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James O'Hara

@nextyeardc.com

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Waiting for the next team to breakthrough. Nats, Caps, Hokies, Commanders and Mystics mostly.

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James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · Mar 7

With the death of Twitter I decided I wanted to stop outsourcing everything I say about sports to social media and pick up blogging again. I set up a new site and while it'll probably be mostly Nats as the you finally get more interesting, I'll be doing some Caps, Hokies, Commies, Mystics, etc. too.

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · Mar 7

To celebrate the new site, I actually wrote something about the Nats! On how the Nats might perceive themselves: nextyeardc.com/post/AreTheN...

Are The Nats Supposed to Be Good?

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James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 1m

Ball don't lie

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 3m

Yeah I don't know what they were thinking there

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 5m

BULLSHIT

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 6m

I don't think he did but I know they've been defining that pretty generously lately

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 7m

It cannot be a hit by pitch if he is offering to bunt. That's the one thing this cannot be.

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James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 17m

Zack where are you going buddy?

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Dave Cowan @dacowan.bsky.social · 26m

A Mariners fan started it when the M’s were on the road in Toronto in the 2002 playoffs. Although he was in T-Mobile in Seattle at a watch party. Put a Birkenstock on his head and they cut away and showed him on the video screen. Rally shoe legend created. No need for Twitter.

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James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 29m

Mariners fans right now:

a bald man in a blue shirt and red bow tie is saying it is happening again

ALT: a bald man in a blue shirt and red bow tie is saying it is happening again

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James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 44m

It's Tork Torkelson right?

1st Viscount Craigavon @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 45m

Adam Amin revealing AJ Hinch doesn't even know Spencer Torkelson's name. Unbelievable.

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 45m

If that passed ball is the margin the catching traditionalists are going to lose it over that block attempt

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James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 47m

Yeah the stats have to be in service of furthering understanding of the game, not just snapple lid facts

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 50m

We're due for an inning where both teams score the same number of runs

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1h

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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James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 52m

The worst part of the playoffs is all the fans parachuting in who don't know these guys like the real fans do!

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 54m

Because even though they're not always right you can hear how much they actually care about the game unfolding before them

Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 1h

Wainwright and Pierzynski are so much better in the booth than John Smoltz that it should be considered a crime to employ the latter

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James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 55m

Smart throw to second by Torres, Robles would get caught by that

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 58m

Props to whatever Fox production guy fixed the extra commercial mistake just in time

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 1h

If every pitcher throws sliders that has to create some sort of familiarity penalty right?

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 1h

You needed that second Rivas at-bat to properly convey how unbelievable it was he got a hit the first time

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 1h

Amin doing an all-time great job of slipping in biography notes for each hitter in case they're the one who wins it

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static klinger @jessespector.com · 10d

see will vest
see will vest
his control is not the best
but he doesn’t give up homers
that’s a big reliever test

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James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 1h

A picture of Kyle Finnegan with the following words below it: You are Kyle Finnegan

Hate to break it to you, but you are my garbage Kyle named Finnegan. You are the Kyle equivalent of a foul wind and you make my nights colder. When I see you in my house, I think to myself, “Here is my Dumpster boy, the one I hate.” Your interests include faking injuries and doing terrible things to my wonderful leads.

When my huge beautiful GM did the signing of Finnegan, I didn’t think things could get any worse, but I underestimated the garbage soul of Finnegan, and every day is a new carnival of miseries. Truly, Finnegan is the Gutter Prince and knowing about him makes me tired. That’s who you are. You’re my garbage Kyle Finnegan.

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James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 14d

CHOTINER: And then at the deadline, you were in first place, and at that point were looking to add?

TIGERS: Yes we had identified a pitching weakness and traded for multiple

CHOTINER: And the best was Kyle Finnegan?

TIGERS: Well he was a closer in DC and we used him earlier

CHOTINER: It says here his own fans called him Garbage Kyle?

TIGERS: Yes, well, it was just a nickname. You know fans these days.

CHOTINER: Right and the nickname is not based on his abilities?

TIGERS: We try to look at the whole player -

CHOTINER: Not just the nickname?

TIGERS: Right.

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James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 2h

Hey this is probably why you let your ace throw more than 100 pitches every once in a while in the regular season so he has some concept of how to pace it

James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 2h

How many pitches before he's equivalent to Kyle Finnegan? 120?

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