Tony Fioriglio
@thetonyfioriglio.bsky.social
Untouchable, but I'm forcing you to feel me.
I don't even need new films; I just want the original cut of Rogue One and the Tarantino cut of True Romance
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I don't even need new films; I just want the original cut of Rogue One and the Tarantino cut of True Romance
This is a better example but one that is premised solely on "Let's save ownership money" because the production gap is nowhere near enough to justify the interest gap.
When the Phillies were losing 100 games a year, Howard was still a draw for casual fans. Darin Ruf, once he left Reading, was not
When the Phillies were losing 100 games a year, Howard was still a draw for casual fans. Darin Ruf, once he left Reading, was not
Prior to Franco there was Darin Ruf, left fielder, as well
October 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is a better example but one that is premised solely on "Let's save ownership money" because the production gap is nowhere near enough to justify the interest gap.
When the Phillies were losing 100 games a year, Howard was still a draw for casual fans. Darin Ruf, once he left Reading, was not
When the Phillies were losing 100 games a year, Howard was still a draw for casual fans. Darin Ruf, once he left Reading, was not
I'd have preferred to respond directly rather than this method, but Franco overlapped with Howard for half of 2015 and 2016 and also, Franco played 19 total games at first in his entire nine-year career, so I dunno. Doesn't really feel like a Ryan Howard issue
it's easy to say it was always written in the stars that Franco was going to bust but he was a pretty big prospect who played a position he absolutely shouldn't have been playing so the Phillies could continue to play Howard
October 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'd have preferred to respond directly rather than this method, but Franco overlapped with Howard for half of 2015 and 2016 and also, Franco played 19 total games at first in his entire nine-year career, so I dunno. Doesn't really feel like a Ryan Howard issue
This is a weird analogy because the Phillies were straight booty for all five of those years and he wasn't blocking anyone from playing. At this point in his career and the in the Phillies competitive lifecycle, his value was far more about his contributions off the field than on it
Ryan Howard, for example, played regularly when healthy for *FIVE YEARS* as a negative value player
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is a weird analogy because the Phillies were straight booty for all five of those years and he wasn't blocking anyone from playing. At this point in his career and the in the Phillies competitive lifecycle, his value was far more about his contributions off the field than on it
True Story: I was working at a small newspaper in the Philly suburbs when I watched the last season of the Wire and the most unbelievable part of the newsroom saga that season was that all the reporters were always wearing suits instead of wrinkled polos and khakis.
I got to the heart of the problem with the new spinoff of The Office: Everyone is too hot.
There’s a Problem With the New Follow-Up to The Office. It Has to Do With How Everyone Looks.
The spinoff takes on the newspaper industry. It’s a puff piece.
slate.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
True Story: I was working at a small newspaper in the Philly suburbs when I watched the last season of the Wire and the most unbelievable part of the newsroom saga that season was that all the reporters were always wearing suits instead of wrinkled polos and khakis.
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you attended
Thursday
The Offspring
Say Anything
Billy Corgan
Arm's Length
Thursday
The Offspring
Say Anything
Billy Corgan
Arm's Length
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you attended
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Paul Simon
Grace Jones & Janelle Monae
Peter Bjorn & John
Japanese Breakfast
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Paul Simon
Grace Jones & Janelle Monae
Peter Bjorn & John
Japanese Breakfast
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you attended
Iggy Pop
Devo
Simple Minds
Gang of Four
X
Iggy Pop
Devo
Simple Minds
Gang of Four
X
August 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you attended
Thursday
The Offspring
Say Anything
Billy Corgan
Arm's Length
Thursday
The Offspring
Say Anything
Billy Corgan
Arm's Length
This is how I feel when I see people just now talking about the death of newspapers. If you think what's happening at the Washington Post or LA Times is bad, just wait 'til you see what happened to every small-town paper in America 15 years ago.
the trump administration is destroying ALL higher education but we only hear about the ivies because that's where the rich and powerful went or where their kids go. the obsession with them is missing the bigger picture.
