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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 34s

I wish I could find a way to monetize the ability to know just how bad the pay is for jobs in sports. Saw a posting for your classic, 90 hour/week MiLB job, its laundry list of job responsibilities, and muttered under my breath, “what are they paying, $50K?” and that was the exact starting salary

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 6m

I took this photo yesterday. This peninsula (beyond the boats) is where they are pulling these from. Understand the level of completely unnecessary destruction of the existing, natural environment we’re talking about, here

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 23h

Whatever it was, it was taking a 12-minute ride and turning it into a half-hour one

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Classic metro — just gave three sequential, completely different reasons (train ahead, signal issue, single tracking) for why our train is stopped. Always innovating in the transit delay space.

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Literally sitting down here right now, sorry I can’t make this tonight

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ah, man, one of these years this won’t be the single busiest week of my life and I’ll actually make a fun road trip out of this

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’d love to see this conversation written from the other side

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Look, the world’s on fire and we’re all gonna die, but at least we got to see the Yankees AND the Braves have their seasons end on the same night

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fans interfere with live ball in a playoff game (again). Fans then pelt the field with food after the play is correctly overturned. Perfect.

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

lololol eat shit Jeffrey Maier

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When they call the Alaska senate race at 3 a.m. ET

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On the plus side, I just found out what Webull is. Pretty incredible day to be wearing those patches on your sleeves.

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just cackling on the couch while my wife looks at me like I’m a madman

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This showed up in my feed in the middle of a bunch of really serious stories and absolutely broke me lol

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Absolutely incredible timing on this news alert

Ronald Acuña Jr. partners with Kalshi, becoming first MLB star to promote prediction market

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m reminded, as I often am, of @timmarchman.bsky.social’s brilliant “Who Is We” essay. Which is, of course, about the NYT deadspin.com/who-is-we-18...

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Deadspin | Who Is We?

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And again today bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

FWIW, it’s also in the middle of my and a bunch of other people’s bike and other non-car commutes to work. Instead, we now get kicked into a very busy, unprotected two-block stretch on H St and 15th St, making traffic worse and more dangerous for everyone on the road

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s really astounding how much this clarity stands out in a world of mewling journalistic hedges. And also how much it contrasts against my own experiences dealing with editors in newsrooms.

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Everything’s fine bsky.app/profile/nyti...

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm again grateful to @theverge.com for publishing my newest long-form essay on the limits of the computational model of the mind, the benefits of understanding both biological and cultural evolution to explain human thinking, and the danger of cognitive hot dogs in education.

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Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI

AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I went back to look at a top albums list I’d published a decade ago at my old newsroom. It was when they were forcing us to do slideshows whenever possible to juke clicks, but since their latest web migration, none of the old photos show. So now it just…doesn’t exist

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can’t believe we’re seriously considering doing this again

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Definitely a similar trend line, but it’s crazy how much it has shortened the dimensions of the field and redefined “scoring position”

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It really is wild how regularly dudes are drilling 60+ yard field goals with room to spare these days

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In conclusion: Indoor baseball — still the worst

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ve only watched highlights on my phone, but that was also my reaction. The shot from under the goalpost seemed inconclusive at best

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wrote about the broader political situation and stupid incentives that led to a Senator attempting to advance his political career by falsely accusing Jack Smith of attending a February Atlanta Hawks game in which Clint Capela put up a double-double. defector.com/jack-smith-e...

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Jack Smith Did Not Conspire Against Donald Trump While Watching Steph Curry Score 60 Points In An Overtime Loss To The Hawks | Defector

The most salient part of the accusation that Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt lodged against former special prosecutor Jack Smith in a Senate hearing on Tuesday is that it was wrong. It was ecstatically and...

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m glad I waited for you to write this up instead of trying to do it myself, as my brain would never have pulled this gloriously apt description

Roth describing a sitting U.S. senator who “absolutely ate his balls on live television”

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Whomst could have seen this being a problem? Oh right. (And a link to the post on Ghost, if you’d prefer not to click the Substack link above) pretty-good.ghost.io/reading-past...

Football stadiums require major ingress-egress, which that neighborhood does not have, with quiet, two-lane streets to the west, and a single bridge connecting it to the highway across the river to the east. It demands massive parking structures, but this plan intends to split the baby, building 8,000 spaces worth of garages. These will sit empty and unused 330 days a year, while the remaining attendees of games or other events will flood the neighborhood with cars, trying to park, as they did back when other sports teams played there. And that neighborhood has only grown more dense in the intervening years.

They will also take up space that could fit thousands more housing units — as many as 10,000 by one estimate.

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, everyone’s realizing that this plan sucks ass and that nobody wants giant parking garages that sit empty more than 300 days a year? Yeah, that’s why YOU DON’T BUILD AN NFL STADIUM IN THE MIDDLE OF A MAJOR AMERICAN CITY dc.citycast.fm/business-dev...

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Council, WMATA Still at Odds Over Metro for New RFK Stadium · City Cast DC

Councilmember Charles Allen worries if transit concerns go unheeded, they may never get addressed.

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You don’t say bsky.app/profile/npr....

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Checks out! bsky.app/profile/noah...

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Little League World Series-ass ending to the Red Sox season, here

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ryan McMahon and the wilderness is this a thing

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wait when did Sonny Gray start looking like Jon Lester

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IYKYK awfulannouncing.com/espn/jeff-pa...

Jeff Passan addresses ESPN’s pattern of overlooking 2005 White Sox

"We f*cked up a few times."

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Shame on them showing clearly AI footage of the White Sox winning the 2005 World Series. Everyone knows that never happened.

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This does explain some of your edits over the years

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Credit to the San Diego grounds crew — that’s as soaked as I’ve seen the dirt in front of home plate in a long time. Helped kill that last chopper enough to turn it into an out instead of an infield single, might have saved a run

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also, this start in San Diego is psychedelic

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Noah Frank @noahafrank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watching Michael King and had a flashback to my time working in Double-A for the Padres. Player development wouldn’t advance pitchers past A-ball until they could throw a change up. So all the guys had BP shirts made that said SINKER / SLIDER on the front, and CHANGEUPS ARE FOR PUSSIES on the back

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