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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 2d

The State of the First Base position for Fantasy Baseball heading into 2026 is ... fine? Not great, not terrible.

But we need difference-making reinforcements to hit the majors soon because the position could be in really bad shape as the stars age out: www.cbssports.com/fantasy/base...

Fantasy Baseball: The state of first base position heading into 2026; following 2025 breakouts, busts, more

Kurtz' breakout defined the position in 2025

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 3h

Oh my goooooooooooood

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 3h

Text from my Mariners fan friend in the 11th inning sums it up: “I HATE that I'm watching an instant classic I wish the M's would just win 5-2”

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 4h

Alternately: Logan Gilbert looks like the new lead singer for Puddle of Mudd with this goatee looks

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 4h

Logan Gilbert with this goatee looks like every closer in 1997

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 3d

yes, but he still has to sound out some of the longer words

TV screen shot of skier with lower third reading “CAN ERIK READ.”

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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 9h

The Jays don't strike out, but they didn't strike out last year either and they weren't very good.

On how a high contact team added a ton of bat speed in-season and put up one of the best offensive postseason series on record ...

www.mlb.com/bluejays/new...

How Toronto swung its way to a historic playoff offense

The Blue Jays make a ton of contact. They put the ball in play. It’s what they do. No team had a lower strikeout rate this season. No team has a lower strikeout rate this postseason. They scored the f...

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 13h

After weeks of internalizing and suffering, I tried to examine why exactly the Google Cloud with AI ads were upsetting me so much. I think it's a good one.

Baseball Prospectus @baseballprospectus.com · 13h

Catch the Game Like Never Before
by Patrick Dubuque (@euqubud.baseballprospectus.com)

Catch the Game Like Never Before | Baseball Prospectus

The numbers have to mean something.

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 17h

The joke is that Death Grips is unlistenable

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 17h

DEATH GRIPS

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 17h

go birds

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 18h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 17h

Good morning. Today for @baseballprospectus.com I wrote about the Google Cloud baseball ads. They suck and I hate them.

Cold Takes: Catch the Game Like Never Before | Baseball Prospectus

The numbers have to mean something.

www.baseballprospectus.com

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 17h

It’s just so funny that he posted that right before a season where he was the worst pitcher in Japan.

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 17h

Now, in fairness, the 20 hitters in the world who can challenge Trevor Bauer are all on the team they are about to face

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · Aug 21

continuing with my personal rule of "No Trevor Bauer on the timeline unless it's to laugh at how much he sucks as a pitcher with my friends on this website"

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Elizabeth @lightlyredacted.bsky.social · 19h

Rules are rules.

👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 1d

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 1d

Heck yeah, Cam Ska-Tebow

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 2d

It's your pal Chris here again to remind you that there is no such thing as a "wrong" check swing call because there is no such thing as a check swing!

Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hopping in with another friendly reminder that there is no rule book definition of a “check swing” and complaining about any check swing call is, as a result, really silly! It’s literally whatever that specific umpire thinks it should be!

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 1d

Why is there someone at the Dodgers game doing Marlins Man cosplay

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 1d

On yesterday's FBT Podcast, Scott White, Frank Stampfl and I reviewed our preseason Sleeper and Breakout calls and tried to find lessons from Pete Crow-Armstrong, Jesus Luzardo, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrLX...

Evaluating Preseason Sleepers & Breakouts! What We Got Right & Wrong 🤔 | Fantasy Baseball Advice

YouTube video by Fantasy Baseball Today

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 1d

the WHIP and FIP aren't bad, but a 4.63 ERA over nearly 200 innings doesn't lie

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 1d

he could definitely do this

Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 1d

it's not what you want

lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 1d

after more than a damn decade of wah wah wah bequeathed runners and it's dave roberts' fault and it was a fluke outing and every reason-turned-excuse in the book, let's look at the numbers:

clayton kershaw postseason stats
196.1 IP
40 G
4.63 ERA
3.98 FIP
1.146 WHIP

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 1d

the only thing most people know about him is that he was cool

he's certainly been viewed as much cooler than Springsteen to my generation

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Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 1d

Johnny Cash "can seem uncool"???

The Man in Black? The guy who toured prisons? The guy who has been on millions of college dorm room walls flipping off the camera? The only country artist your most boring friend will admit to liking?

Who wrote this???

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

wtaf are you talking about

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Spooky HalLewien Name Pollis @lewispoll.is · 1d

Edited screenshot of a meme tweet:

I dated a [Yankees fan] who'd taunt every [small-market team] he met until they'd pull their fist back to beat him up, whereupon my ex would go "heyheyheyyy c'maahn I'm a little guy, I'm just a little guyy, noo, it's also my birthday, I'm a little birthday boyy" & it somehow always worked

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