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Gil Griffin

@gilgriffin.bsky.social

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NYC-born, NY/DC-raised, L.A.-based journalist/teacher/nonfiction author. Roots: Mandinka🇬🇲 Loves: #Mets ⚾; #FreoDockers 🏉; wife; cat; travel; scuba 🦈; fitness; sci-fi. Loathe: maga, 🤡. #FreeHawaii🤙🏾 I speak: español, Pilipino, 'olelo Hawai'i, Aussie English.

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Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 16h

So I'm watching the 15th inning of the Mariners-Tigers game last night and I'm thinking...Why is the Tigers' Tommy Kahnle doing a Ryne Stanek impersonation?🤔

Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

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Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

I swear I’ve seen mentally unbalance, unhoused people in Downtown L.A.who talk LESS to themselves than Tigers’ pitcher Jack Flaherty is doing right now.

Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

And I know another team that surely would’ve blown the play Eugenio Súarez made, throwing a runner out at home from third on a tag play.🤦🏾‍♂️ #LGM

Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

FS1’s Adam Amin may be the absolute WORST baseball play-by-play announcer I’ve EVER heard. Watching and hearing him call the Mariners-Tigers game, he feels the need to YELL AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS at the end of every half-inning, including after the Tigers turned a DP. M-U-T-E spells “mute.”

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Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 1d

As a former high school pitcher, I take that as a compliment! 😄

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Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 2d

Does the whole pitchers and catchers report to spring training early thing need to be LONGER? Two years in a row, a strong team gets knocked out because of a pitcher's mental (Gerrit Cole in '24) or physical (Orion Kerkering) error. Why are today's pitchers failing to execute the fundamentals?

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Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 2d

@brianbarrish.bsky.social B...Mate...no team should have to go out like THAT. That, I hate to admit, was the epitome of the '25 Mets.

Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 2d

That poor Phillies kid. I wouldn't wish that outcome on anyone -- except a Yankees pitcher against anyone, anyone pitching against the #Mets, or the Dodgers' Blake Treinen, with his maga ass.

Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 2d

As a #Mets fan, gotta tip my cap to the #Phillies for choosing to ditch their current, road gray with tomato-red lettered jerseys, and rock their old-school '80s columbia blues roadies with the stylized crimson "P" and racing stripes, Mike Schmidt-style! #respect

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Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 3d

😂 As a #Mets diehard, I love the banter!

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Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 3d

NOW I CAN DO IT! As a #Mets diehard, here's my VERY heartfelt tribute to the Yankees and their 2025 season! youtu.be/FGLYeHF1I_Y?...

Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 3d

This guy's facial expression sums the idea up for me.

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Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 3d

#Mets fans WISH Pete Alonso would learn how to turn the 3-6-3 DP as deftly as Vlad Guerrero Jr. just did.

Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 3d

Just caught a peek of the Mariners-Tigers game. Why on Earth would any opposing pitcher EVER throw Javy Báez anything other than a breaking ball?🤦🏿

Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 3d

From Deesha Thosar: The case for Mets to re-sign Starling Marte: 'He's been pretty good for us' www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/07/m...

The case for Mets to re-sign Starling Marte: ‘He’s been pretty good for us’

Marte recently played the fourth and final year of his contract.

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Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 3d

Get this shit post outta here. No Mets fan needs or wants to be reminded that this shit actually happened.

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Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 6d

Yep. F both of them.

Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 6d

How many of you out there like me, are old enough to remember watching #BlyeJays OF Daulton Varsho's father Gary, play as a reserve OF for the Cubs in the '80s?😬

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Gil Griffin @gilgriffin.bsky.social · 6d

So what's crushing the Yankees today?🤔

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