Of all the crappy types of roster moves, the DFA of a relief pitcher who just saved your bullpen by mopping up over multiple innings has to rank near the top. #Brewers
Bob Wait
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Milwaukee w/Pittsburgh & Wash. D.C. stops, Upstate NY origins. MLB (Brewers); NHL (Penguins, Capitals); ECAC hockey (Dartmouth, RPI). Former (?) math geek. Raised on Tom Lehrer; schooled on Monty Python.
I don't know spit from shinola about FIFA and the business of international football, but from the headlines it reads like Infantino has been taking meetings with Edwin Akufo.
I tried to write a Hermes joke, but I'll just have to wing it.
MU-Peter Shimon 🀄@mu-peter.bsky.social · last mo.I have a joke about Oedipus, and yes, it's a your momma joke.
The good news is the N95 masks seem to filter out some of the wildfire smoke, as reported. There's a huge difference in smoky smell with and without the mask.
Glad you all enjoyed the Home Run Derby. We rewatched the first episode of Zen. Our Italian vacation. IMDb: Zen (2011) www.imdb.com/title/tt1618...
France v Morocco ref looks like Christian Yelich. Apropos of nothing
After the defenders clear the ball upfield, I keep expecting them to go for a line change. #confused
Incredible! I wonder if they will make a movie about this match, Miracle Not On Ice.
Tired: "Bobby Bonilla Day", heh heh heh. Wired: A million a year? He's getting rooked! Inspired: Eliminate the FICA cap on taxable earnings, even on Bobby Bonilla Day.
Me: If England doesn't win... Everyone Else: Don't say it Me: ...today's World Cup match, they will... Everyone Else: For the lovva pete, don't say it Me: ...be real ghanas Everyone Else: FFS, dude
Clearly, the markets disapprove of the Giannis trade. S&P off nearly 1%.
#Brewers take the first hole in this 9-hole match play contest.
Unpopular opinion: I don't hate the ghost runner extra innings rule during the regular season.
Apparently my best chess.com strategy is to blunder early, wait for my equally rated, inept opponent to miss the opportunity to take advantage of it while I make sidestepping escape moves, and then checkmate them without realizing it.
Kids, what's the first thing to do when you enter a hotel room for the first time? Wrong! You check to see if someone has pre-set the alarm clock next to your head to go off at 5:25 a.m. at full, fire-klaxon volume. Also, how to shut it off, thus preventing your piercing the air with a second alarm.
I was just saying this to someone at the pregame tailgate
Science Magazine@science.org · 5mo agoA two-step mechanism may shape how Wnt ligands induce different responses in cells depending on which coreceptor interacts with the receptor Frizzled—a discovery that may inform research into selective modulators of the Wnt pathway. #ScienceSignaling https://scim.ag/4mf3CwN
Congrats to Dartmouth Men's Hockey, 2026 ECAC tournament champions! Surpassed the 1979 and 1980 squads that finished second in the East during my college years. Makes this WDCR/WFRD sportscasting alumnus very happy. On to the Regionals!
Still recall a Joe Garagiola feature about baseball in Italy that aired on the Today Show in the 1970s. "Error-e! Error-e!" shouted the exuberant fans in unison, like a football chant. Congrats!
Thanks, hon! Game's already a barnburner, would have been a total crusher to miss it! How could I have slept throughzzzzzzzzzzz
J.A. Jablonski | Resolute Death out this fall!@jajablonski.bsky.social · 6mo agoWoo-Hoo! I get a gold star ⭐️ for waking up beloved spousal unit (an inveterate night owl 🦉) in time to watch the US v Canada gold medal 🥇 ice hockey game. 🏒🥅 #MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics #MensIceHockey
RIP Bill Mazeroski, HOF second baseman for the #Pirates. I'm reliably informed that I was in the crib listening to the radio broadcast when he hit his Game 7 walk-off home run to defeat the Yankees in the 1960 World Series. I trust my source.
Nobody at the IOC: Absolutely nobody at the IOC: Me: "Halfpipe Monobob" IOC: ...so, more Curling, then
After which time, ageism in the Cretaceous job market took its toll.
New Scientist@newscientist.com · 7mo agoThe largest ever analysis of Tyrannosaurus rex fossils suggests the giant and fierce Cretaceous predator was a late bloomer, taking 35 to 40 years to reach maturity
Said it before: a penalty shot foul in hockey should result in a penalty shot *plus* two-minutes in the box.