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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 4h

You don’t watch sports for your team to win, you watch sports because it’s nice to care about things! It’s nice to hope when you know you’re probably going to be disappointed.

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 4h

You don’t watch sports for your team to win, you watch sports because it’s nice to care about things! It’s nice to hope when you know you’re probably going to be disappointed.

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 4h

Saw someone in the subreddit saying they’ll care less about the regular season knowing the postseason is a different animal, and I just want to scream that they’re missing the point!!

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 4h

I really am more of a regular season fan. Of course I say this on what will probably be one of my most miserable days all year.

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 4h

There’s a part of me that kind of wants an old school MLB arrangement with just a World Series. I know it’ll never happen. I mostly just wish we could value the regular season more. The postseason should be a bonus, not the sole definition of whether a season is a success or failure.

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 6h

Feel like I’m losing my mind watching the whole Brewers subreddit clamor for a salary cap.

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 7h

As I’ve posted, I swear I’ve heard it two times in a row

Defector @defector.com · 7h

MLB has enough ads to fill about two commercial breaks, max, so you'll hear each of them at least a dozen times over the course of a single game. defector.com/the-mlb-app-...

The MLB App Won't Stop Forcing Me To Remember 9/11 | Defector

As a woman about town who loves baseball, I have followed a good deal of these playoffs with my trusty wired headphones, moving from place to place while listening to the games’ radio streams on the…

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 7h

Every defensive half inning in playoff baseball is agony.

Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 8h

I loved the first one of these and sure I’ll like this one. That said, the AI romance/body arc was the least interesting thing to me. Starting out with that here isn’t totally grabbing me.

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A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, foll...

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 1d

Baseball is not nearly as vibes based as other sports! And game-to-game performance is basically all luck. Still, the vibes are extremely bad and the hitters look lost.

Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 2d

NLCS not as bad as it looks, but boy does it feel bad

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 2d

Some really nice dominos being set up here. About halfway through and absolutely thrilled.

Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 2d

Ahh it’s a treasure hunt. Not much action in this one yet. Character stuff and the shoe leather is plenty to hold my attention though.

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 2d

Another notable thing is the political pragmatism of blacks and freedman. Favoring confiscation but opposing confederate disenfranchisement seems contradictory to my sensibility, yet it’s understandable from a truly democratic perspective. People don’t deserve land but they do deserve to vote.

Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 2d

I can take a little bit of pessimism. It just seems like the pessimism there takes the form of immediately demanding a salary cap or blaming players for short term performance.

Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm I will not be checking on the Brewers subreddit today. It’s a nice place after a win, but even in the regular season people immediately go to doom mode after a couple losses.

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 3d

The zone has been absolute trash tonight

Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 3d

The tragic characters of these Crais standalones are really something. Each main character is so flawed but sympathetic.

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 3d

lol 8-2 Double play

Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 3d

4/29/71 is an all time Dead show. That Alligator>Drums>Jam (St. Stephen teases)>GDTRFB>Cold Rain and Snow is so wonderful.

Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 3d

Unsurprisingly this is cooking so far. Crais has such a cinematic way of writing.

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 3d

If someone tells you there was some kind of harmony in the slavery south, just consider how adamant nearly all freedmen were about confiscation. It’s not just that slavery was awful and brutal, enslaved people were very aware of the exploitation of their labor in an economic and political sense.

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Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 4d

Baseball playoffs (and probably more sports) hack is to sync video with team radio feed. National broadcasters just don’t have the depth of knowledge the local guys have. I feel like I learn more about the teams.

Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 4d

The boarding school novel vibes are also a pretty special aspect of this.

Gordon Christen @gordonchristen.bsky.social · 4d

It’s becoming clear that Osman is stretching the long standing trope of elderly people using age to their advantage to the point of age being nearly a super power. I am here for it.

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