allenhouser.bsky.social

Realmuto missed Thursday’s game after getting hit in the beans. Which makes me wonder if the upcoming Realmuto bobble head giveaway might look like this.

Fun with Gemini

New Pope to be announced! I've seen Rise of Skywalker, so I fully expect that Benedict is somehow coming back.

The daily MLB Immaculate Grid game had an April Fools edition where literally any player in baseball history was accepted on any space in the 9-square grid. Naturally, on this playthrough, I picked players from over 100 years ago with the most horrifying ghostly visages.

www.immaculategrid.com

Weird sighting in the backyard

😮😮😮

I've been living on the MD Eastern Shore for just over two years now, and one of the things we're sorely lacking is some good local cryptid mythology. Someone HAS to have seen something spooky crawl out of the Wicomico river at some point, right? Salisbury friends: tell me what I'm missing!

If only the administration had some sort of Government Efficiency Department to analyze these sorts of things

This new Iron Pigs Spring Training cap is cool, but they need to lean into the recursion and make the ice cream helmet graphic reflect an identical version of the hat. Then, of course, the concessions stand needs to sell ice cream in a matching helmet.

Want to spice up your next Easter Egg hunt? Just replace the eggs with disembodied Jesus heads!

Last night's debut of the Broken Hearted Strangers Society (performing boygenius's Ketchum, ID) at The Brick Room.

photo credit: Michael Lankford

Current situation

In this alternate universe, I'm not sure whether I live in Vermont or in the (formerly San Francisco) Bay Area

Nick Foles Has Gone Nuclear and Is Destroying Everything in His Path After beating the Minnesota Vikings 38-7 in Sunday’s NFC Championship Game, the Philadelphia Eagles are headed to the Super Bowl.

Best headline from Sunday's game: "The Eagles Were Built to Destroy, and That’s Just What They Did to the Chiefs" (Sports Illustrated)

Any other candidates for best headline?

My all-time favorite sports headline linked below

Memory from 10 years ago, when Ben made homemade valentines for his 5th grade classmates

Eagles installed as favorites to win Super Bowl LX. Not an easy 2025 schedule, though!

More Freezing Cold Takes: Super Bowl LIX edition

Freezing Cold Takes: Super Bowl LIX edition

Current mood

I haven't regularly purchased a morning newspaper for around 25 years. But seven years ago today, I made an exception.

Best Win 3.1 shareware game? My vote is for Quenzar's Caverns (1993)

Who is your celebrity doppelgänger? People have told me I looked like Pete Townshend (when we were both younger!) But I actually think Pete resembles my brother more than me. I think mine is Joe Namath.

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store Easily transfer your following users and list members from X to Bluesky.

This nifty Chrome extension will find your old Xwitter follows here on BlueSky. Try it out!

25 of 30 MLB teams have created a Bluesky account - the Phillies have not As social media sites X and Bluesky become increasingly politically polarized, most MLB fans can find their favorite team on either platform. Phillies fans cannot.

Here's the best email for the 5 MLB teams without Bluesky accounts, if you'd like to encourage them:

Phillies: fanfeedback@phillies.mlb.com
Cubs: fanservices@cubs.com
Reds: ticketservices@reds.com
Rockies: fanfeedback@rockies.mlb.com
Astros: seasontickets@astros.com

onpattison.com/news/2025/ja...

Making music with Brooke at the Brick Room