#rob thomson

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Rob Thomson

Phillies manager Rob Thomson

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Phillies with out 2 outfielders on last weekend in D.C.

Phillies with out 2 outfielders on last weekend in D.C. initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Philadelphia WASHINGTON — Rob Thomson stated after the Phillies clinched a first-round bye Wednesday that he hoped to get most, if not all of his regulars a time off in the course of the last regular-season collection towards the Nationals. However they are a bit short-handed over the ultimate 48…

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Rob Thomson rings the bell before the Celtics @ 76ers game | November 15th, 2023

[driftwooddestiel]

miscellaneous doodles

[nuchester]

Intro post <3

Here’s a little introduction post for those who are curious!

me!

- my name is chloe

- I’m a big fan of metal (mostly every subgenre)

- I’m big on KoЯn, SOAD, Metallica, Oingo Boingo, Slipknot, Green Day, DMSOB and Megadeth

- I’m Danish-Canadian 🇩🇰 🇨🇦

the blog!

- what I plan on doing:

- writing fanfics

- doing headcannons

- posting pictures

- answering asks

fanfics / hc’s!

- who I’ll write for:

- SOAD: all members

- KoЯn: Jon Davis, Munky, Head

- Metallica: all members

- Oingo Boingo: Danny Elfman

- Slipknot: Corey Taylor, Joey Jordison, Mick Thomson

- DMSOB: Daron Malakian, John Dolmayan

- Megadeth: Dave Mustaine, David Ellefson

- Green day: Billie Joe, (maybe?) Mike Dirnt

- Other: horror movie characters (mostly antagonists), Connor McDavid, Jude Bellingham, Cristiano Ronaldo

**this list will expand!**

- what I’ll write:

- smut

- fluff

- angst

- open to literally any suggestions!

- my limits:

- anything illegal

- scat, piss, vomit

- noncon, cnc, things like that

- age play (age gaps are alright)

That’s it!

My asks are open in case there’s any questions!

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“Made in London” campaign backfires on government, but boosts BEANO awareness!

A government marketing campaign featuring the BEANO’s Dennis and Gnasher has backfired, after a furious Scottish MP accused it of “cultural appropriation”. But on the plus side, we’re betting it may, perhaps, help sales of the comic!

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Henry Ford famously believed himself and other men like JP Morgan to be reincarnated Pharaohs. A reminder that no matter what you accumulate or achieve in life the only thing you do here that carries any weight whatsoever is the impact you make on others and let others make on you. If there is a metric by which we can measure the success of a life lived, I can’t think of a better one.

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1776 characters playing Minecraft:

John Adams: rage quitting when he gets blown up by a creeper

Benjamin Franklin: trolling everyone by becoming invisible and punching them

Thomas Jefferson: builds his own apartment

John Dickinson: thinks minecraft is for babies and doesn’t play

John Hancock: legitimately playing the game in hardcore mode and doing amazing

Edward Rutledge: Keeps killing Adams on purpose

Charles Thomson: plays the tutorial world first

James Wilson: is so scared of the mobs that he cries whenever he sees a zombie in the distance

Richard Henry Lee: only uses creative mode and builds so much shit his computer crashes

Stephen Hopkins: Tries to play but spills rum on his computer and now it’s ruined

Thomas McKean: making all the potions to try to find a cure for Rodney and forgets it’s just a game

Caesar Rodney: too sick to play

George Read: see James Wilson

Roger Sherman: does lots of trades in villages and he doesn’t rob them either

Samuel Chase: collects all the food there is

Lyman Hall: Gets bored not even 5 minutes playing

Lewis Morris: abstains courteously from playing

Josiah Bartlett: screams at Chase for not playing the game properly

Joseph Hewes: the only thing he does in the game is deep sea fishing

Robert Livingston: builds a mansion so his kids could play and live in it

John Witherspoon: thinks the game is sacrilegious and refuses to play

Abigail Adams: Builds the best house and forgets it’s not a competition

Martha Jefferson: plays with TJ and they end up forgetting the game and doing the nasty

Andrew McNair: “Sweet Jesus this Warden is hard to kill…”

Courier: spends the entire time mining for diamonds

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names Robbie. Thought this would be... Cool or something. Dunno how much I'll be here.

