Stu F.

“Ah we'll be like the Tsars! they lasted longer and didn't have to deal with a parliament (mostly) & they were tough and (gets to Crimean War) oh but everyone ganged up on them they were still a power (gets to Russo-Japanese War) uhh, but look it's the 1900s & they're still in charge & … oh, oh no”

Garry Maddox being lifted up on the shoulders of Dallas Green and other coaches after catching the final out (and having driven in the go ahead run) in the 10th inning of Game 5 of the 1980 NLCS

RETVRN

hm, ah, but we crusty gen-x'ers still associate the powder blues with when they were the everyday road unis during/around the time of the 1980 WS (they were particularly magical when they had to win 2 out of 3 in Houston during the best NLCS ever played)

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Rob Zombie howl:
more homan than homan
more homan than homan
more hom

same folks will probably go apeshit if they don't/aren't able to resign Schwarber

to be clear I'll also melt down on that part of it, b/c as (sometimes crushingly) disappointing as it's been that the current group hasnt won a chip this is baseball, Harper & Schwarber are 32, the window isn't closed

This reads like something one could have read on Sputnіk immediately after Putin's tirade more than a decade ago about the bear wanting to be left alone but needing to defend itself from the piglets.

Trying to figure out even in its own context what they think the value added of this article is. There is not a single new piece of information or solitary not-already-bludgeoned-to-death specious argument made in there.
But lol at the extended explanation of proxy war as some obscure phenomenon

Screenshot of @skullmandible.bsky.social 's first ballot hall-of-fame tweet: Cohen is a ghost @skullmandible ••• most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns 6:50 PM • Dec 12, 2013 • Twitter for Android

Heartbroken at the thought that the exquisite majesty of one of the best tweets of all time might not resonate fully with the Polish people.

Maybe, thought that last year too, but it sure doesn't seem to have hurt Toronto very much!

Seems pretty clear that if this group does not in the end win a championship that games 6 & 7 vs. Arizona will be the moment they missed their last best chance.
(Parallel to but even more frustrating than e.g. Sixers game 7 vs. Raptors or Hawks, since Phils have been much closer.)

Can't get past how the threats being made against and the attempts to silence @mark-bray.bsky.social are couched in the rhetoric of feeling threatened and being silenced, a type of reversal that is … a classically fascist* rhetorical strategy!

(*to be fair at least equally also a Stalinist one)

Man, does this suck. Having met Mark/heard him give a talk the idea that he is some kind of antifa ogre is just so patently absurd, and yet that so patently does not matter.

phenomenal, he and derek guy are perhaps the two unexpected great accounts of the late stage twitter to bluesky era

I mean if he's supposed to be spying (and I don't think he was) wouldn't his job be to follow the QB laterally?

Really hoping @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social has one for this shot

Dude really tried to do “Obi Wan, now that's a name I've not heard in a long time” regarding Ghislaine f'cking Maxwell.

Yeah they were down to the end of their bench for a number of reasons (was PH'ing Stott for Sosa with two outs & nobody on in the 7th a good percentages move?)

(anyway, if you're going to bunt I'd probably take whoever your fastest relief pitcher is who hasn't run the bases in 8 years over Casty)

Yeah it's the no pinch runner if you're going to do that that kills me. The guy who just got a double only because he was too SLOW for the tag.

and without Schwarbs or Harper being involved in any way

Look Philly's always been a soccer town at heart.

that bunt will live in infamy man (and not pinch-running for Nick before it)

I’m on the very much yes side of this.

Azerbaijani & Yiddish is a phenomenal pairing. Imagining your traveling the Black Sea-Caspian region at the turn of the (previous) century, from Odesa to Baku.

They did! technically IIRC like draft and trade him in 2nd round.

And honestly both Furkans deserve a place on here, very sad.

Man in particular sad to see that TLC did not make the list. How can Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot not be on there!?!

Only saw parts of the game because traveling (missed the collapse thankfully) but while getting that situations dictate plays, only 6 rushing attempts for Saquon in a game that you are leading most of the way, well …

I dunno it may be that you can’t pass on every single play just spitballing.

Trump could have entered office, engaged in some corruption, let the GOP cut taxes for him, and played golf for four years, and left in 2029 a rich man.

But instead he put Stephen Miller in charge. And Stephen Miller doesn't want to be rich. Stephen Miller wants to do fascism.