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Patrick Dubuque

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bbwaa // writer with a thrift store degree // managing editor @ baseball prospectus

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · Oct 28

Writing a baseball article and taking shots at the Garfield board game of 1981, feels good. This is what I was meant to do with my life

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Tim Jackson @timjacksonsays.bsky.social · 4h

Good morning! Today at Baseball Prospectus: the Phillies, traffic, and how long before something has to give:

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How Many More? | Baseball Prospectus

When a question is a double-edged sword.

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 15h

Weird, one game ended and then the other game immediately began

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 15h

OK but I’m waiting for him to take the 62 shirt off to reveal a third one with the current address of D.B. Cooper

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 15h

Underrated baseball moment: when the lone visiting fan catches a home run ball

Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 16h

OK, compelling argument

Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 16h

What’s in it for us, do we get Saturna Island

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 16h

A memory of the Old World that still makes me smile is making this dumb joke and getting a retweet by the National Park of San Juan Island

A dumb tweet that literally one person got

Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 16h

If the Mariners and Blue Jays wind up in the ALCS I’m going to have to do so much research on the Pig War

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 16h

AJ Pierzynski visiting an emergency room: You just can’t die with wounds like that

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 20h

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No Cartridge Trev @nocartridge.bsky.social · 20h

Proud to announce my new place I’m writing, my own newsletter at beehiiv (I’ll post this to substack too with a note on the move. We do not like bari weiss).

Anyway this is on baseball and death! Please read and subscribe! nocartridge.beehiiv.com/p/baseball-i...

Baseball is Like Dying, It's Easier Each Time

With Apologies to Joey Cape and Bad Astronaut

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 1d

it's like the mechanic, the cost is 90% labor

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Rob Mains @robmains.bsky.social · 1d

For @baseballprospectus.com I wrote a preview of today's NL Division Series games. Both home teams enter the game down a key outfielder. And all four teams are starting LHPs, though at least one won't be there for long. www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

NLDS Game 2 Previews: The Storm Before the Calm | Baseball Prospectus

They didn’t play yesterday, and they won’t play tomorrow, but they will today.

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

On Tarik Skubal, and the difference between feeling like you need to be perfect and actually needing to be perfect.

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What makes perfectionism so insidious is that it’s a disease wrapped in virtue, like coating a dog’s pill in peanut butter. It’s not a bad thing to strive to be the best you can be. It might not be worth it, necessarily, in all realms of life—diminishing returns do apply, check with your doctor—but there’s nothing inherently harmful in wanting to be perfect, to embody the sort of life or virtues you uphold. The problem is in the necessity. Like so many psychological problems, perfectionism is created in a dissonance between reality and perception. The gap between those realms creates anxiety, negative feelings about others and, far more often, about one’s self. It’s thinking I’m not good enough when everyone else thinks you’re fine. It’s failing to understand that people don’t really need each other to be perfect, most of the time.

Except with the Detroit Tigers and Tarik Skubal. They do need that, most nights.

Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

Thanks, man. I really appreciate it.

Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

Today for @baseballprospectus.com I wrote about Tarik Skubal, perfectionism, and the opposite of perfectionism, which doesn't really have a tidy word to describe it.

This Close to Perfect | Baseball Prospectus

Tarik Skubal wasn't quite good enough. Tarik Skubal was good enough.

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

Thank you, human embodiment of bluesky

the joke is that I am bald, and my friend, who I was replying to, knows this

Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

the commute is hard to beat

Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

My favorite part about writing is finishing a first draft, then waiting five or ten minutes for my brain to decide whether it's good or not

This is not true, it is not my favorite part

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

I don't get it

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

The book literally starts with "Just saw a stranger beat up a dude for no reason, so I decided to follow him around just to see what would happen next"

Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

Just started a different Chandler on the train today, every writer should read one a year just for medicinal purposes

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

god I hope not, I hate interviews

Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

I get that it's not necessarily the most effective pitch in terms of the math, but man, nothing's prettier than a perfectly placed backdoor slider

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

Zach McKinstry's resting face has now advanced to "re-watching Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"

Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

A third party has arrived

Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d

At times this game feels like Tarik Skubal vs. the Tigers offense, and the Mariners just happen to be hosting them both

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