My opinion about uniforms in baseball specifically, due to the number of games, is "if it's once a year or something sure why not". I think it would be fun as long as we DO NOT OVERDO IT

I sincerely hope the players do not cave on a salary cap. The current luxury tax system is better for baseball as a product. This paragraph regarding the union's stance is one I agree with 100%. One of my baseball hobby-horses is myth about "small market teams can't compete".

The only thing I miss about Twitter is that occasionally a post would be so messy it would make it on the news. That was fun. Otherwise, I'll take bluesky.

I honestly forgot Jason Collins was an *active* openly gay NBA player, misremembered him as coming out after his career. What a legend in NBA and sports history. RIP, 49 is so horribly young

It's tempting to say all presidents care this little about the commoners but I do think the degree of Trump's disdain for non-rich folks is unique. I think past prez's viewed the well-being of the people as certainly negotiable, but vaguely "good", if only for their own legacy, and Trump doesn't.

I would have more time for this point of view if bsky was something that rose up and pulled people away from X, but for like, 90% (or whatever) of the user base that's not what happened. Bsky did not evolve into a thing that affected US political discourse, it was itself affected by it.

A lesson billionaires can learn from the "buy a media platform with the intent of controlling public opinion and influencing elections" playbook is it will go better if the thing you purchase has a user base of phone-addicted meme posters (twitter) rather than "people who read newspapers" (WaPo)

When I worked for the 'bux, Howard Schultz released a book and he gave a hardcover copy to every employee. I wonder if those counted as sales and if that made him a phony NYT Bestseller. Anyway, Seattle the 18th most populous city in America, I think business there is probalby fine if you don't suck

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my youtube algorithm really, really, REALLY wants me to know how great Michael Jackson was. What a great dude he was and what a hard life he actually had. Like, they REALLY want me to like Michael Jackson.

Checking in on the San Francisco Giants outfielders...

FLYERS DONE SIXERS DONE YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS

Very good point, anyway, we all know it's the goddamn hamsterdance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3G5...

I have a single ticket each for tonight’s Jays game and tomorrow’s Jays game. $20 each Tonight (home run champs tshirt giveaway) section 525, row 10 - $20 Tomorrow (loonie dog night) Section 515, row 11 - $20 Let me know if you’re interested!

Hot take: I like Kevin Barker's accent

At some point they're gonna need to do jerseys with this theme

*player hits a home run* Keegan: there goes another wet one

Hey calendar, you have one job

You mean, the guy that can't even post self-flattery under his mom's account without getting found out thinks Anthropic's security is top notch? Sign me up!

Here in Regina we organized sports in schools, a dream broker program in many schools for other programs, organizations like libraries that put on free activities & free EHRLO sports leagues (basketball, soccer, baseball, football & hockey) with equipment throughout the City ehrlo.com/sport-venture/

One thing I've learned about have a kid in organized sports is that it's commonly touted as being very expensive, but it honestly doesn't have to be. My kid's been on three teams, and one of them was significantly less than the other two because the coach cared about keeping costs down.

Let's see if this game is any fun. Here are the top 24 players all time in a specific statistical category on baseball reference. This is a career-wide stat. Check the alt text for the names if you don't recognize a face. What's the stat?

Full credit to Bisignano here, This is answer is not just long-winded and obfuscating; that's an old trick that everyone has caught onto. No, he's added another effective element: being so aggressively boring that the audience forgets what the question was.

Two things are true about this video: 1. it's 1:01 long but if you watch the first ten seconds, you really don't need to see the rest, it's exactly the same 2. you will watch all 1:01

my 11yo son: "I don't wanna go to school today" my wife: "If I have to go to work, you have to go to school" 11yo: "Then, don't go to work" wife, in an australian accent: "ah, I see you've played worky schooly before!"

My latest newsletter is about Tucker Carlson and his uncanny ability to con people. www.readtpa.com/p/dont-fall-...

lol well at least they can keep their challenge so it can not work again

it's gonna take me a long time to hear "gavin mckenna" and think hockey player, not proud boy

never knew the G in LGBTQ stood for gambling

Well, if I have to have Come On Baby Hot Dog Lunch in my head forever so do you

I think Ezra thinks he has to present a unique opinion in order to be compelling. I think he can't just have a simple, widely-held opinion and express that through his writing in a unique and interesting way, so he instead relies on twisting himself into wordy, nuanced pretzels in order to stand out

It is tempting to say "you wouldn't posit helping Americans quit Chemo as a noble effort" in response to this but like, of course he would.

Using LLM's to ask for facts is insane. For simple, straightforward ?'s it's only marginally faster than googling it yourself and can still make mistakes. Where it's really tempting to use it is requests that are more time-consuming and nuanced, but it's actually pretty bad at doing that reliably.

I don't think Platner is a secret Nazi, but regardless of how one feels about that, I don't know that he isn't going to keep opening the door for his opponents to walk through and dunk on him, whether it's from the right (probably in bad faith) or from the left (in much better faith)

In spite of my knee-jerk "fuck AI" bias, to a layman like myself it sounds plausible that this tech could be genuinely useful. It still sucks this news article, framed this way, is functioning as an ad for Open AI even if they're not technically involved.

I'm here you fuckaas bitch

In this house we just call this Tuesdays Nights At The Dome

Disposable income, perhaps?

Okay hear me out

Marit has made a habit of disappointing me, but this is an encouraging sign www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Me trying to count all the ways this is fucking stupid

even at his age and mental condition, it's incredible that he doesn't realize that the fact that no one else has ever had to do this cognitive test makes him look worse, not better

I don't have an answer to "how long should one sit in prison when their negligence directly killed 3 innocent kids" but I do have an answer for "should someone who drove drunk and killed 3 kids be allowed to drive again, ever" and the answer is, uh, fucking, no.

Ford comes in second only to you-know-who for ideas that are terrible even if you agree with the underlying politics of them.

Simmons might be a hack who happens to stumble ass-backwards into a correct opinion every once in a while, but this is not something he should be given begrudging props for. No matter how cathartic those questions might have felt to hear, he sucks for asking them and I'm glad Pelley didn't engage

Hey liberals. Don't do this. You can say that fascist enablers shouldn't be first ladies - but don't attack sex-workers with this stupid shit. They didn't do anything wrong. Melania is a lot of horrible things, the (no-evidence based) idea that she's a prostitute isn't one of them.

If you feel the urge to open the article to find out why this is the case - like, if you don't already instinctively know why - just, think about it for like ten seconds. You will get there!

Every time I open my mouth about AI I make sure my son knows it's mostly bullshit. I don't always have the time for the nuance of the narrow exceptions where it's useful. Over-correcting to "don't trust it for anything" is better than legitimizing it in elementary schools.

RFK Jr is one of the last people on earth that deserves any sympathy, but I don't like ableism and so I try very hard to keep his Spasmatic Dysphonia out my criticism of him. But I cant myself here: my dude, maybe podcasting is not the right medium for you.

This one hit me hard at the time and still hits hard 16 years later. He's been gone longer than I "knew" him but it feels like yesterday.