Are you looking for a distraction from the horrors of modern life? Try: watching baseball Starting now, for the next 6 months, 30 teams will play 2430 games (~2.5 hours each), for about 13 games/day. That’s 32 hours of baseball every 24 hours Your team lost? Sorry. They play again tomorrow 🔁

There is a version of Vientos that hits. We are not in it. #MetsSky

Ok I think I'm ready for the regular season now ⚾

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid

Good morning to team Venezuela and team Venezuela only

Back in YYZ Coffee first

Bottom of the strike zone is underground apparently. Lots of BS calls. 👎👎

Brazobán!

BUCK: Once again, Team USA refusing to shake hands with their opponents SMOLTZ: well, I like it. Old school. BUCK: Joining us today, someone who knows about old school contests, the poet Homer ὍΜΗΡΟΣ: Diomedes said he had no quarrel with his enemy SMOLTZ: what ὍΜΗΡΟΣ: traded his armor with one

#NowPlaying Verdi, Aida (EMI, 1974) Riccardo Muti conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden - Caballé • Domingo • Cossotto • Cappuccilli • Ghiaurov No elephants were harmed in the making of this recording 🐘 #OperaSky

#NowReading #BookSky Georges Bataille, Blue of Noon Everyone knows catastrophe is approaching. No one knows how to stop it. Correction: 1935. Probably nothing this time either.

#NowPlaying Verdi, Don Carlos (Claudio Abbado & La Scala for Deutsche Grammophon, 1985) Abbado restores Verdi’s five-act French conception for this. Grand opera just sounds better en français 😉 #OperaSky

Ron Darling: "There's still separation of powers?" Ooh! it's getting spicy in the booth and it's only yet spring training #LGM #MetsSky

Just finished Opera Wars by @caitlinvincent.bsky.social If you're interested in opera but suspect the official story is a bit too tidy, definitely give it a read. Not nostalgia, not doom-scrolling, just a lucid inside account of how the art form and industry really works #BookSky #OperaSky

I've got my #34 jersey and 2023 Kodai Senga Glow-In-The-Dark Ghost Forkball out in the hopes that a little extra JuJu for his first spring training start can summon back the Ghost Fork spirits. 👻⚾ #LGM #MetsSky

Bombs remove leaders. Hermeneutics removes legitimacy. If you actually want to topple scriptural fundamentalism, the most dangerous weapon isn’t a missile, it’s a seminar on historical-critical methods. Which is awkward when the people dropping the bombs are just as terrified of that seminar.

#PowerPopFriday #NowPlaying Van Duren's first LP: Are You Serious? (Big Sound, 1978) was picked up by London/Decca and released in the UK as Staring At the Ceiling (that's the one I've got). Van Duren writes power pop as if melody were a physical force. Incredible album. #VinylSky #PowerPop

I'll be in my office.

65/1001: The Monks, Black Monk Time (1966) #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying 🔊 “Alright my name’s Gary let’s go it’s beat time it’s hop time it’s monk time you know we don’t like the army what army who cares what army why do you kill all those kids over there in Vietnam... 1/

As a non-native in the UK I'm listening to this for the first time. Reaction? You people are an enigma to me. “Martian tripods have destroyed London, the Empire has fallen, civilization is ending. Anyway, here is Richard Burton with a calm, well-enunciated update, synthesisers and a disco beat.”

64/1001: Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde (1966) Climbing Mount Dylan you eventually arrive at the summit on album #7, side 1, track 3: Visions of Johanna. #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

63/1001: The Byrds, Fifth Dimension (1966) McGuinn's scattershot 12-string Rickenbacker noodling was reportedly inspired by "a heavy dose of Ravi Shankar and John Coltrane". Excellent source material but, as they say in legalese, "individual results may vary" 😂 #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

#NowPlaying Puccini, La bohème Mirella Freni (Mimì) & Nicolai Gedda 🎼 Recorded at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in 1962–63, conducted by Thomas Schippers boy meets girl, they fall in love, they quarrel, girl leaves boy, girl gets sick, they make up, girl dies - you know the drill #OperaSky

