John W. McCarthy

John W. McCarthy

@johnwmccarthy.bsky.social

Senior Researcher Elias Sports Bureau. Yankees, Red Bulls, NY Rangers, NY Jets, Pearl Jam supporter

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Replying to @townsusa.bsky.social

my bot uses the latitude/longitude of the town, and then makes calls to the wikimedia api based on those coordinates. Each attempt it a bit different and radiates out from the center of town. Occasionally it returns nude/weird images. Just the price of doing business.

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A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

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We live in superlatively stupid times, but the idea that a gambling market is supposed to be predictive of anything is among the lowest lows we've sunk to. These markets skew right because they are right wing and the bettors want right wing outcomes. People always bet on the Patriots in Boston too.

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Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social

If: a) Gas prices are hurting Republicans in the midterms; and b) gas prices are high because of the Iran war and will come down as soon as it ends; and c) Trump can easily end the war with a few weeks of escalatory strikes Then... why is he holding off on the escalation until after the midterms?

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It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Trump stole hundreds of billions of dollars from us and handed it to his friends at the oil companies. We pay, they prosper. Trump take gas

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Trump: While oil prices are temporarily high, our oil and gas industry is making hundreds of billions of dollars. My people said, "please don't mention that, sir."

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say what you want about our society, we're producing nightmare blunt rotations at world historical levels

Quang*@currentlyquang.xyz

Do you want to see the most cursed photo of all time?

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The most maddening part of this -- which is saying something -- is that the cop who has torn his town into shreds thinks the remaining residents are cool with him because they smile at him when he walks by. Mind-numbing levels of cope. www.propublica.org/article/depo...

propublica.orgThe Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His NeighborsIngram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of t...

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Larry Kudlow looks like he's about to cry as Trump rants and raves on the phone like a complete lunatic

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Replying to @kleinman.bsky.social

She became a Republican because her bosses didn't like her ideas (spending money in races Democrats wouldn't win)

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Replying to @asherball.bsky.social

The worst case here is that Volpe is completely resistant to any feedback or change whatsoever and if that's the case *why the hell did you draft him and promote him to the MLB level?!*

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Reflects poorly on Volpe, reflects even worse on the team. You don't know how to shape communications with your top prospect so that he can internalize and use your data?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

Steve@stevesmith24.bsky.social

Anthony Volpe being unreceptive to analytics is wild to me. If you all of a sudden suck at hitting, you’d think you’d be willing to try anything to become good again.

Always wondered if anyone kept the bat parts when this was over

Baseball by BSmile@bsmile.bsky.social

Today In 2000: Roger Clemens throws Mike Piazza's broken bat barrel at him as he runs to first base during World Series Game 2 at Yankee Stadium! #MLB #Baseball #Mets #Yankees #Postseason #WorldSeries

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Did Microsoft decide to hire Vivek Ramaswamy’s advertising agency?

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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I think it's a failure of the team if they can't turn the analytics into something guys like this can't use. You are ostensibly adding them to the roster because you see an edge there, and it's on *you* to make it happen.

Pinstripe Alley@pinstripealley.bsky.social

Chris Kirschner talks here about how Jazz, Grisham, and McMahon are among the Yankees players who are least receptive to analytics, which is pretty funny since the people who say the Yankees are too into analytics probably also really hate those guys

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I have safety concerns for myself at the Angine de Poitrine concert at Salt Shed on November 29th and I will require a catered suite thank you

Brian Hamilton@brianchamilton.bsky.social

Atlanta Dream statement on Enes Kanter Freedom attending Game 3.

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lmao what a loser

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

LOL -- JD Vance says "I've endorsed one foreign candidate in my entire life, and it didn't go particularly well, as much as I'm very much an admirer of Orban"

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Obviously it's bad that rich people can buy pardons. But I must lol at these creeps misreading the market and offering bum-ass Alina Habba the sort of money/term that a mid MLB closer gets. You do not need to pay her like she's Pete Fairbanks. Gift cards are fine. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal.Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.