#Basemen

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Honoring Rickey Henderson: Phillies Make Waves as First Basemen Shuffle | Baseball Bar-B-Cast

The baseball community mourns the loss of a true icon, Rickey Henderson, who passed away recently at the age of 65. Henderson, known as the all-time leader in stolen bases, left an indelible mark on the sport and is remembered as one of baseball’s greatest players. His exceptional talent and unique personality made him a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and his influence on the game continues to…

[trianglesimpfordpines]

ok so like 2 people said they wanted to see the "ford is the most realistic genius" post and that's all the encouragement i need. i'm probably gonna sound pretty full-of-myself on this post but that's just how it be like sometimes.

a lot of the time, "intelligence" is assumed to mean "knows more things." fictional characters who are supposed to be geniuses typically just...miraculously Know information they have no real way of acquiring, anticipate events that cannot reasonably anticipated, or every other character just suddenly gets stupid when the genius character is around so that the "genius" character just doing the logical thing comes off as particularly smart.

so you have a character who supposedly has a really high iq, but in practice they may as well be psychic.

as someone who actually has an iq of 147 (bear with me, because this isn't a flexing post), being "really intelligent" does not mean Just Knowing Things. what it means is that someone who's "smart" (in the traditional sense) can process more information, draw more conclusions, and do so faster than most people. it also usually means being really good at rationalizing things. so if you're someone who's well-adjusted and well-informed, that can definitely look like knowing all the right answers...but if you're someone who's not well-adjusted or well-informed, it can, if anything, make you even wronger. you get better at rationalizing your mistakes and digging yourself in deeper. and heaven help you if you have paranoid tendencies, because it's that much harder to convince someone they're being irrational when they're on a whole 'nother level of finding information to back up their irrationality.

ford is a genius. he learns incredibly fast and thoroughly. but he's also constrained by the information he has available to him, and by his own biases and past trauma and people issues.

that one writing advice post that made the rounds saying that a character's biggest flaw is usually their biggest strength in the wrong situation is very true of people who are very intelligent. it's why, for example, you'll sometimes see doctors, academics, experts buy into conspiracy theories. it's not because they're stupid; it's because they're smart enough to recontextualize all their knowledge to support their biases and beliefs.

and so many people do not understand this because they still think of "intelligence" as "knowing & being right about everything." so you get people arguing that ford isn't really a genius, because he was wrong and he made mistakes. but in my opinion, the mistakes he makes make perfect sense because he's a genius. that kind of recklessness is exactly what you get when you combine abnormally high iq with ford's myriad of personal issues. you get someone who's great at rationalizing, great at taking in information, and great at finding surprisingly well-thought-out reasons why their paranoia and antisocial tendencies are totally just the rational response.

think of it this way; the smartest people alive in the medieval era believed in the miasma theory. they weren't too stupid to understand what bacteria and viruses are; they just didn't have the tools needed to observe them. so they came up with a theory based on the information they did know, wrote essays and papers about it, made medical practices based on it...and it was completely incorrect, because genius without correct information leads to spectacular and very well-thought-out mistakes.

anyway, all this to say, as someone who could nominally be considered a "genius" but has been hella wrong about a lot of things in my life, i think ford is an incredibly realistic take on what most "geniuses" are really like. impressive in the right situations, not so much in the wrong ones, and very much not magical beings capable of mysteriously knowing all the correct information because they're Just That Smart. and very much not immune to emotional and personal issues getting in the way.

thanks for coming to my "i-just-slept-for-20-hours-and-my-brain-is-a-bit-scrambled-right-now" ted talk

[travisdermotts]

having an argument, so I need to propose the question here: what position would mitch marner play in baseball, and why is it second base?

[a-bucket-in-the-void]

hiii oakley. this is an invitation to ramble about whatever <3

i think your gonna get a number rant, you’re welcome (thanks for the ask lee <3)

ok so first of all, one. honestly solid number. not my favorite and i probably wouldnt choose it a whole lot but like it’s cool. i think to me it just feels too simple, like and?

