Michael Mitchell
@michaelamitchell.bsky.social
Father. Husband. Teacher. Baseball fan. Ralph Yarborough Democrat.
Houston, TX and Plattsburgh, NY.
Houston, TX and Plattsburgh, NY.
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You, talking about Graham Platner
Me, thinking about Phil Plantier
Me, thinking about Phil Plantier
August 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
You, talking about Graham Platner
Me, thinking about Phil Plantier
Me, thinking about Phil Plantier
This is truly the late 90s Mike & The Mad Dog vibe. Perfect delivery.
Chris Russo goes full Mad Dog on the Mets' celebration and Gary Cohen's call of Pete Alonso's franchise-record home run.
August 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is truly the late 90s Mike & The Mad Dog vibe. Perfect delivery.
I got 9 out of 10 teams correct. Celtics out, Spurs in.
NBA Christmas:
Noon: Knicks/Celtics
2:30 PM: Cavs/Wolves
5 PM: Nuggets/Mavericks
7:30 PM: Thunder/Rockets
10 PM: Lakers/Warriors
Noon: Knicks/Celtics
2:30 PM: Cavs/Wolves
5 PM: Nuggets/Mavericks
7:30 PM: Thunder/Rockets
10 PM: Lakers/Warriors
August 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I got 9 out of 10 teams correct. Celtics out, Spurs in.
Jim Crane: frugal in the winter, the Steve Cohen of the deadline.
The two notable parts of the Astros deadline so far:
1) They're clearly going to pay the luxury tax this year. Crane is going for it financially.
2) The 3 pieces they've acquired are all under team control for multiple years. It's not just rentals.
1) They're clearly going to pay the luxury tax this year. Crane is going for it financially.
2) The 3 pieces they've acquired are all under team control for multiple years. It's not just rentals.
July 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Jim Crane: frugal in the winter, the Steve Cohen of the deadline.
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“Ashton Izzi” is one of those pitcher names where the guy should definitely be left-handed, but he’s not.
@Ken_Rosenthal tweeted
Ashton Izzi and Brandyn Garcia to Arizona, source says
Ashton Izzi and Brandyn Garcia to Arizona, source says
July 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“Ashton Izzi” is one of those pitcher names where the guy should definitely be left-handed, but he’s not.
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Always fun when two ultra-shithead public evangelical types get divorced and they have to say stuff like "as a biblical man,"
July 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Always fun when two ultra-shithead public evangelical types get divorced and they have to say stuff like "as a biblical man,"
NBA Christmas:
Noon: Knicks/Celtics
2:30 PM: Cavs/Wolves
5 PM: Nuggets/Mavericks
7:30 PM: Thunder/Rockets
10 PM: Lakers/Warriors
Noon: Knicks/Celtics
2:30 PM: Cavs/Wolves
5 PM: Nuggets/Mavericks
7:30 PM: Thunder/Rockets
10 PM: Lakers/Warriors
June 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
NBA Christmas:
Noon: Knicks/Celtics
2:30 PM: Cavs/Wolves
5 PM: Nuggets/Mavericks
7:30 PM: Thunder/Rockets
10 PM: Lakers/Warriors
Noon: Knicks/Celtics
2:30 PM: Cavs/Wolves
5 PM: Nuggets/Mavericks
7:30 PM: Thunder/Rockets
10 PM: Lakers/Warriors
I just found out that JoMarie Payton left Family Matters during the final season after a fight on set with Jaleel White. Gonna go down this rabbit hole for 20 minutes now.
June 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I just found out that JoMarie Payton left Family Matters during the final season after a fight on set with Jaleel White. Gonna go down this rabbit hole for 20 minutes now.
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
Alex Cora gets treated as this unique managerial savant, but his team is bad in every way a poorly managed team would be bad:
Based on run differential, Red Sox should be 34-32.
But they lead the majors in errors (58) and are second in unearned runs (36). If there was a stat for mental mistakes on defense, they'd lead in that, too.
Organizationally, they need to fix that. Or acquire more players who know the game.
But they lead the majors in errors (58) and are second in unearned runs (36). If there was a stat for mental mistakes on defense, they'd lead in that, too.
Organizationally, they need to fix that. Or acquire more players who know the game.
June 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Alex Cora gets treated as this unique managerial savant, but his team is bad in every way a poorly managed team would be bad:
Good Astros/Rays game. My Jeremy Peña over 1.5 HR/Zack Littell over 8.2 IP parlay came in. $20 to win $6.3M.
May 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Good Astros/Rays game. My Jeremy Peña over 1.5 HR/Zack Littell over 8.2 IP parlay came in. $20 to win $6.3M.
Good argument that Skubal’s start against the Guardians today was the single best regular season start in recent history.
94 pitches. 13 strikeouts. Shutout.
Tarik Skubal with the most strikeouts in a Maddux (SHO on fewer than 100 pitches) since pitch counts have been tracked (1988)
Prior most: 12, Carlos Carrasco & Cliff Lee
Prior most in Maddux of no more than 94 pitches: 10
Tarik Skubal with the most strikeouts in a Maddux (SHO on fewer than 100 pitches) since pitch counts have been tracked (1988)
Prior most: 12, Carlos Carrasco & Cliff Lee
Prior most in Maddux of no more than 94 pitches: 10
May 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Good argument that Skubal’s start against the Guardians today was the single best regular season start in recent history.
