Tim Ball
@timtb04.bsky.social
Retired Army SF officer. Non-resident fellow @fpri.bsky.social. Irregular warfare and special operations for work. Houston sports and running for fun.
Batting cleanup because he happens to be left handed.
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Daulton Varsho is batting .135 with 7 hits, a homer, 3 RBIs and 4 runs scored in 15 games for the Astros in his career.
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August 22, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Batting cleanup because he happens to be left handed.
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@bradduplessis.bsky.social This was great. Very well done.
March 15, 2026 at 10:29 AM
@bradduplessis.bsky.social This was great. Very well done.
Looking forward to his next announcement of Liberty being the premier destination for O-4s to complete their ILE time.
Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.
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February 27, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Looking forward to his next announcement of Liberty being the premier destination for O-4s to complete their ILE time.
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The use of special operations forces requires coherent strategy from civilian decision makers. My latest for @fpri.bsky.social
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Trump and the Special Operations Panacea - Foreign Policy Research Institute
Donald Trump has shown that he is no exception to the history of US presidents looking to special operations to solve their national security problems. Within
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January 14, 2026 at 2:11 PM
The use of special operations forces requires coherent strategy from civilian decision makers. My latest for @fpri.bsky.social
www.fpri.org/article/2026...
www.fpri.org/article/2026...
The use of special operations forces requires coherent strategy from civilian decision makers. My latest for @fpri.bsky.social
www.fpri.org/article/2026...
www.fpri.org/article/2026...
Trump and the Special Operations Panacea - Foreign Policy Research Institute
Donald Trump has shown that he is no exception to the history of US presidents looking to special operations to solve their national security problems. Within
www.fpri.org
January 14, 2026 at 2:11 PM
The use of special operations forces requires coherent strategy from civilian decision makers. My latest for @fpri.bsky.social
www.fpri.org/article/2026...
www.fpri.org/article/2026...
Provided my quick thoughts on the Venezuela raid to @fpri.bsky.social
FPRI Experts React | Regime Change in Venezuela buff.ly/zlwAKK0
January 5, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Provided my quick thoughts on the Venezuela raid to @fpri.bsky.social
People should watch Altuve when he's on base or holding someone on 2nd. Opposing players always smiling and joking with him - he's adored by everyone who actually plays the game, other than the Yankees and Dodgers, entitled franchises known to be amongst the worst of the sign stealers in the 2010s
I have been vocal for Whitaker for years. People need to get over Altuve. He's going in. Players don't take that stuff half as seriously as a minority of fans, because players steal signs.
I am a Phillies fan & love Chase, but - like Black Sox Jose Altuve - I don't want to see him anywhere near the Hall of Fame until Sweet Lou Whitaker, of the WAR higher than Derek Jeter, finally gets his unforgivably long (over)due.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
People should watch Altuve when he's on base or holding someone on 2nd. Opposing players always smiling and joking with him - he's adored by everyone who actually plays the game, other than the Yankees and Dodgers, entitled franchises known to be amongst the worst of the sign stealers in the 2010s
The major will be lecturing the generals on:
- why company command is overrated
- actually you don't need to try Ranger School as an infantry officer
- Half a pushup is just as good as a full pushup
- why company command is overrated
- actually you don't need to try Ranger School as an infantry officer
- Half a pushup is just as good as a full pushup
This is going to end up being the most pointless and expensive "this meeting could have been an email" in history.
September 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The major will be lecturing the generals on:
- why company command is overrated
- actually you don't need to try Ranger School as an infantry officer
- Half a pushup is just as good as a full pushup
- why company command is overrated
- actually you don't need to try Ranger School as an infantry officer
- Half a pushup is just as good as a full pushup
GWOT rotted the brains of not only a large number of people who participated in it, but also quite a few who didn't.
Kash Patel: "To my friend Charlie Kirk. Rest now, brother. We have the watch. And I'll see you at Valhalla"
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
GWOT rotted the brains of not only a large number of people who participated in it, but also quite a few who didn't.
This fits.
September 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This fits.
Jose Altuve has responded to boos from Yankees fans by going 5-for-9 with two homers this weekend
August 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
August 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
BRING HIM HOME, JIM CRANE
July 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
BRING HIM HOME, JIM CRANE
Only one quality team in Texas and it ain’t in Arlington
Josh Hamilton recently pled guilty to flying into a rage and assaulting his daughter, but a Pride Night is a bridge too far
July 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Only one quality team in Texas and it ain’t in Arlington
For the haters.
Astros run out there a lineup of Who's That Now and What's His Faces and never stop winning
July 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
For the haters.
Rob Manfred: not just a shitty commissioner, also a shitty human being
in this same audio, Manfred was asked why the diversity pipeline was scrubbed from MLB's website. this was his answer:
July 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Rob Manfred: not just a shitty commissioner, also a shitty human being
These assholes are all 31:00 5K guys
July 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
These assholes are all 31:00 5K guys
Luhnow was hung out to dry after a deal between Manfred and Jim Crane to find a scape goat.The sign stealing was being done by Cora and Beltran, and Cora has been completely forgiven for some unknown reason. It’s important to realize who was responsible for what.
Luhnow should have had a more severe penalty. Beltran is suffering it, being kept out of the Hall of Fame. But this business of wanting to ban a manager for encouraging sign stealing, what sport are you people watching?
Hinch and the other Astros conspirators should have been banned for life
July 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Luhnow was hung out to dry after a deal between Manfred and Jim Crane to find a scape goat.The sign stealing was being done by Cora and Beltran, and Cora has been completely forgiven for some unknown reason. It’s important to realize who was responsible for what.
Add a 2-4 day with another HR and another 2 RBIs
I have long said it is dangerous to boo Altuve. In two games in Los Angeles he is 4-for-7 (2B, 3B, 2 HR), 4 R, 6 RBI, 2 BB.
July 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Add a 2-4 day with another HR and another 2 RBIs
He’s been doing this for 5 seasons now since the “scandal” became news. Hears the most vile crap imaginable, and still hits on the road like the HOFer he is. One of the best to ever play the game, no matter what the QAnon “he was wearing a wire” crybabies in NY and LA say.
I have long said it is dangerous to boo Altuve. In two games in Los Angeles he is 4-for-7 (2B, 3B, 2 HR), 4 R, 6 RBI, 2 BB.
July 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
He’s been doing this for 5 seasons now since the “scandal” became news. Hears the most vile crap imaginable, and still hits on the road like the HOFer he is. One of the best to ever play the game, no matter what the QAnon “he was wearing a wire” crybabies in NY and LA say.
Your updates on this clown are sometimes the only good news I see on here all day.
Update lol
June 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Your updates on this clown are sometimes the only good news I see on here all day.
One of the best out there, and was incredibly gracious with her time when I asked for help integrating ethics into the curriculum for our senior Army ROTC cadets.
Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.
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A Military Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest
Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.
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June 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
One of the best out there, and was incredibly gracious with her time when I asked for help integrating ethics into the curriculum for our senior Army ROTC cadets.
Rob Manfred and Jamboi. Of course.
[old guy voice] hey, kid, I’m Jomboy. Wanna see a burgeoning media clip where I read someone’s lips and later they tell me they didn’t say that at all?
Huh. OK.
June 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Rob Manfred and Jamboi. Of course.