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Bob Baum

@retiredbaumer.bsky.social

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Retired after 43 years as AP sports writer. Great memories fading with old age. Studiously avoiding politics for my mental health.

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Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta love this city…

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Thoughts and prayers Kristi Noem

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

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

Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 16h

Recommended reading on this NFL Sunday. It’s insidious and destroying so many lives.

Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm. Leaves only one team to hate

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Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta love this city…

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 2d

Thoughts and prayers Kristi Noem

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

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

Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 2d

Lived there for 23 years before leaving but this is a reason I still love that city

Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 4d

Moving 1,200 miles in the middle of Armageddon is a great late-life adventure

Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve got a nephew here with about 20 rifles. I think I can hide there if necessary, despite my political differences with him. I used to babysit him for Christ’s sake

Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 4d

Good time to reveal that we are selling our house in this redneck corner of Oregon (more like Idaho) and moving back to Arizona - to Tucson!

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Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 7d

History is made

Josh Dubow @joshdubowap.bsky.social · 7d

Per @sportradar, the Cardinals are the first team in NFL history to lose 3 straight games on a score in final play of 4th quarter

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 7d

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

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Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 7d

Glad I didn’t have to write this one. Although I probably did.,.

Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 7d

And there’s this…

Josh Dubow @joshdubowap.bsky.social · 7d

Cardinals have lost 3 straight games with all 3 losses coming on a field goal on final play of regulation

Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 7d

Boy, losses don’t look much uglier than that Cardinals one

Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 7d

If, and it’s a big if I know, I ever was in position to score a breakaway touchdown, I would run through the damn end zone and never drop the ball until I got home

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Gordy @pfkurd3.bsky.social · 7d

…one bad pitch last night, one bad throw today…

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Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 7d

Well. That was an all-time Cardinal way to give up a td

Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 7d

Even if they are individually nice. Collectively they are evil. And super rich. With a nonhuman leading off

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 11d

Don't worry, she loved this comic.

RIP Dr. Jane Goodall 🤎

A "The Far Side" comic. A female chimp sits on a branch, picking through the fur of a male chimp beside her in the branch. She says, "Well, well -- another blonde hair. -- Conducting a little more "research" with that Jane Goodall tramp?"

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Just George Oh🍂 @timmytwoshirts.bsky.social · 13d

dogs sitting in a trashed room:

"thank god you are home, look what antifa did"

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Bob Baum @retiredbaumer.bsky.social · 15d

I am quite pleased that the U.S. is getting its ass handed to it in front of all those embarrassing ‘fans’ and in front of the most embarrassing man on the planet #rydercup