@anishmoonka Boy that Browns stint is a huge turd in that punch bowl of a resume...
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Paul DePodesta helped a $41 million baseball team win as many games as one spending $126 million. Hollywood made a movie about it, cast Jonah Hill to play him, then changed his name because the script turned him into someone he wasn't.
In 2002, the Oakland A's had one of the smallest budgets in baseball. The New York Yankees had the biggest. Both won 103 games that season. The Yankees spent three times more on player salaries and got the exact same result. DePodesta was 29, a Harvard economics grad, and the guy running the numbers behind Oakland's player decisions. He and general manager Billy Beane figured out that players other teams ignored (a veteran outfielder the Yankees were dumping, a catcher with a dead arm who'd never played first base) were massively underpriced if you measured the right things.
The movie Moneyball came out in 2011. Sony spent $47 million making it, which is $6 million more than Oakland spent on its entire team the year the story took place. Jonah Hill played DePodesta as a quiet, heavyset guy glued to a laptop. In real life, DePodesta is lean, played football at Harvard, and the first thing he tried to do after college was get a coaching job in the NFL. He told the Wall Street Journal he couldn't stomach someone else defining him to the world. The screenplay turned him into a caricature, and once a movie puts that image out there, good luck shaking it.
What happened to him after Oakland is a wild ride. He got hired to run the LA Dodgers at 31. One rough season later, fired. LA Times writers called him "Google Boy" as if it were an insult. He worked behind the scenes for the Padres and Mets, then in 2016, a football team came calling. The Cleveland Browns brought him in to do for the NFL what he'd done in baseball, using data to make smarter decisions about players. He spent nine years there. Last November, he came back to baseball to run the Colorado Rockies.
Every Major League team now has a full-time data staff. The whole industry built around sports data is worth $5.7 billion. After the 2002 season, the Red Sox tried to poach Billy Beane with a $12.5 million offer, the biggest management contract any sport had ever seen. He said no. Boston hired a 28-year-old named Theo Epstein instead, who used the same ideas to win the Red Sox their first World Series in 86 years.
DePodesta told Nautilus magazine his whole approach came from having no money. They couldn't buy the best players. So they had to find value where nobody was looking. That $41 million experiment is now the operating manual for billion-dollar franchises.
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In Moneyball (2011), Jonah Hill’s character Peter Brand is a fictionalized version of baseball executive Paul DePodesta, who declined to have his real name used because the film took significant creative liberties with his role.
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@ZODIAC_MF Lol!! I was like "he was in 'Weapons'?" ( now realizing he was kne of the main characters)
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I COULDNT PICK THIS GUY OUT OF A FUCKING LINEUP AND YOU ASSHOLES ACT LIKE HES THE SECOND COMING OF NICHOLSON
Cinema Tweets@CinemaTweets1
Why isn’t Alden Ehrenreich a bigger star? Is there something I missed? Whenever this guy comes on screen, all I think is “damn, things just got better.” He was so good in films like Weapons & Oppenheimer, but especially here in Hail, Caesar! He’s only 36, so there’s still time.
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Last time I got an MRI they gave me the dye
The tech quickly said "in a moment you're going to feel an overwhelming urge to urinate its normal. You might feel warm too, like you urinated"
He walked away, immediately felt like I pissed my pants
Casually moved my hand over to feel if it was dry 😂
He needed to give more detailed info!
Hybrid Athlete Guy@Hybridathlete
It's crazy how irrational the mind can be. Just had an MRI where I was put in head-first up to my waist. As long as I kept my eyes closed I was pretty much fine, only with a very mild sense of unease. But if I opened my eyes even for a second, immediate overwhelming panic. Shoulders jammed against the sides of the machine. Couldn't see anything except the top of the machine an inch away from my face. Even though I rationally knew I was in zero real danger and could easily get myself out under my own power in less than a second if I wanted to, my mind immediately panicked and I had an overwhelming feeling that I was going to die and needed to get out as soon as possible. But then I closed my eyes and that feeling went away almost immediately. Crazy experience.
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The reason the US is looking toward Indian expertise for its first refinery in 50 yrs is a metric called the Nelson Complexity Index (NCI).
Reliance Industries' Jamnagar Refinery (Jamnagar's NCI is 21.1, which is the highest in the world for any single refinery complex) is the largest & most complex refining hub in the world. While most refineries can only handle sweet (easy) crude, Jamnagar can process sour & heavy crude (like that from Venezuela & Iran) & turn it into high-grade Euro-VI fuel.
