Ben Gellman-Chomsky
@benjgc.bsky.social
Sportscaster in MiLB and beyond. Working to put the best commentary in the game at @MLBTheShow. Let's talk. Opinions my own. Protect trans kids.
If you watched the Last Week Tonight ep this week about felony murder, here’s a life that was almost snuffed out by that awful legal wrinkle.
A man who was set to be executed — for a killing his brother admitted to — has been granted clemency at the last minute
Tremane Wood Spared From Execution In Shocking Decision
His case marks only the second time Gov. Kevin Stitt has commuted a death sentence since entering office in 2019.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If you watched the Last Week Tonight ep this week about felony murder, here’s a life that was almost snuffed out by that awful legal wrinkle.
Vinyl records enthusiasts: what is your Holy Grail, white whale, “I don’t own this know but someday I must have it” LP?
For me, it’s an original pressing of Donny Hathaway’s live album. Digital is already sensational, but I bet it really comes alive on a turntable.
For me, it’s an original pressing of Donny Hathaway’s live album. Digital is already sensational, but I bet it really comes alive on a turntable.
Donny Hathaway - Live
Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Live by Donny Hathaway. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Vinyl records enthusiasts: what is your Holy Grail, white whale, “I don’t own this know but someday I must have it” LP?
For me, it’s an original pressing of Donny Hathaway’s live album. Digital is already sensational, but I bet it really comes alive on a turntable.
For me, it’s an original pressing of Donny Hathaway’s live album. Digital is already sensational, but I bet it really comes alive on a turntable.
Good. Can we arrest Pave Dortnoy too on the charge of general awfulness?
Dave Portnoy's antisemitic heckler was arrested in Mississippi for disturbing the peace.
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Dave Portnoy's alleged antisemitic heckler arrested in Mississippi
The Starkville Police Department have reportedly arrested the man who allegedly yelled antisemitic remarks at Barstool founder Dave Portnoy.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Good. Can we arrest Pave Dortnoy too on the charge of general awfulness?
TIL that Rhea Seehorn pronounces her first name “Ray” and not “REE-uh” and I am shook
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
TIL that Rhea Seehorn pronounces her first name “Ray” and not “REE-uh” and I am shook
If the price on Mitch Keller isn't close to what one of Joe Ryan/Pablo Lopez/Freddy Peralta/Sandy Alcantara would cost, he might be a really good option. Didn't see that coming.
If a pitcher is coming to Fenway Park, which ones give up Air Pull to right-handed batters?
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
If the price on Mitch Keller isn't close to what one of Joe Ryan/Pablo Lopez/Freddy Peralta/Sandy Alcantara would cost, he might be a really good option. Didn't see that coming.
More people need to see this “dog breeds as baseball players” skeet I made last night so here you go.
Jimmie Foxxhound
Ichiro Suh-Poochie
Rudy Yorkie
Ellis Barks
Fido Marberry
Airedale Murphy
Akita Hernandez
Basenji Gil
Bernese Mountain Dog Williams
Curt Bloodhound
Pedro Boerboel
Matt Cane Corso
Kerry Blue Wood
Leonberger Day
Saluki Betts
Schipperke Jones
Zack Wheaton Terrier
Tornjak-ee Robinson
Ichiro Suh-Poochie
Rudy Yorkie
Ellis Barks
Fido Marberry
Airedale Murphy
Akita Hernandez
Basenji Gil
Bernese Mountain Dog Williams
Curt Bloodhound
Pedro Boerboel
Matt Cane Corso
Kerry Blue Wood
Leonberger Day
Saluki Betts
Schipperke Jones
Zack Wheaton Terrier
Tornjak-ee Robinson
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
More people need to see this “dog breeds as baseball players” skeet I made last night so here you go.
How I wish I was still her constituent.
Both Senate Democrats and Republicans have failed in their responsibility to address the health care crisis and rein in a dangerous president who consistently ignores Congress’s authority and the rule of law. This “deal” is offensive to the American people and I won’t support it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
How I wish I was still her constituent.
