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John Manuel

@johnmanuelnc.bsky.social
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Greek-American. Baseball person. @CleGuardians but views expressed here are mine & mine alone.

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John Manuel @johnmanuelnc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hurricanes fans can check some preseason game photos that my son took for the Technician here technicianonline.com/163538/multi...
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Hurricanes versus Predators: Preseason
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
RT @MiLB: the immediate backflip emote was more than necessary
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Dillon the Beaver (Cow Ripken) @donthaveacowman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OTD in 1999, Jim “The Rookie" Morris made his MLB debut at age 35. Chat, This is what 35 looked like in the 90s.
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John Manuel @johnmanuelnc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I can’t imagine how cool it would have felt as a kid growing up in Fayetteville NC if we’d had a pro athlete like Gavin Williams around. He’s so good, could be even better … Cape Fear High class of 2017, with 13 punchies tonight & 10 double-digit K outings. Would have blown my nerdy mind back then.
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Peter Abraham @peteabeglobe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Happy birthday,Yaz. He’s 87 today.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
NEW: At some private schools across the U.S., every student uses taxpayer money to pay toward tuition, thanks to the growth of school voucher programs. But these "quasi-public" schools face almost none of the scrutiny given to public schools.
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At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"From July 1, 2026, households in New South Wales, South Australia, and southeastern Queensland can access at least three hours of free electricity each day through a new initiative called the Solar Sharer Offer" via No One Cares
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Scenes from a personalist regime: your donations to the patriotic events rerouted to the leader’s organization
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.
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What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect
How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“.. economic chaos and disrupted oil markets .. is exactly what the Iranians viewed from the opening days of the war as their most potent weapon. .. And by the president’s own testimony, it worked.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...
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Renee Dechert @reneedechert.com · 07/06/2026
Gift link:
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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Fossil fuels are now intermittent and uncertain... Renewables, thanks to batteries, have become actually pretty constant given the sun rises every morning." www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/i...
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How the Strait of Hormuz standoff flipped the energy security debate
Iran's influence over the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz has inadvertently transformed the energy security debate.
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Americans who lack health insurance today mostly live in the South, and overwhelmingly in states that either have not expanded Medicaid, or resisted doing so until very recently. See that bright divide between Virginia and North Carolina?
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Morning everyone. Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws? You are subject to the law. Now he is not. No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.
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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026
1) Barkley was saying shit like this in the 90s when the block was ESPECIALLY hot for saying stuff like that 2) This is why this show needs to keep on going
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Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Great charity event tomorrow night! I'll be moderating a Q and A with the Phillies' principal owner, John Middleton. 7:30-9 pm at the Mullen Center for the Performing Arts at Villanova All proceeds support Main Line School Night. Come see us! mainlineschoolnight.org/visionary2026/
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MLSN’s 10th Annual Visionary Voices Fundraiser – MLSN
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John Manuel @johnmanuelnc.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Hey @joeovies.bsky.social & @giglioog.bsky.social take it easy on Koch tonight.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I think the fact that Iran apparently blew the shit out of our expensively defended Gulf bases and the regime that refused to embed journos for the first time in our history covered that up should be a much bigger story.
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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Congratulations to Brian Kenny, Eugene Murdock, Rob Ruck, and Allan Simpson, 2026 recipients of the SABR Henry Chadwick Award honoring contributions to baseball research: sabr.org/latest/sabr-...
The 2026 recipients of the SABR Henry Chadwick Award, honoring contributions to baseball research, are Brian Kenny, Eugene Murdock, Rob Ruck, and Allan Simpson
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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Guy drops a home run ball then takes it from a young girl
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Duke Energy wants to raise your electricity rates again, and this time it's by another 15%. Before any decision is made, state regulators are holding public hearings, and North Carolinians have a chance to speak directly about how these rising costs are impacting their lives.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This is all accurate but I do want to note it was two Nazi salutes, plural. Everyone always forgets Musk did a Nazi salute to the crowd behind him too.
Elon Musk on Jan. 20, 2025 doing a Nazi salute turned away from the podium
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Minor Leaguer @minorleaguer.ca · 25/04/2026
It wasn't until his sophomore year that Jerry Howarth noticed that he had "Sandy" on his mitt and asked him about it. Martínez explained that friends and family all call him "Sandy" but he didn't want to mention it since he just cracked the roster. Jerry corrected the record after that.
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Sandy Martinez – Society for American Baseball Research
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Jacob Rubashkin @rubashkin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2026
i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”
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Matt Glassman @mattglassman312.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
There is no doubt in my mind that the best writings of any U.S. President are Grant's memoirs, and his recollections of Lee's surrender in Appomattox---161 years ago today---are perhaps the best parts of those memoirs.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/04/2026
A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published October 2025)
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is outrageous. And personally depressing. People over 65 and those with chronic conditions will get sick and die. Just because the younger healthy people don't fear COVID anymore doesn't mean everyone else has nothing to fear. And just because MAHA is stupid and insane that should not happen.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/03/2026
really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.
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John Manuel @johnmanuelnc.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
All the fouls, all the strategy … then Kansas allows a basic straight-line drive. That’s baseball Suzyn ….
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horse massacre @torqpenderloin.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
"take me to the balkans please!" is another raftery all time
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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.
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John Manuel @johnmanuelnc.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
If Auburn makes the tournament just stop having it. You play … to win … the game!
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John Manuel @johnmanuelnc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This seems like a bad move. Hard to find more dedicated fans than Japan’s baseball junkies who stay up to watch Ohtani at 3 am
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%). But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)
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John Manuel @johnmanuelnc.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Really glad to hear Jay Williams talking Darryn Peterson during a 1-point game between two very good teams right before halftime. The ESPN podcast-during-a-game approach has gotten super old.
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...
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It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News
We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/02/2026
Great game, Canada! It was an honor/honour to play against such fantastic neighbors/ neighbours.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 19/02/2026
So you’re saying that a corrupt former president who abused the powers of his office can face charges, be convicted, and be held accountable? Tell me more.
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Baseball Reference @baseball-reference.com · 17/02/2026
While Rube Foster was inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame as an executive, he easily could have been inducted as a player and a manager as well. Foster was successful in all aspects of the game.
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John Manuel @johnmanuelnc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Yes.
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John Manuel @johnmanuelnc.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Not always clear cut but I would put the team that drafted him on the cap. The Royals had the guts to draft Beltran and developed him, they should be recognized IMO.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
“Whatever government is not a government of laws is a despotism, let it be called what it may.” ~Daniel Webster. Webster was born on this day 244 years ago: Jan. 18, 1782. Image: Public domain.
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John Manuel @johnmanuelnc.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Public libraries are awesome with a Capital A
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John Manuel @johnmanuelnc.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
No cheating… repost with the most recent picture of your pet
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Christine Is Fed Up With Republicans @coralgableswang.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Tell me I'm wrong, but the Post Office isn't supposed to turn a profit. Firefighters and Police aren't meant to generate revenue. Not everything in society needs to be about making money. Stop the #Privatization of America!
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