July 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is how I feel when I see people just now talking about the death of newspapers. If you think what's happening at the Washington Post or LA Times is bad, just wait 'til you see what happened to every small-town paper in America 15 years ago.
Alphabetical by artist:
Silent Alarm-Bloc Party
Teenage Retirement-Chumped
Speak in Code-Eve 6
The '59 Sound-The Gaslight Anthem
Futures-Jimmy Eat World
Hot Fuss-The Killers
Rented World-The Menzingers
Commit This to Memory-Motion City Soundtrack
In Reverie-Saves the Day
Maladroit-Weezer
Silent Alarm-Bloc Party
Teenage Retirement-Chumped
Speak in Code-Eve 6
The '59 Sound-The Gaslight Anthem
Futures-Jimmy Eat World
Hot Fuss-The Killers
Rented World-The Menzingers
Commit This to Memory-Motion City Soundtrack
In Reverie-Saves the Day
Maladroit-Weezer
Okay you gave the Times your ten best movies of the century, but what about your ten best ALBUMS, hmm? Hit me with that shit.
July 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Alphabetical by artist:
Silent Alarm-Bloc Party
Teenage Retirement-Chumped
Speak in Code-Eve 6
The '59 Sound-The Gaslight Anthem
Futures-Jimmy Eat World
Hot Fuss-The Killers
Rented World-The Menzingers
Commit This to Memory-Motion City Soundtrack
In Reverie-Saves the Day
Maladroit-Weezer
Silent Alarm-Bloc Party
Teenage Retirement-Chumped
Speak in Code-Eve 6
The '59 Sound-The Gaslight Anthem
Futures-Jimmy Eat World
Hot Fuss-The Killers
Rented World-The Menzingers
Commit This to Memory-Motion City Soundtrack
In Reverie-Saves the Day
Maladroit-Weezer
I once held the door for Brad Garrett at a sushi restaurant in Las Vegas. He was leaving as I was going in.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I once held the door for Brad Garrett at a sushi restaurant in Las Vegas. He was leaving as I was going in.
I had to set my phone to military time because this kept happening to me. I'd look at my phone, it'd say like 2:12 and my brain, seeing it's pitch black out the window, would think "You are SO late for work!"
was about to switch the light on and walk out into the hallway when a voice made me pause: "why are you awake? do you remember your alarm going off? do you know what time it is?" and sure enough it was still 3:30
May 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I had to set my phone to military time because this kept happening to me. I'd look at my phone, it'd say like 2:12 and my brain, seeing it's pitch black out the window, would think "You are SO late for work!"
I honestly don't know why I picked this particular player as an example, but one of my strongest baseball beliefs is that Ryan Braun was better at playing baseball than Babe Ruth.
I think the guy who's playing against pitching in 2025 is more talented than the guy playing 60 years earlier
May 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I honestly don't know why I picked this particular player as an example, but one of my strongest baseball beliefs is that Ryan Braun was better at playing baseball than Babe Ruth.
I guess my mistake was that journalism minor. Live and learn
AI isn't how you learn to write. The proper and correct way to write is to take no proper journalism courses, make jokes on message boards, do some blogs that may or may not be read, and argue on social media. Just like Shakespeare did.
May 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I guess my mistake was that journalism minor. Live and learn
The Brand New DISCOURSE is fascinating to me because Jesse Lacey has been a well-known creep/d-bag for decades and wrote a lot of songs about feeling bad about it but not bad enough to stop. The reaction seems more about people feeling betrayed that what they wanted to be hypothetical was reality
Brand New tour, same old question: defector.com/brand-new-to...
