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And I'm not even going to explain the last reference.

Katie bar the door! Jumpin' Drew Rasmussen gets the hot tag to B. Bryan Baker and it's a pier six brawl!

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I used to tell people that reliever Brad Brach was a candy heir, simply because that it seemed like too random a fact for me to make up.

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I feel like my theory that Drew Rasmussen was getting revenge for his father Dennis Rasmussen for the Yankees trading him to the Reds has no holes, expect maybe for the fact that they're not actually related.

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"Don't make the first or third out on third," really may be the best bit of baseball conventional wisdom out of the myriad options.

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It's not as if you break on contact from 2nd with two outs or anything anyway...

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I love the Miz throwing 105 mph, but I can't get this image out of my head.

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You know the Yankees or Red Sox are playing when with a pitch clock, you might still get a three-hour 1-0 game.

The Yankees' worst whiff mark over the last 19 seasons was 54.8% in 4/3/19, when they lost 2-1 against the Tigers in a game that Matt Boyd, Buck Farmer, Joe Jimenez, and Shane Greene combined for 18 strikeouts.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 3h

Since the start of the 2008 season, the Yankees have played in 3081 games in the regular season and postseason. Tonight's whiff rate of 46% by the Yankees would rank as the fifth-worst performance for the Yankees over those 19 seasons.

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I CANT FIGURE OUT WHY BATTING AVERAGES ARE LOWER TODAY CAN SOMEONE LET ME KNWO

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 10h

I'm glad I'll be dead by 2075, by which time, if baseball still exists, the games will be spread over 775 different services.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 10h

Yup, pretty much. Teams react to incentives after all, not pleas to aesthetics!

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 11h

This is the thing I kept yelling at. But it seems that generally, the people who most want a very different style of play in baseball tend to be the most against radical changes to the rules of baseball. It's like they think three true outcomes and max effort pitching were aesthetic choices.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 23h

When I was a little kid, I loved to go on car rides with my grandfather and I'd just guide him to make turns and we'd get all over Maryland as a result. He called it "Panama Canaling." However, GPS is clearly superior! lol

Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 03/10/2026

I'm also a fan of signs with weird fractions.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 03/10/2026

IIRC, there's a sign in I-70 West in Maryland somewhere that has the mileage to Columbus Ohio and Denver

Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 03/10/2026

I forget where the skeet was, but we unfolded maps like we were pirate captains!

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My Guardians/White Sox preview is posted free for all. Read, love, subscribe. www.joesheehan.com

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 02/10/2026

Of course, that filter change might cost you a full billable hour!

Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 02/10/2026

Good lord, I was wondering how an air filter change would be 45 minutes. It's like 45 seconds fo rme!

Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 02/10/2026

I can't believe that NFL SuperPro STILL hasn't been added to the MCU.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 02/10/2026

It took me like a week to do my Cologuard test because I couldn't get the SNL Cologuard commercial sketch out of my head.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 02/10/2026

"Danny what's that box outside your house?" "Cologuard" "Aren't you worried someone will steal it?" "No. You are aware what's in it, aren't you?" "But a thief might not know that." "Oh, they know. The box says Cologuard all over it and it says human sample on it." "Oh, OK, whatever you say."

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 02/10/2026

I think MLB should keep leasing Oakland Coliseum as a neutral site that you can use as a punishment for teams.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 02/10/2026

For some reason, I'm always excited when temperature graphs are like "Ha, fuck the sun!"

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 02/10/2026

It's kinda funny that if one played the officially translated Crossbell games, you basically see him die before you actually meet him.

Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 02/10/2026

Trails love to find use human history to find parallels. A lot of gnosticism was basically a spoiler alert for the Crossbell games, and the Calvard games underlying tension greatly draws from eternal recurrence and from Norse mythology.

Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 02/10/2026

Since a lot of the organization of Erebonia seems based on Imperial Germany, and there's a similar imperial-federal structure, I assume they're the equivalent of the Prussian gendarmerie; loosely Army-associated but in the role of a national police force.

Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 01/10/2026

This remains my favorite out-of-context sentence from a video game of all time.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 01/10/2026

I'm about to get flamed in 3...2....1...

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you buy this car, just know that a frosty Coors Light will spontaneously materialize in your hand every time you get into it

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 30/09/2026

Not really moving the overall probs since ZiPS likes Mead quite a bit. Red Sox a little stronger against Fried a little weaker against Cole, assuming that Mead's starting. I need to double-check as we get towards the start

Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 30/09/2026

Well, better that than my fantasy football team's record doing so

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 30/09/2026

Yeah, going back a few years, it looks like it's just slowly going up from the 770 three years ago based on credit age getting older? No changes over that time. Seems less batshit over the normal small fluctuations, in a way that I can understand.

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 30/09/2026

Except for the day or two I had a $12K balance for a new roof because I couldn't find my checkbook a few years ago, I'm almost never above $1,000 (of 60-something) during the month. 30 points of bouncing around seems CRAZY for that small amount of money

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 30/09/2026

FICO 8 seems to be more stable. Is that one used?

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 30/09/2026

It's the model's jumping around that drives me nuts. Whether or not it's used these days!

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Dan Szymborski @dszymborski.fangraphs.com · 30/09/2026

Yeah, I tend to put random stuff on a credit card (since I get Amazon and DoorDash cash back) and then pay it off every month. Sometimes there's like $20 or $50 in my reported balance if an automatic thing goes through between payment and report, but there's definitely no explainable balance change