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I've done a little work towards a 1986 Mets newsletter that would be focused on rewatching bits and pieces of games and doing some reminiscing about the things that got me so hooked on baseball

It would be 100% free of charge.

Gauging interest:

If you're interested, give a 'like' or reply
February 10, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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once again I emerge from the perils of writing triumphant. join me for a breakdown of Tarik Skubal's arbitration hearing, the Super Bowl, and who's supposed to man third base in Milwaukee: seatoseabaseball.com/weekly-score...
February 10, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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The ref didn’t verify with the Pats what the coin flip call was?
February 8, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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"Jerry Dipoto" can try his best but he will never stop me from posting. this week's recap features the inimitable Annie Savoy in an essay from 1988: seatoseabaseball.com/weekly-score...
Weekly Scorecard: Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 2026
A sermon from the Church of Baseball.
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February 3, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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New from the @nytimes.com Visual Investigations team: Detailed, second-by-second video analysis of all of the video footage of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The Times provides a millisecond-by-millisecond look at how an ICE officer ended up shooting and killing a motorist in Minneapo...
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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today I make good on my assertion that my blog is, indeed, a love letter to baseball: seatoseabaseball.com/100-things-i...
100 Things I Love About Baseball (Pt. 1)
A love letter, as promised.
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January 16, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
In today's newsletter I led with my take on Venezuela. I've sat with it for more than 48 hours and all I can think is how ashamed I am of my country. We're a malignancy. We have been for a long time, but now we don't even aspire to be anything other than evil. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Allison and I have been traveling since late last week and jet lag was still messing with me so I was awake and online scrolling just as the news began breaking of the attack on Venezuela Saturday morning. Most of the US was asleep as the word was spreading and for the next several hours I watched as my friends and other people I follow woke up and posted some equivalent of "what the fuck?!" It's amazing after all of these years of authoritarianism and blatant illegality that Trump maintains the ability to surprise, but I spent most of my Saturday in a gobsmacked stupor. To say what Trump has done and what he is continuing to do in Venezuela is brazenly illegal is an understatement of massive proportions. The attack itself was a textbook act of aggression in violation of the U.N. charter. The arrest, removal, and imprisonment of Nicolás Maduro and his wife was an abduction, not a "capture" as so many media outlets have put it. Trump's vow to take over Venezuela's oil reserves and to "run" the country is an admission that this is all about plunder and conquest despite whatever weak and wildly inconsistent legal justifications Trump and his accomplices have been trotting out over the past 48 hours. Calling the invasion of Venezuela a "law enforcement" operation doesn’t make it legal and doesn't make that assertion true. And to be sure, the notion that Maduro is himself a bad actor doesn't justify this. Anyone starting their official statements off with "While I am happy that Maduro has been removed from power . . . " is giving cover to Trump. Regardless of what anyone thinks of Venezuela's leadership, this still constitutes an unlawful use of force against a sovereign nation which violates both international law and U.S. domestic law. And despite all of that, Trump is threatening even more nations, telling reporters over the weekend that Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba are potential targets while reasserting his dangerously irresponsible threats against Greenland. Trump is an out-of-control war criminal. America is a rogue nation. None of this is justified in any conceivable way and anyone who attempts to justify it is either an idiot or a stooge. Yes, I know there are precedents for this – Panama and any number other previous incidents of American aggression – but those precedents were mostly illegal too and that this is the tenth or one hundredth time America has meddled with, attacked, and/or oppressed another sovereign nation doesn't change that. No one excused Ted Bundy's 25th murder because, hey, he had already killed 24 people before that. The only way one can even begin to atone for past bad acts is to stop being a bad actor and that's nothing the United States has ever thought about doing. Every Democratic elected official should be calling for Trump’s impeachment. They should be doing it now. They should be doing it loudly. They should be doing it continuously. They should file articles of impeachment immediately, in fact. I don't care that the effort will fail due to Republican control of Congress. You do it anyway to make it clear that laws still matter and to make it clear that what is happening is, in fact, unlawful. You do it to force everyone to take a side. You do it because, politically, it's the only way to get a ball rolling that could, at least theoretically, put Trump in check or serve as a warning to future would-be tyrants. You do it because to do nothing is to condone brazen illegality. You it because, morally, it's the right thing to do. Beyond what happens domestically, we should be condemned by the international community. Other countries should be pulling their ambassadors, boycotting the L.A. Olympics, the World Cup, and whatever else one does to pariah nations. I'm assuming that won't happen because unlike most pariah nations America is wealthy and powerful and true backbone is hard to find – the cowardice, equivocation, and bootlicking already being demonstrated by other world leaders is notable – but we've done the worst and we deserve the worst and I stand with any foreign leader who treats us the way we deserve to be treated. And yes, I am using "we" here. I mean, I could sit here all day and talk about how Trump isn't my president and that the United States is better than we're currently behaving, but all of that seems like empty and naive coping. It's the equivalent of slapping one of those "I bought this before Elon went crazy" stickers on your Tesla. Most of the people reading this are Americans and what America has done, particularly in the past year, demonstrates that we are a force of evil, brutality, and pain in the world. At present the death toll from this attack is at least 80 people, and those who have to buried their loved ones because of what America has done don't care that 48.3% of us voted for Kamala Harris. I'm ashamed of my country. I'm ashamed to be an American. I've never felt that way before. I've always had at least something to hold on to which kept me from going that far, but there's nothing now. If America ever did embody its stated ideals and values it stopped doing so a long time ago. We don't even bother to give them halfway convincing lip service anymore and our leaders don't even bother to build a superficial case for our aggressive and malicious adventurism anymore. America is an evil and dangerous nation that, if it stands for anything, stands as an example that only the world's tyrants and would-be tyrants should want to follow.
January 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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How is everyone overlooking Trevor Lawrence as #nflmvp ? Jags could reasonably be number one seed. And they thumped the Broncos in Denver.
January 4, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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Kirby Out Smart ed himself
January 2, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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How Am i doing @profanity.accountant
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Dave Studenmund of Hardball Times fame has updated his baseballgraphs.com project. If you are that kind of baseball fan it might be worth a look. Not updated for 2025 yet.
Welcome to Baseball Graphs
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November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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markarmour04.bsky.social
Pal @dialofdestiny.bsky.social and I often exchange post cards. Lately he has sent me strange “post cards” cut from a larger photo. Today I got #4. We all have our heroes 🦸 .

