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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 57m

I keep forgetting about CES and you gotta keep that guy. I guess Mayo really needs to learn RF and we can assume at least one of O'Neill/Westburg/Blaze/Holliday will be hurt at least part of the time

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 1h

Rip to the fire, a place that gave me a night I needed during a real fuckin cold and dark winter

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 1h

Sonny gray come to Baltimore, our manager will never take you out until you give up a 6th run

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 1h

It's good that the orioles are turning down Holliday offers but he also can't be a starter next season with Mayo, Westburg, and Blaze on the roster

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 1h

"The organization is healthy now" explain what that means in a way that isn't detached from reality

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 1h

noting that the whole tanking process was only amenable to enough of the fanbase because they thought they were gonna get an Astros like dynasty The exchange doesn't work if you're gonna tread water at 75-80 wins and sell at the deadline every year

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 15h

He didn’t pitch any of the games because he was an awful pitcher in college but he still has this job anyway because he went to Yale

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 17h

White Sox / Padres , the "Austin hays gets a ring either way" series

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 17h

SF transit take: -MUNI metro is what the red line should be -van ness brt is what mdot wants (ass) -the F streetcar that Dan Rodricks is salivating over is what MCB wants (ass, go downstairs and ride the muni- half the time for the same route) -BART is what people driving anyway say they want

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 17h

It’s not grant money, it’s bond money signed into law, and it’s not use it or lose it. They can continue to borrow up to $600 million as the bonds get paid off. Which is beside the point that reducing capacity has everything to do with upscaling the product to squeeze more out of fans

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 23h

There’s not a ton of good rotation help available, and signing Rogers and Michael King would be like getting the 2nd and 3rd best available pitchers but it needs to be done

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The infield should probably look like: 2B Westburg SS Henderson 3B Mayo Blaze is the utility guy playing 5 days a week with Mayo getting some DH time and RF workouts to replace O’Neill, Holliday is basically the Jeremiah Jackson role now

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

offseason needs: 1. Ace (like every year of the Elias tenure except when he got Corbin burnes and Bradish got hurt, so instead opted not to have a # 2 starter) 2. Catcher (Basallo catching a max 80 games) 3. Left fielder 4. Mid rotation starter 5. Like 3-4 bullpen guys, at least one really good

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These decisions are made by the same group of people

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The closers and set up guys on both the dodgers and rays were all dumped for nothing by mike Elias

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remembering that Mike Elias’ first move as GM was to trade Mike Yaztremski for garbage so he could play Dwight smith and Stevie Wilkerson for a couple hundred games

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hope that Manny Machado wins the World Series this year

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They should try making a better team that fills out the ballpark instead of turning it into a casino

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a vacuum there nothing wrong with it (and this is one of the least offensive remaining places to do a *5th* bar with views of the field) but they’ve now reduced capacity by 8,000 seats for them and a 3D shoe ad

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As Jim Smith (UMD athletic director/ former Braves exec) puts it, “we’ve gotta squeeze the middle” and figure out how to get the people buying average ticket prices to spend more

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This isn’t the luxury product. It’s the reducing stadium capacity by 17% (so far) and raising prices. But these were also seats traditionally sold for $5-10 on weekends or sold as a package to families

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was up here for the Delmon game and I wonder if they’ll sell me my seats from it That said I hate the downsizing / turning stadiums into luxury products

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In 2004 they sent The Oriole Bird to assault me.

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Duquette would bring up eyanson to replace Bradish and he’d be right

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cleveland’s a half game back of the white sox, so win tomorrow and you move a half game closer regardless of the other game

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Felix and Helsley please get healthy soon, goddamit

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Fire stearns” chants damn I wish that were me

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Challenging the new port Covington developers to design something as nice as the half completed neighborhood near Sutter health park

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

But we finished 3gb that year ! Imagine adding 1 real starting pitcher to that staff which anchored by Jordan Lyles. If I hadn’t deleted my Twitter I’d be quoting the post where I was arguing to trade for Skubal that year (before he became Skubal)

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

adding him and Aguilar was like “we’re going to recreate Trey Mancini (via enthusiasm and a live body at 1B) in the aggregate

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Duquette said angelos’ policy was that payroll went up as the attendance went up, he just never got to sign a real free agent because he didn’t do a tank that reset payroll for the next ten years and was forced to spend the SP money on Davis

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s really not over tho with the amount of times the teams in front of us have to play each other (including CWS) there’s just no urgency

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hinds is basically Dylan Carlson and it’s funny how much I hate these players vs when Duquette found randos to play 30 games

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not unrelated to the fact that bramble pulled the rug out from under them on the project that was supposed to link it to Northwood plaza

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I haven’t been paying that close attention but seems like Mayo is playing a decent 3b now? Which means westburg or blaze is starting at 2B unless they teach Coby RF (and Holliday is now Jeremiah Jackson)

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yeah sure it passed like 3 years ago but the legislature is so ineffective it wouldn’t surprise me that a guy who gets elected in 5 years would still be able to negate it

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It would probably take Pete having a Freddie Freeman like uptick in his 30s to make the HoF (and he’s already behind bc he came up later) but i keep thinking about what to do with guys who are missing like, 5 war and 40 homers because of the covid season

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank god Elias whiffed on signing Schwarber

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I really didn’t know what we were getting with Pete and I though he was gonna be a better Mark Trumbo instead of a right handed Palmeiro

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There are $1 billion dollars in light rail improvements in the pipeline

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The cool thing is that they have to play each other next

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And going cheap on the operating costs can ding you too even with a nice stadium ( opacy, pnc)

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think a lot of people overrate the “this is nice (new) inside” for places like Philly, Minneapolis that are basically the same as each other (and dc is pretty close)

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Or like, it’ll stand in the way of signing like Arozarena or something

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Been thinking this too and I also like it which makes me then think it’s not gonna happen

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Brandon Hyde’s mind garden @throwingthings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Gotta include Kyle Gibson in this calculation

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