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Benjamin Hoffman
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Senior Editor at The New York Times. Junior Parent in Connecticut. Oldest looking (but chronologically youngest) sibling from California.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 1d
My collection was built at library sales and garage sales and used record stores where you could get harder to find stuff for cheap. Every record my daughter buys is $40 and I just sit there baffled.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 3d
It kinda looks like Iggy has drained the life force out of Jack White to power himself for another 20 years
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 4d
Can confirm that a perfect baby can turn into a perfect toddler and perfect little kid and perfect big kid and perfect tween and perfect teen. Highly recommend good children and liking them.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 4d
Post you from a different era
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 9d
I think Hamilton is the ultimate proof that social media is not real life. Everyone hates it. It’s cringe. So much backlash. Can’t say good things about it or else.

Also it’s been making millions on Broadway for a decade, tours nationally and LMM became like the default musical guy.
lindsayellis.bsky.social Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 10d
are we allowed to talk about how Hamilton is good again yet or is that still, like, off limits
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 9d
Not saying Yamamoto isn’t in the conversation but putting that stat line out as evidence is hilarious since Madison Bumgarner was better in each of those categories in the 2014 postseason.

7g, 5-1 with 1 save, 1.03 ERA, 52.2 IP, 45 strikeouts, 0.65 WHIP
homerundarby.bsky.social Darby Robinson @homerundarby.bsky.social · 10d
Was this the greatest postseason pitching performance in the modern era?

It’s absolutely in the conversation and I think time will only make this more impressive looking back
mlbdeadlinenews.bsky.social MLBDeadlineNews @mlbdeadlinenews.bsky.social · 10d
What a postseason from Yoshinobu Yamamoto
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 16d
More day games, cheaper beer
codifybaseball.bsky.social Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 17d
Completely fix baseball with five words.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 18d
New starting flute at Fairfield Warde. A 5-foot-2 freshman out of the Stratfield neighborhood. Keep an eye on Laurel Hoffman. She’s an animal.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 18d
Lady at high school football game’s merch stand: “Who’s your player?!”

My wife: “… the pep band?”
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 23d
The year Ichiro set the hits record he got on base 315 times. That would only be good for fourth best among Boggs’ seasons.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 23d
Honestly, Wade Boggs. I think he has somehow become wildly underrated/overlooked despite looking even better by modern standards than he did in his own era (and he looked great by those standards too). Better defender than people remember. On base monster. WAR darling. Outrageous prime, etc.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · 25d
I finally watched the new Superman (I am very busy, ok?) and … I was not expecting it to be a two-hour explainer on E Unibus Pluram that’s perfectly digestible for kids and adults alike.

James Gunn really is a treasure.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 10
I am getting a pitch together for a story on how maybe it’s time to rethink if Paul Newman was cool. I hope I can find a home for it.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 10
You can almost picture Trent Reznor and Rick Rubin sitting there like “You know who would do a devastating cover of ‘Hurt’? This deeply uncool dork.”
bhh.bsky.social Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 10
Ah yes, famously uncool singer Johnny Cash. I am glad noted arbiter of cool the Wall Street Journal is willing to reconsider his case.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 10
If you’re uncool enough they make a movie about you where Joaquin Phoenix wears awesome suits and falls in love with Reese Witherspoon and gets addicted to drugs. Typical hallmarks of uncoolness.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 10
He didn’t shoot a guy in Reno just so some sad-looking guy could say he isn’t as cool as the guy who sang “he could throw that speedball by you”
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 10
Should we take another look at George Clooney while we’re at it?
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 10
I’ll spend the rest of my days contemplating how anyone could think Bruce Springsteen is cooler than Johnny Cash. Amazing stuff.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 10
Ah yes, famously uncool singer Johnny Cash. I am glad noted arbiter of cool the Wall Street Journal is willing to reconsider his case.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 8
Actual conversation I once had in the editing process of a story

Them: "You can't say 'Jay Jaffe's JAWS system' because our readers won't know who Jay Jaffe is."

Me: "They will if I keep mentioning him in stories."
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 8
(Guy who did a lot of radio and music production in college here. The way around this is you redline the recording of the commercials, losing a little quality but resulting in something that feels far louder at the same volume.) www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
California Passes Law Banning Loud Commercials on Streaming Services
Starting July 1 of next year, Netflix and Co. will need to keep the audio levels consistent from movie and TV shows to advertisements.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 8
The happiness I got from spending three years telling people, with a straight face, that there was absolutely nothing unusual or bad about KD joining the Warriors is something @thefarmerjones.bsky.social can never take away from me
conradhackett.bsky.social Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Oct 8
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 8
I'm not saying Metallica and some others didn't come off very poorly in the Napster era, but the internet has always believed everything should be free (music, movies, news, books) and has never had anything resembling a plan for how the people who create that stuff will get money for food or rent.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Oct 7
I'd like to think LeBron doesn't need the money. Though that would lead to the hard-to-fathom belief that he found the ad, and its rollout, compelling or clever.

So I actually kinda hope this was to cover gambling debts or something.
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Benjamin Hoffman @bhh.bsky.social · Sep 26
It's always fun to describe my Humboldt experience to people who think they went to a "super liberal" school. By the end of the chat they're always like "oh, I think I am actually a Republican?"
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