Don't be weird. Just dont.

Toby you freak, i KNOW your here. Get the hell out

..

🖕

BOO!! stole Robbie's phone again, loserrr~ I'm Hilda Xb Hilda V!! Yeah!!

hilda reference:

robbie literally looks the exact same lmao

🐦‍⬛💊 I MADE ANOTHER ONE LMAO.

Quick cw- this blog will cuss ALOT. It's a teenager, what do you expect? AS A TEENAGER, I also cuss ALOT lmfao

here's some rules.

-appropriate asks. Flirting and innuendos is fine, funny even, but like. He is like. 16. So. Yk.

-do NOT flirt with hilda. She's 11 years old for Pete's sake!!!

-no hateful shit like. Cmon man. No terfs, Nazis, homophobes, etc etc

-you can bully Robbie, but please don't bully me, ill cum/j but seriously don't be a dick. Not just to me but other mods too.

I made this blog on a whim after being inspired by @iceb4gw-c and also seeing literally NO Robbie blogs. Where's my emo (he's technically goth-punk) teen son???

HCs that will be used (updated as we go along):

-VERY bisexual. Probably in the closet about it though (I'm allergic to happiness can't you tell)

-him and tambry broke up. It wasn't anything crazy, and it was a mutual choice so dw.

-still has his band, tho they barely play anymore

-has a shitty yt channel with Thomson where they do ghost hunts.

-hes still a little bit of a dick. Who am I kidding, he's alot of a dick, just less so.

-HE HAS. A GUN. WHY? WHY NOT.

-secretly really likes girly pop must like several timez. Will NEVER admit it tho

-SOMEHOW ended up working in the local bar? Usually a bar tender, but is a bouncer from time to time too. His boss's name is Mr. Russo and he's ✨ Italian ✨

-also for some reason helps with the local paper (yk, the one written by Toby?). Probably because how unsorted everything is actually drives him nuts, so now he helps as a journalist. If you ask him about it, he will deny it though.

-maybe thing for Thompson? (@thom-thunderstruck) He can't tell if he mildly hates him or not

-birthday is June 15th. Don't ask why he just feels like he was born in June to me

Edit: if you read the HC above, uhhh- yeah when I wrote it i completely forgot the Stan twin's birthday was June 15th like. Entirely. Just go with it lmao

HILDA FAX!!! :

-shes Robbie's little sister!

-CHRONICALLY lonely. Give this girl a friend

-has fought half of gravity falls and WON

-has a weird skull collection <3

-goes out of her way to annoy Robbie

-wendy is her favorite of Rob's friends <3

-she KNOWS her brother is gay asf...

-11, ALMOST 12.

-birthday is February 14th!

Anyway that's all have fun

My other blogs: main- @/thecluelessdoctor, @/weirdmageddon-mabes, @/imbackbilly, @/mistamysterystan, @/the-undead-doctor-rp, @/deprogrammed-ford-pines, @/cipherjuice-bioexorist

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Happy First Day of Spring Training

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On 18th September 1972, BBC News reported that the first 193 Ugandan refugees, fleeing persecution by the country’s military dictatorship, had arrived at Stansted Airport, Essex. Over half of the arrivals had British passports, and housing and immediate needs would be overseen by the Ugandan Resettlement Board.

Uganda’s Asian community, numbering around 55 000, many of whom ran family businesses and small enterprise, were ordered in August 1972 to leave the country within 90 days by President Idi Amin. Amin had publicly denounced Ugandan Asians as ‘bloodsuckers’, threatening that any who had not left by the arbitrary deadline of November 8th would be interned in military detention camps.

