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Marc W
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Recovering baseball blogger.
Used to write about baseball at USS Mariner (mostly), Baseball Prospectus (rarely), and probably a few places I’ve forgotten. Love music, Seattle sports, cooking.
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This isnt the same one, but loved this barrow right by a road, and very close to a stone circle.
A stone barrow, a chamber under a large stone slab in southwest England (Cornwall). Two toddlers are under the roof of the barrow. A road is close behind it, and ferns and rocks are in the foreground.
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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The late, great Aethelred.
Died in 2021. We had him 19 years and got him as an adult rescue, so he lived a long long time. What a guy.
Dark grey cat with yellow eyes in a living room.
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Howler monkey!
A howler monkey with dark fur, lighter towards the back (and the sun) making its iconic vocalizations. It sits on a metal braided line. Its left paw is near its mouth. This is a male, a female and baby are approaching from the right (not in the picture).
October 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Hmmm. Lots of good candidates, I think. Kind of a no-wrong-answers kind of deal. Reasonable minds, etc.
A screenshot from MLB game day in which the app says that voting for “player of the game is now open”. This, in a game where Shohei Ohtani has been the most valuable player in perhaps any game, ever. But sure, let’s vote and make sure.
October 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Here he is, pitching in Seattle as a home player. He got so, so close.
October 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Made some tonkatsu tonight and because my wife found some chicken of the woods near Mt Rainier, chicken of the woods katsu. Go M’s. What do Minnesota grapes taste like?
Pork tonkatsu, red cabbage, white rice. And chicken or the woods mushroom katsu. It’s really hard to tell the pork and mushroom apart.
September 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Post a concert photo you took
Dave Hernandez from one of my all time fave bands, Scared of Chaka. This was one of their reunion shows in Seattle many years ago. Olympia legends GLOSS. Deafheaven at the Showbox in Seattle. George is just to left of center, Kerry is to the right.
September 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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I agree with Hyphen that to *get* to pitch at 40+ you need to be elite, but that’s why Moyer is so weird. Terrible in his 20s until something clicked, and then great well into his 40s. Caught him in the minors while trying to get back to the majors to pitch at age 50. What a pitcher.
Jamie Moyer pitching for the Las Vegas 51s in 2012 at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma (The Rainiers SP that day was top prospect Danny Hultzen). It didn’t work out in the Toronto system, and he retired not long afterwards. One of my favorite Mariners.
September 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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I love nature, and just got to see some incredible birds in Costa Rica, but…and I hate to critique nature, this bird is *patently unfinished*. This is like 91% of a bird, and it’s a great start, but there are major, critical-for-life systems that seem to be missing here. Finish this bird!
A beautiful bird in Ecuador, per the awesome original poster, Jen Cross. But it appears to lack any sort of mouth parts. I hope it’s not suffering.
September 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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This was me many years ago re: DeAndre Yedlin.
A very young Deandre Yedlin playing at Cheney Stadium for a pre-Defiance Sounders youth team. I think this was 2012?
September 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Oh, uh…how do I do that? Hold on.
Today’s Immaculate Grid. Mexico was the country category today, so I got to use a current Mariner, a player I was terrified when the M’s faced him in the 80’s, and a random favorite from the 90s.
September 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Some Spurs chaps from the later part of the era in which watching them meant driving to a bar with a Special Channel.
Tottenham players from the early 2000s. Most all of them do not have pictures? Only Steed Malbranque and Younes Kaboul do? Can that be right?
September 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I went with M’s prospect-to-trade-fodder guys.
M’s prospects turned relievers for other teams.
September 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Here’s one for you, Chris.
September 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Aussie Aussie Aussie!
An immaculate grid….grid with nine MLB players from Australia who played in the 21st century, but were t big stars like Liam Hendriks or Grant Balfour.
September 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Congrats to Pete Alonso, seems like a great guy. Just have to point out that this graphic looks - to a guy from Tacoma - that he’ll be making an appearance at the Point Defiance zoo and aquarium. Which, to be clear, would be awesome.
Pete Alonso graphic from the Mets, featuring several images of Pete Alonso in an arctic/icy landscape with a polar bear to his left and right. It’s ostensibly for him becoming the career HR leader for the Mets franchise.
August 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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A Douglas squirrel with dark fur on its back and yellow-orange fur on its belly sits on its hind legs on a cedar shake roof. Its front legs are held such that its “hands” are by its belly/chest.
July 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Not a video, but here’s Ortiz’s pitches that day. The pitch in question is the slider that’s furthest from the outside edge of the zone, but not particularly low.
A chart featuring all of Luis Ortiz’s pitches vs SEA on 6/15, colored based on pitch type. The one that’s got him in hot water is a slider to the right of the image.
July 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Nolan Ryan in the stands at a Rangers game, shaking his head and saying “no” multiple times.
June 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Was on the fence, and the onion man did indeed nudge me towards going, and…I felt a lot better.
Protest at the state capitol in Olympia, WA. A sign says “I’ll tell my daughters I did not stay silent.” There’s an upside down American flag. There are large signs at the top of the Capitol steps.
June 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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I saw crows dive bombing something close by. Went outside and almost tripped on a red tailed hawk who’d just nabbed a rabbit.
A large bird with a black back mottled with white, yellowish feathers on its left leg and throat. It stands on a rabbit it has just killed, and is not particularly bothered by the large human male taking this photo on his phone from close range.
June 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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It’s not all bloody. This young squirrel survived some kind of attack yesterday. Freaked him out, but he was able to get away.
A young grey squirrel on a tree trunk that has some moss growing on it. It is looking straight up at the camera, and its tail is down in the background, to the left.
May 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Missed the Sounders game tonight, so I was home to practically trip on. Hawk that caught a rabbit in my yard. It was not going to leave its prey.
A large bird of prey with black plumage on its back, speckled with white, stands atop a rabbit carcass.
May 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Tough dog until she sees a sign. Any sign. Road signs have the high ground, and could be little doggy guillotines. Real estate signs? Who knows, but they’ll get you. Little A-frame things on the sidewalk? Probably concealing mortal threats.
Don’t get her started on garbage bins.
Black and white dog on a beach with dark sand and pebbles. Her paws are in a small hole she’s dug.
May 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I should be better about that. You’re right.
Black dog with a white chest and nose stripe on a log with ivy growing on it.
May 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM