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Fred Smith

@fredsmith.bsky.social
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Car and racing writer with too many hobbies and not nearly enough vintage Mercedes sedans

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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 3h
Why did we use our two shakiest leverage arms and then immediately afterward go straight for the six inning save. Horrible.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 3h
If I were a Brewers fan I’d be running through the streets right now. What an unreal run of at bats against the best pitcher in the sport.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 3h
Fuck
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 3h
Mason Miller
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 4h
Seven challenges in this game, all go against the ump. Playoff level performances for everyone but one guy!
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 5h
Imo it’s the key to a baseball player being a star, see also Miz throwing 104 as a starter
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 5h
The ump in this Padres-Brewers game is having a rough one
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22h
Robbed of what would have been an iconic weirdest looking home run of all time
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22h
Well I guess I’ll be mad about that for the rest of my life
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22h
Gonna need to get a low roof installed over petco if you don’t want it to go five though
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22h
Lost a playoff game because the opponent’s park was physically too small for a real baseball game, that’s cool!
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22h
Hey man if your roof is so low that you can catch a home run for an out on a rebound, your park might suck
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 23h
I still love baseball and I have faith baseball can still love me back
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skim beeble @turbojunker.bsky.social · 23h
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kevin Estre has tied Tijmen van der Helm with one IMSA win
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Earl Bamber moment unfortunately
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely impressed to see the IMSA feed miss an overall lead change in the final stint, that’s a challenge
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Red flag, welcome back Petit Le Mans 2009
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is exactly the perfect product to make the people who work on it think it’s god and make the people who are supposed to buy it think it’s for rendering a joke they’d photoshop if they knew how to do that
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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
these days you're seeing more and more scientists preoccupied with whether or not they could
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If I were Porsche Penske I’d simply make the 6 illegal before tech so the 7 is close enough to the 31 to have a title shot tomorrow
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 02/10/2026
what even is an ibiza farm?
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hester @thehestercution.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bleak
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Both of these guys seem like assholes but Boogie is a much more charming one and, moreover, he did the whole city a favor by teeing this guy up to get himself fired. Very easy feud to pick sides in!
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Caitlin Clark is cool because we get to see what it would be like if LeBron was only top 15 and what it would be like if Tim Tebow were somehow top 15 at the same time
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
graphic designer makes something client: TEN MILLION INSCRUTABLE NOTES ------- AI craps out a picture of a hamburger that looks like centipede eggs with ET in Creek Disease client: put this immediately on every visible surface we own. can we pay extra to make sure the pope sees this?
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love baseball
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love the Sab Diego Padres, Joe Musgrove, and the sport of baseball
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
B A S E B A L L
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Graham MacAree @grahammacaree.com · 29/09/2026
if the atlanta hawks don't find some way to turn this into a promo night what are we even doing here
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lmao
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Assigning no blame there might be even wilder. If we’re saying Keselowski wasn’t involved, are we implying Carson Hocevar wrecked five cars including himself on purpose? Surely the most likely outcome is just that Keselowski lightly bumped Hocevar and Hocevar snapped out into traffic?
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are we really suggesting that Brad Keselowski wrecked 6 cars, including other playoff cars, on a restart to get revenge on Carson Hocevar
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And even u forgot this was even an option until hour 4. Maybe there’s a good reason not to bother putting it in American TV.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can’t find WEC on cable even though it’s supposed to be on cable again, I blame Zaslav
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fucked up to release a $400 collector’s edition with no art book that has Anatolia from Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave in it. Nintendo clearly established this as the standard for collector’s editions earlier this month.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I bet I’ll hear it in a movie trailer in six years and think “hm, that was nice!” I think people in this website are just a classic combination of 37 and mostly interested in Charli XCX.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This isn’t a culture war thing it’s just how music works now. People are more into what they like, but there’s less consensus on what that is. Stars are bigger than ever to smaller than ever chunks of the world.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Haven’t heard that song, or more likely have 200 times and never registered it much. I hear very little top 40 anything because music listening has never been more segmented and so many businesses choose 80s-90s playlists for their inoffensive background noise. I’m sure it’s fine.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Best new car on sale below whatever a Continental costs now, and I’d hear the argument even there. Best color on it, too. Congrats!
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Walking into a haircut place and seeing empty gun-shaped liquor bottles on the walls is what you might call a red flag for cut quality
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The only odd fit is Talimun but I’m willing to play any style of game I have to if I get a full campaign of his trading company getting into some shit
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Would reluctantly have to give the Musou concept credit in this case, that’s clearly the ideal gameplay style for both Bertrand and Orchel
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That or a part-out, yeah. On some cars with this big a variance between the cheapest and most expensive models, I'd guess the powertrain was going in someone else's cheaper one. Not much of a culture for that for European stuff, though.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Extremely common, actually. This top-top volume stuff is more rare, but you'll still probably see a couple in any given day in a big city. It's a variant of an $80k car with common parts and the $150k mid-grade variants are so plentiful that 15-year-old examples can be found on Facebook for $25k.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some very funny perspective stuff happening in that thread. I get why this is a thing that isn't normal to know but you'll see ten volume Porsches that were $150k+ new drive by any given day in any major city in the U.S. or Europe. Many of those are now worth $25k!
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These look absolutely sensational in blues and reds. I get it with most cars, but I can't really grasp why Mazda isn't sending more to dealers like this than in gray and white.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And if there is any real core trend in LMH/LMDh engines, it's re-using homework from an existing racing project. BMW and Genesis are V-8s made of existing turbo 4s, Ferrari's V-6 has stuff in common with the 296 GT3, Porsche's V-8 is basically 25 years old, Acura's V-6 was a scrapped IndyCar engine.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It rocks that he is not only in this game, but in probably the worst role in it. Incredible combination of major relevance while being the only character with a lot of scenes that isn't cool at all.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Eh, yeah, good enough. Not sure why the New York Times is doing certified Grantland bits, but I've seen worse lists.
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