Many of the initial flight of refugees had endured frightening experiences prior to their departure from Uganda, at the hands of Amin’s troops. "On the way to the airport the coach was stopped by troops seven times, and we were all held at gun point," one refugee told reporters. Another stated that he had been robbed of personal valuables and Ugandan currency on the way to Entebbe airport.

News reports at the time cited some opposition within the UK over the acceptance of the Ugandan Asians. The Leicester local authority mounted a newspaper campaign urging refugees not to come to their region seeking jobs and housing. The BBC asserted that, in hindsight, the resettlement programme was seen as ‘a success story for British Immigration’.

The loss of the hardworking and successful Ugandan Asian community devastated Uganda’s agriculture, manufacturing and commerce. Idi Amin was deposed in 1979 and died in Jeddah in 2003, having been responsible for the deaths of as many as 300 000 Ugandan civilians during his reign of terror as President. In 1991, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni invited the expelled community to return home to help rebuild the economy.

The Wilson Labour government also had to grapple with a refugee crisis from a former African colony.

In February 1968, BBC news reported;

"…Another 96 Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya have arrived in Britain, the latest in a growing exodus of Kenyan Asians fleeing from laws which prevent them making a living…"

Many Asian people living in Kenya had not taken up Kenyan citizenship following the country’s independence from Britain in 1963, but possessed British passports. Under Kenya’s Africanisation policy, non-citizens required work permits, and were being removed from employment in favour of Kenyan nationals. There was growing public demand for laws to prevent non-citizens from owning businesses or even operating as street and market traders. As a result, British passport holders were leaving Kenya at the rate of 1000 per month, leaving a huge deficit in skills and experience within the business community and civil service.

Fearing a backlash over the large numbers of Asian immigrants, Home Secretary, and future Prime Minister, James Callaghan, rushed through the Commonwealth Immigration Act, which made it a requirement that prospective immigrants must have a 'close connection' with Britain.

This led to disagreement in Cabinet, with Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, George Thomson (1921-2008) arguing;

"…To pass such legislation would be wrong in principle, clearly discrimination on the grounds of colour, and contrary to everything we stand for…"

In 1971, the Heath government made further legislative changes that would mean that (some) immigrants from Commonwealth countries would be treated no more favourably than those from the rest of the world, and that tightened restrictions on those who stayed by linking work permits to a specific job and location, requiring registration with police, and reapplication to stay in Britain each 12 months.

The Patrial Right of Abode lifted all restrictions on those immigrants with a direct ancestral connection with Britain.

Home Secretary Reginald Maudling (later famous for being smacked in the face by Irish MP Bernadette Devlin, and for having to resign over a corruption scandal linked with disgraced property developer John Poulson) denied that this was, in effect, a 'colour bar', telling the BBC;

"…Of course they are more likely to be white because we have on the whole more whites than coloureds in this country, but there is no colour bar involved…"

Unsurprisingly, not everyone was convinced.

Vishna Sharma, Executive Secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, described the bill to BBC News as, "basically racially discriminatory, repressive and divisive," and added, "It will create divisions amongst the Commonwealth citizens already living in this country on patrial and non-patrial basis. It will create day-to-day bureaucracy and interference on people living in this country. It will create more hardship for people wanting to enter into this country."

