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Noel Murray

@noelmu.bsky.social

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Freelancer for hire. You know me from: The A.V. Club, The Dissolve. Posts about food, TV, movies, the Braves, pretty scenery. Husband of @donnadb.bsky.social .

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 4h

It’s very late!

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 5h

At some point you just have to declare the other AL slot vacant and hold some kind of conclave, right?

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 5h

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 5h

Won’t need it. 🤞

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 6h

Noted good guy Adam Amin is calling the shit out of this game btw. A real multi-sport talent in the mold of Nantz or McDonough

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 6h

Whenever I get stressed about a baseball game I'm watching on TV, I pull up the MLB website and watch the pitch-by-pitch graphics/text, which is nearly always a full two pitches ahead of the telecast.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 8h

Krusty the Klown realizing the flaw of his KKK special’s acronym

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 9h

A gift for my Phillies fan friends (and for anyone who appreciates spending the long summer with your guys, even when they fail in the fall). defector.com/what-ill-rem...

What I'll Remember About The Phillies | Defector

At the Phillies’ 2025 home opener, we decided that it was our year. As my friend Dana and I stood next to the giant balloon arch and let someone take our photo, people around us were feeling optimisti...

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 10h

Also my youngest finally got to go see One Battle After Another with a few of their college friends and I've been energized by their giddy post-screening texts about the movie. Good Friday.

Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 10h

Had a crazy-busy work week (not complaining! freelancers need to stay busy!) plus I spent two mornings driving down to a Little Rock high school to speak in a journalism class (happy to be asked! but stressful for a guy who struggles with stage fright!) so I'm more stoked than usual for the weekend.

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Jordan Hoffman, your friend. @jhoffman.bsky.social · 11h

Wrote about a Gen X classic for Decider dot com. Read up! decider.com/2025/10/10/s...

'Something Wicked This Way Comes' unearthed by Disney+, resurfacing long-buried nightmares for Gen X

The camera effects and animated enhancements still look great, as do the matte painted vistas of midwest meadows with multihued fall trees.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 11h

no one played this Connections today but in 20 years it will be hailed as a masterpiece

Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11h

Connections catering to a very particular kind of person today

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Sara McH 🤧 covid mode @saramchenry.bsky.social · 14h

I think about this tweet a lot, due to the changes in the world

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@DVSblast
"ok did everyone DOWNLOAD a pencil?" -how school is like now i bet. due to the changes in the world
5:23 PM • Nov 3, 2014

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 18h

I see you, top left corner of today's Connections.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h

How did you do in Connections today? Players must select four groups of four words without making more than three mistakes. nyti.ms/42CmcGB

Game board for The New York Times "Connections" puzzle, showing 16 light-colored squares with words/phrases.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

Me, watching the sequel:

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ALT: Not Comfortable GIF

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

Every TBS baseball broadcast is assigned its own Lauren.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

She won $65,648 in cash and prizes!

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

Taking a brief baseball break to watch tonight's Wheel Of Fortune, which includes a contestant whose hobby is playing on an adult women's softball team called Pitches Be Crazy. I know who I'm rooting for.

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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

Relatable. I've been enjoying this postseason a lot, in large part because my team this year sucked on toast and got nowhere near it. (Anyway, my sympathies. Spring will be here before you know it.)

Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 1d

There's a current prescription drug ad that warns it "can harm an unborn baby" and I always wonder: Do we get to pick which one? Or is this a 'Button, Button' kind of situation?"

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slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 1d

I love baseball

Alex Stumpf @alexjstumpf.bsky.social · 1d

Pat Murphy pressers hit different

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Hannah Keyser @hannahrkeyser.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite thing in baseball is when the broadcast talks about how the manager should be feeling some sort of big feeling and then they cut to a totally stoic man spitting seeds or blowing gum bubbles

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