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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭

@jenramose.online

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baseball labor + econ journo, defector.com, etc; copy editor, @objectivejournos.bsky.social; "the most punk rock sports journo that's ever lived" -Nik; they/dude; 🍉 signal: jenramose.23 📍 Southwest http://jenramose.online/

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · Jul 10

what's Diamond Baseball Holdings' end goal? that's the question that many people in the minor leagues have. my latest for Defector: defector.com/private-equi...

Private Equity Now Owns More Than 40 Minor League Baseball Teams, And The Number Keeps Growing | Defector

Private equity is the steamroller that crushes all your favorite things. Journalism, for one, and also a once iconic toy store; even bowling these days. Now it has come for minor league baseball, wher...

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 3h

...wait I know them

jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 3h

I need someone to do a feature on Mariners Dirt Man bsky.app/profile/bria...

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 3h

the explanation from his girlfriend, who is alongside him for all this, was “my boyfriend has some dirt he collected from t mobile park and he thinks if he eats it, it will help them win tonight.” they didn’t elaborate

jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 3h

I should've sent it in response tbh

jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 3h

text from Jen's friend: Welcome to my TED Talk

Trapped
Eating
Dirt

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 4h

"baseball hard news daddy" is not in my bio because the skeet did not reach 300 likes that's on y'all

jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 4h

I suppose I could've phrased this differently but I became a hard news reporter via shitposting so contain multitudes etc etc

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 4h

I became the baseball hard news daddy

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 4h

I hope Mariners fans never change

jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 4h

I am seriously just going to hide mentions like these from now on because like idk go seek attention elsewhere or I will throw you into the piss pit

jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 4h

why do men insist on mansplaining things in my mentions? like would you do that in the mentions of another man? literally go away

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 4h

someone's gotta ask the question and it's not gonna be me

jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 4h

the thing about Mariners fans is that I can't tell if this is a joke or not because it sounds like something they would do

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 4h

I—

Alex Mayer @alexmayer34.bsky.social · 17h

Cal Raleigh and Babe Ruth are the only players in MLB history to hit *exactly* 60 home runs in a season. Both hit HR 6️⃣1️⃣ in the Postseason on October 7, in their final AB of a win in which their team scored 8 runs:

Ruth 10/7/1927
Cal 10/7/2025

#Postseason #TheMayerGWS 🔱

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 9h

not fuckass state of Jefferson being listed on here 😭

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 20h

I need weird baseball back

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 20h

best time zone for sports

jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 20h

it is 10:09 p.m. in the Bronx and it is only T5

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 20h

this is some Looney Toons type of dudes rock

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 20h

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 21h

allegedly

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 21h

I was told that this mention of the Nuts was about Raleigh and Gilbert and here's a story from @lookoutlanding.bsky.social and @gillogly-keaton.bsky.social about them in Modesto: www.lookoutlanding.com/2019/7/26/88...

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 21h

wait what was it they said

jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 22h

Yankee Stadium is suddenly an NHL game in the US

Ben Nicholson-Smith @bnsbaseball.bsky.social · 22h

Loud boos for O Canada in New York

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 23h

I never thought of doing it like this until I realized I had a small amount of pasta sauce left in the fridge when I made my grilled cheese and went huh okay this fucks

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 23h

I am going to have to do this now

jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 23h

gotta admit: air frying grilled cheese is still a great concept, but having it with pasta sauce if you don't have tomato soup also works great

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