acceptable

Chad Moriyama@chadmoriyama.bsky.social · 23h ago

Tarik Skubal strikes out a pair in the 2nd.

"Rent free" doesn't even begin to describe it

fabianardaya.bsky.social@fabianardaya.bsky.social · yesterday

A sign is flying overhead at Wrigley Field. Looks like it’s supposed to say: “The Dodgers ruined baseball.”

"don't talk to me or my son again" but rangefinders

So wait, we traded Duran last year for Esteury Ruiz to the A's, who then released him at the end of the year and we resigned in FA, and now we trade him *again* for Bubic?

MLBers and Golden Tee, man. Funny to hear that Freddie is a god at the game, apparently.

Los Angeles Dodgers@dodgersbot.bsky.social · 3d ago

Tarik, meet your new teammates!

I still don't know what "can't afford" means. If an investment in an expensive baseball player goes sideways, how does that impact the owner of a baseball team or his family? Do people just not get the gap between "a baseball player's salary" and "the wealth involved in owning a sports franchise"?

Finally played Hi-Fi Rush - this is the kind of really solid 9/10 AA action game that studios like Naughty Dog cut their teeth on in the 90s and 00s, but because of how Big Corporate looks at game studios as either runaway hits or nothing, gets you shot in the head.

how can you not be romantic about baseball

Lookout Landing@lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 3d ago

Obsessed with Henry, today’s honorary Mariner at first base, who showed up in full Steelheads uniform with some sick cleats, much to the delight of Josh Naylor

I can't wait to hear the "but-but-but Dodgers bad" when the only contender in the NL that trades for starting pitching is us

Bob Nightengale@bnightengale.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Tampa Bay Rays are acquiring SP Freddy Peralta from the New York Mets, per sources.

I gotta wonder how much Boob reporting that "someone" told him the Dodgers are his first pick in FA (translation: "I'm a rental unless it's to the Dodgers") diminished the interest of other teams

I am begging you not to believe gazillionaire baseball owners when they tell you Skubal going to the Dodgers means we need a salary cap. Competitive balance is not the reason they want a salary cap. They just want to spend less, and with more predictability, on total payroll. That is all.

It's a positive mark of my baseball follows (and Bluesky in general) that I see nothing of "MLB lies about Dodgers prospect rankings" talk except when I look back at Twitter for news/salt

basically, the Dodgers turned Matt Beaty, Michael Busch, and $700k into Tarik Skubal it’s a high prospect cost, no doubt, but how they got here is wild

I think my favorite nervous baseball fan posts about this are fans joking about this being the trade for (INSERT MID-LEVEL EXPIRING CONTRACT), it's the right mix of humor and despair

Eric Stephen@ericstephen.bsky.social · 4d ago

it's that time of year

New Yorkers climing the ramparts to defeat the scourge of "not leaving leaking piles of garbage on the sidewalk

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

i propose a modest remedy: anyone who ever invokes the phrase "destroy the character of neighborhoods" or equivalent should be launched into the ocean by a trebuchet

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

Can't imagine why she is losing

Dustin May almost died from eating a salad without chewing enough and it punctured his esopahgus

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 5d ago

MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury

The bar exam is an inherently prejudicial requirement that locks out lower income individuals from becoming attorneys, tests nothing that law school accreditation and proper standards don't, and does nothing to prepare new grads for legal practice. Abolish the bar exam.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 6d ago

I wrote about the hotass mess that hundreds of recent law grads in Washington are going through for no good reason! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

One of the single most effective promotions of the LA Metro D Line expansion was this shirt, embrace the memes and *promote photogenic/talented people that are already excited about your thing*

Ride The D Unisex Heavyweight T-Shirt

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David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6d ago

Honestly I think the climate & clean energy world is too dominated by nerds preoccupied with Facts and Science. What they need to do is just hire a bunch of hot people to say nice things about clean energy online. Don't overthink it. Just hire hot people who know how to use selfie sticks.

If you weren't at the Daggerheart panel at GenCon, the secret is out! I've fallen off the face of the earth because I'm co-lead designing a setting book for Daggerheart!! It has been an absolute dream of mine and I get to work with some of the most amazing people in the world to bring it to life.

Look he literally has not lost a game this season with the Dodgers, can Skubal say that

Stephen Nelson@stephennelson.bsky.social · 7d ago

if Scott Harris calls and offers Skubal for Lauer+, then Andrew Friedman may have something to think about. Hard to move a guy when the team is 9-0 on days he pitches, 3 or fewer ER in each outing, 6+ IP in six of those games!! #analytics #tradedeadline #teehee

This is what I mean by "we suck at promoting what government does". The only people who know the progress that CAHSR construction has made are nerds that follow a few YouTube channels that do drone footage of the construction. How hard would it be for CA to do this and send occasional press kits?

Summer 2026 California High Speed Rail Construction Update - They're RAMPING Up!

YouTube video by mateosssss

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This is punishment for me wearing my Kiké jersey and Roberts not putting him in the game

They gave us the SuperBalls tonight

I finally gave in and got the baby cooler cocktail

jfc, no cap on construction and renovation costs? get a taxpayer check, renovate or build your ballpark with someone else’s money, then turn around and deduct the expense from “baseball revenue” if you’re a fan, and you’re on the side of the owners, you’re a fucking dope

your buddy Craig who works at 7-11 and is high all the time@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · last wk.

lol

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

unfortunately Dolby Vision often causes blindness due to science

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · last wk.

no one can explain what dolby vision is. no one knows if it can be played on a television or computer monitor. it's impossible to say whether you are experiencing dolby vision right now. it's a lot like the matrix in that way