Most US refineries are aging & simple. To process the heavy crude from VZ that the US now influences, they need the specific proprietary configurations that Reliance and Engineers India Limited (EIL) have mastered.
Aravind@aravind
The US will get its first refinery in 50 years thanks to India and its Reliance Industries. I would assume it will be able to refine Venezuela crude, which the US de-facto controls now. This signal came when VZ oil sanctions were lifted. Similarly, the US will de-facto control a lot of Iran crude later this year, which means it will lift all sanctions on Iranian oil too. That will be the signal the US is calling the shots on Iran oil. So ignore the noise saying "the US isn't controlling Iran's oil" then. These are also the ones to say "the US isn't controlling VZ oil" now, due to biased and ideological analysis of geopolitical events. I believe this new unsanctioned Iran crude will flow to India for refining. So will a lot of other crude from the middle east. Russia will start selling oil to Europe with all US sanctions lifted too is my opinion. China will get its energy, but its Russian crude will become limited. All other oil heading to China will be US controlled via its allied governments and controlled shipping routes. Oil prices will go to 75, then 65 (pre war), then below 60, according to my analysis as of now, by the next year.
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YOUNGSTERS DONT EVEN REALIZE HOW AWESOME IT WAS WHEN BRUCE WILLIS SHOWED UP IN PULP FICTION AND KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE FUCKING PARK
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"YEAH SOMEBODYS GONNA GET KILLED. SOMEBODYS GONNA GET THEIR MOTHERFUCKING ***HEAD*** BLOWN AP-..."
Stephen Gibbons@Gibboanxious
Bruce Willis on set of Pulp Fiction (1994)
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You too can achieve this
By sleeping kind of well for a week.
Nico Arcata@NicoarcFitness
My testosterone went from 647 → 816 in 3 years. No TRT. No supplements. Still drinking on weekends and skipping the gym some days. Turns out only a few things actually matter. Here's what they are:
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No offense, looks epic, but the moment this goes into my pocket, I no longer have a phone.
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@jerryteixeira @ElieJarrougeMD he's 100% wrong about "body can't hit naturally ..." I think the LDL "number" is 70
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Cardiologists have set an LDL target the human body can’t reach on its own without a pill.
So either nature got it wrong OR the guidelines did. I know where I’m putting my money.
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They blindfolded his own officials before taking them to meet him. It was not enough.
In the final weeks of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s life, Iranian security protocols reached a level of paranoia without modern precedent. Senior officials who needed to meet the Supreme Leader were physically blindfolded before being transported to his location. Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, was blindfolded before being driven to Khamenei’s hideout, then traveled onward to Oman for diplomatic meetings. This was not metaphorical. This was an intelligence service so terrified of penetration that it could not trust its own leadership with the coordinates of its head of state.
Khamenei had retreated into a private underground bunker in Tehran, his second time hiding since the twelve-day war with Israel in June 2025. The bunker sat within a complex network of interlocking tunnels. According to senior Iranian military officials, the two deepest bunkers could only be penetrated by American munitions. Khamenei was not in either of them.
The CIA had been tracking his movements for months, mapping routines and security patterns. During the twelve-day war, American agencies learned how Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guard communicated and moved under pressure. That knowledge built the surveillance networks and predictive models that followed him from compound to compound.
On June 17, 2025, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he knew exactly where Khamenei was hiding. He called him an easy target. He said the United States had no intention of killing him, at least not at that time. Ten days later Trump wrote that he had saved Khamenei from an ugly and humiliating death.
Eight months of warning. The President of the United States told him publicly, on a social media platform, that American intelligence had located him. Khamenei responded by going deeper underground, blindfolding his own ministers, and shrinking the circle of trust to almost nothing.
On Saturday morning the CIA determined that Khamenei would chair a high-level meeting of Iran’s political and military leadership at a secure compound in central Tehran. The intelligence offered what the New York Times described as high fidelity on his position. The original strike had been planned for nighttime. The timing was changed to morning to catch the leadership assembled in one place.
The blindfolds did not work. The bunkers did not work. Eight months of warning did not work. The most paranoid security apparatus in the Middle East could not outrun a surveillance architecture it could not see, could not understand, and could not counter.
You can blind your own people. You cannot blind the satellites.
