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@joshbaum.bsky.social

Masshole by birth, Michigander by education, Georgian by love. Middle East historian, bean-counter, Down Syndrome advocate, music & econ nerd. Go Blue. CTID

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9-inning MLB games lasting less than 2½ hours:

2005: 23%
2006: 20%
2007: 16%
2008: 16%
2009: 16%
2010: 17%
2011: 15%
2012: 10%
2013: 8%
2014: 6%
2015: 10%
2016: 6%
2017: 4%
2018: 7%
2019: 5%
2020: 3%
2021: 2%
2022: 4%
2023: 30% ⏰
2024: 39% ⏰
2025: 34% ⏰

23.10.2025 17:34 — 👍 154    🔁 20    💬 12    📌 17

Inspirational stuff right there.

24.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Michael Jordan, smiling

Michael Jordan, smiling

When you're happily retired and just glad the FBI only fairly recently started investigating NBA players for illegal sports gambling.

23.10.2025 13:28 — 👍 162    🔁 34    💬 5    📌 4

Are we naming variants after Quidditch brooms now?

03.10.2025 16:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Been on the Josh bus for 54 years now.

25.08.2025 14:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He's gonna have the experience of losing to many of these clubs for the first time this season.

18.08.2025 21:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
ANDRE THE GIANT
"I don't like to speak badly of people. | have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face."

ANDRE THE GIANT "I don't like to speak badly of people. | have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face."

24.07.2025 15:57 — 👍 3684    🔁 965    💬 24    📌 45

Oh, I've lived in GA for over two decades. Eyes wide open.

15.07.2025 19:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What's going on here, @mlb.com and @braves.com ?

15.07.2025 17:51 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The masks, the weapons, the large numbers of them, it all SCREAMS self-loathing and fear.

08.07.2025 00:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He can just go to Cancun again.

07.07.2025 17:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey @scalzi.com, did I just catch a Caddyshack reference in “When the Moon Hits Your Eye”?

05.06.2025 01:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That is a very lovely obituary and gives a real sense of the kind of guy your dad must have been. As the father of a child with special needs, I know how important educators like your dad are. So sorry for your loss. It's an unmooring feeling to lose a parent.

03.06.2025 14:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This administration refused to allow a non-violent detainee hold his one month old baby. This isn't about security, this is about cruelty.

22.05.2025 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
20.05.2025 20:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The angels are shouting "NORM!"

20.05.2025 20:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Like at Disney, we're gonna lean on Down Syndrome for once instead of it leaning on us!

20.05.2025 16:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of my favorite signs summer is around the corner: the weird soda flavors are back!

15.05.2025 23:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Because that's what they think of people who need help.

15.05.2025 20:03 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Put it on the c.v. or it doesn't count.

15.05.2025 13:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
U-M President Santa Ono lacked the stomach to stick around | Letters The University of Michigan is at a crossroads. As we begin the search for a new president, we must be clear-eyed about what kind of leader we need.

Ono goes to Florida to continue playing dead.

06.05.2025 15:10 — 👍 25    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2

Woof

06.05.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Twat

17.04.2025 20:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don't make any mistake about the color of the hands in the photo.

16.04.2025 14:43 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It was probably greasy with Ryan Day's beard dye.

14.04.2025 21:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No. Workers are NPCs.

12.04.2025 14:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tenured faculty at Yale apparently get the BEST drugs.

03.04.2025 20:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Surely you mean "a blessed fucking day".

28.03.2025 16:17 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The deeps pangs of jealousy I feel when someone tells me they're reading it for the first time...

28.03.2025 15:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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