62/1001: Fred Neil (1966) The godfather of the emerging folk-rock scene in the Village. The first track is about searching for the dolphins - longing for another order of being. Then he left it all behind shortly after to dedicate his life to saving the dolphins. 🐬💕 #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

#PowerPopFriday Public Access T.V., Never Enough (2016) East Village power pop. No better place on Earth for it 🎶 "i don't wanna live in california..." 🎸 #VinylSky #NowPlaying #PowerPop

There's horny and then there's medieval cloistered Cistercian horny

I campaigned long and hard for this to be Alonso’s walk-up music, but he can’t have it now. It’s all yours, Bo. 🎸⚾ #LGM

61/1001: The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds (1966) #VinylSky #1001Albums #NowPlaying "I dreamed I had a halo..." - Brian Wilson in 1990

Jonah Tong's first ST start #LGM

60/1001: The Beatles, Revolver (1966) #1001Albums #VinylSky My old Canadian LP omits I'm Only Sleeping, And Your Bird Can Sing, and Doctor Robert so the whole thing clocks in at around a mere 27 minutes. Like some weird North American tracks tax. (Not to worry, got it on CD also) #NowPlaying

59/1001: The Who, My Generation (1965) #1001Albums #Vinylsky Who among us GenXers didn't have their brief teenage mod phase after renting Quadrophenia at Blockbuster? 🛵🇬🇧 🙄 #NowPlaying

58/1001: Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited (1965) No turning back now I guess .... #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

Jason Alexander got shellacked by the Metropolitans!

57/1001: The Byrds, Mr. Tambourine Man (1965) Basically a Bob Dylan cover band with some Gene Clark extras. The playing is less ropey on the single compared to the rest because it's actually LA studio musicians The Wrecking Crew backing McGuinn, not The Byrds 🤣 #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

Cold lampin’ with the gold medal champion. 🥇❄️

56/1001: Bert Jansch (1965) #1001Albums #NowPlaying #VinylSky While The Beatles were giving us Rubber Soul, a 21-year-old Scotsman walks into a London flat, records an absolute masterpiece album for almost nothing then sells the master tapes to Transatlantic Records for £100 and NO royalties... 1/2

55/1001: The Beatles, Rubber Soul (1965) This album can get overlooked but it's where the band really starts to click for me. Harmony becomes expressive not just decorative. Their first record that feels psychologically cohesive. Side 2 is a bit uneven though. #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

We were down in #thatLondon yesterday for Phelim (@openspacer.bsky.social) McDermott's 1950s Coney Island boardwalk staging of Così fan tutte and it was, frankly, spectacular. It will be back at the Met for the 26-27 season and a hard recommend from me! #OperaSky youtu.be/Yr7aGGGCfIU?...

The American hockey teams have inspired a generation of American parents to look up how much hockey costs and say, "Nope, forget it, we're not doing this."

How. Was. That. NOT. A. GOAL

Matinée in #thatLondon for Così fan tutte. Regency Love Island vibes but better ensemble singing. #OperaSky #ENO

Tiki time! 🗿🍹🧉

The Gen X urge to strike a pose, there's nothing to it.

well wowie zowie

Hooking! HELLOO!!!

54/1001: B.B. King, Live at the Regal (1965) #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying The honky-tonk piano appears on account of Duke Jethro's Hammond B3 organ breaking down before the gig. Honestly this probably makes all the difference.

53/1001: John Coltrane, A Love Supreme (1965) Tone poem for the ages. 🙏🙏 #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

Roy Orbison: “Love hurts” Tchaikovsky: "Hold my vodka" #NowPlaying #OperaSky Eugene Onegin Semyon Bychkov with Orchestre de Paris and St Petersburg Chamber Choir, recorded October 1992 (Maison de la Mutualité, Paris) and issued by Decca (📀1993)

52/1001: The Beach Boys, The Beach Boys Today! (1965) #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying My copy's a 1971 reissue on the British 'Music For Pleasure' budget label, with alternative title and cover art. The original mono tracks have been rechanneled for stereo effect, which sounded better in 71 😐