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The dumbest guy in history | Fool Time, Part 4 of 4

January 1, 2026 at 4:50 PM

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Jon Bois

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FOOL TIME, part 4 of 4
"THE DUMBEST GUY IN HISTORY'
now free to watch on youtube

youtu.be/_HGk0WQF_Z4?...

How the MLB rulebook tried to keep baseball quiet and lonely | Secret Base

December 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM

Secret Base

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come for the weird rules, stay for the post about band of brothers

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Kobe and Shaq's super-hyped Christmas Day battle gets a deep rewind | 2004 Lakers vs. Heat

December 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM

Secret Base

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merry christmas to all who celebrate! if you are reading this you likely are looking for a distraction or break of some sort, so we’re here to support

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Slapstick and terror on the high seas | Fool Time, Part 3 of 4

December 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM

Secret Base

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thanks to all or your support alex has earned one (1) day off. unfortunately he has refused such generosity and remains in the content mines. merry dorkmas

Secret Base @secretbase.bsky.social · 13d

good morning from the Dorktown slack room

Seth Rosenthal
9:53 AM
craig hodges for his career shot a three point percentage of 0.39985795454
9:54
which is to say craig hodges might hate round numbers even more than alex
9:54
if he'd hit one more three-pointer in his career he'd be above 40 percent
9:54
and then there would be exactly 50 players in the 40 percent club
alex rubenstein
10:22 AM
one of these days, probably not in our lifetimes, society will focus on the point of all those anecdotes: to recognize the mere fact that there exists a number that someone reached which means X, Y, and Z, regardless of the level of roundness of that number (ie lets say an nba player had a certain number of career games scoring 30+ points, and that number of games wouldnt be a record, but if you change the threshold to 29 or 31, that unlocks a number of career such games that would be a record, who gives a rip? again, the point of the anecdote should be the acknowledgement that there simply exists a number that someone reached more than anyone or whatever, regardless of whether that number is 100 or 94.618 or 61.849)…or that someone has the most or fewest or 2nd-most or 2nd-fewest, etc. of something without feeling compelled to specifically tie it to a round number (ie if someone hits 71 dingers in mlb next season, it should obviously be framed as the 2nd-most anyone’s ever hit in a season as opposed to 1 of 3 players to hit 70+, which is obviously undermining the feat)

December 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM

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Jon Bois

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thank you for resurfacing this ancient lore www.sbnation.com/2014/12/30/7...

December 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM

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Jon Bois

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FOOL TIME, part 3 of 4
now free to watch on youtube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl4E...

Internet troubleshooting of the 1800s | Fool Time, Part 2 of 4

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December 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM

Secret Base

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congratulations ted turner! we did not jinx your life by recording this. new patreon exclusive video is live

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December 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM

Secret Base

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good morning from the Dorktown slack room

December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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Rodger Sherman

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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun

December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM

Secret Base

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shut it down. we've got a winner

December 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM

Secret Base

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working on a weird rules. or new merch. or both? idk anymore

December 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM

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kick rocks Glen Taylor

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December 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM

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Jon Bois

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FOOL TIME, part 2 of 4
now free to watch on youtube

youtu.be/WmC9fmEOwus?...

MLB has a counting epidemic | Secret Base

December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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omg is that Domantas Sabonis in there???

Arvydas Sabonis at the 1996 olympics with a basketball stuffed under his Lithuania jersey so it kinda looks like he has a pregnant belly. it's a bad joke but what are you gonna do

(Hans Deryk, AP)

December 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM

Secret Base

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pretty confident Alex just wrote the definitive piece on MLB players running when they really really really don't need to

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MLB has a counting epidemic | Secret Base

December 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM

Secret Base

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genuinely dumbfounded by the amount of work alex put into the latest dorktown column. he did it all just for you! treasure it! treasure him!

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Nick Saban: NFL failure, control freak ... GOAT

December 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM

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Steven Godfrey

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Also this very good @secretbase.bsky.social video showed up in my algorithm this week and I was really excited to watch it! Then I clicked on it and remembered I wrote it. 😑 youtu.be/tHYmX0MsgFg?...