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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version)

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Eight-time winner of PEOPLE's Sexist Man of the Year award, three-time AL MVP, recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, third grade spelling bee finalist. Formerly a baseball words guy at FanGraphs and Sports Illustrated.

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 36m

At long last we finally have an explanation for the origin of this incredible and historic internet moment
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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 2h

I was hoping someone would run the numbers on the Shohei Ohtani IBB ahead of Mookie Betts in last night's Brewers-Dodgers game, and @matrueblood.bsky.social did just that to great effect brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Should Brewers Have Pitched to Shohei Ohtani in the 9th Inning of Game 1?

As it turned out, the Brewers' inability to keep the Dodgers off the board in the top of the ninth inning of Game 1 of the NLCS made all the difference in the game. Could different management of the s...

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 2h

Who needs local weather when you can get the 248th warmed over opinion column about how Government Spending Is Bad, Actually

ɹǝpuɐxǝlɐ @chaserate.bsky.social · 2h

At this point the only real sell for it is the weather section, which is maybe the best out there, and even that is under threat

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 2h

Anyway it's really great that Bezos was able to take a venerable newspaper and journalistic institution and turn it into the 21st century version of Henry Ford's The Dearborn Independent but with less (or at least more moderated) antisemitism all because people suggested he pay more than $0 in taxes

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 2h

Some of that is the rancid arrogant Brit leadership he imported whose default is Murdoch-lite, some of that is the personal interest he has in using the Post to launder his anti-regulation beliefs, and some of it is staying on Trump's good side, but it adds up to a product that no one wants or needs

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 2h

Bezos' (apparent) strategy of turning the Post into an unholy amalgam of the Times, the Wall Street Journal's op-ed section, and a center-right British daily turns out to appeal to a vanishingly small slice of US readership (and ~zero DC/MD/VA residents who care way more about local news/sports/etc)

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 20h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 3h

"Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier?"

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 15h

Intentionally walking Shohei Ohtani to face Mookie Betts is the baseball equivalent of @grantbrisbee.bsky.social’s “double Durant, double Curry” tweet

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 16h

Fredward "Freddie" Freeman

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 16h

"what the fuck just happened"

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 16h

Real underrated part of that Brewers double play is Sal Frelick uncorking a perfect relay throw to the cutoff man despite the fact that he had no apparent idea what was going on

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 16h

It makes perfect sense if nothing else

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 17h

When the edible hits way too fast

Sal Frelick looking deeply confused after Milwaukee's wacky double play

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 17h

Bailed out by the wackiest least improbable double play imaginable

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 17h

First guess: Not sure why Pat Murphy isn't going to his best lefty to face Max Muncy here

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 17h

Spinning out over the spelling of her first name

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 22h

Still from the movie Captain Phillips showing the pirate leader pointing at himself with two fingers with text that reads "Look at me, I'm the Hut now"

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 18h

I’m far enough away from that Starbucks that I don’t hear the chanting and for that I am endlessly grateful

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 18h

I swear half this website works in lower Manhattan

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 18h

Since he's Canadian, why doesn't he spell it Josh Naylour

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 18h

He's Jason Jr until further notice

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 18h

"Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 am, Eastern Standard Time, August 29th, and immediately begins Remembering Some Guys."

Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 18h

Anyone else tune out of this game momentarily, look up at the screen, see "Vargas" pitching for Seattle, and also assume that Jason Vargas had apparently rematerialized on the Mariners like a cell undergoing mitosis

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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 20h

They both look like dudes who do their grocery shopping at a gas station

1st Viscount Craigavon @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 20h

logan gilbert vs blake snell could be the tiredest, most chinless matchup of all time

Bill Hanstock @sundownmotel.bsky.social · 20h

logan gilbert looks like if a pack of newports were a person (complimentary)

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