ronbaugh.bsky.social

ronbaugh.bsky.social

@ronbaugh.bsky.social

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A cap gives winning teams and big markets a bigger advantage because now if the smaller market or team with less history of winning can't overpay the players are going to go to teams like LA and NY for even less money. The Dodgers are still going to have the best players.

Once you realize that governments don't care if you die it all makes sense.

Adrian Tchaikovsky@aptshadow.bsky.social

While I'm shouting at clouds, UK gov telling everyone to stockpile for climate-change-driven emergencies while fast-forwarding fossil fuel drilling is... I had thought it was the government's responsibility to fix problems, not cause problems and then tell us to deal with the fallout at our expense.

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Washington State friends- don’t vote for Sean O’Donnell for State Supreme Court. He’s endorsed by the GOP and- a personal story- interning for him at the King Country Prosecutors’ Office in law school was what made me want to be a public defender.

Why are we in the stupidest timeline?

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

The world’s richest man is preparing for the 'AI singularity' by trying to fold SpaceX and Tesla into a single company spanning rockets, satellites, internet service, chatbots, social media, robots and cars ft.trib.al/FBrypdo

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We will have a first-time World Series winner for the third time in eight years. I don’t know what that number is *supposed* to be, but it sure seems an indicator of a healthy sport.

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Y’all cannot be fucking serious about I-638 polling to win in WA state, get a fucking real life you sickos. Literally EVERY GIRL WHO PLAYS SCHOOL SPORTS WILL HAVE TO GO CONFIRM W/ A DR (hopefully a woman!!!) SHE WAS BORN WITH A VAGINA JUST TO PLAY FUCKIN VOLLEYBALL?!?! ARE YOU INSANE? VOTE NO ON 638

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Replying to @junlper.beer

If a third grader was given homework to rename a state, a Great Lake and a body of water and came back with America three times I would think that that was a particularly stupid third grader.

Look, if you are from Mississippi, you are presumed to be racist until this shit stops happening.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org

The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office announced on Monday. buff.ly/EqW7n8c

Baseball hasn't been ruined but it isn't as good and analytics is partially to blame. As good aesthetically and as entertainment, the talent level is peak, but that's part of the problem.

Joe Sheehan@sheehannewsletter.bsky.social

I know this isn’t Lance’s point, but the absolute number here floors me. This is 650-700 people doing the kind of work that, 25 years ago, people insisted would ruin baseball. There are still some even fighting that war. Those people should be shown this chart and then ignored forever.

This is one of the best posts about baseball I have read all year.

Patrick Dubuque@euqubud.baseballprospectus.com

Here's my recap for Game 5 of the ALCS. It focuses less on transcribing the events, and more on the general aura of competency throughout. It was nice to watch a playoff game where neither side felt like they were pretending to be a playoff team. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

The sunlight solution in winter is to adjust society so we have less work, adjusting the time to make it so it can be light later so we can work more is a bad and anti-worker position. We need to return to standard time year round.

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If you are for year round daylight savings you lose all credibility in complaining about the country's rejection of science. Because all the science says we should eliminate daylight time not the other way around.

I can't do it, despite it being less dive bar and more fake hipster, and completely a place a where well off professionals go rather than a true dive bar, I can't disavow the Brotherhood in Olympia. Two many good times in better days.

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Might be in the minority on this one, but it feels so patronizing when the talking heads at the postgame desk - or anyone, really - goes out of their way to praise a Hispanic player for conducting an interview in english. The tone always feels like they're talking about a toddler

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If there's an MLB lockout next year I fear we will reach Savannah Bananas saturation at levels that cannot be safely sustained by our current capacity for tomfoolery

It does include evictions in Washington. And some local areas. But she's right elsewhere. Also not correcting just being a cheerleader for our rtc program.

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If you've ever met baseball fans from Chicago they are all White Sox fans. Cubs fans love the Cubs but not baseball. Sox fans generally know the sport Cubs fans are stupid great boys.

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In everyone's (righteous) hatred of the Sydney Sweeney ad, "no betting on wars" is such a cursed sentiment that I think we all brushed right past it.

Sorry but the billionaire class doesn't get this, this dude has clearly endorsed at least Trump's use of language and has cowered to the administration. They bought the team as a toy for their kid. This family deserves no benefit of the doubt.

Joe Veyera@joeveyera.bsky.social