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Joseph Roso

@josephroso.bsky.social
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Assistant professor of sociology at Ambrose University in Calgary, AB. I study religion, politics, and organizations. ⚾️⚾️⚾️ This account is a vehicle for subjecting my academic colleagues to baseball takes ⚾️⚾️⚾️ josephroso.com

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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Harper vs. Sale is legitimately the worst I have ever seen a good hitter look against a particular pitcher. The slider had him in such a spin cycle he didn't even think it was possible to reach base.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Replay review to see if Altuve's feet is in on the grass (making him in violation of anti-shift rules) is the most baseball-in-2026 thing this season.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Would the record please show that I never doubted Austin Riley.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I care a lot about the ecological fallacy except when it's funny enough to ignore it.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reminds me of the old Chris Hayes blog post about the 2004 election when someone switched from Kerry to Bush because Bush supported stem cell research. (yes I wrote that right) newrepublic.com/article/1867...
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Decision Makers
For those who follow politics, there are few things more mysterious, more inscrutable, more maddening than the mind of the undecided voter. In this year’s election, when the choice was so stark and th...
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@jonbois.bsky.social watching baseball
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
wheeeee!
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Onion was on this in 2016: theonion.com/after-obama-...
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After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016
Sources say the screaming orb might be the only potential candidate that would tap into Republicans’ deep-seated, seething fury after this election.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Is there a "Ones Who Walk Away from Ornelas" joke in here somewhere? I enjoy a joke that depends on poor kerning to function.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
At this moment my thoughts are with the person I saw trying to get through security at the Ottawa airport with a full-sized bottle of Kraft Thousand Island Dressing. I'm not sure what decisions led that person to that moment, but whatever they were I support them.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
oh yeah, now the conference is starting
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is THE skeet for educators everywhere.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Well Scott Norwood would have tied the game with his missed FG under CFL rules so....
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hey Mr. Nolan, are you at all interested in a film adaptation of trends in American congregations' political activities in the 21st century? Asking for a friend.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Visiting the States and just picked up my new prized possession.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Generational ball don't lie game.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
And people said the US would never become a proper footballing nation.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Dropped a new preprint today called "Spiritual But Not Religious Folks Are Just Less Religious (and Less Spiritual, Too)" I enjoy a good title that precludes further description of the key findings. Anyways, check it out here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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OSF
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This checks out since BIH is mirror-verse Italy this tournament.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I love giant stoppage time games because even the most hard core fans realize that they don't have 90 actual minutes of football in them.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A red card for Canada Day! Americans just showing some love north of the border.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
So this is what it feels like when there are congresspeople younger than you.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
On some days the goal is just smaller.
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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
we have truly reached Maximum Muncy
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Cabo Verde out here fighting the US hegemony by advancing to the knockout stage through three draws.
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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Pope Leo XIV, after AJ Pierzynski told him that the White Sox were in first place "Oh, I'm watching and paying attention, don't worry." Per Ken Rosenthal #WhiteSox
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
There's something deeply romantic about one of the best games of the tournament being the one that everyone knew was meaningless going in.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
90 minutes of play condensed into a single image.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This is the one hydration break I support just so that poor ref can get some much-needed orange slices.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Montella getting a yellow card for just being very Italian on the sidelines does soften the blow of Italy not making it. We're there in spirit 🤌🤌
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The ref demonstrated excellent technique on that triple booking combo.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is officially the goalie diff game of the World Cup.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My Conservative MLA sent out a letter discouraging support for Alberta separtism and this first bullet point is "We are Landlocked."
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Surprisingly I do have empathy for Qatar since they played exactly how I play FIFA when I've accidentally set the difficulty too high.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Going 6 for 6 in Learned League yesterday was the single greatest accomplishment of my life.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
What am I, an American, supposed to do with this???
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
oh look it's the meme scoreline
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Has AI use gone too far?
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Is it editing when you cut out half a paragraph of content just because you wanted to add a spicy epigraph?
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Wow, @brianphillips.lol wrote what is perhaps the best ever column about Paul Konerko www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/t...
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The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Common Marshall McLuhan dub.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
What defending your dissertation looked like in 145 million BC
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
My man has failed Stuff class for his third semester yet somehow is still on the dean's list.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
One of the best videos on AI I've seen. Well, tied with his other video.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
An under-appreciate political trend from the last year+ has been the collapse in support for sovereignty in Quebec.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
A world where authors are actually expected to check their facts? Inconceivable! Just think of all the lazy researchers trying to make a dishonest living for themselves!
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It was literally +20 yesterday.... Oh Calgary
An improbably snowy day in May.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
How am I only now learning that in the official Beyblade canon Moses used a Beyblade to part the Red Sea!?!?!?!
An image from the Beyblade anime of a figure who looks suspiciously like Moses ripping a Beyblade through the Red Sea and parting it.
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Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Taylor/Tyler Rogers have bith been in MLB for 7 years and it wad at this moment I figured out how to tell them apart. tAylor at top of alphabet = overhand tYlyer at bottom of alphabet = submarine. This is the greatest scholarly accomplishment of my career.
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