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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 26m

The Sultan of Squat does it again: www.lookoutlanding.com/game-recap/1...

With conviction, Bryce Miller, Cal Raleigh, and the Seattle Mariners win ALCS Game 1, 3-1

A brilliant start yields a brilliant start.

www.lookoutlanding.com

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Daniel Biss @danielbiss.bsky.social · 11h

ICE was once again a presence in Evanston and Rogers Park this AM, with masked men taking multiple members of our community off the street. Here are a few things you can do right now to stay safe and help protect your neighbors

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14h

Are the Colts warming up by playing Red Rover or something

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 14h

Aaron Glenn! (Who, as you’d guess, specializes in defense. So he just needs to fire his OC and start over is all.)

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 16h

Most two-out, two-strike home runs in a postseason, pitch-tracking era (s. 2008):

2020 Dodgers - 7
2024 Yankees - 6
2020 Rays, 2009 Phillies, 2017 Astros and Yankees, 2021 Braves, 2025 Brewers* - 4

*have only played 5 games

Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 17h

I'll make this an article at some point soon, but I have to gush a minute:

The #Brewers had 10 two-out, two-strike hits (four of them homers) in the Division Series. It's hard to convey more succinctly how incredible that offense is.

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 17h

In the three games the Brewers won, 12 of their 19 runs scored on hits with two strikes and two outs. Twelve. Of. Nineteen.

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 17h

I'll make this an article at some point soon, but I have to gush a minute:

The #Brewers had 10 two-out, two-strike hits (four of them homers) in the Division Series. It's hard to convey more succinctly how incredible that offense is.

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 17h

And they posted this, to clarify things. 😆 bsky.app/profile/brew...

Milwaukee Brewers (Bot) @brewersbot.bsky.social · 1d

No it is NOT AI

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 18h

Can’t have been a good enough sandwich or it’d have weighed down that BAC more

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago Bob ain’t fuckin around

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 18h

A 32-year-old man spent a substantial amount of time talking to a computer to get to the chat-up line “Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you,” and I think we’re supposed to view him as a representative sample of the population. Which, if so, just bring me the damn meteor.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 23h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Jim Goulart @masshaas.bsky.social · 18h

Cool storyline to watch - #Brewers Sal Frelick (1st round, 2021) and #Dodgers RHP Emmet Sheehan (6th round, 2021) were three-year teammates at Boston College. Pretty good chance they face each other at least once in the NLCS.

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote about the biggest win by a #Brewers team since 1982, and how their victory seemed to symbolize—piece by piece—the way they've established themselves as a legitimate NL powerhouse. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

The Milwaukee Brewers Are Going to the National League Championship Series

In a thrilling and tense but not actually all that close Game 5, the Milwaukee Brewers inscribed on history's tablets what they'd already proved over a six-month marathon: they're the best team in the...

brewerfanatic.com

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 19h

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Put your baseball knowledge to the test! Immaculate Grid is a daily trivia game powered by Sports Reference. Come back for a new MLB grid challenge every day!

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1st Viscount Craigavon @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 19h

I think this series is closer than PECOTA projects, but perhaps more tilted than Matt thinks. Not surprising the model prefers the team with the better DRC+ and DRA-. Of course there's more to the game(s) than that.

Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 19h

I had the NLCS preview for @baseballprospectus.com, which was a delight. I haven't been this pumped for an NLCS since 2009, when it felt like Phillies and Dodgers had been on a collision course all summer. PECOTA is begging for order; it can keep begging. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

NL Championship Series Preview: Punching Up | Baseball Prospectus

Congratulations, Pat Murphy, PECOTA hasn't changed its mind.

www.baseballprospectus.com

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 19h

"or so it seemed."

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 19h

I had the NLCS preview for @baseballprospectus.com, which was a delight. I haven't been this pumped for an NLCS since 2009, when it felt like Phillies and Dodgers had been on a collision course all summer. PECOTA is begging for order; it can keep begging. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

NL Championship Series Preview: Punching Up | Baseball Prospectus

Congratulations, Pat Murphy, PECOTA hasn't changed its mind.

www.baseballprospectus.com

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 20h

Jack KILLED his postgame piece from The Ueck. Loved it so much.

Brewer Fanatic @brewerfanatic.com · 20h

Going into an NLDS matchup against their division rivals, the Brewers needed the right pitchers to hold serve and to hit enough home runs when it mattered most to move on. Both of those things happened in Game 5, sending them to their first NLCS since 2018. #brewers #milwaukee #thisismycrew

With Timely Power and Continued Contributions from Rookie Pitchers, Brewers Conquer Cubs—and Their Playoff Demons

Going into an NLDS matchup against their division rivals, the Brewers needed the right pitchers to hold serve and to hit enough home runs when it mattered most to move on. Both of those things happened in Game 5, sending them to their first NLCS since 2018.

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 20h

Craig Counsell, if we're being honest, blew it. He was given a slightly insufficient roster and too little margin for error, and the #Brewers just outplayed the #Cubs when it mattered, but also, the big-money, Managers Matter free-agent star got outmanaged. northsidebaseball.com/news-rumors/...

Too Late, Too Little: Cubs Washed Out of NLDS by Better Brewers Team, as Pat Murphy Outmanages Craig Counsell

Craig Counsell lost all his staring contests, and he lost one too many big gambles. The manager who was supposed to save the Cubs when they were (just very slightly) outmatched couldn't close that gap...

northsidebaseball.com

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t know! I haven’t seen the show in 10 years! I suspect, though, that (like everything else on ESPN) it’s basically just a football show now. So, whatever.

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 1d

I would have *guessed* it was, but I did not *know* the SC Top 10 was even still a thing. What’s SportsCenter like these days? Does it feel like they even try or is it aware that it’s a dead show walking?

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 1d

This is what the biopic is about actually. They wanted to censor this footage. And honestly, maybe just let them have that one.

timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 1d

I'm hyperventilating www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOoz...

Monster Mash - Bruce Springsteen - Rochester, Oct. 31, 2012

YouTube video by BlackLabProductions

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote about the biggest win by a #Brewers team since 1982, and how their victory seemed to symbolize—piece by piece—the way they've established themselves as a legitimate NL powerhouse. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

The Milwaukee Brewers Are Going to the National League Championship Series

In a thrilling and tense but not actually all that close Game 5, the Milwaukee Brewers inscribed on history's tablets what they'd already proved over a six-month marathon: they're the best team in the...

brewerfanatic.com

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 1d

Will we see a Brewers-Mariners World Series? The reason the Mariners exist is because of the Brewers — who began life in Seattle as the Pilots and were sold to a Milwaukee ownership group just weeks before the 1970 season began: sabr.org/journal/arti...

Seattle Pilots spring training program from 1970. The franchise began spring training as the Pilots but officially became the Milwaukee Brewers on April 1. (Courtesy of David S. Eskenazi)

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