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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kinda wild how Cody Bellinger went from Clay Bellinger’s son to vice versa. Anyhow, Cody caught the first pitch from Pops tonight.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don Mattingly is not giving "manager who is going to be ok."

Don Mattingly speaks to the media before Game 2 in Atlanta.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Broadcast times for the wild card round announced. White Sox-Astros and Cubs-Padres appear relegated to Peacock.

First two days of wild card TV schedule. Games in following order beginning at 2 ET:

AZ/Philadelphia at Atlanta
White Sox at Rangers/Astros
Red Sox at Yankees
Cubs at Padres

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

no time like the present to take care of #bracketszn and supporting Peace Over Violence, the very worthy recipient from this tradition unlike any other.

A Bracket Challenge depicting the 'hottest dodger bracket 2026.' Tyler Glasnow emerged from a final four of Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Teoscar and Kike' Hernandez and Glasnow.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There will be a few of these tomorrow, including Mets-Nats, due to that nor’easter. Not sure if Phillies can swing that since their game will matter.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Many are calling this bar Hell On Earth.

Window front of a bar with a Clemson Tigers flag and Pittsburgh Steelers flag.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The top-selling jerseys of the mlb have been released. Ohtani, Judge and PCA on the medal stand.

Screenshot of the 20 best-selling MLB jerseys:

Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers
Aaron Judge, New York Yankees
Pete Crow-Armstrong, Chicago Cubs
Ronald Acuña Jr., Atlanta Braves
Fernando Tatis Jr., San Diego Padres
Freddie Freeman, Los Angeles Dodgers
Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies
Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Los Angeles Dodgers
Juan Soto, New York Mets
Corey Seager, Texas Rangers
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays
Adley Rutschman, Boston Red Sox
Kyle Schwarber, Philadelphia Phillies
Paul Skenes, Pittsburgh Pirates
Cal Raleigh, Seattle Mariners
Elly De La Cruz, Cincinnati Reds
Jackson Merrill, San Diego Padres
Nolan Arenado, Arizona Diamondbacks
Munetaka Murakami, Chicago White Sox

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The Post” shared its front page from Sept. 12 and it’s something to read this line in hindsight: “…while another U.S. official said investigators gathered evidence yesterday ‘strongly suggesting’ that bin Laden’s organization, al Quaeda, was involved.” “Hey, I found this memo on the boss’s desk!”

Front page of Washington Post with headline ‘Intelligence Points to Bin Laden Network’

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If someone switched my walk-up music to Lee Greenwood there would be trouble

In his first at-bat since becoming an American citizen, Cincinnati Reds slugger Eugenio Suárez got a new walk-up song.

When he stepped to the plate in the second inning, Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The USA" began playing throughout Great American Ball Park.

The music change was orchestrated by his teammates after Suárez left the team earlier this week to take the U.S. naturalization test in Miami and ultimately passed to become an American citizen.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Camden Yards crowd gives a standing ovation for returning hero Adley Rutschman, now a #RedSox.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Another McAfee semi-acolyte. An unbelievable collection of benign mayonnaise bros at the WWL.

Screenshot of Andrew Marchand tweet:

📺 NEWS: Peter Schrager is getting his own daily ESPN show, The Athletic has learned.

Full details 👇👇

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wild to read this and think of practices under Pete Carroll, which were like a damn party.

Screenshot of two paragraphs with file photo of Lincoln Riley:
A full 11 days before the Trojans' Week Zero opener against San Jose State, requests to discuss the importance of this season with Riley and his interesting new defensive coordinator — former TCU coach and College Football Hall of Famer Gary Patterson — were denied.

Instead, USC's communications staffers shepherd a group of reporters from outside the sparkling new Bloom Performance Center onto the practice field. From there, everything is carefully managed from exactly where the media is allowed to stand to watch a little bit of stretching to what photographers and videographers are allowed to shoot. After a few minutes, the pack is led to the other side of the field and then quickly to the exit.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A rather joyous Dolly tribute for “ballpark karaoke.”

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Goose meme: “How did they energize the fan base, Rob?”

