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Andrés Alvarez

@nerdnumbers.com

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Software Developer, Stat head, and Sports Enthusiast Check out "The Boxscore Geeks Show" and "Nerd!" on the "Jeff Has Cool Friends" feed wherever podcasts are found if you want to hear me talk sports and nerdy subjects.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 22d

"Why is Babylon 5 filled with 'Newsies'?" asked any overly analytical nerd after watching the show a lot of times. And luckily, @slatron's friend Evynne had an immediate fix that is pretty ... Strange ... Dr. Strange ... it makes sense if you read the article!

slatron.github.io/fix-1.html

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Spooky beige 🧌 @rellmidnight.bsky.social · 9h

The prettiest jumper in the game of basketball #WNBAFINALS #AjaWilson

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 8h

Oh wow ... this one's gonna take awhile to handle ... that's decades of reading maps wrong for me.

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 8h

Pierre, South Dakota, is pronounced like “peer,” not like the French name.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 8h

A'Ja Wilson - 34 points
Rest of Aces starters ... 34 points ....

(A'Ja did it on 20 shots and 12 free throws compared to 35 shots and 9 free throws for the rest of the starters ...)

#WNBAFinals

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 21h

So psyched for Cody Rhodes to play Guile in the new Street Fighter movie. A silly joke conspiracy theory I've had is in the original Street Fighter, someone suggested Rob Van Dam and someone misunderstood and that's why we got Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 2d

This episode has Mike running afoul with the fashion police for, spoiler alert, not the first time. And Richard Moll aka Bull from Night Court and Two-Face from BTAS is dressed up as Blade … on a space station.

Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 3d

Latest episode of You Gotta Check This Out! Is on the feed. Our guest is Taylor Anthony as we discuss Babylon 5 Season 2 episode 10, "Hunter, Prey"

open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...

Spotify – Web Player

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Slatron @slatron.bsky.social · 3d

Latest episode of You Gotta Check This Out! Is on the feed. Our guest is Taylor Anthony as we discuss Babylon 5 Season 2 episode 10, "Hunter, Prey"

open.spotify.com/show/4IQrAJ7...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 2d

. @thelogantrent.bsky.social @johnnyrimes.bsky.social …. I was too busy this weekend and almost missed this … and I’m infuriated that I’m going to lose an hour and half listening to this, but, we all agree, it’s a must listen Patreon.com/gamefullyynemployed (@gamefullyunemployed) episode, right?

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 2d

Alright I followed this up and Director is a shockingly rare last name, so like ... we kinda need to make this happen. Someone needs to change their last name to Director, have a kid, name them John, and raise them to be a carpenter.

Or a carpenter could change their name, but that's cheating!

Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 2d

Something will be up for NBA numbers, still figuring it out!

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 2d

"Buy my Soybeans!"

Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 5d

I mean ... statistically it feels like that has to be the case, right?

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 8d

That’s until my startup to make robots powered by the ghost of Alan Thicke takes off. (also RIP to an all time great)

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secunda @secunda.bsky.social · 8d

a metroidvania is a game where you go left

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J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social · 8d

Hitting comic shops one week from tomorrow! Words by me, interior art by Pere Pérez. A story about Peter, Harry, Gwen and MJ during their time at Empire State University, with a ridiculously dangerous addition to Spider-Man's Rogue's Gallery.

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Hana Michels (Personal Account) @hanamichels.bsky.social · 14d

TYSM @heytherejeffro.bsky.social & @nerdnumbers.com rarely do I get to not shut up about DS9!

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 17d

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Hey! It's Sunday and that means @slatron.bsky.social and I are back with more Babylon 5! We're starting season 2, with Techno-mages. Awesome, or dated? Special guest Jaina Mistry!

Episode 5 - The Geometry Of Shadows with Jaina Mistry

Podcast Episode · You Gotta Check This Out! · 09/21/2025 · 57m

podcasts.apple.com

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Jeff May @heytherejeffro.bsky.social · 18d

Happy #BatmanDay to all who celebrate! As a special gift, @startthemachine.bsky.social and I are presenting you with a free gift of some classic, previously paywalled episodes of TAJWB (swipe to see which ones), which you can access for FREE over at Patreon.com/jeffmay! No membership required!

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 18d

Thanks @startthemachine.bsky.social and @heytherejeffro.bsky.social for one of the weirdest "Batman Sandwiches" ever:
1. Start by remembering the 2020 pandemic
2. Joker's Millions
3. Existential Clayface episode

#BatmanDay

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Batman Day Bonus - TAJWB The New Batman Adventures: "Joker's Millions" and "Growing Pains" | Jeff May

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 20d

I don't Like churros as much as I should which is odd. I love fried dough. I love cinnamon and sugar. So as best I can tell I don’t like desserts that could have been made from a Playdough Factory.

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 20d

This month's Nerd! (cc @heytherejeffro.bsky.social ) and @tjshevlin.bsky.social comes to play! I thought I was a Tim Drake Robin fan, and he puts me to shame.

He has a TIm Drake tattoo, Batman Returns figure, and an amazing theory on why Tim Drake is Peter Parker!

www.patreon.com/posts/nerd-3...

NERD! 39: Tim Drake/Robin feat. T.J. Shevlin | Jeff May

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · 23d

Happy birthday Hackers! Thanks so much to @abeepp.bsky.social, @michaelswaim.bsky.social, and @startthemachine.bsky.social for this amazing podcast episode they did on it years ago for reasons!

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 23d

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

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Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · Sep 8

If tennis is cyclical, and Sinner and Alcaraz are the modern Federer and Nadal, then if there's a modern Djokovic coming, they're going to be absurd.

Andrés Alvarez @nerdnumbers.com · Sep 8

Carlos Alcaraz #1: 11,540 ATP Points
Jannik Sinner #2: 10,780 ATP Points

BOTH have more ATP points than #3 Alexander Zverev (5,930) #4 Novak Djokovic (4,830) put together (10,760)!

And Novak is GOAT. Anyway, current peak of tennis pretty absurd.