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Philip Michaels

@philipmichaels.bsky.social

I am the mild-mannered managing editor for mobile at Tom's Guide. I mostly just talk about sports and movies and whatever's grinding my gears at the moment.

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AAND THEY’RE DANCING ATOP THE CLAM BAR AT IVAR’S!

“Please stop dancing on my clams,“ the owner begs them. “I’ll be ruined.”

11.10.2025 05:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Since this game began, I have:
• Written a Tom’s Guide article
• Dropped my daughter off at her homecoming game
• Taken my wife out for pho
• Gone for a swim

11.10.2025 05:02 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Did she mark the start of shoe innings by singing “Sir, I want to buy these shoes” from the terrible “Christmas Shoes” song? Folks, you know the answer.

11.10.2025 04:56 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Back when I had A’s season tickets, the deal I struck with @lschmeiser.bsky.social was that if a game went extras and we stayed, for every 3 innings, she got to buy new shoes.

This is now the rare, costly double shoe game.

11.10.2025 04:54 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

We’re an inning away from Rob Manfred declaring a winner based on a complicated formula involving revenue generating opportunities.

So, like, the Yankees.

11.10.2025 04:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Portland Thorns shirt

Portland Thorns shirt

Local Man Dons Colors of Portland Group that Doesn’t Truck With Fascists

11.10.2025 01:06 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow, I guess oceans truly are battlefields these days.

10.10.2025 21:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Makes people in Philadelphia happy" -- OK, that's starting to explain things.

10.10.2025 21:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I admit to not being a Ball Knower, and I'm a guy who screams himself horse at every Cal game shouting "Give it to a fat man!" on fourth-and-inches plays, but I do not understand the antipathy that everyone seems to have for this play.

10.10.2025 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The obvious answer is that Jack would insist upon a week of shows live from Riyadh, much to Liz's dismay (until she got a look at the swag bag)

10.10.2025 19:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996)

10.10.2025 16:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today's bothersome rooster is tomorrow's delicious coq au vin.

10.10.2025 14:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Oh yeah? How many fishermen has she attacked without evidence? Does she even have an army of masked goons to roust The Other? The Nobel Prize used to mean something, man.

10.10.2025 13:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well just wait until I line up funding for my gritty 1776 reboot.

10.10.2025 06:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ONE PERFECT SHOT: Wilford Brimley in HARD TARGET (1993) Dir. John Woo

10.10.2025 02:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of the best feelings in the world must be to be a baseball organist who’s like fuck it, I’m playing Thriller

10.10.2025 00:53 — 👍 1249    🔁 125    💬 20    📌 5

In the name of editorial balance, the Dodgers should be required to have Blake Treinen pitch one inning of a decisive playoff game.

10.10.2025 00:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And two years from launching his successful chicken restaurant chain.

09.10.2025 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
a cartoon of popeye holding a can of manna Alt: a cartoon of popeye holding a can of spinach

This, but with gravy.

09.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Real Bugs Bunny shit.

09.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pitching investors on a "Succession"-esque dining experience where I profanely tell diners what a huge disappointment they are to me.

09.10.2025 19:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Obviously, I am disappointed to be passed over for the honor of Guy Least Likely to Threaten People, and may I just add that you'll all pay for this, oh God, how I will make you all pay."

09.10.2025 18:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

RECOGNIZE MY PEACE-LOVING WAYS OR ELSE

09.10.2025 18:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Headline: Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

Headline: Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

A sign that you are perhaps not well-qualified to receive the Nobel Peace Prize is that people fear your angry reprisals if it is deemed you are not peaceful enough.

09.10.2025 18:36 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Ref from the Air Bud movies: Well, there's no rule that says you _can't_ have eight pitchers....

09.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Meet the new Christ, same as the old Christ

09.10.2025 14:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
aaron judge gets infected with the ick from Donald Trump

aaron judge gets infected with the ick from Donald Trump

Party with fascists, get handed your asses

09.10.2025 02:33 — 👍 27    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

"Audiences feel you lack the innate likability of Meghan McCain."

09.10.2025 02:04 — 👍 52    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

I'm hoping she won't rat us out
I'm starting to have all these doubts
Because she has all this clout
With antifa

08.10.2025 23:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I wish you could meet my girlfriend
My girlfriend who is in antifa
She couldn't be cuter
She might be the shooter
My girlfriend who is in antifa

She likes to smash up things
She's very excited
To tangle with fascists
She'll soon be indicted

08.10.2025 23:05 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

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