Josh Thomas

Josh Thomas

@joshthomas.bsky.social

Sometimes writer at Dodgers Digest

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maybe oversharing, but my not quite 2.5 yo successfully utilized the potty tonight pure joy. radiating pride. he’s two, and he knew that he slayed a demon when people say that the joy of children is experiencing the world through new eyes? right, but short, by a mile they’re utterly beautiful

the dumbest, most unfit regime possible

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."

even when it’s republicans doing the fraud or

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

florida mad af rn

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net

"libertarian candidate for state senate in north carolina is currently in a shootout with the cops and live-tweeting his planned suicide", while not exactly surprising, is still a weird thing to read

and now look at them, trying to put mars in a museum smh

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu

Liz Truss claims the U.K. would have managed successful missions to Mars within years — if only her 49-day premiership hadn’t been cut short. 🔗 vist.ly/5q3dp

maybe batters should be allowed to call any swing a checked swing, but they have to use a progressively shorter bat for the rest of the game for each time they go to the well, bottoming out at a billy club

I feel this way about stolen bases too, you beat the throw, but your foot was a micron above the bag, or you cagily get nudged off the bag after the fact, that just annoys me

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

The vibes-based "I know it when I see it" system of umpires determining if a swing was successfully checked or not is actually fine — a time-tested and effective solution to an annoying problem — and anyone trying to write a new rule to make it "objective" is a sicko who should not be trusted.

if they were going to define a point for when a batter “offered” at a pitch, why not just take the average point of contact, and if the bat reached or exceeded that, call it a swing?

THANK YOU (you know who you are and I would not trust you to pour water out of a boot if the directions were on the heel)

"Le Chonk"@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com

co-sign. it's not perfect but if you're trying to use the angle MLB is currently testing out I don't trust you at all.

anyway, smoked thick cut tbone pork chops today the way I’d smoked pork ribeyes they were good, but it’s just not as good a cut I will say though, equal doneness on both sides, I really appreciate that

this is flagged as intolerance, but, as a man who works with like 90% men, I mean, it’s right we, collectively, are dumb as shit

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

watch reps do this in tx and etc

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

but I was told the brewers made the ws because they don’t do analytics

Will Harris@sandwichpick.bsky.social

I like that between this and the timeless ticket stuff the Brewers general attitude seemed to be "we will never make the world series but don't let the fans know"

I hate traffic, and I at least dislike bad drivers, but I don’t hate cars but I would trade all the cars for a widespread, functional, and efficient mass transit system

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Larry Kudlow, interviewing Trump, claims that Californians "hate cars"

they play the hell out of the baseball, indeed I dislike the focus on ratings and all that, because the games, they are theater wish the focus was on that

Ben Clemens@benclemens.bsky.social

What an excellent series so far. Turns out the best two teams in baseball this year are pretty good at baseball.

I think that, if I find one that fits my nee laptop, and is aesthetically and tactilely pleasing, and maybe even in an olfactory way as well (waxed canvas and leather?), I’m going to become a messenger bag guy

reading about how his PhD advisor didn’t even know he was a pro ballplayer, this is beautiful, in a Joey Votto sort of way I think that, also, as we watch these knuckleheads on the fox postgame show go “LOL health insurance!,” it’s nice to see such depth to some former stars, highlight these guys!

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bring Dominican celebrations and baseball jargon to MLB in full force imo

Jared Massey@jaredjmassey.bsky.social

I'm also following a Dominican Winter League game and Google automatically translated the website.

-It’s ‘champing at the bit’

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'