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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 7h

[dodger fan showing up in the 7th inning] wow man this Yamamoto guy is a pretty good reliever

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 14h

I'm being petty

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 14h

I'll be petty about the Dodgers, too, if they're brave enough to give me the chance (cowards)

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 14h

to be clear both of these teams have annoyed me, personally, this year

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 14h

B-b-but the Brewers were supposed to be infallible geniuses

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 15h

I'm sorry but the people can't do small market, small payroll discourse with the national broadcast right now. (Lemon,) It's a Tuesday. No one is gonna do shots

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 15h

Be still, my Hart

slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 16h

Brewers postseason leadoff home runs:

Jackson Chourio 2025 NLCS G2
Jackson Chourio 2024 NLWCS G2
Corey Hart 2011 NLCS G6

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 16h

like there's a big difference, to me, between a standard DeCamara or Giglio take and...whatever the hell this is.

Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 16h

I actually don't think it is, even if the conversation is often dumb. But I do think that there baseball takes are generally terrible, lacking understanding of the league and modern approaches

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 16h

Hmmm a prominent Freddy Peralta curveball? Chourio ambushing a fastball from Yamamoto?? I WONDER WHERE YOU COULD'VE READ ABOUT THAT
www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

NLCS Game 2 Preview: What Can the Brew do in Game 2? | Baseball Prospectus

Game 1 was taut and wacky. What's Game 2 got on tap?

www.baseballprospectus.com

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 16h

ok FINE I'll write about Bryce Harper. Read it tomorrow by subscribing to Baseball Prospectus. Or don't, I'm not your dad (but it sure would be cool if you did)

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 16h

for real, man. Extremely "go hard or get out of the way" territory for me

Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 16h

I really don't like to dig at another person in the general field, but let's be real: The field is extremely limited at this point. it's only getting smaller, all the time. Having a job like this and mailing it in with specious claims and flaky commitment is insulting

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 17h

the effort to do this with Harper, in particular, would have to be Herculean. Loser energy off the charts

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 17h

Either you don't know basic details of the job, or have terrible phrasing. Whatever it is, you have serious work to put in before making any other public attempt at doing the job. Maybe start with showing up to the park more than a guy who lives two hours away and staying to watch a whole game

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 17h

2) The team can't "move on" from him. He has 10-and-5 rights. Maybe things get crazy and gross and sour and there's an ugly breakup. But the team isn't "moving on" from him. They can't.

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 17h

He answers questions post game, all the time, about himself an about the team. He listens carefully when he doesn't have to, even if he's not giving the quote of the year

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 17h

1) Bryce Harper *is* the culture. The entire team as we know it, the entire run they've been on, doesn't happen without him. Maybe *a* run of some sort happens, but not like this. And in my access to the team, he's in the clubhouse before the game more than pretty much anyone.

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 17h

Bryce is not beyond reproach and I have my concerns about his current plan of attack/deployment of skills but good lord, this is the worst possible way I could imagine cooking up a hot take about him, or any player

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 17h

I have to write tonight but man I am super distracted by a Phillies "reporter" questioning what Bryce Harper adds culturally to the team and saying the team could "move on" from him

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 18h

🎵This goddamn machine, hungry and heartless
My whole generation got lost in the margin
We put our faith in you and you turned a profit
Now we're drowning here under the waves 🎵

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRhd...

Cigarettes & Saints

YouTube video by The Wonder Years - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · 23h

Would anyone like to read something silly on @baseballprospectus.com

www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

The Shocking Shenaniganery of NLCS Game One | Baseball Prospectus

Chaos on ye olde ball field.

www.baseballprospectus.com

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 20h

Jarvis is the one who *really* wanted to be the tapdancing Christ, but dad just wouldn't let him

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 1d

What are the best baseball analytics articles you’ve read (or written) in 2025? Nominations are now open for the SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards: sabr.org/latest/seeki...

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 1d

If Daniel Radcliffe doesn't go as Double Play Sal Frelick for Halloween, I'll be beside myself

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