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Josh (garik16)

@garik16.bsky.social

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Co-Founder of Hockey-Graphs; hockey, baseball blogger. Isles, Mets, Jets, Knicks, Hotspur, Duke Fan (Duke 09) and Cornell fan Now mostly a science fiction and fantasy book blogger at garik16.blogspot.com. He/ Him

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Dr. Meredith Wills @bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social · 1h

Luis Castillo was Lou Costello when the game started.

Abbott and Costello in “Who’s On First”

Josh (garik16) @garik16.bsky.social · 1h

Fun fact, after a tennis match went 3 days at Wimbledon they now put in rules so that the matches can’t go too long (I guess in theory a tiebreaker could go forever but it’s extremely extremely unlikely)

Josh (garik16) @garik16.bsky.social · 1h

Yes but it wasn’t a shrimp

Josh (garik16) @garik16.bsky.social · 1h

Second season in a row Thomas Kahnle ended his team’s season

Josh (garik16) @garik16.bsky.social · 1h

Damnit I wanted a shrimp

Josh (garik16) @garik16.bsky.social · 1h

It means this:
(Yes it makes sense, no I’m not going to explain it)

a rat is crawling on a conveyor belt .

ALT: a rat is crawling on a conveyor belt .

media.tenor.com

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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 2h

ESTRAGON:
Well, shall we bunt?

VLADIMIR:
Yes, let's bunt.

They do not bunt.

Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 2h

This is the baseball equivalent of Waiting for Godot.

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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 2h

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
ADAM AMIN: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
ADAM AMIN: oh god yes
AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 2h

There are times when you might want to bunt, but to get the bat in the hands of present day Javier Báez doesn't seem like one of them.

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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 3h

Riley Greene being 0-4 (plus an IBB) on just 6 pitches seen is an incredible thing

this is how you pitch a man with an incredibly steep uppercut

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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 2h

I don't know what the funniest way for the go-ahead or winning run to score is, but I think it's "some Tiger smashes a dead-zone down-the-pipe fastball 450 feet."

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Chris Laporte @laportereporte.bsky.social · 3h

once again bringing this over from the other place for posterity

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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 3h

The Tigers are throwing these weird pitches

they're really fast, and kind of straight? What sorcery is that

Josh (garik16) @garik16.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely not. Trump famously was laughed at and mocked by New York elites which always pissed him off.

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Christopher Crawford @crawfordchrisv.bsky.social · 3h

It ended up not mattering, but bunting to get a guy to third when you need one run to literally end a game is #fine. bsky.app/profile/your...

yourmomsfavaccount.bsky.social @yourmomsfavaccount.bsky.social · 3h

Im not bunt guy, but JP 100% should have been bunting there.

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Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social · 4h

As a Red Sox fan, having a graphic about my catcher not having a passed ball year would FREAK me RIGHT out.

Josh (garik16) @garik16.bsky.social · 3h

I want you to be happy Sara but also I want this to go another 5 more innings sorry

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 11h

POV: you are just trying to sit on the ding-dang couch

Fizzy the big-eared beagle-german shepherd mix and Panda the teeny black and white Chihuahua mix are being extremely the fuck nosy and poking the camera while Andrea's husband tries to take their picture

Josh (garik16) @garik16.bsky.social · 3h

Amazing play by Javy to charge that

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Lucas @dbitlefty.bsky.social · 6d

Extra innings the way they should be played.

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 3h

Again, could really use some perverted, 19 inning baseball right now. Some absolute sicko shit!

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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 3h

Seattle pitching through 9. I've never seen anything like this.

Highest slider rate (sweepers inc.) in a postseason game since 2008: Seattle in 2022, ALWC g2, 50%

Seattle tonight: 63%

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1st Viscount Craigavon @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · Oct 6

I think this is the truest baseball tweet for me

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Jib-BOO👻-scribbits @jibblescribbits.bsky.social · 3h

I was going to bitch about Marlins Man, but honestly being just visible behind home plate in playoff baseball games Is a way better way to spend wealth than a lot of these rich assholes do.

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1st Viscount Craigavon @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 11h

always read @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com:

www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

The numbers have to mean something. They can mean something to the teams trying to win the baseball games, and to the fans trying to understand how the teams try to win the baseball games. That’s fine, if that’s your bag. They can also mean something to the enjoying baseball: the expectation statistics, the narrative, the backstory. All of these things make baseball better. This is not what AI from Google Cloud is selling, and it’s not what “artificial intelligence,” as a promoted prospect, is particularly interested in. AI cannot make human connections. Just as its computational power is a pale imitation of the human brain, its product is essentially a poor copy of nature, producing stuff, meaningless data, and requiring the human to make the connections to it themselves. This is the modern internet: uncurated, unhelpful, infinite. Its humanity is buried beneath a million layers of human-engineered meaninglessness, and when you do find something actually created, more often than not, it’s an intentional lie. Or, more specifically, advertising.