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Regarding the final play of the Dodgers-Braves game, Freddie Freeman ranked third in Statcasts's new first base receiving stat baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/...

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The newest member of the Washington Nationals

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We used to know how to baseball

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

81-81 division winner starts the playoffs with a bullpen game that goes sideways, what a great advertisement for the current format

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yankees put out a call for a lefty to throw BP

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Couldn’t get a clear shot while he was speaking but what an amazing shirt on Max Fried

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We lost a true warrior tonight, my favorite kitchen spatula for 20 years. Gonna pour one out.

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And that’s how we all found out Rob Manfred follows my account…

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have Verlander 18th in S-JAWS, and tops among the four pending Hall of Famers, albeit with over 700 more innings than Kershaw, whose run prevention was far superior. An inner-circle HOFer.

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Incredible sky outside my house

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm not the one calling for a schism in the Democratic party, shitting on DSA candidates and backing away from fighting for trans rights, etc. Carville is a major fucking problem and nees to be retired to his crypt.

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers!

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Went through my recent fundraising texts and told the Talarico and Peltola campaigns to fuck off, they’ll never see a nickel from me

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Great night out at Prospect Park Bandshell, seeing Sleater-Kinney (who absolutely smoked) and Liz Phair

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Even before we send the likes of Pete Hegseth and Steven Miller to the next round of Nuremberg Trials, we need a Truth in Set Times law. Motherfucker, what time does the show start?

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You may crush our bodies and our ponchos, but you'll never silence our song of protest!

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mets-Orioles, an intriguing September matchup…. if this was 2024

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mets-Orioles, an intriguing September matchup…. if this was 2024

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Given my wife’s predilection for bad movies, it surprised me she’d never seen Congo (nor had I). Over the weekend we watched it, and it is a damn silly ridiculously fun bad movie thanks in large part to Tim Curry (Herkermer Homolka) and a bunch of other great character actors

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy 30th anniversary to NYC’s Beauty Bar, where I’ve spent <checks watch> about 30 years drinking beer. Great celebration at Drom, headlined by Jon Spencer, who still absolutely slays with his latest band

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The most voluptuous challah I’ve ever seen. L’shanah tova!

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Sir, the second-worst president of this millennium has shared his ‘art’”

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Maybe Trump can recreate the famous 2011 Winter Meetings walk into the pool

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The kiddo and I made dill pickles today using a recipe handed down from my great-grandmother, who was born in 1878 in Russia

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Sir, a franchise’s single-game team home run record has been tainted by a position player pitching.”

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I don't think this tells us much other than that a self-selected audience is pretty much split into a few different camps when it comes to position players pitching, but it's interesting (to me at least) that it's hardly one-sided.

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

WTF, the TD Bank at 215 Montague Street in Brooklyn, the former site of the Dodgers’ business offices, has been demolished, leaving the whereabouts of the plaque commemorating Jackie Robinson’s 1945 signing a mystery

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“There are signs that Spaniards are eating earlier in the evening.”

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Listen, you don’t know anything about a smash-and-grab that’s about to go down, got it?

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was the best of us. RIP people.com/dolly-parton... (Painting: Jon Langford)

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I want to thank the 1-across clue of Monday’s NYT crossword puzzle (I’m rarely caught up) for reminding me to check for tix this morning

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The possibility of a sub-.500 team making the playoffs as the 3rd AL Wild Card — which w/b a full-season first — looms large, and it's possible that the AL West, where the Astros (64-63) currently lead by 2 games, could produce a sub-.500 "champ" and thus a 1st-round pairing of sub-.500 teams. Yeesh

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In 2002, I paid more for a Tommy John bobble-arm doll (complete with a tiny elbow scar) given away by the Charlotte Knights than I’ve ever paid for any piece of baseball memorabilia. It sells for even more today. As I was traveling yesterday, my tribute to John will run tomorrow @fangraphs.com

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As my copy of Rock & Roll Confidential is in SLC at my parents’ house, I just dug this out…

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

RIP Dave Marsh. That his Born to Run and Rock & Confidential remain on the shelf of my childhood bedroom speaks to how formative they were when I was a teen and how far my tastes have moved. Also, in its time the Book of Rock Lists was the ultimate browsing book (a/k/a bathroom reader)

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Double rainbow as seen from my parents’ house in Salt Lake City

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Craig Kimbrel’s late-career itinerancy would be depressing if he wasn’t frank about enjoying the ride even at this stage, which David notes.

end. "It's been fun, actually," Kimbrel told MLB.com after signing with the Royals.
"Getting to know the game in a little different light. Getting to talk to guys who are on their way up. Spent a lot of time in Triple-A last year. Getting to see the game through that lens.

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Ah, that’s right. DNP in the NLDS, 1 PA i the NLCS. His capsule made it into WordPress before I cut it:

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The Cheater Slicks and Skull Practitioners both brought several flavors of garage sludge and goddamn racket to Union Pool in Brooklyn

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A rite-of-passage sushi dinner at Sugar Fish with the kiddo — well-earned for academic achievement — included a sudden breakthrough in using real chopsticks.

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

For the record: no, this was not me. C'mon.

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sweet fancy Moses! Bohm may be better at 1B than 3B but his 77 wRC+ doesn't merit continued play. The others here are having lousy seasons defensively, business as usual for the Phillies, whose defense rated as the worst defense among contenders a month ago blogs.fangraphs.com/the-worst-te...

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My first piece of paid writing (1993) was about this release from a Providence band I saw and covered regularly, one whose evolution led to a great expansion of my own listening.

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Speed warning for 100 mph… when I’m stopped. Chill the fuck out, rental car.

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

These two. I also did the World Almanac For Kids from 2002-04, not just the covers but creative directing the whole shebang. My peak years in that field

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Never seen a guy try to bat while fireworks were going off but Cyclones are down 14-4 and it’s approaching 10 pm, might be a noise ordinance in play

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