(Source; BBC reporting and history.com. Photo Credits; BBC News)

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Your explanation of Toronto’s problems reminds me of the White Sox maybe last season (2023)? Or could’ve been 2022 but I remember it made headlines that the Sox were the team with the least consistent starting lineup, as in we rarely got the same lineup. I think it was like out of over 100 games (this was news before the season was over) there were like 90-100 different batting lineups - and not by batting order, literally kept swapping out players and shit. Obviously they have much deeper problems than just that but i do think that (and the apparent clubhouse problems) contributed to their lack of chemistry and horrific performance

Something that Phillies fans rag on Rob Thomson for, which I think is overblown, is his willingness to let players grind out slumps. He’s very slow to bench players and typically only does so when he thinks they’re going through something mentally and need a reset. What impatient fans don’t get is that baseball is, more than any other sport, one of routine. It’s the only professional sport where you’re playing every single day for six months out of the year. A lot of players don’t do well with sudden upheaval. Before last year, Nick Castellanos’s two worst seasons were the years he didn’t have a normal spring training (2020 with Covid and 2022 with the lockout). Every so often we try to give Zack Wheeler another day of rest between starts for his benefit and then he forgets how to pitch, because he runs on a five-day cycle.

Now, that inability to find a rhythm is bad, but the White Sox’ biggest problem is the same as the Detroit Pistons last season: they’re all busts in the crab bucket together. A team that tries to tank by only playing young, cheap players will luck into a few wins while their roster still has hope — look at the A’s! They were scrappy! But the ChiSox clubhouse bred a particular brand of misanthropic apathy that killed whatever hope they might have had. The only players who gave a shit were the ones performing for a chance to get out — Crochet this year and Cease before him. It’s no coincidence that Robert’s best stretch was in the two weeks where it looked like he might be traded to a contender. Once the deadline passed and he realized he was stuck on the Southside, his bat dropped below the Mendoza line.

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topper's tactics work in mysterious ways

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Craig Counsell Always Wanted to End Up With the Cubs

[original article]

As Craig Counsell headed into manager free agency this month, two objectives stood at the top of his wish list: kickstart what had been a fallow financial market for managers and coaches and to honor his Midwestern roots. Only the Cubs could satisfy those two objectives. That is why he is the Chicago manager today.

The results of managerial manic Monday—Counsell to the Cubs, David Ross out of a job in Chicago, Carlos Mendoza to the Mets and Stephen Vogt to the Guardians—seemed shocking in the staccato burst of news. Counsell to the Cubs seemed like the biggest shock of all. But based on Counsell’s roots and desire to get to free agency in the first place, the result makes perfect sense.

The Cubs knew this, which is why they placed a call to him on the first day he was a free agent.

Chicago was very much aware that Counsell grew up and lives in Wisconsin, played at Notre Dame, has sons playing college baseball at Minnesota and Michigan and has two daughters in high school in Wisconsin. “The Midwest [pull] is real,” says one source familiar with negotiations between Counsell and the Cubs.

As the Cubs did their homework, knowing Counsell chose to play this year out rather than sign an extension with Milwaukee, they were told by one of Counsell’s friends, “If he ever managed anywhere else, the Cubs have always been his dream job.”

Counsell became a free agent on Nov. 1, the day after his Milwaukee contract expired. The Cubs called Nov. 1, such was their interest in acquiring what one team source called “one of the one or two best managers in the game.”

By then, the Mets already had contacted Counsell. They jump-started the process when David Stearns, the Mets’ newly hired president of baseball operation, called his old club, Milwaukee, for permission to talk to Counsell before his contract expired. With the money of New York owner Steve Cohen and with the shared history of Stearns and Counsell—seven years together as GM and manager in Milwaukee—the Mets were portrayed as the most likely team to sign Counsell.

There were two problems with that assumption. Stearns did not hire Counsell in Milwaukee. He inherited him when he was named GM in September 2015. They worked well together but were not particularly close, especially as Milwaukee emphasized analytics more in game decisions. Moreover, the Mets’ advantage of money was offset by geography and where the team stands on the winning curve. It is not a plum job despite plum money.

“Over the last few days people were still writing that it looked like it was Counsell’s job,” says a source who spoke to Counsell during that time. “That wasn’t the case. He was all but out over the past few days. New York was not at the top of his list.”

Says one executive, “If you look at recent history, managers don’t come out well on the other side of that job.”

