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This may be apocryphal, but I remember reading an anecdote about Ted Williams working as a hitting coach or manager and saying something like "Okay, so when you see the pitch spinning like this..." and his hitters physically could not see it because they didn't have superhuman vision like Williams.

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 7h

a man in a white shirt is dancing on a stage in front of a crowd of people .

Alt: Bruce Springsteen is doing a doofy white guy dance, from his music video for the song Dancing in the Dark.

media.tenor.com

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 7h

Anyone in NYC who pronounces Houston Street like the city in Texas.

Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 7h

"I'm gonna allow a significant portion of my emotional and mental wellbeing to be heavily influenced over the course of seven months by a collection of 26 random guys at any given time." - Me, deciding to be a baseball fan, because I'm an idiot

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 7h

My favorite thing about baseball is its unparalleled literary history.
My second-favorite thing about baseball is how failure is the norm and nobody can succeed through force of will.
My third-favorite thing about baseball is this:

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 8h

there are not a lot of sports where a person the shape of Alejandro Kirk could be playing at the highest level at the end of the season

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 8h

Is his rookie status still intact? Because he's starting to look like a preseason frontrunner for 2026 RoY if it is.

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 8h

...profa deez nuts?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself.

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 9h

Cam Schlittler is raising his stock like crazy this postseason. Obviously not a /great/ start tonight, but more than good enough and it's been really impressive how he's gutted it out and found his way through.

Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 9h

"You can get in the mode of hard, /firm/ pitches every time." - John Smoltz

Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 9h

The explosions, of course, being different colors depending on if it's on the right or left side of his head.

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 9h

Ryan McMahon: hold my beer

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 9h

And that first joke about our ad reads is sponsored by FirstWeFeast, the channel behind Hot Ones - and at 100mph from Schlittler, that was a hot one right there!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

What a struggle bus

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 1d

Y'know what the worst thing is about Vladimir Guerrero Jr.?

He's just so goddamn likeable that I can't hate him, no matter how much I want to. It's infuriating.

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 1d

That kid really, really hates the Yankees.

Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 3d

Is: Lawyer
Is not: Policy maker
Is: Political appointee
Is not: vertebrate

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 3d

Other things this lawyer is not: vertebrate.

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 4d

So glad it isn't someone I've ever heard of, lol

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Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social · 4d

Oh god, who is it?

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