Bryan O’Connor

socialist CFO. music, baseball, puns. Author of Time Decorated: A History of Popular Music in 12 Playlists

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@RichardS7370 I’ve been planning for months to delete my account as soon as this project wraps up. Now I think I have to keep it around for the 21st century competition.

Thanks for the endless entertainment, Richard.

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@RichardS7370 1. OK Computer
2. Blue
3. Highway 61 Revisited
4. Marquee Moon
5. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

If eligible, I would’ve considered:
Good Kid, MAAD City
Norman Fucking Rockwell
Somethin’ Else
Madvillainy
Stankonia

This has been so much fun.

#5albumsFinal

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Big moment for Madonna’s daughter

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Lourdes Gurriel Jr. makes the catch at the wall 👀

(via @MLB)

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I’ve been searching for a good Pfaadt pun. MLB really nailed it here.

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A Pfaadt amount of Ks. 😮 #NLCS

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@GoldenHalloFame We haven’t seen Pedro, Clemens, Grove, Seaver, Alexander, or Kershaw. This is a hard one to defend.

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@bestalbum95 Top 4 seeds in the final four is boring, but these are all in my top 11 of the decade.

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@TimFlannery13

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@baseballtwit Got it. Thanks.

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Need a ruling, @baseballtwit

Gus Zernial had 129 RBI in 1951, 4 of which were for the White Sox. Does he qualify for the White Sox/100 RBI season square?

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@MallonDan Astros might have a 30-32% chance to win this year. Peña might have a 10% chance to repeat if they do, so that’s 3% absent voter bias against giving it to the same guy. Here’s guessing the streak continues.

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Teams make back-to-back World Series all the time, but we haven’t had a repeat matchup since the ‘77 and ‘78 Yankees beat the Dodgers.

Before that, the ‘55 and ‘56 Dodgers and Yankees split Series. ‘52 and ‘53 Yankees beat the Dodgers.

Baseball was miserable for a long time.

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Never been a Phillies fan, but this team is so easy to root for. Doesn’t hurt that they could give us a chop-free second half of October.

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@RichardS7370 1. Madvillainy
2. Let It Bleed
3. Agaetis Byrjum
4. Crooked Rain x2
5. I Never Loved a Man…

Brutal omitting Exile, Revolver, Forever Changes, Daydream Nation, Queen is Dead, Nevermind, 13th Floor Elevators, Who’s Next, For Your Pleasure, Aja, A Love Supreme, Boxer, Grey Area…

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@HellOnFriscoBay @bestalbum95 @br4dp4nts Totally agree that Homogenic > Post
Disagree that Portishead > Dummy

I’d rank them:
Homogenic
Dummy
(big gap)
Portishead
Post

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I might have a new favorite player.

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Vladimir Guerrero jr says beating Yankees makes up for another postseason sweep:

“Hector Gomez asked me if I thought this season was a failure after getting swept again,” the Blue Jays slugger said following the Twins shut out.

“I told Hector it wasn’t. We beat the Yankees. We beat them a lot. Our hate for them is our main motivation in spring training. We play a lot more games against them than we do playoff games, and when you can say your bitter rival got to see you in the playoffs from their couch, yeah, it’s a sense of pride I’ll take with me into the off-season.”

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@bballhist @Stathead Yup. Displaying WAR alongside a suite of offensive metrics positions it as one of many metrics speaking to specific skills, as opposed to a summary of offensive and defensive contributions.

I got pretty sick of “Acuña was better than Mookie at everything but WAR, so he’s MVP”.

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So my Blue Jays-Rays ALCS pick is looking… not great.

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Congrats to the Twins and their brilliant pitching.

I sincerely hope this is the last season MLB gives home field advantage throughout a series to a team that wins fewer games against softer competition than its opponent. Not sure how one would defend that decision.

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@JMcGuireMLB Thanks.

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ESPN app had Brewers-Dbacks tied at 4. Now it’s 4-3. Anyone know what happened?