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mets fan (derogatory) in the wrong time zone

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ben @ben.tootblan.com · 27m

lol everyone on the fox broadcast is so sad

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 27m

Live long Jays fan here, just look at my hat, it has a J and a b for Jays Blue.

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 50m

That’s better

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 50m

wyd jays

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 57m

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ben @ben.tootblan.com · 3h

do the jays have more than 2 pitchers?

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 4h

tnt? mlbn? whatever.

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 4h

kinda incredible how good the tbs image quality is vs. ESPN last week.

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ben @ben.tootblan.com · 5h

unrelated, happy speculoos spread SZN

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 5h

big beer friday
[imagine a photo of a big beer here]

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ben @ben.tootblan.com · 5h

gone fishin'

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 5h

remember when they were booing? good times.

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 7h

tuned in late to the game and I think the seattle radio guy has been remembering some guys for the entire time.

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 7h

canzone is the lowest shelf in the fridge.

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 7h

a man in a leather jacket is yelling at another man in a white shirt

ALT: a man in a leather jacket is yelling at another man in a white shirt

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ben @ben.tootblan.com · 1d

Man, the jays look like the Mets rn

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ben @ben.tootblan.com · 1d

this game could go until the sun comes up.

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 1d

Oh no.

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 1d

doink

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 1d

hand to god, he then took this shirt off to reveal a "Dump 62 Here" shirt underneath

Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 1d

A gentleman with a "Dump Here 61" shirt caught the Raleigh home run (on a bounce.)

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ben @ben.tootblan.com · 1d

this game could go until the sun comes up.

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 1d

now they have to dump Boone, right?! Can't fucking do this shit during autumn.

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 1d

100% tariff, and now the yankees are down by 4

ben @ben.tootblan.com · 1d

he's now unbound from the earth and can shoot for the moon (hit 5 HRs today)

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 1d

oh wow I'd completely forgotten about this

I was wearing dog ears made out of paper and black eye pencil on my nose when I finally realized how powerful “Mr. Brightside” could be.

It was Halloween of 2015. I was dressed as Mr. Peanutbutter from “BoJack Horseman,” and I was in a Kerrytown basement with a faulty stereo system. The music was great, but the songs would sometimes cut out for minutes at a time — people would trip over a cord or knock against the speaker the wrong way or something, and we’d be stuck in awkward, disappointed silence until it got fixed.

Anyway, “Mr. Brightside” comes on, and if you’re a fan of The Killers, you know there’s no greater rush of excitement than those opening guitar notes. You hear them come out of nowhere and it’s just delirious ecstasy, with the entire room suddenly united in a sweaty mess of jumps and shouts.

And that was the reaction at this Halloween party — until the speakers gave way again. Except, the thing is, the lack of music didn’t stop the song. People kept singing the words, clapping along to the beat and turning the basement into a spontaneous a cappella party that lasted until the real “Mr. Brightside” came back with all its synth-pop spectacle.

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