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Doug Gray

@dougdirt24.bsky.social

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I write baseball words for a living. Constantly tired and ready to retire. Here to make myself laugh.

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Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 14d

This worked for me. Tell your friends.

Tom Casavant @tom.tomkahe.com · 14d

Ohioans who, correctly, don't want to submit identification to bluesky, this may be useful:

https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528b3318

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 2h

*Kit Keller voice*

I like the high ones

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 2h

Disaster Commanders is my new band name.

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 2h

a woman says it 's okay , mouth words are hard sometimes

Alt: a woman says it 's okay , mouth words are hard sometimes

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Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 2h

Once again having a national conglomerate owning every newspaper in the country and not being able to figure out how to keep things local on the front freaking page of their websites is both hilarious and soul crushing.

A screenshot from the front page of the Cincinnati Enquirer that has a "shopping" section where the first story is for "Holiday gift ideas for Milwaukee Brewers fans starting under $30"

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 2h

If it was good enough for Rudi Stein....

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 2h

This is Brice Turang's fault. All he had to do was not get out of the way.

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 3h

Will it happen again?

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 7d

The full Blake Treinen experience, folks.

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 3h

And 0 GIDP after tonight, too.

We all saw the play.

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 3h

The Reds offense is the best in baseball

Jeff Passan @jeffpasan.bsky.social · 3h

Over his last two playoff starts, Blake Snell has thrown 14 innings, allowed two hits and struck out 19. He made the Phillies (eighth in MLB in runs scored) and Brewers (third) look positively feckless. When Snell is on, there are few better. A tremendous performance in Game 1.

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 3h

The coaching staff is all arguing about how there's no possible way you ground into a double play on a ball that hits the outfield wall before it hits the ground. Completely forgot about the possibility of kicking the field goal because of it.

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 3h

Marc, it's bad.

A tweet from @dril that says “and another thing: im not mad. Please don’t put in the newspaper that I got mad.”

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 3h

It doesn't really differentiate it from a fly ball double play.

It's just a different way to record two outs on a fly ball than typical when you say "he hit a fly ball that turned into a double play".

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 3h

Your honor, I do not like the rules of your court.

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 3h

As a matter of fact I have

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 4h

All the time. Just not about this.

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 4h

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 4h

This IS a data error because the folks at MLB who programmed things couldn't foresee a play like this happening, so there isn't an option to click a little box in their program to accurately label it. So now they are trying to tell you a lie about what happened.

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 4h

It's absolutely a data error. It is not correct. And anyone who suggests otherwise needs to be told so.

The ball hit the wall on the fly. Just because you turned that into two different force outs doesn't change that.

Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 4h

I will never stop looking at this. A 404 foot GIDP. (This is correct, it is not a data error.)

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 4h

Next time someone doubles off of the wall let's see what the PBP refers to it as. I will be you all of King Midas' Silver that it won't be labeled as "(Player) doubles on a ground ball"

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 7h

My Oh My

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 7h

a woman with a snl shirt on makes a funny face

Alt: A woman named Debbie Downer has an unimpressed look on her face

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Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 8h

I thought this game began at 6pm, not 5pm. Fortunately I was inside eating my first meal of the day (I am not a smart man dot gif) and saw that home run.

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 9h

a man with a beard stands in front of a microphone with the words i don t know how to read above him

Alt: a man with a beard stands in front of a microphone. He takes off his glasses and says "Uh, I told you.... I don't know how to read"

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Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 9h

That's what BIG TOURISM wants you to think!

Doug Gray @dougdirt24.bsky.social · 9h

I knew two guys that had 'em in the late 90's/early 00's and they were still killing it.