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The Iron Giant
@grogg.bsky.social
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PDX. he/him. I've been everywhere... and back. Baseball (Cubs), College hoops, movies. For jazz skeets, see @thejazztome.info
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Eephus Tosser @eephustosser.bsky.social · 6h
What a good night to be a hater.
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 6h
clayton kershaw being forced to eat innings because he honked another playoff game is the way i'll remember him as a player sorry pal you should have been less of an asshole on your way out
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 6h
Some of y'all expressing shock that 2015 was ten years ago didn't have your heart ripped out by Joe Carter in 1993.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 6h
This is excellent haitin’
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Ian Hunter @bluejayhunter.com · 6h
"Start spreading the news, bitches!"
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 12h
Sears Tower is the Chicago version of Sandstone
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 12h
Is that what Sandstone is called these days?
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 12h
Plus he played the hell out of the bari sax, objectively the coolest of all the saxophones.
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 12h
Have never felt like Gerry Mulligan gets enough credit in the jazz world. Was a key arranger in the Birth of the Cool sessions, lobbied for better work conditions for jazz musicians, and managed to kick his heroin before it could destroy him. There's a wild New Yorker longread attached to this post.
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The Jazz Tome @thejazztome.info · 2d
Tonight's Jazz Tome addition: one of my favorite albums from one of my favorite saxophonists, Gerry Mulligan's What is There to Say? (1959). Included here is the New Yorker profile from March, 1959. At 21,000 words... it's fairly in-depth. #jazzsky #musicsky thejazztome.info/gerry-mullig...
A man in a long-sleeve red shirt, against a black background, stares contemplatively downward at a 45 degree angle while leaning on a baritone saxophone. The Gerry Mulligan Quartet is written across the top in bold letters. What Is There To Say?, in smaller letters, below.
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 13h
these are my kind of cattle
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Halloweean Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 13h
Never seen a labeler get poster’s madness before. What a time to be alive.
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Follow Tracker @for.shame.wtf · 14h
Some of you are blaming @jay.bsky.team or @bsky.app in general, or claiming that this is being forced by @moderation.bsky.app. That could not be further from the truth. I'm shutting it down of my own volition because some of you can't be trusted to use this information reasonably and responsibly.
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Robert O'Neill @robertoneill31.latenightgrin.com · 13h
more and more often, people are posting as if there's a slow gas leak in their home or place of business.
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 1d
Love to give the girls a whirl to the music of an old jukebox
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 1d
Wish we could pop this bubble already and deal with the fallout just so statistics nerds can have their words back.
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 1d
Love to get up early to attend a presentation that's basically an explainer of how AI is going to optimize my company's pricing. Sigh. Five years ago they'd have called this analytics, modeling, optimization. But everything has to be called AI now.
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 2d
Early television was wild.
PAGE 7 — Vallejo Times-Herald, Tuesday, April 7, 1959 TV Guest Bursts Into Flames During County Fair Show Participant Suffers Burns, Cause Of Mishap Not Known NEW YORK-AP—A burst of flames enveloped a contestant on a television stunt show Monday, throwing the studio Into momentary uproar It was not determined Immediately how badly the victim was burned. The National Broadcasting Co. declined to answer questions about the incident on its "County Fair" which read: "In a stunt on County Fair, for a reason not yet clear, there was an accident in which burns were sustained by a Mr. Manfred Weber of 8 Laurel Place, Tuckahoe. "He was given first aid on the scene. He then went to the NBC aid room where he declined further treatment and stated that he would go to his own doctor and hospital. "A complete investigation is underway." A spokesman for the show said the fire occurred while Weber was participating in an act where a match was touched to a fake firecracker fuse. His wife, blindfolded, was also taking part in the stunt. At that moment, flour was dropped from above onto Weber's head. The match ignited the flour. The spokesman said Weber's clothing didn't catch fire although it appeared to the audience to have done so.
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 2d
Mike,
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 3d
A fun graphic.
1982 JUNE FREE AGENT DRAFT 1st SHAWON DUNSTON - CUBS 2nd AUGIE SCHMIDT - TORONTO 3rd SAMMY JONES - SAN DIEGO 4th BRYAN OELKERS - MINNESOTA 5th DWIGHT GOODEN - NY METS
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 3d
the cubs weren't 103 loss bad, but they were aggressively mediocre
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 3d
7-0 Mets in the fifth. Oof.
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 3d
Throwing on the Cubs Mets game, from September 2, 1993. Bobby Jones vs Juan Guzmán youtu.be/J0OpfhFNKKI?...
New York METS at Chicago CUBS 9/2/93 Original WGN Broadcast
YouTube video by Phenia Films the MLB archives Original Broadcasts
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 3d
Tonight's film is Traffic (2000) directed by Steven Soderbergh. I don't have this one logged, meaning we haven't seen it, or at least haven't since I started the spreadsheet in 2005. #filmsky #moviesky
A black and yellow poster for the film Traffic depicting a man, holding a gun, who appears to have been shot. The whole thing has a very dusk feel feel to it. Tagline is No One Gets Away Clean. Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Quaid, and Catherine Zeta-Jones make the poster, listed in descending order.
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 4d
Just don't have enough starting pitching, not without Horton. Going to need the offense to carry a game or two if they're going to advance.
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 4d
Glad Mose got his rocking chair
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 4d
Tonight's film is The Searchers (1956) directed by John Ford
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The Iron Giant @grogg.bsky.social · 4d
He has a cracked rib
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