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Russ Oates

@roates33.bsky.social

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You probably know me from Purple Row or SB Nation, maybe vaguely seeing me at a particular history conference over the years.

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Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 10h

Did his friend Chat help JJ learn that?

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 10h

Goal for this new NHL season: never learn the names of any of the studio guys and just go, "Well, yeah, that's Gretzky (TNT) and Messier (ESPN) and *shrug*"

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · Jun 14

I simply refuse to learn who the guy sitting next to Perkins on the NBA pregame set is.

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 1d

I don't.

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 1d

2770 will be the Rockies' year to finally win the World Series.

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Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 1d

It induced vertigo when he did

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 1d

Someone may have spread the word that you're offering free pizza upon presentation of an "I voted sticker," so when you start hearing the "PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA!" chant down the block...

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Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 2d

Huh, so that's what "BBMak" stood for.

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 2d

Only a matter of time before he has to do one on his own YouTube channel

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 3d

Just finished the ARC of Books & Bewitchment by @delilahsdawson.bsky.social that's written under the pen name Isla Jewell. If you're looking for a comfy, cozy story with a bit of magic, this is the story for you when it comes out next year. Plus. there's a whole opening-a-bookstore story!

Books
&
Bewitchment

Isla Jewel

That is what is written on the book cover. Flying books and the silhouettes of a man and a woman also appear on it.

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Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 4d

Forget I even mentioned it

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 4d

Did you see a commercial for a new season of MILF Manor?

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 6d

That drug commercial during the Yankees game must've had the longest list of possible complications from taking it than other drug commercials have had.

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 7d

Dick Monfort: "Bill, you're like family, so I can't fire you, but you're not a Monfort so I can't fail you up to somewhere higher. You're resigning, yes?"

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 7d

*taps sign again*

Look, if you want to be Rockies GM there's really no reason you couldn't be it.

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · Jun 26

Today's Rockies news is (probably) just another reminder of this:

A tweet from edsbs that says: Again, follow your dreams, because unqualified idiots are paid to do things they shouldn't be doing every day, why not you

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 9d

I fell asleep just as Packers-Cowboys OT started and woke up when someone was talking like the game had been won ... and it turns out the game ended in a tie!?!

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 12d

None of the players down on the field got trampled, right? There was almost no time to get up before the crowd got on the field

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Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 12d

I've recently encountered a Matt Brown who is trying to sell me on an AI Search tracking tool. He's not very convincing.

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, yeah he does.

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 12d

I'll give you 4 out of 5 ERICs for this one.

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Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 13d

How about a shout out to the UPN show Shasta McNasty?

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 14d

One Survivor contestant saying they "absolutely love poop" and another squirting water from her mouth to get mud out of a guy's face and saying, "Well, that's a first." The biggest, best laughs since the launch of the new era.

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 14d

Your course evaluations were not great. People complained about the stories you told, like about a former coworker who kept a slice of pizza in his drawer for morning pizza. I don't know, I'd give high marks for those stories.

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 14d

I'm interpreting this as you conceding that you are secretly a WWII, PhD-holding historian and reading just to keep up with the latest literature

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Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 14d

This should be reevaluated and graded down.

A yellow-gold box with "3.0" in white and ten small circles below it, three colored white.

Russ Oates @roates33.bsky.social · 15d

Found this screen grab from 2010 when Tulo ended a Rockies loss with his bat in two pieces, one sticking out from home plate. I always think of this as being almost as memorable as Helton celebrating the NLCS win.

A screengrab from a 2010 Colorado Rockies game. A Dodgers catcher walks in front of Troy Tulowitzki at the end of a Rockies loss. Tulowitzki's bat is broken into two long parts. One is slender and sticking up from home plate.