Screenshot of part of MLB press release announcing the sale of the San Diego Padres with quote from Rob Manfred:
“On behalf of Major League Baseball, I thank John Seidler and the entire Seidler family for their stewardship of the San Diego Padres. Continuing the legacy established by the late Peter Seidler, the Padres reached the Postseason four times in the last six years, energized one of baseball’s most passionate fanbases, and strengthened the Club’s role as a cornerstone of the San Diego community. We appreciate the Seidler family’s longstanding commitment to our National Pastime and their many contributions to the game.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

trying not to psychoanalyze this photo too much but

Two of Clayton Kershaw’s sons throw out the first pitch at bobblehead night while his eldest daughter holds his toughest daughter.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Krukow will play out the string in this lost #SFGiants season but his lasting legacy from his final year will be providing an organizational spine to the Pride Night pitcher debacle.

Quote from San Francisco Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow:

"I think when you're a player and you come into this environment, it's your responsibility to know just how sensitive this city is in regards to that cultural freedom and religious freedom, and just the way that you live your life," Krukow said on KNBR.

"And I think they were in for a rude awakening with the response, and it wasn't just from the gay community; it was from the Northern California community that supports the gay community."

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Feels like this should have been done, oh, a few decades ago? Shoutout Daniel

Press release announcing the Miami Marlins and Telemundo 51 Miami today announced a first-of-its-kind agreement to simulcast two 2026 regular season games in Spanish over the air, marking the club's first local Spanish-language over-the-air television partnership. The broadcasts will also become the one of the first local Spanish-language MLB over-the-air simulcasts to feature a dedicated television broadcast team, with Jose Francisco Rivera of Telemundo/Peacock and ESPN alongside Daniel Álvarez-Montes of El Extrabase on the call.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Photo via Alex Wong, Getty Images.

Dave Roberts guffaws as President Trump turns toward him and says something humorous, as a pleased Stan Kasten looks on and Shohei Ohtani cracks a sheepish grin.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A couple nice shots of Nico Williams' header courtesy James Lang/Imagn and David Ramos/Getty.

Nico Williams' header that assisted on the lone goal in the World Cup final.

Nico Williams heads the ball, leading to the lone World Cup final goal, while Argentina keeper Emi Martinez closes in.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The World Cup trophy after he touches it.

Greg Brady surfing in Hawaii while wearing a tiki necklace that turned out to be very bad luck during the Brady Bunch's remote episode on the islands.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Ken Howard and Kevin Hooks, portraying Coach Ken Reeves and Morris Thorpe on The White Shadow, have a heart-to-heart on Carver High’s wooden gymnasium bleachers.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The streaming service did a really lame job again it seems and they’re so self-absorbed they made Jordan Walker wear this letterman’s jacket like he’s some middle manager.

Jordan Walker with his Home Run Derby trophy and jacket.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

John Schneider might’ve got some sun in San Diego. #bluejays #AllStarGame

Dylan Cease and John Schneider before the All-Star Game press conference.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Melat Kiros's political origin story is inspiring - giving up her burgeoning law career to stand on business regarding campus free speech in 2023-2024. wapo.st/44Mzoct

Screenshot from Washington Post story:

In her “Dear US Law Firms” letter, Kiros accused the powerful legal community of equating criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism. She said she was fired when she refused the firm’s request to take it down.

She said attorneys emailed her saying they wish they could have spoken up too but couldn’t afford to lose their livelihoods or health care.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hell yeah Telemundo showing off its “shot of the Golden Gate even though the game is contested on a hellish patch of Santa Clara County” chops.

Halftime graphic from Telemundo with a shot of San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If there’s one thing I miss it is relishing summer. Now it feels like something to be survived. Not a big Fourth guy but it’s truly the best holiday due to the gleeful trappings around it. Not so much when it “feels like” 105.

Screenshot of weather forecast showing high temperatures of 98, 100, 101 and 99 from Wednesday through Saturday.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Fell down a rabbit hole and geez, they make no bones about it.

Homes dot com description of North Limestone, a neighborhood in Lexington, Kentucky.
“Lexington’s art and cultural destination”

The North Limestone district — or “NoLi” — was once a historically Black community that produced one of the Kentucky Derby’s youngest winning jockeys. While the neighborhood declined during the second half of the 20th century, the new millennium has seen the community reborn as a center of art and progressivism. Trendy boutiques, restaurants and bars occupy the vintage brick buildings on the North Limestone thoroughfare. Walkers will also see nature- and farm-themed murals, rainbow-colored crosswalks and pride flags hanging from a few balconies. Other notable sites include the Greyline, an old Greyhound bus station now home to businesses like a vintage clothing store and a craft distillery recently relocated from California’s Bay Area. “There’s a lot of cute little shops and things that are trying to make a splash in that community,” says Ryan Camenisch, a Realtor with the Brokerage. “It’s kind of a ‘by the people, for the people,’ type of neighborhood. It doesn’t have some of the corporate money bigger neighborhoods in Lexington have. It’s got a little more homemade feel to it.”

