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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · Nov 17

Can You name these teams based upon the starting lineups?

If you can then you will enjoy our new Game "Starting9"

I plan on introducing new sets of 9 puzzles weekly. This week we have our 14th Series "Niekro".

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 7h

Since the Phillies won after midnight sets up today as a potential 3 Win Day - Eagles & 2 for the Phillies.

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 7h

The walk is.

Brian @brian215.bsky.social · 7h

Man that ain’t Taijuan’s fault

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 8h

Can't be walking people here.

Matt Winkelman @mattwinkelman.bsky.social · 8h

Walker getting a postseason appearance is a really nice gesture

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 8h

Are we watching Clayton Kershaw's last outing?

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 8h

Is schwarber ok?

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 8h

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 9h

Cool pix though.

Cecilia M. Tan @whyilikebaseball.bsky.social · 9h

There was no joy in Mudville, there were no ghosts tonight in the Bronx.

#yankeestadium

The moon looking tiny through the upper deck facade at Yankee stadium

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 10h

Afraid of going H2H v the Eagles

Liz - High and Inside @lizzierie.bsky.social · 10h

Why on earth does mlb have the potential game 4 in LA tomorrow scheduled before the game in Chicago that’s starting at 9pm 😑😑

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 10h

So the idea is to get 2 innings out of Nola & Suarez gets Ohtani L v L.

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 10h

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 10h

Elimination Day Rooting Interest Poll
Game 3 NLDS
Dodgers 2-0 Phillies 0-2

D= Dodgers
P= Phillies
☄️Meteor/spicy meatball
5= Phillies win so there are more games
SO=specific outcome for your rooting interest (please make your requests here)
KC= Kat, just give me the chaos

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 12h

Head down to monument park. Of course those will all be ghost greenies.

Mike Bates @mikebatestwibh.bsky.social · 13h

Feel like your heart’s not really in the attempt to score greenies. C’mon Jay, throw your weight around

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 12h

Boo

Cecilia M. Tan @whyilikebaseball.bsky.social · 13h

Matsui on first pitch duty tonight!

#yankeestadium

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 21h

2025 Book #9

I should also add the art history chronology here is interesting as well.

Recommended for that & Philly angle.

But the rich jerk stuff is so tough to get through and it repeats and repeats and repeats.

Would have been nice to see more on Horace Pippin.

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 13h

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 13h

Elimination Day Rooting Interest Poll Game 4 ALDS
Yankees 1-2 Blue Jays 2-1

Y=New York Yankees
T=Toronto Blue Jays
5=Yankees but only so there are more games
☄️ spicy meateor
C= Chaos doesn't care who wins

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 13h

Noone is.

Baseball Enthusiast @iluvbaseball.bsky.social · 13h

I don't know if I'm built for postseason baseball.

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 14h

someone needs to handle the beer snake.

Seth Poho @sethpoho.bsky.social · 14h

Such a lawless land.

And I'm just referring to the fans in the bleachers.

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 14h

Why are the Cubs hosting a baseball game in a city that is so dangerous A Military Force needs to be sent in from a Thousand Miles Away?

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 14h

ugh FYI Philadelphia

The Jeopardy! Fan @thejeopardyfan.com · 14h

Despite New Jersey debate coverage likely preempting #Jeopardy in New York and Philadelphia. tonight, my stats tweets will be happening as usual.

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 15h

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 15h

Elimination Day Rooting Interests Poll
NLDS Game 3 Milwaukee 2-0 Chicago 0-2

B=Brewers
C=Chicago
☄️ Spicy Meateor idk, it's a thing now
5= Chicago but just so there are more games
Y= yeah, chaos, yeah

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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 19h

It’s interesting the things that Mike Johnson has enough information to comment on — a 15-minute stage show during a sporting event — and the things he doesn’t (should the governor of Illinois be thrown in jail).

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 19h

Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Halftime Show a ‘Terrible Decision’ for NFL — Says Children Should Listen to 82-Year-Old Lee Greenwood Instead

Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday the NFL choosing Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl halftime performer was a "terrible decision" and suggested Lee Greenwood instead. The post Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Halftime Show a ‘Terrible Decision’ for NFL — Says Children Should Listen to 82-Year-Old Lee Greenwood Instead first appeared on Mediaite.

dlvr.it

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 21h

Is there Per Diem? Where do they stay?

Does that $ come out of the Federal budget? Or a state?

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22h

This is an important point.

Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 1d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 21h

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 22h

dang it my skimming everything technique suckered me into thinking this was a headline regarding a Network TV show about the Savannah Bananas.

The Shlabotnik Report @shlabotnik-rpt.bsky.social · 22h

Oh, good. I hope Jimmy Fallon is as much of an obnoxious poor sport as he is on Password deadline.com/2025/10/word...

Headline from Deadline.com: "Jimmy Fallon Is Bringing Wordle to TV With NBC Piloting Game Show; Savannah Guthrie Hosting

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 1d

This weeks games have been posted!

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