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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 8h

Hard to believe Sam Antonacci isn’t on the Brewers. I guess he sucks at defense, but otherwise he fits their favorite profile almost perfectly.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Postseason locker room celebrations seem like a sensory nightmare w/ the lights, noise, crowding, alcohol showers, etc. If I was involved in one, I’d quickly head back out to the field to sit in the grass and savor the win in peace with a tasty craft beer. What current Brewer is most like me?

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You are in a Brewers player-beat writer eating contest. You’ll have 30 minutes to eat the most Texas barbecue by volume (you get to choose brisket, ribs, and/or sausage). McCalvy picks first and chooses Gary Sanchez as his teammate. You have the second pick and are on the clock. Who are you taking?

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I couldn’t tell either, but he said it so earnestly. I swear he gets weirder every time he’s on TV.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A-Rod taking the SAT twice and still not meeting the minimum admissions requirement is 👌.

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Matt Mueller @amanaboutfilm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Welp. Time to kick the shit out of the Dodgers and save baseball.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Padres are a great team. I hate Machado for obvious partisan reasons, but they’re a likable team with great fans. If not the Brewers, they’d be the NL team I’d be rooting for to finally win a WS. They might’ve beaten the Braves/Dodgers if the seeds were different. Really fun series for baseball.

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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Garrett Mitchell caught that ball because we committed to booing Manny Machado eight years after the fact. We stuck up for Jesus Aguilar, Mitchell caught the ball. No doubt in my mind.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

He’s a lot less scary than I expected, too.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Best closer entrance you’ve seen in person?

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Morejon must be available tonight based on the early hooks for Buehler and Ray, right?

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s extra annoying because he rarely hustles. He’s got the Lorenzo Cain thing going where his gait makes him look like he’s 70 and recovering from a hip replacement, but then the ball is hit toward him and he’s an acrobat out there.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wainwright is a smart and open-minded guy, too. Tells you a lot about how the Cardinals were still operating late in the Mozeliak era.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah for sure — I just want to make sure I don’t take it for granted when they do play well. This is really hard even against weaker teams; the Padres are really good. Gonna take some 95+ percentile efforts to beat em. Hope they’ve still got enough left in the tank.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They’re just as nervous as we are and they’ve got 43,000 people screaming at them. Gotta be hard to stay in the moment and not let your thoughts spiral. It sucks, but it does seem understandable. Hopefully they settle in and can stay grounded the rest of the way.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hope Yeli watched some footage of game 7 of the 2018 NLCS vs. Walker Buehler. For me, that’s still the Brewers’ most painful playoff loss (no disrespect to 2011 or 2024 or 2019). It would feel extra good to crush Buehler tonight and put this series away.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Padres are good and have had some fortunate BABIP luck. This isn’t a failure of the Brewers’ mettle or courage or grittiness. It’s frustrating, but they’re playing well.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good night everyone but especially Chad Patrick, Robert Gasser, and Shane Drohan. Your services will be be needed in approximately 21 hours.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think Bill would be offended if they DIDN’T boo him at this point.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Brewers R&D really let us down not developing a technology to install Brandon Woodruff’s consciousness into Dustin May’s body. Likely unethical and against God’s will, but the Padres wouldn’t have a chance.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dustin May can throw incredible pitches, but he seems to have very little conviction, confidence, grit, or resilience. I don’t remember that from watching him pitch for opposing teams; I wonder if he’s always been like this or if it’s something new. Not ideal given the prospects sent to St. Louis.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They’ve used up all their AI tokens and don’t have the budget to re-up lol.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That card is going to be worth a fortune in 15 years. Attanasio should buy it and put it on display at the ballpark.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The balk move in this case is one where he twitches his right foot/leg before stepping off with his left foot. That would get called every time.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That’s not how it works. The question is which foot moves first. Once the left foot disengages, he can do whatever he wants; it’s not like football where his left foot has to hit the ground first in order to be disengaged.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He stepped off with his left foot and then faked the throw. That’s legal. He just did it very quickly. It would be a balk if he stepped with his right foot toward first without disengaging the rubber and faked a throw.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All the talk about the end of the Brewers game has me wondering what my own trajectory might have been had I not hit some obstructions myself, imagine how far I might have gone or where I could have landed if perhaps my own Padres had been different.

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James Vandenberg @jamesvandy3.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Padres were lucky to be in that game. Don’t let anyone tell you anything else

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I swear Ueck reached down from heaven and swatted that France fly ball right to Chourio.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Seven Padres participated in the top of the eighth. In five plate appearances. Their unusual bench depth is something to watch the rest of the series.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It seems like it’s an effort problem more than a skill problem. Hard to understand that. Maybe he’s just worn down and mentally fried. Or hopefully he’s just out of rhythm and will snap back in soon. Troubling regardless.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Did Contreras spend the off week getting hammered? What is going on?

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s really frustrating that AJP and Wainwright have figured out why Contreras has to stop calling cutters in 1.1 innings. He’s been doing this for months! Stop him!

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Climate change, though. Outdoor baseball in summer is already unhealthy in places like Phoenix. Before long, it won’t be safe to play or watch baseball outdoors in large parts of the continent. Retractable roofs, modular shading, and AC will soon be essential to baseball’s existence.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe the Padres will exhaust themselves with all this hustle. Their stars sure are good when they try. The Cubs, on the other hand… yikes.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bullpenning is collectivist. Together, workers build something none of them could build alone. Everyone contributes what they can. The Headlining Starter is individualist. The brave cowboy rides alone. How he goes, so the team goes. He alone is the hero.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Music fans who enjoy bands experimenting/improvising their songs when performing live : baseball fans who appreciate openers, bullpen games, etc. in the postseason :: music fans who demand the band play their favorite songs exactly as they sound on the record : baseball fans who demand a STARTER(!!)

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Someone with the White Sox must have noticed Altuve tends to stand with his heels in the grass. Weird to play that card now instead of waiting for higher leverage; maybe they figured it was use it or lose it. I thought they were right, but umpires probably demanded obvious evidence. Interesting!

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you don’t know for sure, why are you that confident?

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think the Brewers’ internal projection system probably did.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If the leading Baseball Writer Reviews website constantly projected you to lose subscribers — b/c your analysis is regressing, your writing has lost a step, you don’t have anything new to say, & you’ve been outclassed by younger writers — and you proved them wrong, you’d never shut up about it.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What is the purpose of the NFL’s illegal formation penalty for an offensive tackle being “uncovered”? I don’t understand why that formation would be unfair to the defense. The five OL are never eligible receivers, so why does this “trick” the D? @badgernoonan.bsky.social? @callmematub.bsky.social?

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Geoff Ogilvy is such an impressive guy. Total class act. Did a great job and handled the loss with grace. A great example of how to be passionately competitive without being a jackass. Hope he gets to redesign many more American courses.

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Playing Chicken With Oblivion @oblivionchicken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Disappointing finish, but compelling golf throughout. Medinah is awesome. Jackson Koivun is a Dude. Hope he doesn’t turn into Patrick Cantley. The US can’t lose even with a laughably incompetent captain. Fuck Brandt Snedeker. The only MAGA losers left are the dumbest people in the country.

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