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Mike Gianella

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Write about fantasy baseball, post about that and lots of other stuff. He/him/his

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · Oct 18

“you going to post that on BlueSky, Dad? get two likes?”

teenagers are brutal

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 2h

sorry I’m a Mets fan every one of my sports posts is about a world atrocity

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2h

Once again, lots of appreciation to the sports posting people who have made this place an acceptable location for both baseball and college football as opposed to posting about sports and being asked why you didn’t bring up every single one of the worlds atrocities in your post instead

Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 2h

to be fair David and the Israelites did have home field advantage against Goliath and the Philistines

Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 3h

Very excited for the David v Goliath narratives incoming when David won 4 more games than Goliath and has home field advantage

Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 2h

a man in a suit and tie says i just want to tell you all good luck

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says i just want to tell you all good luck

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 4h

I was really worried it was going to stink based on my lofty memories of the novella but it delivered

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 5h

when there’s a zombie apocalypse and the zombies also have a baseball team

Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 6h

there’s a … National League?

Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 9h

was this an independent decision or were you following others’ social cues

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 9h

but it was foretold he would return

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 16h

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Jim Caviezel Won’t Return as Jesus for Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’

Jim Caviezel will not return to play Jesus Christ for director Mel Gibson‘s forthcoming follow-ups to the smash hit The Passion of the Christ, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 10h

I agree on the personal choice part of this (I generally fall on the “won’t watch side”) but with Allen I have a particularly hard time because once he shifted away from comedy he presented himself as this grand master of understanding humanity and relationships which uhhhhhh

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10h

I don't argue with anyone who won't watch a Woody Allen movie; it's a personal choice, different for everyone. But Diane Keaton is a big reason I almost never say "[Movie X] is dead to me." My argument isn't "Separate the artist from the art"; it's that movies are never just one person's legacy.

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 10h

Woody going on and on about his friend’s morality and what is morality even is a pretty large steaming turd that dominates the entire movie

Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 10h

Manhattan is a horror film

Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 10h

She was also great in her first role, in Play It Again, Sam. It's one of the few Woody Allen films I can still watch. She was in Manhattan, too, and was excellent, but that film is brrrrrrrrrrr.

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Leezus H. Christ @langhuck.bsky.social · 11h

comic strip character Leroy Lockhorn sitting in front of a TV, with a speech bubble emanating from his mouth. his wife, Loretta, looks on, unamused

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 11h

Withered wojak in M’s hat: Stop giving me your toughest battles

Jesus: How are you still alive?

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 12h

it’s rare even without the separate teams distinction, which makes sense

Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 15h

I know it makes me an old because I keep leaning on a nearly 40-year-old movie but so much journalism now makes me think “you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 15h

The controversial solution Long Beach has picked to battle shoplifters

Long Beach regulates self-checkout amid growing shopper frustration.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 1d

Top of the 15th Inning

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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 1d

Diego Seguí fan club assemble!

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 18d

If the World Series is Mariners v. Brewers, I will be so very happy, and I will also be fucking insufferable about the one-season existence of the Seattle Pilots (who moved to Milwaukee and became the Brewers). In every conversation about ANYthing, I will be, like, "But did you know....."