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Yusuf Toropov

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Writers Guild/Ireland. Lead Writer/Managing Director https://cara-wordsmith.com. Author: JIHADI: A LOVE STORY, which Publishers Weekly called "smart and searing." AN UNDIVIDED HEART produced @ Echo Theater in LA. I obsess about baseball. #1947League ADHD

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · Aug 6

“Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external events. That’s all you need.” — Marcus Aurelius

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 13h

Had no idea!

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 13h

Though Blyleven is way ahead of that!

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 13h

I see two 20-game winners...

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APBA 1973 Replay ⚾️ @alexanderraine7.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for your interest & support! I'm certainly excited for the 2025 WS as well as what my last 2 divisional races will reveal. Here's what the AL West schedule looks like for MIN & OAK (subject to change)

9.25
MIN (Goltz, 4-3) @ OAK (Blue, 19-7)

9.26
MIN (Blyleven, 26-8) @ Oak (Holtzman (19-14)

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APBA 1973 Replay ⚾️ @alexanderraine7.bsky.social · 2d

We've completed all games for Monday, September 24, 1973. There are only 6 days & 64 games left in the season!

A's take the opener in the final head-to-head series with the Twins, which increses their lead to 1 1/2 gms. Twins really need to take one of this series.

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 21h

The fact that dogmatic religionists (of all stripes) and atheists insist on anthropomorphizing natural processes does not make that the appropriate thing to do, nor does it deprive natural processes of the possibility of a meta-consciousness the human intellect is incapable of parsing.

Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 21h

So apparently that was the first 7-4 game-ending DP in World Series history. And what a thing of beauty it was! @tabletopmania.bsky.social @apbamlb1987.bsky.social @kennjdodgerblue.bsky.social @alexanderraine7.bsky.social @apbareplay.bsky.social @ohhjim.bsky.social @bloggertubbs.bsky.social

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APBA 1973 Replay ⚾️ @alexanderraine7.bsky.social · 6d

For what it's worth, after this series, each team will host an AL West sub-.400 team. A's hosting the White Sox (61-95), Twins hosting the Angels (62-94).

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APBAmlb1987 @apbamlb1987.bsky.social · 8d

This was the first pinch hit grand slam in World Series history. @alexanderraine7.bsky.social @apbareplay.bsky.social @ohhjim.bsky.social @yusuftoropov.bsky.social @mugsynj.bsky.social @bloggertubbs.bsky.social

Talkin’ Baseball (Bot) @talkinbaseballbot.bsky.social · 8d

ADDISON BARGER GRAND SLAM AND THE JAYS HAVE BLOWN IT OPEN!

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 22h

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 22h

Late to the party! My mother was in town. Stay tuned for an APBA-RELATED update on her. :-)

GREEN AND GOLD!!! ALL THE WAY!!!

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APBA 1973 Replay ⚾️ @alexanderraine7.bsky.social · 6d

1875

TENACE'S 2ND HR IS A WALK-OFF IN THE 11TH GIVING THE A'S THE 6-4 WIN OVER TWINS

Twins posted 2 in the 8th to send the gm into extras. A's turned 4 DPs to keep the Twins in check. Hands w/ 3 perfect rf inns.

W: Fingers (7-3)
L: Corbin (6-7)

HR: Tenace 2 (25, 26), Mitterwald (15), Walton (2)

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APBA 1973 Replay ⚾️ @alexanderraine7.bsky.social · 6d

Who's your Player of the Game?

- Danny Walton; 1-4, HR, BB, 2 R, RBI

- Gene Tenace; 2-6, 2 HR, 2 R, 3 RBI, gidp
* Walk-off HR in 11th, after 1st inn HR started the scoring

- Bill North; 2-5, BB, R, 2 RB I
* scored go-ahead R in 11th

- George Mitterwald; 1-3, HR, 2 BB, R, RBI

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APBA 1973 Replay ⚾️ @alexanderraine7.bsky.social · 6d

Scoresheets

A’s are now 1 1/2 gms up on Twins, with 2 gms left in this head-to-head series.

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 15d

And yesterday the Mariners pulled a bases-loaded, 2-3 double play. I suppose I must have known at some level that this was technically possible, but I don't think I'd ever seen or heard tell of such a play before. Doesn't come up on my unusual plays chart!

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 17d

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Tabletop Mania @tabletopmania.bsky.social · 18d

WLB 2022 San Francisco Miners
1st Place West Coast Division

MVP: Ted Williams
BA: Ted Williams.343
HR: Mark McGwire 45
RBI: Ted Williams 142
SB: Barry Bonds 32

POY: Randy Johnson
ERA: John Wetteland 1.91
W: Don Drysdale 19
SV: Rob Nen 27
K: Randy Johnson 285

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 18d

A predictably brilliant breakdown from Jomboy -- it wasn't an unassisted double play, though, just a wildly unlikely one that I cannot imagine any board game could reproduce...

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Dodgers almost hit grand slam, ended up with ZERO runs instead, a breakdown

YouTube video by Jomboy Media

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 18d

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Catherine Connolly's keepie-uppies and basketball skills

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APBAmlb1987 @apbamlb1987.bsky.social · 20d

The ghost of Uecker is strong. Milwaukee in 7.

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 18d

I do not. Who is it?

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 18d

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Tabletop Mania @tabletopmania.bsky.social · 19d

9-27-22
Mariners bat around in the 4th and 6th innings as they hammer the Miners 15-6!

SFM(102-58) 6 10 1
SEA(78-82) 15 13 1

W: Lolich 15-9 3.81 ERA
L: Nolan 11-9 4.80 ERA

SEA: Ken Williams 3-5, 2B(24) HR(17) 2R, 5RBI

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Yusuf Toropov @yusuftoropov.bsky.social · 18d

that was astonishing

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