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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 22h

if you were giving jarrett shit about this obviously correct essay please unfollow me because you keep embarrassing me

Jarrett Seidler @seidler.bsky.social · 23h

I was very proud of this essay at the time I wrote it, thought it was one of the most comprehensive and best things I've ever written, and then spent over a year having people scream at me and threaten me over it enough that I have tried to forget it existed. But I was fucking right about all of it.

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 1d

plus the shelf life for a guy who runs that hard into contact is either 15 years or half a season and you have no way of knowing which it’ll be

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 1d

somehow I doubt that orion kerkering is gonna get the trea turner round of applause on opening day 2026

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 1d

kerkle’s boner

RM Cooper @rfcapsmoustache.bsky.social · 1d

kerkering's gonna take that one to the grave

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think he was thinking anything in that moment

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 2d

if we're evaluating managers by overperformance of expectations and overcoming of injuries, this was boone's second-most impressive season behind 2019

Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 2d

I don't have any particularly strong opinion on who should manage the Yankees but I think where I land is this: a team I didn't think would make the playoffs and which suffered the loss of a top 10 SP won 94 games and a playoff round

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 2d

kyle finnegan versus victor robles with the american league division series on the line

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 4d

2017 Washington Nationals Blake Treinen making an appearance tonight

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 5d

that’s not the double but it’s definitely *a* double

Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 5d

beating a 99 mile an hour fastball to a spot like that is insane, it’s crazy that anyone ever gets a hit in baseball

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 6d

met someone today who said they thought the christmas adventurers club stuff was overkill. I’ve never been more baffled by a movie opinion

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 6d

lol (also some big lebowski)

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 6d

pan right you idiots

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 7d

one battle after another is as good as everyone says it is, thank you all for not being liars

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 8d

if you don't like this joke, sorry, i'm too hungry to make good ones

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 8d

if the sun is setting on the guardians season does that mean i can eat now

McNally 🗺️ @likethemaps.bsky.social · 8d

Guardians update:

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 8d

this is the eternal struggle between fairness and entertainment that defines the mlb playoffs

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Jacob Rasch @seriousjammage.bsky.social · 8d

torn between wanting the guardians to win because the tigers blowing the division should mean something and wanting the tigers to win because the guardians are boring as hell and tarik skubal is at least interesting