Brand New Tour, Same Old Question | Defector
It’s Halloween 2006, and I’m standing in the middle of the Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines, Iowa. My bangs are side-swept and greasy, and I’m holding a newly purchased T-shirt that reads “FIGHT OFF YOU...
defector.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The Brand New DISCOURSE is fascinating to me because Jesse Lacey has been a well-known creep/d-bag for decades and wrote a lot of songs about feeling bad about it but not bad enough to stop. The reaction seems more about people feeling betrayed that what they wanted to be hypothetical was reality
This is pretty much the premise to the M. Night Shyamalan movie where everyone got real old on an island
March 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is pretty much the premise to the M. Night Shyamalan movie where everyone got real old on an island
It was a real flex for Third Eye Blind to close their first CD with the two best songs on it. Most bands would have put them closer to the front
February 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
It was a real flex for Third Eye Blind to close their first CD with the two best songs on it. Most bands would have put them closer to the front
The Marlins remind me of the Sam Miller "Love this trade for the Rays" tweet, in that they're a pitching development factory that is incapable of developing pitching
Here's a hot January take:
The White Sox will win more games than the Marlins.
The White Sox will win more games than the Marlins.
January 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The Marlins remind me of the Sam Miller "Love this trade for the Rays" tweet, in that they're a pitching development factory that is incapable of developing pitching
Reposted by Tony Fioriglio
The PED moral panic in baseball got rolling after Roger Maris's home run record got rolling. Yet in all likelihood that would've been Mickey Mantle's home run record had Mantle's ass not fallen off from doing too many PEDs. We don't appreciate irony enough in this sport.
January 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The PED moral panic in baseball got rolling after Roger Maris's home run record got rolling. Yet in all likelihood that would've been Mickey Mantle's home run record had Mantle's ass not fallen off from doing too many PEDs. We don't appreciate irony enough in this sport.
Reposted by Tony Fioriglio
SCROOGE (Walton Goggins) (VO): It had been seven years Old Marley had been dead. Unless this is known, nothing fantastic can be understood
MARLEY (Danny McBride) flings open BEDROOM DOOR: Hey Scrooge what's up you sassy son of a bitch. Who decorated this place Jack the Ripper
MARLEY (Danny McBride) flings open BEDROOM DOOR: Hey Scrooge what's up you sassy son of a bitch. Who decorated this place Jack the Ripper
December 16, 2024 at 10:20 PM
SCROOGE (Walton Goggins) (VO): It had been seven years Old Marley had been dead. Unless this is known, nothing fantastic can be understood
MARLEY (Danny McBride) flings open BEDROOM DOOR: Hey Scrooge what's up you sassy son of a bitch. Who decorated this place Jack the Ripper
MARLEY (Danny McBride) flings open BEDROOM DOOR: Hey Scrooge what's up you sassy son of a bitch. Who decorated this place Jack the Ripper
I can second the recommendation for God Almighty Hisself. I have it as a top-5 baseball book that I've read because it extends well beyond baseball and looks critically at the not just the situation the Phillies put Allen in but also what the general atmosphere was in Philadelphia at the time.
Regarding the Hall of Fame elections, two books that have my highest recommendation:
God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen by Mitchell Nathanson is incredibly well-researched and appropriately critical of the way a retrograde franchise and a lily-white media treated Allen. (1/2)
God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen by Mitchell Nathanson is incredibly well-researched and appropriately critical of the way a retrograde franchise and a lily-white media treated Allen. (1/2)
December 9, 2024 at 4:44 PM
I can second the recommendation for God Almighty Hisself. I have it as a top-5 baseball book that I've read because it extends well beyond baseball and looks critically at the not just the situation the Phillies put Allen in but also what the general atmosphere was in Philadelphia at the time.
Artists seen by letter
Alkaline Trio
Bloc Party
Creed
Dashboard Confessional
Eve 6
Fray
Gaslight Anthem
Hawthorne Heights
I
Jimmy Eat World
Killers
Less than Jake
Menzingers
New Found Glory
O
Pearl Jam
Q
R
Sum 41
Thursday
Underoath
Van Halen
Weezer
X
Y
Z
Alkaline Trio
Bloc Party
Creed
Dashboard Confessional
Eve 6
Fray
Gaslight Anthem
Hawthorne Heights
I
Jimmy Eat World
Killers
Less than Jake
Menzingers
New Found Glory
O
Pearl Jam
Q
R
Sum 41
Thursday
Underoath
Van Halen
Weezer
X
Y
Z
Artists seen by letter
Against Me!
