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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 1h

never forget

Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1h

Googling longest postseason games and Google AI says that the Tigers have won this game!

This was the longest winner-take-all game in postseason history by innings, with the Tigers ultimately winning.

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 1h

Bryan Woo on Sunday?

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Amanda Rykoff @amandarykoff.bsky.social · 1h

Googling longest postseason games and Google AI says that the Tigers have won this game!

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 1h

How many innings left until Tucker comes into the game www.mlb.com/mariners/new...

Meet Tucker, the Mariners' top paw-spect in camp

This story was originally published on Tuesday, March 5, 2024.

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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 2h

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
ADAM AMIN: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
ADAM AMIN: oh god yes
AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

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Sam Dykstra @samdykstramilb.bsky.social · 2h

The 2025 PFPs in Lakeland, however, are very much paying off.

Sam Dykstra @samdykstramilb.bsky.social · 1d

PFPs will never be more important than they will be in Clearwater in 2026.

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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 2h

Scene: Tomorrow morning, at breakfast

A.J. Pierzynski, to no one in particular: You have to bunt here

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 2h

at the rate this is going……….

Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 2h

We saw a game today where three players in a row bunted

The players were all 11-12 years old

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Megan Corcoran @megancorcoran.bsky.social · 2h

Neutral baseball fans watching this game: Wow, this game is incredible! Some great baseball!

Invested fans: I wanna die

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 2h

I forget the #weirdbaseball rules

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Asher - ELIMINATED @asherd.xyz · 2h

www.mlb.com/news/mariner...

Why Mariners fans were putting shoes on their heads

Good-luck charms in baseball come in many forms: We've seen a Rally Monkey and Rally Squirrel, a Rally Cat and rally hats. Just this season, the Padres found a spark with a black panther statue (60 pe...

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A Blog of Their Own @blogoftheirown.bsky.social · 2h

Baseball

Two consecutive BlueSky posts—first says “how good is this?” and second says “this is excruciating.”

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 3h

This is the seventh time a player has had a pinch-hit game-tying hit in a winner-take-all postseason game. Enrique Hernández was the last to do it in Game 7 of the 2020 NLCS.

And Leo Rivas did it on his birthday.

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 3h

Pinch-hit game-tying single for Leo Rivas in the seventh inning. What a game.

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 5h

I saw someone in the stands wearing a black hat with a very simple white S logo which lead me to the Seattle Steelheads and the short lived West Coast Negro Baseball Association en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle...

Seattle Steelheads - Wikipedia

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 8h

My rooting interests for tonight and tomorrow

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 9h

the “tainted kiss” defense always fascinates me - in this case it seems like he met someone at a bar and that was it?

Tennis player who used kissing as anti-doping defense banned www.reuters.com/sports/tenni...

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 10h

it’s mental lubrication

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 10h

I got a text message about a job - which isn’t surprising because I get a lot of scam text messages about jobs. But it references a job I actually applied for. But it might still be a scam. 🤔

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 10h

sound up (but not at work)

WalkingTaako, But Spooky🏴‍☠️🏳️🪣💩 @walkingtaako.bsky.social · 10h

This AI voice was probably intentional but it's effective.

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WalkingTaako, But Spooky🏴‍☠️🏳️🪣💩 @walkingtaako.bsky.social · 10h

This AI voice was probably intentional but it's effective.

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 10h

And I find it incredibly messed up that someone must have flagged the email so it doesn’t hit our inboxes

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 11h

Take your time, grieving is a process and we all work through it at our own pace ❤️

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Stephanie @stephy.bsky.social · 11h

I got this breaking news alert in my personal email inbox at 2:05 pm, and it has yet to hit my work email inbox 🤔

HHS employees to be fired as White House enacts mass terminations again www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/h...

HHS employees to be fired as White House enacts mass terminations it blames on shutdown

Federal health employees are being fired as the White House makes good on a promise to terminate federal employees en masse because of the shutdown.

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