You turn on the Rockies broadcast, immediately:
“Senzatela is giving up 15 hits per 9, so you have to think they’re working with him to sequence his pitches differently”, and then a triple and a double to Volpe and the backup catcher.
Bleak, bleak stuff.
“Senzatela is giving up 15 hits per 9, so you have to think they’re working with him to sequence his pitches differently”, and then a triple and a double to Volpe and the backup catcher.
Bleak, bleak stuff.
May 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
You turn on the Rockies broadcast, immediately:
“Senzatela is giving up 15 hits per 9, so you have to think they’re working with him to sequence his pitches differently”, and then a triple and a double to Volpe and the backup catcher.
Bleak, bleak stuff.
“Senzatela is giving up 15 hits per 9, so you have to think they’re working with him to sequence his pitches differently”, and then a triple and a double to Volpe and the backup catcher.
Bleak, bleak stuff.
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Indiana-Oklahoma City will be the first NBA Finals where you can't legally bring a James Baldwin book to any of the games.
May 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Indiana-Oklahoma City will be the first NBA Finals where you can't legally bring a James Baldwin book to any of the games.
It’s a shame Trump is shutting FEMA down because the Baltimore Orioles are surely eligible to be declared a federal disaster.
The Red Sox just batted around twice in the same inning.
The Red Sox just batted around twice in the same inning.
May 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It’s a shame Trump is shutting FEMA down because the Baltimore Orioles are surely eligible to be declared a federal disaster.
The Red Sox just batted around twice in the same inning.
The Red Sox just batted around twice in the same inning.
We saw this with McCullers a couple weeks ago, and it seems pretty obvious that this is the impact of sports betting on our society. Men lose half their paycheck chasing a thrill and then lash out in grotesque ways.
May 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We saw this with McCullers a couple weeks ago, and it seems pretty obvious that this is the impact of sports betting on our society. Men lose half their paycheck chasing a thrill and then lash out in grotesque ways.
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It's true, constantly focusing on petty culture-war bullshit to castigate the party for surrendering to "wokeness" and tanking Senate votes over personal gripes and pet causes was—wait, WHICH faction?
Some of us have been warning you since 2017 that constantly attacking the Democratic Party over the pettiest bullshit while repeatedly threatening to withhold your votes would eventually cause officeholders to look at the left and ask, "Why bother?"
May 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It's true, constantly focusing on petty culture-war bullshit to castigate the party for surrendering to "wokeness" and tanking Senate votes over personal gripes and pet causes was—wait, WHICH faction?
He should have accepted the trade.
Nolan Arenado vs Cole Ragans
Flyout 💢
Exit velo: 87.5 mph
Launch angle: 33 deg
Projected distance: 341 ft
This would have been a home run at Daikin Park and nowhere else
STL @ KC
🔺 4th
Flyout 💢
Exit velo: 87.5 mph
Launch angle: 33 deg
Projected distance: 341 ft
This would have been a home run at Daikin Park and nowhere else
STL @ KC
🔺 4th
May 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
He should have accepted the trade.
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The year is 2074. The floodwaters have breached the Appalachian retaining walls. North Korea has nuked Moscow. It has been five years since the last transmission from the UK. Republicans are passing sumptuary laws to ban women's trousers.
Democrats are once again pledging to denounce 'Latinex'.
Democrats are once again pledging to denounce 'Latinex'.
May 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The year is 2074. The floodwaters have breached the Appalachian retaining walls. North Korea has nuked Moscow. It has been five years since the last transmission from the UK. Republicans are passing sumptuary laws to ban women's trousers.
Democrats are once again pledging to denounce 'Latinex'.
Democrats are once again pledging to denounce 'Latinex'.
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Guarantee that some dipshit put $50 on LMJ to have over 7.5 strikeouts or something stupid and now look
A heated Joe Espada began his postgame news conference by revealing that threats against Lance McCullers Jr’s family and life were made after today’s start. The Astros say they’ve notified HPD and MLB security about the threats.
May 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Guarantee that some dipshit put $50 on LMJ to have over 7.5 strikeouts or something stupid and now look
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it’s not a net loss. it’s the cost of a service.
I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.
I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
it’s not a net loss. it’s the cost of a service.
I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.
I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.
2025 Astros
Jose Abreu - $19.5M, 0.0 bWAR
Jose Altuve - $33M, -0.4 bWAR
Yordan Alvarez - $15.8M, -0.4 bWAR
Jose Abreu redemption szn.
Jose Abreu - $19.5M, 0.0 bWAR
Jose Altuve - $33M, -0.4 bWAR
Yordan Alvarez - $15.8M, -0.4 bWAR
Jose Abreu redemption szn.
May 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
2025 Astros
Jose Abreu - $19.5M, 0.0 bWAR
Jose Altuve - $33M, -0.4 bWAR
Yordan Alvarez - $15.8M, -0.4 bWAR
Jose Abreu redemption szn.
Jose Abreu - $19.5M, 0.0 bWAR
Jose Altuve - $33M, -0.4 bWAR
Yordan Alvarez - $15.8M, -0.4 bWAR
Jose Abreu redemption szn.
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Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you