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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻

@tompain.bsky.social

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He/him. Co-host of Ten Thousand Losses. Lefty educator and Philly native in exile. History, beer, language, and transit nerd. Go birds.

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats knew it too. they were warned over & over for more than a decade that police have become a dangerously unrestrained RW paramilitary and begged, demanded, protested to commit to reform. they told activists to fuck off and just kept giving police more money without more accountability

Mike O @mikeo331.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and his crime family know police in the U.S. are on their side. Put police together with Trump's ICE army and whatever National Guard troops he can force into action and his regime can continue ignoring court orders, kidnapping and killing innocents, and cementing their chokehold over America.

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t just post this where I can see this first thing in the morning.

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

9th century English poets 🤝 Phillies fans

despairing at what once was and could have been but never will

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

I had this cued up in the 8th but they gave me hope and I held off but here we go.

Where have the hits gone?
Where are the dingers?
Where is the hurler of heat?
Where are the dudes in the dugout?
Where are the boos from the bleachers?
Alas for the base on balls!
Alas for the broken bat!
Alas for the dollar dog!
Alas for the sunflower seeds!
How the season has passed away
Dark with the lights turned off
As if it had never been played.

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

then he'll bitch when he gets asked "what were you thinking when you swung at a pitch little leaguers get benched for swinging at?"

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

getting banned from CBP for my sign that says “you get paid $330 million to strike out, I get paid $75k to teach kids how to read, do better.”

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

lasik and a new haircut

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

maybe but they need to show they got fight in them

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

unironically believe that they need a guy with a heart and some intelligence like Rhys to keep them grounded

too many rfk guys makes a team soft

one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 1d

Look we've all tried to avoid saying it but the truth is this Phillies team is just mentally soft. They whine when things aren't going their way, they pout if they don't get the their at-bats, and when they hit a rut they just lay in there and die rather than claw out of it.

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

take that stupid ad off my ivy backstop

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

too busy naming his fourth kid brayleighinn three unpasteurized harper

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

It ain't topper's fault they can't make contact. That's on the players.

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

can't wait for the Phillies to be bad again, maybe tix won't go up 50% every season for a few years

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

boo the shit out of these choke artists

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 1d

When Ohtani is 42 and doing his Hall of Fame retirement tour, Philadelphians will stand up and clap for him. Until then I hope that man goddamn craps on himself every time he swings a bat

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

love for the ball to look like it’s phasing in and out of existence because its path is right in front of the ad green screen

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

temple TUFF

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

betting on shitcoin futures is definitely the same as flying the first plane or losing at Thermopylae

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 1d

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

Here's a list of teams who have ZERO turnovers through Week 6.

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 2d

imagine having so many slaves even the Normans were like “damn bitch you live like this?” to the English nobility

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 2d

broke: going back in time and giving Harold Godwinson an AK-47

woke: giving the berserker at Stamford bridge starting strength

bespoke: giving the 30% of England held in thralldom copies of State & Revolution

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 2d

getting an exception from MLB to start the pitch clock when the doom music breakdown kicks in

👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning, Temple and Penn State are both unranked and 3-2.

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👻 The Ghost of Tom Pain 👻 @tompain.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a $3000 piece of tape.

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