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S.J. Moomaw

@aboutamoo.bsky.social

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I have opinions and I share them on social media. Sports, politics, sarcasm, music, food.

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · Jan 20

The President is not legitimate.
His orders are not legitimate (on top of being unconstitutional).
Those who follow and/or enforce his orders are the enemies of the United States of America.

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 7h

Both the Mariners and Blue Jays should track down some guys who played for their original 1977 expansion teams to throw out the first pitch for the LCS.

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 7h

The beauty of sports fandom.

Paraphrasing Roger Bennett of @meninblazers.bsky.social, sports are the most important unimportant thing in the world.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15h

me 15 min ago: this sport is unbearable what a waste of time

me rn: Ilove baseball ALCS tickets booked

S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 16h

He looks like this now.

S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 16h

Pretty sure the last 14th inning of any baseball game I’ve ever watched was game five of the 2004 ALCS.

Good night.

S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 17h

“We’ve racked up quite a body of awful crimes.”

(Proceeds to list a bunch of things that are not actually crimes.)

S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 17h

It’s 10:20 on a Friday night and I just want this game to end so I can go to bed. Jesus, I’m old.

S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t agree with bunting here either. But it’s a hell of a lot more defensible than the Phillies doing it the other night.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 18h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 18h

Five minutes ago, I composed and deleted a skeet, because I thought any Tigers fans would think it was a jinx.

S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 19h

Wonder if the daughter kept a diary during the ordeal.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Every single Democrat in Congress should’ve already had a post up by now about the Trump admin approving a Qatari air base inside the US.

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 1d

Siri, show me a perfect takedown of a clueless ninny.

Defector @defector.com · 1d

Breaking: Some guy now aware of most revered country artist who ever lived defector.com/breaking-som...

Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived | Defector

Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications these aren’t even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they’re many…

defector.com

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand, on snap!

On the other hand, you gave one to Yasser Arafat.

S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 1d

It’s one thing to write a song about murder. It’s another thing entirely to bring the listener into the mind of a killer.

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 1d

To combine this prompt with the WSJ article everyone is dunking on, let me just say, “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die” is perhaps the greatest lyric ever written.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie Brown has discussed seeking assurances that Lucy will not pull the football away.

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

Mary mother of Christ, these people are overpaid fools.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 1d

You know who’s a good actor? Tom Hanks.

S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 1d

lol

S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 1d

Nick Cave is up there.

Prime Westerberg had a knack for great metaphors.

S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 1d

He never quite reached that level again, but he remained a damn fine ballplayer when his health allowed. He retired with a .305 career batting average. He could always hit.

Fair winds and following seas, Gator.

S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 1d

He was for one season, though. AL MVP runner up in 1988, putting up 7.5 WAR for the division champs. He was 25 years old and seemed destined for superstardom. I got his autograph that year, and I felt like I had a future Hall of Famer on my ball.

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Greenwell was both better and not quite as good of a player as you might remember him. He was touted as the heir to left field in Fenway, taking the mantle from Rice, Yaz, and Williams. He welcomed the symbolism. He was ultimately not on their level as a player, but damn few are.

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S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 2d

You guys ever hear of this Johnny Cash fellow? Me either. Apparently he's some kind of musician. Maybe I'll check him out and let you know what I think.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

wtaf are you talking about

S.J. Moomaw @aboutamoo.bsky.social · 2d

Well thank god someone's there to tell us. Because it's not like there was a major Hollywood movie 20-some years ago that portrayed him as a complex, uncompromising, troubled, visionary musical genius.

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