two. look i guess two is… fine. honestly i’m always partial to odd numbers so it was never gonna be to high on my list. kinda has the same thing as one but just like also too like clean and perfect

and now for my favorite number: three. best vibes. it’s used everywhere, it’s like naturally a perfect number. it’s still simple but it has a personality ya know. it’s easy. 1000/10

ok so i think i like four. it’s better than two. honestly sick number. not much to say about it i guess. good solid round number. shout out to rectangles

ok so five is nice cause like it’s multiples are all easy but just… idk five feels a bit too overhyped. like yeah he’s cool i guess but he’s not that cool

i don’t have much to say about six. it’s a multiple of three and i think that cancels out enough of the two vibes i get from it. idk it’s ok i guess

i would like to come out as a seven hater. it’s defiantly too over hyped. it’s an honorary even number with its perfectness and i mean that in a bad way. much too sterile, go like stare at rust colored mountains or hug a tree or something

side note but thirty two is an honorary odd number the same way that seven is an honorary even. thirty two is a solid number. shout out thirty two

eight has the vibe of like the one that’s in charge. like they’re the one who’s the leader of the group that is like no one’s favorite. like kai in ninjago and leo in tmnt

nine has always had sort of the vibe of like a bad boy or something. like the story i’ve always had in my head for when you multiply something by nine is like him seducing the others partner, like how nine time eight is seventy two it’s like two is the partner of eight because that’s how you get ten but nine is too charismatic and switches eight out for seven and just kinda smirks at the fuming eight. sick number honestly, has always been a favorite

i think i’ll just do the digits so i have somewhere to stop lol

um send me another ask sometime if you wanna hear me ramble about zero

[serv0z]

im normal chat

[roseworth]

i think baseball should get rid of all rules about runner interference and blocking the bases. free for all bitch

[dreamlandgirlie]

people not knowing who josé ramírez is will be my villain origin story

[bottomvalerius]

my MOST self-indulgent mod AU shit is if Damien did like college-level baseball and Donna becomes the most aggressively supportive version of themself LMAO

[normalgoalie]

Bobby and Triston right next to each other on the list of most home runs in their rookie seasons in franchise history don’t look at me

[skyscrapes-landscapes]

If i could have that right back

know what i know about his dad i may have ended up having an early morning cup of coffee with him reminiscing about his dad as we were parked outside an all-night convenience store. i could’ve told him all i knew now, that his dad paved the way for Clemente himself, that he was from Pineland in East Texas, probably 5’7″, and that he played for the Pirate affiliate in Denver. His first manager…

[dinosaurwithablog]

Fun fact... Lou Gehrig was an Ivy Leaguer. He attended Columbia University. Ben Rice is the second Yankees first baseman to go to an Ivy League University. He went to Dartmouth.

[thebibliosphere]

My mother reminded me of this today, so happy 5(+) years of me accidentally figuring out one of the things that was killing me before my doctors did and putting it into my international bestselling vampire x werewolf kissing book as a plot point 🫠

I always forget people don't know I'm hard of hearing.

Probably because it doesn't affect my life as much as my other disabilities/chronic illness shit, so I don't bitch about it as much. But yeah. I'm hard of hearing on my left side. It started after the whole heavy metal poisoning/jaw bone infection thing, where I ended up with some nerve damage and bone loss.

Turns out that's bad for your hearing.

And if you're thinking, "oh, that's where she got Nathan's arc from in Hunger Pangs," yeah, I uh, I wrote Nathan's arc before we found out I had mercury in my mouth.

That whole first book was just my subconscious jumping up and down waving red flags and yelling, "wouldn't it be WILD if METAL POISONING was killing someone??? wouldn't it be even wilder if MOLD SPORES turned out to be [REDACTED]"

'Cause, yeah, I wrote that plot point before we knew about the deadly mold in the walls that was making my health worse. Wild.

Anyway, yes, I am hoh on my left side and also have an audio processing disorder, so, y'know, sorry if you ever meet me irl and I'm awkward af, but unless we're in a quiet room with limited background noise, I will not know wtf you're saying lmao.

[anubiasnana]

maintenance men in my apartment literally make me feel like a rabid feral dog backed into a corner. and i'm about to start biting

[postmakerkiwi]

🌕 Starlit Fracture Hills - Potion Cellar 🐖

The Alchemist's workshop is located on the lower level of the land, just outside the lava field's reach, meaning it's been surrounded by Earthshapers ever since they first showed up. Though judging by the sounds coming from there, it doesn't seem like this has done anything to deter his work.

photo via GameFAQs

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[release-th-kraken]

hello this is popping off. THE PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING !!!

vince to first base 🫶🫶🫶 get out there king!

Vince Dunn baseball batted in a goal YOU are a seattle mariner