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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 24m

It is strange, but I suspect it's a holdover from when players were discouraged from fraternizing with opponents, likely out of fear they'd conspire to throw games or, arguably worse, compare contracts. The owners were a justifiably skittish bunch when it came to their control of players.

Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 26m

To my knowledge, no members of the Giants stopped to console Brooklyn's Ralph Branca after he surrendered Bobby Thomson's home run on October 3, 1951, losing both the game, a 13.5 game lead, and the pennant, suggesting that if that's what's wrong with America, it's been wrong for at least 74 years.

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 2h

Sure, but I think what'll be remembered isn't the IBB, but Kerkering muffing the ground ball, electing to throw home, then making a bad toss.

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 10h

Sports: a cavalcade of misery!

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 10h

I hope he keeps things in perspective. A lot had to go wrong to bring him to that moment.

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 11h

Such an arresting shot. The Dodgers don't just stream around him. They *weave* around him. Betts begins skipping, while this man regrets ever having picked up a baseball.

Baseball, man. Designed to break your heart.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 12h

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 12h

Baseball fans, buy this book. And buy Andrew's other books too. He's a phenomenal author who writes about baseball like no other.

Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 12h

To celebrate the Jays' ALDS win, @pressassembly.bsky.social is making Field Work available for 34% off the e-pub edition (1% per run the Jays scored on NYY). Not valid on print b/c Assembly isn't shipping rn in solidarity with striking Canada Post workers...

assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...

Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living

Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew Forbes Baseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream—and for some, it’s also a…

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks, Dan!

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 12h

Price good until the start of the ALCS on Sunday. Baseball!

Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 12h

To celebrate the Jays' ALDS win, @pressassembly.bsky.social is making Field Work available for 34% off the e-pub edition (1% per run the Jays scored on NYY). Not valid on print b/c Assembly isn't shipping rn in solidarity with striking Canada Post workers...

assemblypress.ca/shop/field-w...

Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living

Roger Angell meets Hanif Abdurraqib meets Bull Durham in this sharp new collection of baseball writing by Andrew Forbes Baseball is a sport, a pastime, an obsession, a dream—and for some, it’s also a…

assemblypress.ca

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 14h

It was a great game, both teams played... incredible. It was a great game.

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 18h

This this this. It's like asking chefs if they'd rather not handle food.

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 19h

Had extra lumber, built a new work bench.

A work bench inside a garage. The bench sits beneath a hanging lamp, and behind it a pegboard wall holds tools and assorted junk.

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 22h

They've got their work cut out for them, for sure.

Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 23h

Cubs haven't advanced yet, but i like your positive energy!

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 1d

My daughter just made this her ringtone and I've never been more happy to be alive

Christen Thomas (she/her) @metaphorce.bsky.social · 1d

Yes

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever puts DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE on a t-shirt already has my money just come and get it

Christen Thomas (she/her) @metaphorce.bsky.social · 1d

Yes

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Christen Thomas (she/her) @metaphorce.bsky.social · 1d

Yes

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, pal. They did this for everybody.

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just so happy they beat the Yankees.

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 1d

You love to see it.

Members of the Toronto Blue Jays whoop and holler in celebration after defeating the New York Yankees in the American League Division Series.

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 1d

Live look at the Blue Jays leaving Yankees Stadium, headed to the ALCS!

a plane is flying through a blue and red explosion in the sky .

Alt: Death star explosion and the millennium falcon flying away from it

media.tenor.com

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Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social · 1d

We use it to heat our homes up here.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

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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Graig Kreindler @graigkreindler.bsky.social · 2d

On this day in 1925, Christy Mathewson passed away at the age of 45. One of the most beloved athletes of his era, he was baseball’s first true superstar. Here’s my painting of him warming up before a game at West Side Park in 1907, based on the photography of Francis P. Burke.

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