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Andrew

@beatorganizer.bsky.social
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Former organizer. He/him. Has a theory of change. "The situation is in charge." "A dark cloud showing up to the ballpark every day..." Not from Kauai. I just had a standoff with a gang of feral roosters one time.

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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 2h
Crazy Rich Asians: Meltdown
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 2h
Crazy Rich Asians: Escape 2 Asia
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 2h
This is my public apology for my bad attention choices. Pin skeet
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 4h
"Sir, you're advertising in the same slot as erectile dysfunction medicine."
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 9h
Muzak Free Bird as hold music is torture.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 9h
The hangup is really the implicit "exchange...for pay" and the difference between commensurable and noncommensurable benefits. Relational interactions have other welfare effects and value beyond what people will pay for them.
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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 20h
'Nashville Skyline' is the unique situation when Bob Dylan acts like it's perfectly normal that his new LP is a wildly horny 28-minute Country & Western album wherein he sings like a particularly hash-drunk Dean Martin. Eventually, we agree that it's utterly flawless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZhL...
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Bob Dylan - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 20h
Hard to argue with the choice even if he's only pitched on consecutive days once since being called up. 26 pitches in 1.2 scoreless against Detroit followed by 4 ineffective pitches against the Cubs. Looking for him to find more of the strike zone tomorrow.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 21h
Smells like self-serving bullshit.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 21h
The China scaremongering about frontier AI is kind of hard to take when AI co-founders are some of the biggest donors to an admin that dismantled the engine of American science, disinvested from renewable energy tech, and ran our military capabilities into the ground in the span of about 18 months.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In the end, the White Sox allowed more hits than walks. Barely (11-10).
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Maybe everyone in the stands needs an ice cream cone, too.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They should get the ice cream truck to make a stop at the dugout before the bottom of the inning, tho.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
2 out BB, 1B, HBP, HBP RBI is some fine AL Central baseballing
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Antonacci kind of looks like Hot Shots era Charlie Sheen.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The throws are probably on time if Teel has a shorter arm action and Meidroth doesn't double clutch the grounder.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Technique on the throw to 3B and throw home left a bit to be desired.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pham is adding Grichuk's flyout to the grievance he submitted to Manfred.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RBI double is better than an HBP anyway.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
4 straight complete games. Never again.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Plunked. Now it's an AL Central series.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 07/10/2026
Will Venable: “These guys are focused. They’re ready to go.” The guys: “There’s hits in ice cream cones.”
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Kyle Teel explains his ice cream cone superstition | 10/05/2026
Kyle Teel discusses the power of ice cream cones during his career and the postseason
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kyle Teel has Kyle Orton energy.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Super Troopers voice: that little guy? I wouldn't worry about that little guy.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Colson Montgomery looks like JK Coe. White Sox Horses.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No one: G. I. Joe Salami: believe me now that someone tried to steal my sausage? patch.com/illinois/chi...
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Meet 'G.I. Joe,' Chicago's Legendary Traveling Sausage Salesman
Traveling sausage salesman Joshua Perl has been on the road hawking meat (and telling tales) to hungry late-night drinkers for 40 years.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seems like a lot of noise and not much signal? A few things stood out like even this guy calls it an "alien mind" they "grew." Also: "...yes, the resourcing could be better..." What does that even mean? With all the money thrown at development, how is that a challenge?
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you can't be Celibate for Sean, City Connect is the call.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Real monkey paw situation with having refused to give the White Sox carriage fees until they made the postseason only for the Warner Bros merger to close in the middle of it.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‘‘This could be a once-in-a-lifetime thing for us,’’ outfielder Tristan Peters said. ‘‘You’ve got to be excited.’’ When you put it like that, tho.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hard to say whether staging a concert in 2000 to protest the two party system is a bar cleared by the 2010 rally to restore sanity/fear as an expression of that politics.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A neighbor tried wearing stripey shirts to work every day and waited for someone to notice. Still waiting.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.mlbshop.com/kansas-city-...
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Morning News puts the origin in Dallas 1989. The result of NCAA recruiting rules, professional sports draft and media incentives.
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The signing day 'pick a hat' tradition started in Dallas ... and then recruits kept pushing the envelope
The signing day 'pick a hat' tradition started in Dallas ... and then recruits kept pushing the envelope
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are probably limits to repeating this extreme version. Knowing you can do it might take pressure off draft, trade, and waiver approach tho. eg Rays usually allocate top picks and bonus to position players then go pitching heavy mid-late. Get more use from others' failed starters.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Also, too, the postseason schedule gave them some flexibility. chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/20...
“Having off days in between these first three games [of the ALDS], that allowed us to do some things and that is not going to be the case anymore,” Venable said. “We’re going to see some arms [in Game 3] potentially that we haven’t seen yet in this series or even in the playoffs.”
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wake up babe, new hashtag just dropped.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To go back to the top, tho, part of the story is that the weights for the output curves have also shifted dramatically. TLDR it's much more of a tryhard league in every way than it was 20 years ago.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In a full season, the 5-SP rotation has been a myth for a long time, anyway. Teams have expected to call on ~13 starters. Openers/bullpen games aren't new either. This is just an extreme min/max of it. It might also be a bit of an arb-eligible salary hack since you're redistributing pitcher wins.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Think you also gain freedom to match arms to leverage earlier in the game, set up easier matchups at the end of the game by forcing earlier subs from the offense.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think the White Sox specifically have a bunch of guys you might currently trust to get through a lineup once but it's a stretch to go longer. Would expect Smith and Taylor to stretch out for next season, tho.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Combination of a lot things. Recognition that there are many ways to get +/-27 outs and cover a season's worth of innings. Strikeouts favored over pitching to contact + launch angle/OBP revolution + avoiding familiarity and platoon penalties makes longer outings less common.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Whole new meaning to pitching backwards.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The difference between regular season and postseason AL Central baseball is that opposing pitchers stop trying to hit White Sox batters.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They went all in on the strikeoutcome. No one was more surprised than the White Sox that they markov chained together a rally with as many wild pitches as XBH.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
IIRC, the booth for ALDS Game 1 made a point of saying that they were a three true outcome offense.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Walking Dead. True Detective escapes this fate by being an anthology. Counterpart avoided it by being flawed even at its best.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Beef x Slow Horses crossover we didn't ask for.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You'll never guess what prompted this.
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Andrew @beatorganizer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The scholarship we have is that the relationship between differential turnout and swing voting varies over time rather than being a constant. Swing voters had been declining as a share of the electorate but increasing in impact at the margins. Likely seeing more swing voters in '26, tho.
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