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Ted Berg

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A body like Arnold with a Denzel face

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Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 4h

Jeter would've hit a grand slam in that spot

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 4h

Yes this was the first thing I thought of when they brought Mason Fluharty in on Sunday (my introduction to Mason Fluharty).

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 5h

This inspired me to look up Jett Bandy and learn that Jett Bandy’s dad was the guy who trained Tom Cruise to do bartending tricks for Cocktail.

A transcript of an interview with former MLB catcher Jett Bandy about how his father was a bartender who did bottle-flipping tricks and trained Tom Cruise for the movie Cocktail.

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 5h

Nathan Lukes is the third fakest-sounding baseball name on the Blue Jays roster behind Addison Barger and Mason Fluharty.

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 5h

The food looks so bad that I’d just take my chances with nuclear fallout

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 17h

I demand demarcation of the north shore/south shore/suffolk/hamptons boundaries. Four totally different long islands.

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 18h

I also kind of feel like each of the upper New England states has its own distinct thing going on.

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 19h

Harkens back to the famed Rubber v. Glue case of 1957.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · Oct 26

What an amazing showcase for contemporary Major League Baseball, and here to tell you all about it is the man who hates it most, John Smoltz

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Ghostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 1d

Then, during the Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants, they chose a new form for him, that of a giant Sloar!

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 1d

How are the Blue Jays doing this with single-payer healthcare

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 1d

I defy any one of these guys to eat a Ricobene’s breaded steak sandwich, contemplate its life-affirming splendor, then go on doing their fascism. You can’t do it. It’s too beautiful. Also you’ll need a nap.

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

The road to anti fascism lies in big boy solidarity and if it takes fucked up Chicago food to make it happen then we roll

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 1d

I made the mistake of reading the comments recently and found Mets fans arguing that they might as well trade Lindor now because Soto’s going to opt out after 2029 anyway.

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 1d

They obviously agreed that "Come Together" was simply too good too omit even if it was a little ambiguous for the main headline.

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 1d

same, I think my mind was faltering at that point

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 1d

the most fantastical part is trying to imagine a New Jersey dad who wouldn't want his daughter going out with Bruce Springsteen.

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 1d

Basically every Bruce Springsteen song is about why you should have sex with Bruce Springsteen, usually in his car.

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t even have to look into what series you were talking about once I saw “Games 2 and 5.”

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 1d

Why isn’t Lewis Black doing Phillies postgame shows?

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 2d

If you really want to hit the Trump administration where it hurts, unfollow them on Twitter

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 3d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 3d

This is true, but I think there are tiers. I can’t think of any that I especially care for as people, but the ones who treat the team as their business are worse to me than the ones who treat the team as their (wildly lucrative) toy.

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 3d

The Blue Jays, Brewers and Mariners are all very unobjectionable to me. The high percentage of unobjectionables in the LDS this year is what inspired the question. Many of the perennially bad teams are objectionable to me for pocketing revenue sharing money and/or being so bad at getting good.

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 3d

I found the good Royals teams of 2015-16 somewhat annoying in their style of play and the discourse they inspired, but mostly I agree. KC is a quietly great baseball town and their stadium is wildly underrated.

Ted Berg @ogtedberg.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I think it might be the Brewers. Top of my head, only major objection I can think of is that they were Selig’s team, but they’re a small market team that makes an earnest effort and has little to show for it, plus they have the best logo in sports.