madhominem.bsky.social
Atlanta resident
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I've told this story before but one of the craziest casual racism things I've ever heard is when guys behind me at a game were making fun of Barry Bonds forever but when one of them said "hey and Mark McGwire" the Lead Guy was like "now wait I'm not sure he ever did steroids"
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it's possible I hallucinated
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this one and Jason Kendall reaching first base live rent free in my brain
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good god I can STILL see this in my head but I haven't actually seen the footage in probably 40 years
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he's there!
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awwww, you're watching
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also the Eric Gregg game
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there would've been ten seconds of scrolling posts saying "WHAT THE FUCK MAN"
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cc: @rotowear.bsky.social
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oh so all we had to do was demote him
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the Chris Webber timeout would've broken people
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like it seems like there has to be SOMEbody on edge and hungry to make a team click
pretty much everyone on the team can say "eh, we'll get em next year"
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ok so when the lottery numbers are announced...
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you are definitely 15 seconds ahead of me in the future
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they can bat if they want to
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all he really has to do is be a .270 hitter and he'd be a perennial all-star
I'm genuinely starting to wonder about the whole idea of long-term contracts making these guys more complacent than they'd be otherwise
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"hey you promised no swingsies"
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draw me like one of your French girls
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833 is technically one of the area codes
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why yes, it does look like a third world country when the police are doing crackdowns on innocent civilians
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14...but you can't drive away for 5 years
JESUS CHRIST
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setting the trap we will soon walk into
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at least the first guy who couldn't hit was an awesome hype man
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I'm coming around to just leaning into being horrible and being full-blown sellers at the deadline. Don't do the shit where we catch fire in August and come down to the last day of the season and come up one game short
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if AJSS hadn't gotten hurt, I'd be on the Trade Sale Train, simply BECAUSE of that extra year. We could legit ask for a haul for him
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have they found enough sleeping floors for that?
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I don't think he's hit a ball in the air to even the warning track
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peasketti
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there are a couple people with my name but if you have my last name you're pretty much automatically at least my third cousin so I can't get too worked up
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aaaaand now that song's in my head for a week
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I was seriously wondering if that was just me-e-e-e-e-e-e-e
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I like how he leads with "cultural," the telliest of tells
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y'all are never gonna shame him into doing the right thing, so it's time for much more strenuous opposition
like being at the protests
or refusing to do ANYthing in Congress
appealing to his nonexistent better angels is the most foolish fool's errand that ever fooled