Beastie Boys
Charly Bliss
Dead Weather
Ethel Cain
Father John Misty
Gaslight Anthem
Hotelier
Illuminati Hotties
Jack Johnson
Killers
LCD Soundsystem
Modest Mouse
Nas
Outkast
PUP
Q none :’(
Roots
Shins
Taylor Swift
Used
Vampire Weekend
Wilco
XX
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zwan
Against Me!
Beastie Boys
Charly Bliss
Dead Weather
Ethel Cain
Father John Misty
Gaslight Anthem
Hotelier
Illuminati Hotties
Jack Johnson
Killers
LCD Soundsystem
Modest Mouse
Nas
Outkast
PUP
Q none :’(
Roots
Shins
Taylor Swift
Used
Vampire Weekend
Wilco
XX
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zwan
artists seen live by letter
allman brothers
beach boys
cars
devine, kevin
elp
foxing
grateful dead
hot tuna
inxs
jackson, joe
kiss
limp bizkit
manch. orch
nada surf
oso oso
pup
rosenstock, j
qotsa
rem
springsteen
tbs
u2
van halen
the who
x (not the band, i have no x)
yes
zz top
allman brothers
beach boys
cars
devine, kevin
elp
foxing
grateful dead
hot tuna
inxs
jackson, joe
kiss
limp bizkit
manch. orch
nada surf
oso oso
pup
rosenstock, j
qotsa
rem
springsteen
tbs
u2
van halen
the who
x (not the band, i have no x)
yes
zz top
November 25, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Artists seen by letter
Alkaline Trio
Bloc Party
Creed
Dashboard Confessional
Eve 6
Fray
Gaslight Anthem
Hawthorne Heights
I
Jimmy Eat World
Killers
Less than Jake
Menzingers
New Found Glory
O
Pearl Jam
Q
R
Sum 41
Thursday
Underoath
Van Halen
Weezer
X
Y
Z
Alkaline Trio
Bloc Party
Creed
Dashboard Confessional
Eve 6
Fray
Gaslight Anthem
Hawthorne Heights
I
Jimmy Eat World
Killers
Less than Jake
Menzingers
New Found Glory
O
Pearl Jam
Q
R
Sum 41
Thursday
Underoath
Van Halen
Weezer
X
Y
Z
First glance, I think my ballot would have seven votes on it this year: Beltran, Felix, A-Rod, Sabathia, Ichiro, Utley, Wagner
The 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot as announced moments ago (baseballhall.org/news/2025-bb...). Results will be announced Jan. 21st.
The 2025 BBHOF Ballot Tracker is live: tracker.fyi
The 2025 BBHOF Ballot Tracker is live: tracker.fyi
November 18, 2024 at 5:14 PM
First glance, I think my ballot would have seven votes on it this year: Beltran, Felix, A-Rod, Sabathia, Ichiro, Utley, Wagner
The Boots Theory is back. A lot of people can't afford the extra $10 on a great hoodie. Thus, the goal of producing higher quality goods to offset higher costs likely prices out enough buyers that manufacturers won't do it and we will be stuck with low-end products that are still dumb expensive
If there's any hope for US garment manufacturing, it's in moving upstream towards those higher-end goods. Especially if we're talking about fair wages (not sweatshops). This means helping factories upgrade equipment and train workers to sew more complex garments.
November 14, 2024 at 7:10 PM
The Boots Theory is back. A lot of people can't afford the extra $10 on a great hoodie. Thus, the goal of producing higher quality goods to offset higher costs likely prices out enough buyers that manufacturers won't do it and we will be stuck with low-end products that are still dumb expensive