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Amanda Lane Cumming

@amandalc.bsky.social

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I write about baseball. Lookout Landing alum. 2021 SABR Award Finalist. I read a lot of old newspapers. Can solve a Rubik’s Cube. She/Her. Aries ☀️ Aquarius 🌙 Cancer ⬆️ Tacoman Newsletter on all things PNW baseball history: https://www.nwbaseballhistory.com

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 13d

Had so much fun winning the West last night I went back and relived the other three times the Mariners have won the American League West Division Championship. It's a brief history, but a fun history!

I also love this picture so much, there was no question which one would be the main photo!

A Brief History of How the West Was Won

From 19 long years of frustration to a 24-year drought, a celebration of Seattle Mariners division championships.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 7h

Go Canada!!!

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 7h

Oh for sure. Just the way all those people talk about all cities, but Chicago in particular...they want everyone to suffer. I'm so sorry you're going through all this.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 8h

Helicopters are such a unique level of fuckedupedness too. So loud and aggressive. During the 2020 protests we got police airplanes flying super low and circling everything and that was annoying as fuck, but helicopters are just like threatening to cut your head off.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 8h

I'm making a vegetable pot pie for dinner and the gravy I made for it is so good I want to drink the extra, and that's all it took to turn this day around. I'm a simple girl, I just want to make really really really good food.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 10h

There was a lot going on in October 1962, not sure if you know that. What a time to be alive, if you were alive then. I was not.

Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 11h

Yes! That's the part I'm interested in! The weather forecasting was much different back then!

Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 11h

That would be cool!! Either way, I hope the concert goes well for you!

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 11h

Mostly because I like weather.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 11h

Counterpoint, sing the play-by-play! I kid, I kid. Unless…

One advantage to watching on tape delay is getting to fast forward through the commercials and pitching changes though!

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 11h

My baseball plans for the next couple days involve immersing myself in the 1962 World Series.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 11h

The Mariners won 116 games in 2001 and all their division series games were still day games while the Yankees got prime time. Everyone in the American League needs to work together to bring them down.

Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 11h

Once again, I am rooting for the Blue Jays so we can get a better game time on Friday. And also because the Yankees suck.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 11h

I hope you feel better soon!

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 12h

Lewis Carroll Bot gets it.

Lewis Carroll Bot liked a post reading, We’re all mad here

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 12h

People out canvassing for John Hines (Tacoma mayor) during the Mariners game and during the afternoon on a weekday?? Seems like a bad way to do politics. But what do I know.

Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 12h

I had planned to record the rest of the game when I have to get the kids at school in a bit, but, uh, I think I might not. No need to wallow.

Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 12h

We’re all mad here.

Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 12h

Just watching Mariners baseball.

a woman says " this is a wound i shall bear forever " in a dark room

Alt: a woman says " this is a wound i shall bear forever " in a dark room

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 13h

Me, a Mariners fan.

a young girl says her life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes

Alt: a young girl says her life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 13h

The entire Tigers lineup is made up of tiny variations on the same generic white guy and their names are almost real names, but they sound like AI names. I’m not convinced the Tigers are real. I’m sorry. We’re getting beat by a fake team. Brutal.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, exactly!

Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 13h

Everything Dan Wilson has done, he should have done the opposite.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 13h

The thing about baseball is that it’s stupid and dumb. I don’t know why you’d think I like it. That’s very weird of you.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 13h

Aaarrrggghhhhh.

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 13h

It’s uncanny!