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Ben Howell

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Senior Analyst, Amateur Analysis, Padres R&D. Former: @TexasBaseball. He/Him

476 Followers  |  271 Following  |  119 Posts  |  Joined: 04.07.2023  |  1.8148

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29 in Philadelphia to 72 in Orlando πŸ”œ πŸ™

07.12.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah, very similar dynamic for me. guess giving the recent albums a second or third listen through adds up

04.12.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*Star Wars voice* somehow Taylor Swift returned to number 1 (I’m actually very surprised by this because I wasn’t sure she’d be top 5 at all)

03.12.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"the fans get sad" who cares

03.12.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(remember that the point is to win games)

03.12.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Job Posting: San Diego Padres - Intern, Sports Science The San Diego Padres are hiring.

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01.12.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

Padres are hiring Sport Science interns. Very important roles for us w/ boots on the ground data collection and application!

01.12.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah you wouldn’t keep em out nor would you surely keep out a team who beat both huh

30.11.2025 06:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reverse A&M beating the bottom SEC teams!

29.11.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

at the end of the day I want to care about three games: A&M, OU, Arkansas and not worry about how much a quality loss matters

29.11.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Beat Florida stop being a loser Sark

29.11.2025 04:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wish the 12-team playoff did not exist

29.11.2025 04:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Hook’Em 🀘

29.11.2025 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Revellie can’t come to DKR because A&M AIN’T GOT THAT DAWG IN EM

29.11.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

results > process

29.11.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How soon can Dia Bell put in the burnt orange

29.11.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it is funny how it’s only ever β€œthis A&M player never got offered / recruited by Texas and wants to prove them wrong” and never the reverse…

29.11.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d be surprised if there were two different broadcasts?

23.11.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

sure, the account for a new league having 0 tweets on the day of their β€œdraft” is uh not how I’d do things *personally*

21.11.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#WPBL NEWS β€” I asked the PR director for clarity over the use of past tense, indicating that the draft has already happened ahead of the draft this evening.

"Correct, the players have already been selected for teams," the WPBL PR director told me. "They are not chosen in real time tonight."

20.11.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 11

hmmmm I don’t like that I explicitly remember watching the new to the ballot players play, is this what getting old is

18.11.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...

02.11.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 180    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7

the ball does not tell a falsehood

02.11.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

pitch clock and commercial timing exist and should be enforced

02.11.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the rules are the rules

02.11.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of Guerrero Jr showing his back sporting a Poulin jersey.

A picture of Guerrero Jr showing his back sporting a Poulin jersey.

01.11.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 40

ball is *physically* on the field of play and not behind anything (Ivy, etc)? Playable

01.11.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

genuinely one of the worst calls I’ve seen made on a field

01.11.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The words to describe how much of a loser move to call that a dead ball do not exist

01.11.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

something refreshing about unfollowing someone for writing a 20-grade article on a baseball topic you know a lot about rather than the usual reasons to unfollow someone these days

20.10.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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