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
They did not bomb Iran. They waited for Iran’s entire leadership to sit down in the same room and then they bombed Iran. Months of intelligence. Thousands of hours of surveillance and signal intercepts. One variable: the moment the Supreme Leader, the President, and senior military command gathered in a single location at the same time. That moment was 8:15 this morning. Daylight. Every previous Israeli strike on Iran came at night. June 2025 launched in darkness. October 2024 after midnight. Iran’s entire air defense doctrine is built around the assumption that Israel attacks in the dark. Israel attacked in broad daylight because the target was not infrastructure. The target was a meeting. Reuters confirms strikes targeted Khamenei and Pezeshkian. CNN confirms months of joint US-Israeli planning. Israeli officials confirmed the strike hit the location where Iran’s top officials were gathered. Whether Khamenei was moved before the strike or extracted after is the most consequential unknown on the planet right now. If before, someone inside Tehran’s inner circle told Jerusalem when and where the meeting would happen. If after, the strikes hit the room and he survived. Both scenarios are catastrophic for the regime. Because Iran’s leadership now knows three things. Israel knew where they were meeting. Israel knew when they were meeting. Israel knew who would be in the room. And everything we watched over the past month, the F-22s at Ovda, the tankers at Ben Gurion, Al Udeid emptied to zero, 270 transport flights, all of it was the delivery architecture for one precision strike on one gathering. Every future meeting of Iran’s senior leadership now carries one question: does Israel know about this one too. This is not a military operation. This is the destruction of institutional trust inside a regime. Every general who sits with Khamenei tomorrow will wonder who told Jerusalem about today. Every IRGC commander who receives a meeting summons will calculate whether attendance is duty or a death sentence. Every secure facility in Tehran has been proven insecure. In June 2025 Israel killed 30 generals in the opening minutes. That was brute force across dispersed targets. This was a scalpel. One meeting. One moment. Months of patience. Iran fired missiles at six countries in retaliation. Most intercepted. One civilian dead from debris in Abu Dhabi. Saudi Arabia responded by pledging all its capabilities against Iran. The Gulf coalition that did not exist yesterday exists today because Tehran built it by attacking everyone simultaneously. Israel traded one morning of precision strikes for the permanent destruction of Iran’s command cohesion. That is not a battle. That is checkmate disguised as a first move. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@schober222 The most objectionable think here by 10000000x is that he's wearing jeans
This are probably limiting the range of motion more than anything
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Imagine being worked up by what a 72 year old is doing in the gym…
Couldn’t be me
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Bailey Schober | Men’s Fitness & Nutrition Coach@schober222
Yeah his range of motion is ass but who gives a fuck? Dude’s 72 years old Dude is a G for still lifting despite what he does How many people do you know still lifting at that age? He’s probably not trying to grow massive legs people He’s lifting for health and longevity Not everyone lifts to be a mass monster or step on stage believe it or not Relax
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When it comes to Single Arm Lat Pull-Downs…every man has a decision to make
Option 1: Take the 35 seconds & 3 units of energy it requires to set up a bench so the exercise is HIGHLY effective
Option 2: Don’t bother & just get MUCH LESS out of the exercise
Seems obvious to me!
Rich Norcross@Sorcron11
@TunaIsToxic @DeanTTraining I was about to say I’ll get better results kneeling with more ROM
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@ZODIAC_MF God, pulling the "joining the army ploy" and ending up with a cushy-ass "producer" gig and a BMW M3 about two scenes after whining he couldn't move out because he was on Lexapro is 4-D level chess and made me wish a Coco-level beating on him. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XPT-zh…
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@94ag HAHAHA OH MAN A.J. HAS BEEN A *HUGE* HIT OVER HERE THIS WATCH. KID GETS A REAL KICK OUT OF HIM AND WATCHING A.J. WITH THROUGH A PARENTAL LENS GIVES ME A WHOLE NEW APPRECIATION FOR THE CHARACTER
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WATCHING SOPRANOS WITH MY KID AND ENJOYING HIS VISIBLE INTERNAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN TONY BEING A REPELLENT RACIST AND NOAH BEING AN ABSOLUTE DOUCHEBAG. ITS LIKE WATCHING THE ALONZO MOURNING GIF HAPPEN NEXT TO ME IN REAL TIME
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@flapprdotnet @RedRobedRaist If youre short on time, watch ep 1, skip 2&3 (or watch at 2x speed), then ep 4, then ep 5
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@flapprdotnet Last episode redemmed it, but ffs there is no reason it should have taken 5 eps to get there.
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@ZODIAC_MF Zero charisma. None. Like an AI character, but without the humanity.
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I THINK EVERYONE HERE SERIOUSLY UNDERESTIMATES JUST HOW MUCH THIS GUY SUCKS
Kambit 🃏@UncannyKam
Can't believe there's a guy that's built like this who is passionate about playing batman and no one wants to give him a chance
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