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michaelamitchell.bsky.social
Father. Husband. Teacher. Baseball fan. Ralph Yarborough Democrat. Houston, TX and Plattsburgh, NY.
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I just found out that JoMarie Payton left Family Matters during the final season after a fight on set with Jaleel White. Gonna go down this rabbit hole for 20 minutes now.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 11 days ago • 898 comments

Alex Cora gets treated as this unique managerial savant, but his team is bad in every way a poorly managed team would be bad:

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Good Astros/Rays game. My Jeremy Peña over 1.5 HR/Zack Littell over 8.2 IP parlay came in. $20 to win $6.3M.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Good argument that Skubal’s start against the Guardians today was the single best regular season start in recent history.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

You turn on the Rockies broadcast, immediately: “Senzatela is giving up 15 hits per 9, so you have to think they’re working with him to sequence his pitches differently”, and then a triple and a double to Volpe and the backup catcher. Bleak, bleak stuff.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Indiana-Oklahoma City will be the first NBA Finals where you can't legally bring a James Baldwin book to any of the games.

submitted 27 days ago • 35 comments

It’s a shame Trump is shutting FEMA down because the Baltimore Orioles are surely eligible to be declared a federal disaster. The Red Sox just batted around twice in the same inning.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

We saw this with McCullers a couple weeks ago, and it seems pretty obvious that this is the impact of sports betting on our society. Men lose half their paycheck chasing a thrill and then lash out in grotesque ways.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

It's true, constantly focusing on petty culture-war bullshit to castigate the party for surrendering to "wokeness" and tanking Senate votes over personal gripes and pet causes was—wait, WHICH faction?

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

He should have accepted the trade.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

The year is 2074. The floodwaters have breached the Appalachian retaining walls. North Korea has nuked Moscow. It has been five years since the last transmission from the UK. Republicans are passing sumptuary laws to ban women's trousers. Democrats are once again pledging to denounce 'Latinex'.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Guarantee that some dipshit put $50 on LMJ to have over 7.5 strikeouts or something stupid and now look

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

it’s not a net loss. it’s the cost of a service. I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.

submitted 40 days ago • 27 comments

2025 Astros Jose Abreu - $19.5M, 0.0 bWAR Jose Altuve - $33M, -0.4 bWAR Yordan Alvarez - $15.8M, -0.4 bWAR Jose Abreu redemption szn.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you

submitted 42 days ago • 257 comments

West Virginia as recently as three decades ago was a blue state. But with union busting and a belief Republicans would never destroy the government Democrats built, here we are

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

(whispers) The best part of Jose Altuve’s game in 2025 is his outfield defense.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

hey, speaking of that, I had some thoughts ... www.nytimes.com/athletic/633...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment