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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 4h

I can't remember watching a playoff series in which I was so equally cool with either team winning that it's preventing me from developing an even temporary, boredom-abating rooting interest.

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · 12h

Really hope to get to @bertsbooks.bsky.social in Swindon the next time we take the train from London to Bath. Might be a few years though since we live in the U.S.

Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 18h

Happy Sunday, what can we get you today? - Michael

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary - Diane Keaton

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · 1d

Terrific reporting, as always, from @heatherknightsf.bsky.social. Final paragraphs are perfection.

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 2d

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 2d

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · 1d

Dillon Dingler: You've got the touch! You've got the power! #MLB #ALDS

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room looking at something .

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · 1d

Brandon Belt's epic at bat!

NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · 2d

It certainly should

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · 2d

This is just too much #MLB #ALDS

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to have a great series, but Adam Amin has done an outstanding PBP job for Fox #MLB

NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · 3d

Jim McKay voice over: "...and the agony of defeat."

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · 4d

Reposting this so I can view it over and over and over again without having to search for it

Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 7d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 7d

A painting of a bird beside the text "not gonna like, i was hoping shit would be a lot better by now"

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · 8d

Just finished and LOVED it!

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · 9d

Pretty sure this article/photo would disqualify Suzuki among many of the Giants faithful www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...

Trump honors World Series champion Nats; Kurt Suzuki wears MAGA cap

President Trump stuck mostly to sports Monday while honoring the World Series champion...

www.sfchronicle.com

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 23d

page 15 of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Feb. 4, 1939.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 23d

"I hope all of these people end up in a Hell that’s worse than the one they’re constructing right in front of us." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Jimmy Kimmel's firing makes me ashamed to be an American

SFGATE columnist Drew Magary on the fallout of Jimmy Kimmel's firing.

www.sfgate.com

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · Sep 10

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · Jul 20

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place.

This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · Jul 16

Hate it, but Kershaw played it well. Asking Smoltz what to throw was pretty funny.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · Jul 16

Mic’ing up a starting pitcher, even in a game that doesn’t matter, is the stupidest shit ever.

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · Jul 5

Fun fact: Bram van den Berg, U2's drummer for the Sphere shows, first got hooked on the band with Pop.

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · Jul 2

see I'm not just a crank when it comes to the A's. I mean I'm also that but I know what I'm talking about, too.

(And as the actual article notes, it's a $2B stadium now)

Debacle in the desert: will the Athletics’ $1.75bn stadium on the Vegas Strip ever be built?

It’s been over two years since the A’s were awarded public funding for their new ballpark. But despite last month’s “groundbreaking”, its completion is anything but certain

www.theguardian.com

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static klinger @jessespector.com · Jun 11

the broadcast really doesn’t fully capture the homer, which is too bad, but what i really noticed is the absence of sensory overload — both on tv with no omnipresent graphics, and at the park, with no ads, no loud music

i fully understand why it’s changed in 35 years, and i like today’s baseball…

Cecil Fielder clears left field roof at Tiger Stadium.

YouTube video by Buckeye Video

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NV_Joeby @joeby1.bsky.social · Jun 18

Serious question: Does this set off any alarm bells in MLB HQ or among other owners about Fisher’s ability to get Vegas done?

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