Best Bird Dad/okayish husband. Former 2x Writer of the Year. Minor #athletics Twitter celebrity, #raidernation Once fought off 22 raccoons. I call everyone dude
San Diego, CA
Joined June 2009
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Traveled a million miles outside my comfort zone to create this cockamamie podcast. Accidentally peeked in on the download/listening numbers and I was floored lol. Thanks to everyone who gave The Fancestor a listen (or plans to)! [1/x]
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Have to pack for business trip tomorrow, but for last 7 hours the home Nest system has been chirping every two minutes. Everything I've tried hasn't worked. This is my supervillain origin story lol
Muted "referees" and hardly seeing any tweets from 49ers fans this week. Hmmm... #fttb
Can see a tiny bit of a deer's hindquarters just past my front door, which means it's eating my rose bush again. Why ain't Walt Disney tell us they were dicks?
The Rays abject refusal to challenge pitches until seemingly the last two innings is kinda confounding #WorldSeries
I did World Series round table podcast, too, over on my cockamamie podcast that I don’t promote enough over here:
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A World Series roundtable podcast, with radio play-by-play broadcasters -- Jeff Levering of the Brewers and Andy Freed of the Rays, talking about their teams, their LCS-clinching calls, their late broadcast partners; @PaulHembo talks World Series keys, The Miz, what the Rays have overcome to get to this spot; @SlangsOnSports plays The Numbers Game. youtu.be/NagSLkRyMm4
Aaron Cameron retweeted
West Sacramento's city manager insists using a mega-TIF district to siphon off $1B in taxes for an MLB expansion team wouldn't cost taxpayers anything because it's only money "generated by the stadium," not the Casino Night Fallacy again. fieldofschemes.com/2026/10/2…
Willing to bet he's the only current POBO who uses "sick" like that. Kid is actually endearing lol #athletics
Surprised #athletics staff is so large tbqh (Yes, I know they made larger cuts in other development areas)
For my old friends at @BaseballAmerica, I compiled the sizes of each team’s scouting staff.
Note that many teams frequently renowned for their technology and analytics (Dodgers, Rays, Brewers) also have some of the largest scouting staffs in MLB.
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Meaningless takeaways:
1.) Smith mentioned 8 players by name, but not Lawrence Butler or Jacob Wilson 👀
2.) Mark Kotsay was in audience and owner John Fisher singled him out. Guess it would have been bad form not to show.
3.) GM hire is a "distinct possibility"
#athletics
Tune in to our press conference for the new President of Baseball Operations now!
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Just a 15 minute presser, but kid sounds legit. And, Fisher bringing up player development and analytics staff, unsolicited, tells me Smith will have the tools he needs to succeed. Will he? 🤷🏾♂️ #athletics
Almost forgot, Taylor Smith saying the new stadium looked "sick", then immediately defining "sick" for the audience absolutely sent me lol #athletics
God, this place is trash lol. I still pop over here for some of my favorite people and the survivors of #athletics Twitter, but I’m more active over on Bluesky. Speaking of the A’s, I’ve got a player-by-player 2026 season recap over there, if you wanna relive a 98-loss season lol