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

From the Bad Place, this AI garbage is embarrassing. Trout looks like JT Realmuto’s troubled older brother.

Screenshot of tweet from “baseballs greatest moments” -

“One row of outfielders for the entirety of the careers. Top, middle, or bottom?”

Aaron Trout Henderson
Clemente Griffey Williams
Kaline Speaker Bonds

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Here’s the “water break” on Univision, as God intended. Solamente palabras y graficas.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Jeez man let the body lie in state a minute

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is sad. Southern Section Division II championship is as high-level a high school team can get…blowing it off for a showcase-related camp. There’s plenty of Baseball High Schools out there (Baylor Academy in TN., say) and ok fine whatever. Maybe a public school shouldn’t try to be both.

Screenshot from Twitter from Fred Robledo, Southern California News Group:

BREAKING: The Ganesha baseball team is expected to have several players missing for Saturday's game against Loyola for the CIF-SS Division 2 championship at LoanMart Field in Rancho Cucamonga, including star pitcher Logan Schmidt, an LSU commit who is expected to be a MLB first round draft pick, sources are telling me on the condition of anonymity.

Nearly the entire starting lineup will be at an out-of-state BPA (Baseball Performance Academy) camp that was previously scheduled, I am told.

Nearly all of Ganesha's baseball players are part of Ganesha's online line program, and also part of the BPA Academy.

Ganesha athletic director Don Cayer would not comment, other than to say they're scheduled to play on Saturday.

Ganesha coach Jared Sadler has not returned calls or text messages ....

Ganesha is expected to field a team for Saturday's championship against Loyola, but nearly all of the top players will be missing, I'm told.

Ganesha asked the CIF-SS if they could play on Friday, but was denied.

This is fluid. More to come.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

MLB's unserious first proposal is arguably a tad more serious than its last unserious first proposal from August 2021, which proposed *lowering* the luxury tax threshold $30 million.

Major League Baseball proposed lowering the initial luxury-tax threshold and adding a salary floor in its first economic proposal to the Players Association for the next collective bargaining agreement, sources tell The Athletic.

The league and union met Monday in Denver, sources said, their first in-person meeting of these negotiations. MLB's proposal included a four-tier luxury-tax system, adding a new tier to the bottom of the current three-tier structure. The new initial tier would be $180 million, and tax rates would begin at 25 percent. The current system has the initial tier at $210 million with tax rates starting at 20 percent.

The proposed salary floor, which does not exist in the current CBA, would be set at $100 million.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Every time this recirculates I read the whole thing again and every entry has something that resonates.

2. Hunger Strike
Look, I know this is the most obvious Temple of the Dog song, even more obvious than Say Hello 2 Heaven which I almost went with instead. I know that half of the song belongs to Eddie Vedder, and that it’s effectively his debut as a rock star. I know this is the needle drop you’d use if you wanted audiences to understand that this next scene takes place in Seattle in the early nineties. And I also may as well admit I’m a gourmand who has never once starved myself in solidarity with the less fortunate, which makes the song’s premise morally superior to my whole deal. So stipulated! But the simple, ethereal guitar riff and the duet of Vedder’s grumbly baritone and Cornell’s majestic shriek get me every time. The two friends would periodically reunite onstage for this one; the last performance of Hunger Strike featuring both Vedder and Cornell was at a benefit show in 2014, and we’ll never hear its like again.

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The heroine of Camden Yards, head groundskeeper Nicole Sherry, is moving on after 24 years. One of just two women to hold that gig in the majors, she threw out the first pitch tonight. #orioles

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

It’s like Christmas out here. (Imagine if they played an unedited How Do U Want It)

2Pac Song of the Game choices on video board at Camden Yards:

All Eyez On Me

Toss It Up

How Do U Want It

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Gabe (disdainful) @gabelacques.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The #Orioles aren’t missing any touches on Tupac night. As #Athletics lineup introduced, a little California Love (Yolo County remix).

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