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Casey Stengel biographer. Shanty Hogan chronicler. Infinite Inning podcast host. Baseball Prospectus author and Consulting Editor. Collector of far too many books. | https://www.baseballprospectus.com/show/the-infinite-inning/

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hey! I'm Steve. My podcast is The Infinite Inning, which combines baseball, history, politics, and culture. My books are Forging Genius, on the early career of Casey Stengel, and Baseball's Brief Lives, biographical essays. Between, there's been a whole lot of my beloved home, Baseball Prospectus.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · Nov 11

Infinite Inning Episode 306: A pitcher goes through a windshield, toxic soup is eaten, a catcher suffers, the William Tell Overture is played on the harmonica but no strikeouts are recorded, and somehow this tells us something about where to go from here. www.baseballprospectus.com/podcasts/inf...

Infinite Inning 306: The Pitcher Who Refused to Go Home | Baseball Prospectus

After the week we’ve had, we’re all once again in the Infinite Inning, but is there a way out? Follow along the winding path as a Yankees ace puts his head through a windshield, toxic soup is eaten, a...

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1h

The 42nd attempt will be the charm for Detroit!

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1h

Suarez is the only player who takes hia tonsorial inspiration from Hal Foster's "Prince Valiant."

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 2h

Could someone unplug AJ? He's stuck.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 2h

Precisely correct, sir. And he wasn't horrible that first half-season. He was just a poor fit given they already had a first baseman and a DH.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 2h

When the Buhner-Phelps trade went down, I was probably the only person in the Tristate Area to experience a moment of pure joy. I can admit it now.

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2h

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 2h

What was really wonder about Phelps-besides the walks and homers, I mean-is that it would have been totally redundant for Jim Henson to turn him into a Muppet. He was already 99% of the way there! Nothing would have changed!

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 2h

Brother, you read my mind!

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 2h

Not Richie Zisk?

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 2h

He makes King George III look calm and rational.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 11h

If you look around the table and can't spot the antichrist, maybe it's you?

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 12h

I first became aware of him as a kid via this outlier of a Two-in-One issue (Frank Miller interiors? They mostly play cards?). If you stand out in this group of characters...

Marvel Two-in-One no. 51, 1979, cover by George Perez. The Thing, Ms. Marvel, the Beast, Nick Fury, and a field-jacket-wearing Wonder Man running towards you... on their way, it turns out, to playing cards.

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Matt Trueblood @matrueblood.bsky.social · 12h

Sometimes I long so much for the version of the Democrats that only exists in the heads of right-wing lunatics.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 12h

I think I'm the only guy on the planet who dug the field-jacket look.

Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 12h

The most gloriously hideous superhero costume of them all!

Eric Goldman @theericgoldman.bsky.social · 12h

Oooh, I like this approach.

Also... they got the ugly green suit in there!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBbL...

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 12h

If Eleanor Roosevelt had said this re Stalin, the resultant explosion by J. Edgar Hoover would have made Krypton green(er) with envy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 1d

Last night it said 100+ bought in the past month. Tonight, 200+. The legion grows.

screenshot of amazon page that says Inflatable Frog Costume for Adults - Blow up Halloween Costume. 200 plus bought in past month

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

FREEDOM FROG!!!

Wiseowl374 @wiseowl374.bsky.social · 1d

This man is your friend he fights for freedom poster but it’s portland frog hero

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

You know, Paul McCartney wrote a song for an animated frog short, and the lyrics are PERFECT as an anthem for this moment! The frogs sing:

Win or lose, sink or swim
One thing is certain, we'll never give in
Side by side, hand in hand
We all stand together

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

Charity says the same thing!

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

I am greatly relieved.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

That's so kind of you to say; I'm glad. I lost my father last year, so I truly empathize. He wasn't the biggest baseball fan, but he saw enough just by being around me, and made enough comments/observations at those times, that I'm frequently reminded of him while watching games. It's bittersweet.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

I did! I've talked to a number of Yankees of his vintage, but somehow never him, and I was regretting that.

That fellow talked about Fain and Joost too. They're for the special collectors, the aficionados.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

No judgment! We all should take our moments of bliss where we can find them.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

You go to Linkedin for fun? Or is that a metaphor for job-hunting?

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I see a family legacy like that and wonder if we're living inside Robert Coover's "Universal Baseball Association," with those soap opera-like player dynasties.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a teenager taking driving lessons, my instructor was an older guy who was from Philadelphia in that period and when he wasn't yelling at me he would tell me about seeing Simmons, Cochrane, Foxx, and Grove. It was awesome. "So Grove winds up and--SIGNAL! NO, SIGNAL! RIGHT! LEFT!"