music video on top of all her other achievements, RIP to a legend

youtu.be/NOGEyBeoBGM

Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by BelindaCarlisleVEVO

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 14h

As someone well-acquainted with “gone golfing” chirps for teams eliminated in hockey, I truly appreciate the “gone to Cancun” barbs being dropped in baseball lately.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 1d

Did I nod off? Perhaps.

Multiple times? Maybe.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 1d

I guess an uneventful 15 innings will have to do.

Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 1d

In this Tigers-Mariners game, I’m rooting for absolute maximum chaos. 17 innings. Position players pitching and pitchers hitting. Multiple benches clearing and multi-game suspensions. Inconvenient viral outbreaks.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 1d

Damn, autocorrect did me dirty.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 1d

Me all week: Put some goddamn respect on Ernie Clements’ name!

Me tonight: Luis Rivas who dat

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 1d

Squirrels on the field. Raccoons in the bullpen. Feral cats in the dugout.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 1d

In this Tigers-Mariners game, I’m rooting for absolute maximum chaos. 17 innings. Position players pitching and pitchers hitting. Multiple benches clearing and multi-game suspensions. Inconvenient viral outbreaks.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 1d

They played for two runs when they needed three, and they got zero.

Winning is always the most fun.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 1d

It was scandalous at the time, I suppose, because a threesome seemed like more fun than the good lord intended.

The kicker for me, though, was when Leslie Stahl of CBS News would go on Letterman, Paul Shaffer would play “Groovin’” as her entrance music.

Happy Friday, pocket friends.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 1d

The lyric is: “Life could be ecstasy/For you and me endlessly”

But some people suggested they were actually singing “Life could be ecstasy/For you and me and Lesley”

(Probably a good time to tag @lesleynope.bsky.social into this rambling thought. She’d dig it the most.)

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 1d

I have the song Groovin’ by The Rascals stuck in my head. Perhaps because it ties into one of my favourite obscure boring dad anecdotes.

When the song first came out, there was a minor controversy around the lyrics.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

I saw the Cubs in Toronto a few weeks back, and they did not look like a good team. I guess that’s baseball.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, I’ve softened my stance on bunting. But I’m not sure I get the excitement over giving up an out when you’re still three runs down to move two runners up.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, it was very good hockey after all.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

That was definitely worse.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

Walk off walk to lose the series would be its own kind of sad trombone vibe for the Phills.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

This game is going 18 innings.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

That’s probably what it messing with my head.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

Some of you may be too young to remember how Alex Anthopoulos wanted Chapman and got outbid. So he made sure no one would steal Adeiny Hechevarria from him.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

Aroldis Chapman was signed to be a starter as well.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

She’s on the HartCopter, on her way back to the HartCave.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

Wrong again, Grant.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll never make it. You can’t start a playoff game in the middle of the night.

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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, there is a late game tonight?

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