Mendoza will be the sixth named manager of the Mets in the past eight seasons, following Terry Collins, Mickey Callaway, Carlos Beltran, Luis Rojas and Buck Showalter. Going back to Jerry Manuel and Art Howe, the past seven Mets managers have not landed another managing gig after leaving Queens.

Stearns needed a manager with experience and/or a working understanding of the New York landscape. He settled on Mendoza, the former Yankees bench coach who turns 44 this month and has not managed above Class A ball. It comes at a time when the race to identify the next inexperienced managerial whiz has lost its luster as experience returns results. The ages of the past six World Series managers: 58 (Torey Lovullo), 59 (Rob Thomson), 65 (Brian Snitker), 68 (Bruce Bochy), 72 (Dusty Baker) and 73 (Baker).

The Mets were 29 games worse than Atlanta last year, the furthest they have been from first place in 20 years. The job comes with uncertainty in terms of how quickly they can rebuild. Likewise, Counsell’s free agency came just as Milwaukee is staring at a rebuild. Pitcher Brandon Woodruff underwent shoulder surgery and could be out for all of next year. Pitcher Corbin Burnes and shortstop Willy Adames could be traded this winter in advance of pending free agency.

The Cubs, however, are on the upswing, just as they were (if not quite as sharply) when the team dumped incumbent manager Rick Renteria in favor of free agent manager Joe Maddon after the 2014 season. Similarly, the Cubs liked Ross but decided when one of the game’s best managers is available and that person has strong ties to the Midwest, they felt obligated to pursue the top talent.

Chicago gave Counsell $40 million over five years. The annual salary of $8 million is a record, topping the $7.5 million Joe Torre earned from the Yankees more than 20 years ago ($13.3 million in today’s dollars). As analytics grew in baseball, executives became stars, not managers. Executives not only came to earn more than managers but they also reduced the influence of managers by relying on information-backed systems rather than wisdom.

For instance, when the Cubs hired Maddon, they paid him $5 million per year. President of baseball operations Theo Epstein was making $3.7 million. By the time Epstein left he was making $10 million, and the manager/GM balance of power in MLB had flipped.

The financial market for managers cratered in the analytics age. Terry Francona, with two World Series titles, reportedly was the game’s highest paid manager last season at $4.5 million. Maddon’s contract eight years ago (before he won a title) equates to $6.8 million in today’s dollars. Likewise, contracts for major league coaches remain stagnant at a time when the minimum player salary has risen 42% in the past eight years to $720,000.

“That’s one reason why you see so many coaches today who never played in the big leagues,” says one AL coach. “It’s almost like asking, ‘Who wants to coach for $120,000?’ There are a lot of guys who never played who would volunteer in a heartbeat. But if you’re in a big market, with taxes and living expenses, you’re almost working for free.”

The investment in Counsell is a signal that the Cubs are all in next season. You don’t hand out the most lucrative contract for a manager without consolidating that investment on the player side.

Conversely, the Brewers offered Counsell a raise from $3.5 million to $5.5 million but were never going to get to the level of Cubs money. Just days ago, they traded veteran outfielder Mark Canha to Detroit for a minor league reliever, rather than bring him back for $11.5 million or pay a $2 million buyout.

“What I don’t get is why the Brewers just didn’t pay to keep him,” says a source close to Counsell.

Based on how the teams are positioned and market resources, Counsell was worth more to the Cubs than to the Brewers. Milwaukee is scheduled to meet Tuesday morning with Pat Murphy, Counsell’s bench coach and former coach at Notre Dame, about replacing Counsell. Murphy also is expected to be offered a job on Counsell’s staff in Chicago.

Milwaukee could stay in house as it develops young players from its productive farm system, or it could try to take the public relations sting out of losing the franchise’s best manager—to the rival Cubs, no less—by hiring a “name brand” manager. Among those likely choices, according to a source, are Ross and Don Mattingly.

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Black Snow

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