i think a lot of people never really understood destiny and that's OK, but at its core it was an FPS with perfect mechanics that you could very easily play with friends and that could be as hard or as easy as you wanted it to be.

pirates preparing to serve up an absolutely infuriating loss tonight

if you are curious what lawrence's problem is it appears to be "sinker not sinking"

someone recently (i apologize for not remembering who) pointed out Mattson's fastball has a very different movement profile this year than in the past and it's very apparent on his savant page: baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-playe... (less rise, more arm-side movement)

they really have no choice but to start giving innings to dotel, bidois, etc. at this point and hoping for something to change, but the way they buried mattson very quickly is interesting given how bad the bullpen is and how bad other guys are struggling (coughjustinlawrencecoughcough)

let's check in on the pirates seas--ah, well, at least brandon lowe will be getting paid and we'll miss him a lot when termarr johnson is terrible next year

Don Kelly would be better at managing his bullpen if his bullpen was filled with better pitchers.

it's time contract the pirates

*crossing evan sisk's name off the list* **every name is crossed off the list now**

cannot recover from getting struck out a million times by matthew fuckin liberatore and having a crowd of several dozen take over your TV broadcast with obnoxious chants

henry davis's bat is not playable

pedro's career was a mixed bag but goddamn do i miss this swing

the rivalry got killed when they moved the Pirates out of the NL East, the Pirates and Phillies were the top two teams in the division for most of the late 1970s and anyone that remembers a rivalry between the two teams is remembering that

Santana is cooked

This weekend feels like the Jerry Meals game for this team

What’s happening to science in the US now? In the future? 20% fewer grad students at MIT sums it up well Our future is fewer scientists, patents, cures, discoveries Less growth, less progress, less knowledge

my favorite part about this is learning Stanford students think taking proctored exams is antiquated

I always enjoy reading @adamgretz.bsky.social on the Buccos, especially this one about lagging attendance. You can’t spend the better part of 33 years as the epitome of The Losing Baseball Franchise, then expect the populace to immediately buy tickets for a weeknight in May. Doesn’t work.

we are on an irreversible collision course with craig kimbrel taking the mound as a pirate

updating this: I am the Pirates' closer now

This team is going nowhere with this bullpen

Welp back to Santana as closer I guess

They play way more Limp Bizkit at PNC this year than anyone should be comfortable with

Think you know what's happening in the 2026 baseball season? Allow me to transport you to May 14, 2025. bandwagon.ghost.io/catch-them-i...

meant to mention this while it was happening but a double-lefty-opener scenario is fascinating to me

i hope it's the song he wrote for the destiny soundtrack

would be awesome to see endy stay healthy and get back on track

gotta go all-in while paul skenes is still in town; it's this year or next year or never.

gimme six more to feel OK about this one

the universe owed oneil cruz that one

‪ bryan reynolds' arm is the baseball equivalent of a bb gun at a rigged boardwalk shooting gallery at this point, absolutely no idea where the ball is going to go, how hard he threw it, or even what direction it's headed in

this the shit I been up to

it gives me no pleasure to announce that running hard around through second and straight to third to try to avoid a force out has been unanimously ruled "some duke-basketball-ass shit."

i think my favorite part about this is that it's so confusing that the crowd starts booing because they just assume someone on the bases has done something dumb

still not entirely clear on how that play resulted in two runs and zero outs

Anyone else's Pirate broadcast on SNP look like this once every inning lately

challenging a pitch with ozuna up in the second inning is bait

another pirate pitcher throwing a no-hitter before paul skenes this year would make him so mad he'd somehow find a way to level up again

paul skenes has allowed 25 hits in 50 innings this year and he hasn't walked a batter in over a month

unless i've counted slightly wrong i believe paul skenes currently has 40 strikeouts since his last walk

Paul Skenes is the first pitcher with 8+ scoreless innings and no more than two hits allowed in consecutive starts since Max Scherzer in 2015. The last Pirates pitcher to do it was Steve Blass in 1968.

I'm being dead serious, they need to fire Kelly if he can't rein them in from these dumb challenges

He's facing the Rockies tonight so he just decided they're all going to have to strike out. The sidequest theory Pat has put forward, that this guy is just bored, continues to gain market share

Good morning. I profiled Amy Wallace, the only sibling of David Foster Wallace. I don't think you need to know much about David (or his work) to understand how his sister saw him — and how he loved her.

me: finally made it to nibelheim! i wonder how they'll handle it here. ffvii rebirth: ok but first have you considered that maybe you'd like to spend 30 minutes throwing a radish at a chocobo to guide it through some cacti

[guitar riff] SCOTTY DOESN'T KNOW THAT FIONA AND ME

everyone always singles out assassin's creed and ubisoft for insane open world bloat (not incorrectly) but the worst example of it i've ever encountered is final fantasy vii: rebirth

just saw the end of the game, Brown spent another 11 innings gassing up O'Hearn's defensive abilities for some reason, and then this

This bullpen sucks

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