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boss61

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born-&-raised Baltimorean, retired enviro. sci., husband, Dad of 2, gDad of 1, passionate lifelong Orioles fan, fair-weather Ravens fan, science, weather & space nerd, left-center politics, Al Gore was right. Pic is the 3-yr old puppy who owns me.

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boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Nov 16

Migrated here from biased-insanity-formerly-known-as-twitter this morning. So far, so good. I'll read more than I post, but if I follow you I'm interested in you and your posts. Follows, RTs& such are endorsements only if I specifically say they are.

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · 9d

I've been away from #Bluesky for weeks. Any sense on whether engagement here as increased? Are folks still reliant on twitter instead, despite its reprehensible owner & policies? Am I just wasting time here?

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · 9d

So the #Orioles broadcasters are going to the postseason. Great move by #MLB to assign Kevin Brown & Ben MacDonald to work the #Padres - #Cubs Wild Card series.

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Sep 8

Have not been here in quite a while. Seems not much has changed: SCOTUS continues to allow Trump do to pretty much everything he damn well pleases, as long at it makes the Heritage Foundation, the Project 2025 folks & Fox News viewers happy. Counting down the days til 2028...

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jul 19

News: In a prisoner swap, the Venezuelan government released 10 Americans and U.S. permanent residents in exchange for more than 200 Venezuelans whom the U.S. had sent to El Salvador.

Comment: I thought that we had no control over El Salvador and its prison. Guess that was another Trump lie too.

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jul 5

Maybe #www.immaculategrid.com is getting easier. Anytime I don't have to recall obscure trades, I have a fighting chance I guess. ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 825 9/9:
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boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jul 4

I am on a listserv for the Soc Sec Admin & an email came overnight. In it, the agency was rejoicing over passage of the Big Ugly Bill. It is wrong to use an official listserv to rejoice over a political win for Trump. No past administration ever used govt listservs for partisan purposes. Ever.

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jul 3

#Baseball blind squirrel moment

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boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jul 3

Since #Bluesky will not effectuate change of the effing political landscape in Washington and the minds of the Trump-fearing lemmings in the spineless GOP, I'm turning to other interests. #Food. Land of the best #BBQ in the "colonies" - North Carolina of course! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/t...

Searching for the Real Thing on the North Carolina Barbecue Trail

www.nytimes.com

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 22

Buck Showalter doing color commentary for today's #Orioles-Yankees game. A treat for both fan bases

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 20

And just what are those fans in the outfield chanting?

Heather @alainnfocail.bsky.social · Jun 20

What is up with the sound mixing in this game. They do the roll call every game but usually we can hear our broadcasters over it.

We can barely hear them over the music!

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 18

#Springsteen on the country being ripe for #Trump: "... “I think that it was the combination of the deindustrialization of the country and then the incredible increase in wealth disparity that left so many people behind..." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/a...

Bruce Springsteen Reveals His Paths Not Taken

www.nytimes.com

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boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 15

Why did I move here to #bluesky? Like perhaps many, this description aptly fix me to a tee: "... mad at Musk for supporting Donald Trump and allowing the alt-right to flourish on X..." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | The Bluesky bubble hurts liberals and their causes

The social media network was doomed to fail as progressives tried to re-create old Twitter.

www.washingtonpost.com

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 11

Concerned that #bluesky is becoming a liberal & progressive echo chamber. Collectively many of us are aghast with frustration over the many bigoted, xenophobic, kleptocratic & Anti-American actions by Trump & his acolytes. We share this, but we also share obvious political impotence. What to do?

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 10

The most popular article published by the @nytimes.com for several days running. More read than anything about Trump, crime (is that one and the same?), sports, weather or disasters. And its info everyone needs. Now you know. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/w...

Is Going to the Bathroom ‘Just in Case’ Bad for You?

www.nytimes.com

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 8

Terry Moran of ABC News is right. Stephen Miller is a world class hater. More specifically and just like Trump, he's a bigot and xenophobe. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/b...

ABC Suspends Terry Moran for Calling Stephen Miller a ‘World-Class Hater’

www.nytimes.com

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 8

Trump has long wanted an excuse to use federal military muscle to quell leftist protests against his draconian immigration policies. Well here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

The Legal Issues Surrounding Trump’s Plan to Use Troops to Suppress Protests

www.nytimes.com

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 8

In defense of the #Orioles 2024-25 offseason, many prominent free agency and trade targets are injured, under-performing or both. Maybe Elias was not so horrible at roster management after all? www.baltimorebaseball.com/sports/oriol...

It’s time to revisit the Orioles’ offseason, and defend it — to a point - BaltimoreBaseball.com

When the news broke Friday that Corbin Burnes needed Tommy John surgery, I naturally thought back to the Orioles’ attempts to retain him this offseason. General manager Mike Elias was heavily criticiz...

www.baltimorebaseball.com

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 8

Calling out the National Guard to put down protests opposing his draconian and Anti-American crackdown on free speech and assembly rights is its own form of chicken-sh!t behavior

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 7

Consider the AP US History exam 50 years from now. An essay question: Explain the Trump Presidencies. Maybe something like this: "Short-sighted bigots tried to use xenophobia to restore an illusory past and thus lost sight of any reasonable hope of a sustainable future?" Got something better?

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 7

Sadly the continuing fallout of the Biden aging ungracefully in office, @myoneandonlykat.bsky.social, is that cognitive decline no longer is disqualifying. Maybe advancing senility will make Trump less effective at corruption & bigotry? Makes him less of an unmitigated asshole? One can hope.

"How" @myoneandonlykat.bsky.social · Jun 7

It’s overdue for the media to call out Cheeto Mussolini’s cognitive decline (as if there was any in the first place).

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 7

So with the #Orioles seemingly going nowhere, I've started to think about the #Ravens. It's been a decade since I bought a new football jersey. I own Boulware 58, Reed 20, Tucker 9 (bought in 2013) and Jacoby Jones 12. Not the huge stars (Flacco, Lewis, Jackson). So who's next to get and why?

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 7

“Hitting (a baseball) is an endless search to be good. Nobody ever masters it... So yeah, just trying to get better. Trying to get a little smarter, a little wiser, as I go forward.” - #Orioles Ryan O'Hearn blogs.fangraphs.com/ryan-ohearn-...

Ryan O’Hearn Left Kansas City, Learned To Hit in Baltimore

A bright spot on a disappointing Orioles team, O’Hearn is having a career year.

blogs.fangraphs.com

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 7

@reclaimingkaren.bsky.social Kudos. Best bluesky profile I have seen in a while. Crisp. To the point. No doubt on where you stand. (and Kudos for having quit smoking too!).

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 7

Really interesting stuff @adammc.space. I read someplace else that the galactic collision may already be underway, which counters my simplistic notion that all galaxies move away form all other galaxies, ever since the Big Bang. Further, how do you tell you are colliding with another galaxy?

Dr Adam McMaster @adammc.space · Jun 7

There's some disagreement about whether the Milky Way and Andromeda will collide, or whether the influence of the LMC will avert the collision 🔭🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/unce...

A dwarf galaxy just might upend the Milky Way's predicted demise

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.

www.sciencenews.org

boss61 @boss61.bsky.social · Jun 7

Excellent blog from veteran #Orioles analyst @steveonbaseball.bsky.social - can the Orioles make the #MLB postseason? I miss his fine work at MASN but glad he has made a home on substack. Soon I'll become a paid subscriber. steveonbaseball.substack.com/p/what-would...

What would it take for the O's to get back in the wild card race?

O's likely need to play over .600 ball rest of way to get there

steveonbaseball.substack.com