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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 3h

My drinking days are in the rearview mirror these days but I consider myself extremely fortunate to have spent several of my drinking years in Milwaukee.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 20h

The White Sox didn’t sweep the Guardians. Is that bad? Is their season on the brink of disaster?

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bauers is going through it this series but can’t see sitting him. Mitchell on the other hand has looked lost enough at the plate it warrants considering Lara tomorrow unless the numbers against I assume Ray say differently.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 06/10/2026

Fenton Johnson ‘Tired’, from “The Book of American Negro Poetry” ed. by James Weldon Johnson, 1922

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I am tired of work; I am tired of building up somebody else's civilization. Let us take a rest, M'Lissy Jane. I will go down to the Last Chance Saloon, drink a gallon or two of gin, shoot a game or two of dice and sleep the rest of the night on one of Mike's barrels. You will let the old shanty go to rot, the white people's clothes turn to dust, and the Calvary Baptist Church sink to the bottomless pit. You will spend your days forgetting you married me and your nights hunting the warm gin Mike serves the ladies in the rear of the Last Chance Saloon. Throw the children into the river; civilization has given us too many. It is better to die than it is to grow up and find out that you are colored. Pluck the stars out of the heavens. The stars mark our destiny. The stars marked my destiny. I am tired of civilization.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ordering in bulk saves on delivery costs.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Glad they had Fermin at the plate instead of Salas late in the game yesterday.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You managed to capture the emotional power of this game. Thanks for writing this up.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I kept quietly lowering my expectations throughout the game until I was suddenly screaming and running around the house and scaring the shit out of my dog.

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JR Radcliffe @jrradcliffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Allow me to be the first to say holy fucking shit.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He should probably take his sunglasses off his head and wear them when staring into the sun.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any idea what the Brewers lineup did to get on Quinn Wolcott’s shitlist?

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've not viewed pre or post game national broadcasts but there are a lot of first-person testimonies of A J Pierzynski's controversial/problematic behavior out there. And why David Ortiz remains employed as a broadcaster after the ProPublica reporting is reason enough to discount national media.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 04/10/2026

that hit had a launch angle of 49 degrees and exit velocity of 105mph and in the statcast era that has never once resulted in a home run Exit Velocity: 105 MPH, Launch Angle: 49° BA: .037 1B%: 0.0 2B%: 3.7 3B%: 0.0 HR %: 0.0

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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Final: Brewers 3, Padres 2 How did the Milwaukee Brewers win that baseball game? Your guess is as good as any. And it also doesn't matter. All that does is they did. Somehow, someway. They did. Series: 1-0, Brewers

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s been said before but it is incredible Racism Brain to still be doing the Tomahawk Chop in 2026

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Pat Kreitlow @patkreitlow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Schadenfreude, O schadenfreude I’m as high as an asteroid Craigers hurts like a hemorroid Soon will be redeployed Paranoid and unemployed Color me overjoyed For this Cubs induced schadenfreude

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Johnny @johnnymke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Eliminated 4 minutes into October btw

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Basketball Fan, of the Sixers and LeBron James lmao! @drewhamm5.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Damn, that’s crazy! And then what happened?

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Random guy walked up to me at the grocery store, asked if I was a baseball fan and then handed me this. Pennant fever is at unheard of levels in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine a Baseball Prospectus contributor could be this unaware of the Brewers style of play. Frustration and anger seem to be in play here, not ignorance.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Realmuto has struggled at the plate all year but hits a Fuentes’ fastball the other way for a 2 run triple when Acuña, Jr. bobbles it in the corner.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah’s flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Drum beats on: NYT joins Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Ed, & Inside Higher Ed in following the terrific reporting of student journalists at @thedartmouth.bsky.social on extensive undisclosed AI use by our provost, a national champion of more AI on campuses. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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Dartmouth Provost Is the Latest College Professor Examined for A.I. Use (Gift Article)

Dartmouth said it would investigate its provost over A.I. accusations. Similar controversies on other campuses have prompted frustration among students.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why didn't the projection systems see this coming

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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jacob Misiorowski's final 2026 numbers: 174.2 IP, 1.80 ERA, 2.17 FIP, 252 K, 44 BB, 31.3 K-BB%, .802 WHIP. The third-lowest WHIP by any qualified starter (excl. 2020) in MLB history, trailing only 1913 Walter Johnson and 2000 Martínez. One of the best pitching seasons ever.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you are telling me?

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dustin May may may may may…maybe not.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.” — N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) from “The Way to Rainy Mountain” 1969.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“All things in the plain are isolate; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Counsell attributing part of the Cubs loss in game 1 today to wind at the Fenway monster today, “we hit three home runs today that didn’t go out, that’s how I saw it, that’s baseball.”

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I will also cop to muttering to myself when Contreras jogged out the bobbled grounder.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I thought this outcome was the possible intent before the postgame response.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I remember @jrradcliffe.bsky.social respectfully pointing out the appearance of hypocrisy when lifting Pratt for the same offense and not Contreras when he routinely jogs out infield grounders. Contreras catches over 100 games a season so some consideration is required. Johnny Hardass consistency.

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Michael @michaelmcdaniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Given how McFarlane was locating, a walk may have been about as likely. Now pinch hitting for Contreras? Interesting decisions

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Frightful Boo-schoff @mpbmke.com · 24/09/2026

The irony being, of course, that they're the small market team (along with Arizona) that *does* go out and try to sign free agents and spend some money, but they keep inadvertently proving the point that you should never pay above the age curve.

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