Patrick Baumgartner

Husband to wonderful wife | Father of 3 | Data analysis is a job and a hobby | Inventor of trick football plays | Microsoft | Power BI

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

@HannahLA217 Congrats! Go Cougs!!

[Hannah Anderson @HannahLA217]

Excited to share I have moved over to the House of Representatives and have accepted the position of Press Secretary for Republican Congressman Michael Baumgartner (WA-05). Please contact me with any requests for comment or media with the Congressman. Excited to get to work!

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

@LucasCoug I loved it when Lewis was in the 8th inning dominating OSU and he was yelling “need to get someone up in the bullpen” and then Lewis struck the next guy out. lol

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

@manOknowledge @brownliberite I grew up a couple of miles from this picture. It does look like a AI generated landscape much of the year, but is very real…

[Congressman Michael Baumgartner @RepBaumgartner]

I look forward to co-sponsoring the Cruz/Cantwell college sports reform bill in the House. It is better for smaller schools, Olympic sports, and female athletes than the some other approaches. Ultimately, the future of college sports has to be about more than the Big10/SEC and TV executives creating a 2nd NFL at the expense of everyone else. The North Star of policy makers on this subject should be increasing opportunities for America’s sons and daughters to have opportunities to compete as student athletes on college campuses. College sports is a highly subsidized public good and should be regulated and governed as such. 🇺🇸

[Loyal Coug Fan @Mavsandcougs]

@sports8 That reason is solely because we are located in a small town.

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

A lot of the knee jerk criticism of the Catholic Church can be answered/explained by the following sequence:

1) Many people ask/demand answer for an essentially unknowable thing (i.e. what is the exact timeline of what happens after someone dies explained in a human mid-IQ way…)

2) Catholic Church gives best consensus answer based on really smart philosophers agonizing over the topic through scripture and debate for 100s of years + unbroken practices and tradition dating back to Jesus himself - especially where scripture does not say exactly what the specific mechanics of something are. (“Hey the Bible says Heaven requires perfect holiness—‘nothing unclean shall enter it’ (Revelation 21:27) but dude I know who died clearly had some sin in his life, but overall had faith in Jesus and follow Church teaching. Did he go straight to heaven?” “Church response: “This is indeed a mystery, but based on scripture and tradition here’s what we know:

2 Maccabees 12:39-46 (prayers and sacrifices for the dead to be freed from sin).

1 Corinthians 3:11-15 (a person is saved, “but only as through fire”).

Matthew 5:26 and Matthew 12:32 (suggestion of release after punishment “in the age to come”).

Early Church practice of praying for the dead, attested from the 2nd century onward.)

3) People keep arguing about the topic - in very divisive ways! So the Church says “This is THE best understanding of the mystery. Please keep praying about the topic and scholarly inquiry is even promoted, but for day to day practice we’re going to go with XYX answer so the majority of people can focus on bigger picture.

4) Some Protestant or Atheist shows up on Twitter exclaiming the church is stupid and they obviously know more… Maybe they’re right… but to say the church doesn’t have an agonizingly well reasoned answer is idiotic… And the Pope on down would be the first to point out that praying about any mysterious thing like heaven and death is what we all should be doing

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

In this case the networks are paying the PAC-12 to pay the camera man and produce the game (ON TOP of paying for the media rights). It’s a good deal for the CW - they just broadcast the game and collect ad revenue without the hassle of owning the equipment or having employees.

Pac-12 was also being paid to produce several pro teams games

This was the original idea behind the PAC-12 networks: That there was value in owning the production. It wasn’t a bad idea - just 10 years too early

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

I think this kind of proves the point. Lots of foolish things happen in lots of places. To pick the one foolish thing that started WW1 *as it happened* - amongst the many other foolish things - is only possible with additional knowledge from after the event.

It would be easier to say “a combination of many foolish things in the Balkans caused WW1” - but only way after the fact could you attribute to *one* of those foolish thing the title of “most important of the foolish things”

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

@NEWSGUYSULLY @mrandystevens @wsdot_traffic *roundabout that reduces two turn lanes from 114th to ONE… Get a single driver who isn’t aggressive enough to merge onto 85th and 114th is shut down indefinitely 🤦‍♂️

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

If this is the actual design for 85th and 114th downtown Kirkland is dead. Turning that light into round about is a complete disaster. There is ZERO break in traffic going up and down 85th… they might as well have just closed the side streets connecting to 85th… what a clown show

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

@wsdot_traffic This whole project is a complete clown show… Especially combined with the closure of the cross Kirkland corridor trail. Getting to Lake Washington High school from downtown 1 mile away is going to be a 45 minute traffic jam.

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

@byu_church @NitPsu @SEC @pac12 @Big12Conference @bigten Go look at the last 10 years of the Pac-12. WSU was consistently 5th or 6th in viewership. WA has 2x+ the pop of the midwestern states in the Big 12and draws great viewership in Seattle (where the large alumni base lives). WSU would easily boost Big 12 ratings.

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[West Coast College Sports Guy @WCCSG_]

Pullman, Wa

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[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

@CougfanCOM @17_canderson @Coug_206 @wazzu010 Why does CougFan exhibit the worst defeatist small time mentality that infects Cougar nation? Why no willingness to call people out who abandoned and or failed WSU in its time of need?

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

@CougfanCOM @Coug_206 @wazzu010 B.S. - this was a 100 year mistake that has forever damaged WSU and your making vague platitudes about politics? Why are you defending the political leadership that let this happen?

[Patrick Baumgartner @patbaum]

@CougfanCOM @Coug_206 @wazzu010 Why was it DOA? We do have WSU affiliated politicians who were eager to put up a fight! It was criminal that Inslee and Shulz did nothing to keep WSU and UW in the same conference. Stop making excuses for people who failed.