Dammit I just got read for filth here
Veneers so white they got Hamilton on vinyl
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Dammit I just got read for filth here
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
Just called my senators (in California!) and strongly urged them to vote against the deal and get their colleagues to oppose it too, for all the good my pleading will do
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Just called my senators (in California!) and strongly urged them to vote against the deal and get their colleagues to oppose it too, for all the good my pleading will do
This is Atticus Sappington’s moment
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This is Atticus Sappington’s moment
I would love Steven Toast discussing Star Wars
BBC ANNOUNCER VOICE: Lewk. Layer. Hann. And of course Chyewbacker. You’ve seen their many travails through the coz-moss at the cinemah
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I would love Steven Toast discussing Star Wars
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I'm daring y'all to put a college logo on my face that I detest to help #ExtraLife break a world record on Saturday.
That's right, I'm poking the Michigan money cannon. I don't believe it's real.
That's right, I'm poking the Michigan money cannon. I don't believe it's real.
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I'm daring y'all to put a college logo on my face that I detest to help #ExtraLife break a world record on Saturday.
That's right, I'm poking the Michigan money cannon. I don't believe it's real.
That's right, I'm poking the Michigan money cannon. I don't believe it's real.
Post you from a different era. Me with two friends (just out of frame, laughing) in Hartford, CT, getting ready to weep at the Sufjan Stevens show on the Carrie & Lowell tour in 2016
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Post you from a different era. Me with two friends (just out of frame, laughing) in Hartford, CT, getting ready to weep at the Sufjan Stevens show on the Carrie & Lowell tour in 2016
My 15-month-old daughter put the shapes through the right slots on her toy bucket today, y’all can’t tell me nothing for the rest of the week
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
My 15-month-old daughter put the shapes through the right slots on her toy bucket today, y’all can’t tell me nothing for the rest of the week
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An observation: “pivot to video” as a model of content delivery caught fire ten years ago. This year has seen a rash of columns fretting about the United States becoming an illiterate society. Funny. I wonder whether there could be a connection between these two phenomena.
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
An observation: “pivot to video” as a model of content delivery caught fire ten years ago. This year has seen a rash of columns fretting about the United States becoming an illiterate society. Funny. I wonder whether there could be a connection between these two phenomena.
I haven’t been in the Dodger Stadium press box, so I don’t know how close it is from the booth to a toilet, but that’s incredible. Vin switched from water to sucking on Jolly Ranchers in his later years to keep from having to pee. I have broadcast bathroom break stories from my minor league days.
Joe Davis may have had the most epic performance in the 18 inning World Series game.
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Joe Davis didn't pee during epic 18-inning World Series marathon
Joe Davis stayed in the booth for all 609 pitches of the six-hour, 39-minute World Series Game 3 without leaving to use the bathroom.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I haven’t been in the Dodger Stadium press box, so I don’t know how close it is from the booth to a toilet, but that’s incredible. Vin switched from water to sucking on Jolly Ranchers in his later years to keep from having to pee. I have broadcast bathroom break stories from my minor league days.
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I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.
you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.
As a Jewish parent of a young child, it’s pretty swell seeing her happily devour my homemade matzo ball soup
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
As a Jewish parent of a young child, it’s pretty swell seeing her happily devour my homemade matzo ball soup
[extremely Home Improvement grunt noise]
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678... Rockies to hire Browns’ Paul DePodesta as head of baseball operations: Sources
Rockies to hire Browns' Paul DePodesta as head of baseball operations: Sources
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November 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
[extremely Home Improvement grunt noise]
Hearing @surber.bsky.social mention Kyle Parker while going off on Clemson on a recent Fullcast reminded me that he played pro baseball, too, and was in the first MiLB game I ever called back in 2011. Here’s my scorebook; Parker wasn’t even the only quarterback in the game (Russell Wilson!)
November 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Hearing @surber.bsky.social mention Kyle Parker while going off on Clemson on a recent Fullcast reminded me that he played pro baseball, too, and was in the first MiLB game I ever called back in 2011. Here’s my scorebook; Parker wasn’t even the only quarterback in the game (Russell Wilson!)
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 17th pitcher to be Opening Day starter & be on the mound for the final play of the World Series that year
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 17th pitcher to be Opening Day starter & be on the mound for the final play of the World Series that year
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Look, I know a lot of Jews who, having seen anti-Zionism increase antisemitism’s acceptance in America, don’t want an anti-Zionist mayor. I can understand that. But if you can’t find a way to say “I support his affordability policies and will be watching him on the other stuff,” get out of politics
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Look, I know a lot of Jews who, having seen anti-Zionism increase antisemitism’s acceptance in America, don’t want an anti-Zionist mayor. I can understand that. But if you can’t find a way to say “I support his affordability policies and will be watching him on the other stuff,” get out of politics