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RIP to the GOAT Gene Hackman

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I love patience at the plate as much as the next guy, but the whole point of working the count to 2-0, with the bases juiced no less, is to get exactly that pitch and crush it lmao

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The debate around the Red Sox has been about overreliance on analytics. I need to understand better because even if, for example, the matchups favored Miller, Gray also leads the league in getting better as the game goes on So it seems like "the analytics" were in conflict and Tracy chose poorly

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I once tweeted Dems should borrow from the Trump playbook by bringing more joy and community to events. Liberals would laugh smugly at people streaming home from those events as Trump spoke because they missed the point. MAGA had fun and were all in Dems ratioed tf out of that tweet lmao

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Quite the indictment of the Orioles organization potentially eliminating psychological safety, the key to success in any industry, in favor of emasculation as a form of accountability instead of better care and instruction and benching/releasing players who can't make a relay throw Also this

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Folks are struggling, so I get if those still able to donate avoid FL and spend where there is a better shot of winning But big money should definitely give to Nixon because at that level it's not just about winning. It's about rebuilding infrastructure for the future with a great candidate

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I once thought logic won online debates and got annoyed not only they didn't see their obvious flaws but also deigned to claim that my inability to convince them proved they were right I learned too late people invest emotions, identity, and like Schmitt, a thirst for validation that'll never move

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Two things people get wrong about analytics 1) It's "objective." Assuming even data science skill, you can use different data sets and methodologies to come to different conclusions. See bWAR v fWAR or Nate Silver v Dean Chambers in 2012 2) It's definitive. People really don't get probabilities

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So what else is new lmao

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The White Sox are what the Orioles were supposed to be 😭

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Joseph T, my brother in Christ, how are you complaining about "lazy, overused gripes" only to give us the decades-old "Did the coach/GM throw those interceptions/give up those home runs"? Fans need to think hard about why Pat Riley, Phil Jackson, Jim Leyland, Scotty Bowman won everywhere they went

Taylor used to be an astute tech reporter, and she has a lot of great guests who provide strong insight into tech culture. But I also think she has made her way down the Maher/Taibbi/Yglesias hole catalyzed by perceived slights rom "the left" driving grievance leading to "You gotta hand it to Thiel"

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When will Dadley win a playoff game 😭

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Me reacting to these names as three of our nation's best minds

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Of course Schmitt and Kennedy don't know ball well enough to realize we already had hearings on the note

Orioles fans in May wondering which team we would play in the World Series

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This is hilarious and further evidence of why Klob's focus on Schmitt's name calling, which is his intentional strategy for content creation and attention that Klob only amplified, was dumb. Instead, destroy the brand. They are supposed to be macho ass alphas who "know ball" but they don't know shit

Every Democrat running in the midterms

Me watching Theodore try to figure out who this could possibly be

We don't talk enough about how Republicans stand weird

Not to go all LinkedIn, but there are clear strategies for success in any organization—setting standards, decentralized leadership, creating conditions for flow state, etc.—and I think they apply to any industry The Orioles need to figure out how to lead and create a culture of accountability

It was always bad enough that social media elevated people too lazy and too stupid to do the hard work of becoming an expert to the level of expert anyway, but for the HHS Secretary to tell you to ignore doctors because he was paid by the people who stole the knowledge of doctors is also bad

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Once again we see that balanced scoring is important during a long regular season but it's all about homers in the playoffs

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It is funny that even hours later Klob is still hung up about the "dirtbag" insult rather than calling out the fact bro don't know ball Insult his manhood, being an alpha and all, rather than his conduct, which he's proud of because it is completely by design because MAGA is a content farm

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Outstanding detective work tbh

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It isn't a "a rash of very weird GOP defenses" exactly. That's just the symptom The disease is a bunch of Republicans who are really bad at politics but got by anyway, running all but unopposed for decades, finally getting tested for the first time and exposing just how bad at this they really are

It's of course possible but I feel like the similarity in the names makes it more likely that it was humans who don't know ball, not less, which also tracks with the general lack of basic sports knowledge among Republicans. Counterintuitive given their preoccupation with projecting alpha maleness

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Actual footage of the jobs created by data centers

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I thought this was NBA footage with all that traveling and double dribbling

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It's a slow burn but by the end I was WHEEZING

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RIP to the GOAT Dennis Haskins

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Mark Facebook has had some rare wins lately, particularly ripping off OpenClaw to bring the first decent consumer AI use case to market, but it won't last. Even if people can now see the vision with Muse, they don't trust FB and will opt for the competitor that comes along that is better and safer

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On top of the bad faith, Rahm wasn't even popular when he had a big job 15 years ago where he advised against pursuing Obamacare, the signature domestic achievement, because he's feckless and stupid That incompetent moron is now washed in an era when even better liked legacy figures are radioactive

I've always believed that a personal foul and a common foul should not offset. Waive the common foul and enforce the personal foul. Otherwise, you incentivize dirty play But the victim here is an Eagle so I take it back

Wow. Jackie was safe as the video from the third base angle shows, but I think in today's game the call on the field would merely "stand"

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For a lot of software engineers, basic observability and security is like the defense and rebounding of programming, but we've had these ideas for decades tbh

Nvidia (NVDA) says its technology will enable companies to monitor every action undertaken by an AI agent, as well as enforce policies.

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bell hooks was right as always, and on top of that, America always uses kids as pawns. Denying kids school lunches to make cruelty the point. Using "kids online safety" as a Trojan Horse for feeding more data to Big Tech and denying resources to kids in the LGBTQ+ community

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Neil @realneilc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was irritated 20 years ago when Beltway Media treated 911 like a hurricane, a catastrophe beyond our control that happened upon us when in fact competent American leadership would have prevented it Beltway Media like @washingtonpost.com now lies by omission about high costs the same way

At every turn, Trump’s ideas for aiding U.S. consumers run into resistance
From beef to diesel, White House efforts to bring down prices — the top concern among midterm voters — have failed so far to pan out.
By Riley Beggin

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It is the most Commanders move ever to so lack in Football IQ that they get a celebration penalty on what should be the dagger score that keeps the Seahawks within striking distance and then allow them to march down the field for a TD in 2 seconds without using a timeout Embarrassing clown shit