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Alan Cole
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Freelance writer. AP, LA Times, a few other places. Used to cover South Carolina athletics, among other things. Be kind to others. Take care of your people.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · Nov 15
Think a lot of y'all know me from the other site, but I'm going to pin this here with a thread of some links of what I actually do for those who don't know.

I'm 2.5 years into a job covering South Carolina, and before that freelanced in Georgia, mostly doing high school sports, UGA and Tech.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 1m
My "Coach Belichick has the full support of the Department of Athletics and University" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 28m
Toronto with a 4-1 lead in the final third of a closeout game? Problematic, historically speaking.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 34m
As of this 2011 article, Aaron Judge is the third player in baseball history to get intentionally walked with the bases empty multiple times in the same playoff series:
www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archive...
Bases-empty intentional walks in the postseason » Baseball-Reference Blog » Blog Archive
www.baseball-reference.com
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 50m
Aaron Judge the first person to catch multiple bases empty intentional walks in the same postseason series since Albert Pujols? Maybe Miguel Cabrera?
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 2h
The Wrigley Field postseason aesthetic is still undefeated. The ivy barely hanging on, people wearing hoodies and jackets for a summer sport, the old scoreboard with only a couple other games on it. Just awesome.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 3h
Can someone please put all of these together into a "One Shining Moment" type video.
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Lucy Rohden @lucyrohden.bsky.social · 4h
What’s everyone’s favorite bill belichick memory at Carolina
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 4h
I'm done trying to figure out the Tigers. You lose a Skubal start, you win a bullpen game, Riley Greene and Javy Baez hitting homers, you score more in two innings than the first 28 of the series, Mize is apparently an opener now, whatever man.

Chaos and vibes and rectangular pizza or something.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 5h
I need someone smarter than me to explain the Casey Mize thing to me. Two playoff starts, reasonably in control both times, under 65 pitches, not even staring at third time through the order, pulled both times.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 22h
Toronto can still win if the soft-tossing lefty who only throws in midweeks can fire six shutout innings.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 23h
The Blue Jays have entered the college baseball regional Sunday zone, where you have no idea how you can possibly string 27 outs together but are hoping for some combination of vibes and offense.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 23h
Has any team trailing 2-0 in a best-of-five series ever had better vibes than the Yankees in this exact moment? You're on a huge comeback, playing at home and have a major advantage in game four on paper if you can get there.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 23h
I feel like I am in outer space with all of this "Aaron Judge gets a moment" and "Aaron Judge gets the criticism off his back" discourse, have we been completely star-player pilled into thinking the last nine Yankees postseasons were all his fault?
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 1d
Unless it's in a regional against Mark Kingston on his absolute last legs, that one went okay for NC State.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 1d
Trea Turner and Carlos Rodon once again proving a time honored truth: Never trust NC State in a big spot.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 1d
You should be able to give multiple errors to people on the same play even if there's only one error play, lIke how there can be half sacks in football. Greene and McKinstry both deserved one there.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 1d
Women's final four in Phoenix next April, the unordered presidents will continue until morale improves
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 1d
Mariners-Tigers getting bumped to FS2 feels like an NCAA Tournament game on TruTV.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 1d
Got a Cup pick this year?
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 1d
Michael Wacha and Charlie Morton 2013 NLDS game four?
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 1d
For every one case where I think a manager legitimately hurts their team's chances in October with a move there's like 10 others where you shrug and go "well yeah, that'll happen when you get three runs on four hits"
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe it's my college baseball brain but it always amazes me how like 95% of MLB postseason eliminations just flow chart back to "offense went ice cold at the wrong time."

Teams with three runs are about to be 17-9, and four runs 12-3. Slightly below league average offense is usually still enough.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 1d
Pure unabashed copium on my part as I remind myself the Brewers went 6-0 against the Dodgers this season and a boring NLDS could still get someone else in the World Series in the NL.

(In before the Dodgers take them out in five games)
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 2d
Giving credit to the one Phillies fan I am close with for having zero inkling of hope whatsoever, that was the most predictable 9th inning in baseball this season.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 2d
The Phillies have crossed what I can only describe as the Atlanta Falcons rubicon, the point where you stare at a team and have indelible confidence it will find a way to not win.
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Alan Cole @alan-cole.bsky.social · 2d
Am I nuts for thinking the Phillies needed to jump straight to Duran here? You can't allow even one run in this spot, this is a strikeout situation. Worry about the 8th/9th later.
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