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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 · 12h

We live in an evidence-free era in which memes and grifters tell people how to think rather than the facts or any effort to think critically.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 13h

It was very odd seeing him celebrate tonight, but good for him! I think you're right--he really has had bad timing. He came back as a coach after Torre's big years and left before Girardi's (and Cashman's) sole championship.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 15h

That sounds like it should be a private conversation between him and his urologist.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 15h

John Adams' last words, July 4, 1826: "Jefferson still... lives... and Cashman... even after all this... is still... GM."

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 15h

With them down two games to none and having followed this iteration of the team closely, he felt he had seen the writing on the wall.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 15h

Spoke to a friend of mine who is a lifelong Yankees fan prior to Game 3. He said he didn't even want to talk about it, didn't want them to push things to tonight because he knew they weren't going to win anyway. "Stop toying with me. I want to be put out of my misery."

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 15h

One ensuring mystery of this season is who stole Austin Wells' plate judgment.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 16h

Aaron Judge is going to win no more championships with the Yankees than Don Mattingly did, but at least his back has lasted longer.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 17h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 16h

It seemed to me that the 2B ump was between Jazz and the ball for a crucial moment.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 17h

Roll the dice, move your token, draw a card: "Ex-Rockie hits a home run. Collect $100."

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 17h

See also: Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 19h

This is Reverend David Black, minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He was shot seven times in the head with chemical pellets by ICE agents as he was pleading and praying at a protest.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 18h

Also a good excuse to revisit Peanuts for that year given Charles Schulz's anguish over the way it ended.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 19h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 19h

Whether the Cubs' season ends today or lasts all the way to Game 7 of the World Series, what I will miss most is their radio guys laughing hysterically at their own jokes.

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 19h

Spoilers for a 117-year-old novel, but the hunt for "Antifa" is very much like living through G.K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare" in which the police go to great lengths to infiltrate a terrorist cell only to discover the cell is almost entirely composed of themselves.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 19h

Who the FUCK is the card-carrying fascist prompting him to suspended habeas corpus for "these insurrectionists?"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 20h

Yep! Just to be clear, it isn't at all personal. I root for just about everyone except the loud 'n' proud bigots and the domestic violence perpetrators. This eliminates a shocking number of players, but your poor judgment applies only to the strike zone? Come sit by me.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 20h

Not an exaggeration! From Opening Day to June 24, nine walks. From then on, 197 PAs, ONE (1!) walk! Why does anyone ever throw this guy anything within a solar system of the plate?

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 20h

Javy Baez? The guy who last drew a walk during the first term of the Trump administration?

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 20h

There is a truly frightening short they did in 1943, "Education for Death," which is essentially "Here is what happens to your children under fascism: they're indoctrinated and then become cannon-fodder in wars of aggression. Good going."

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 20h

"Portland's not even there anymore! It's been overrun by wild animals. I just saw a reporter EATEN BY A LION, but do you guys talk about it? No!"

A 9/2025 video via the Oregon Zoo (Portland, OR) of a lion playing with a camera it noticed had been placed in its enclosure.

Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 21h

Bios of George Washington note that during his 1st term he was very worried he was slipping mentally. He was in his 60s, pretty old then, and was desperate to get out before he let anyone down. This was one reason he set the 2-term precedent.

In so many ways we're as far from GW as you can get.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump's mouth starts drooping as he struggles to stay awake during this antifa roundtable

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 22h

If you're not all baseball'd out after today's 4x elimination games, A new Infinite Inning reissue is out. All of these have 10-20 minutes of new discussion. Today is largely about a disappointing coffee roll-but how disappointing is it? To know you need a Judge. www.spreaker.com/episode/infi...

Infinite Inning Reissue 18 (067): Ballplayers and Pastries Above Replacement-Level - The Infinite Inning

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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 1d

IIRC he spoke that exact phrase in a jailhouse interview. It has always stuck with me as such a selfish, evil thing to say. Thus it was disconcerting to see it in a benign context like yours. Just an odd coincidence, I guess. Once again, thank you for all the great reading over the years!