(Completed puzzle is blown up image from one of my favorite baseball cards: 1970 Carl Yastrzemski.)
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Bert Jones is having a day against the Dolphins! What’s that?

#colts
September 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
dialofdestiny.bsky.social
If a couple meets on @Hinge then gets married, is that UnHinged?
August 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
dialofdestiny.bsky.social
What a horrific send by Sarbaugh. Dude, if the OF has the ball before the runner reaches the bag (and it isn’t the winning run in the B9) DO NOT SEND.

You are a grade A clown at your job.

#lgm @mets.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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TIL The Brewers are wearing Cub Scout uniforms.
July 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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@united-airlines.bsky.social

stopped a nonstop flight because they cannot manage their personnel. They said “oh we have to wait on deadheading pilots”. “Oh we have to refuel in Seattle - just a quick stop” “oh a 3hr stop while we changes flight crews who aren’t in Seattle yet”.

Just stop lying.
June 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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@unitedairlinesual.bsky.social stopped a nonstop flight because they cannot manage their personnel. They said “oh we have to wait on deadheading pilots”. “Oh we have to refuel in Seattle - just a quick stop” “oh a 3hr stop while we changes flight crews who aren’t in Seattle yet”.

Just stop lying.
June 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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cc: @pobguy.bsky.social

www.mlb.com/news/new-sta...
4 new swing metrics tell us more than we've ever known about contact
Sometimes, in what’s a near-endless proliferation of advanced metrics and tools across baseball, it feels like it’s all spreadsheet talk, that some of these terms exist only in the realm of analysts. ...
www.mlb.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Wow. It's so much worse when you see the whole thing.
timobrien.bsky.social Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · Feb 28
Here’s the full Trump-Zelensky presser.

Trump, unable to find most countries on a map, is so wildly out of his depth here - and he’s sabotaging US interests amid his and Vance’s tag-team bullying of Zelensky. Utterly reckless and shameful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvwr...
Watch the FULL Meeting Between Zelenskyy and Trump (No Edits)
YouTube video by Keith Edwards
www.youtube.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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A man in Indiana made an AT-AT costume for his horse, intending to only get a few pictures before removing it. When he took off the headpiece the horse got upset and insisted that he put it back on, which made the horse happy again. Now the horse isn't allowing him to remove any piece of the costume
A horse with an AT-AT costume and a guy who looks half proud half disgusted with the horse
January 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
dialofdestiny.bsky.social
How many of you thought when you got a topps “complete set” they would be collated in order? That’s right, all of you. But
December 27, 2023 at 3:46 AM
dialofdestiny.bsky.social
Came here to say “it should be Bleats, not skeets” and was glad search had that covered. #sheeple
August 19, 2023 at 4:14 AM
dialofdestiny.bsky.social
Perfect 8th inning to sun up the season. Pham walks, Alvarez singles. Runners on the corners, no outs. 8 pitches later, a pop up and two Ks. After a terrible defensive top half. Fire Buck.
July 16, 2023 at 2:25 AM