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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 24m

Giancarlo’s last stand bc that man ain’t gonna run

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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 23h

hard to imagine a pitcher walk-out song with worse vibes than this in the big 2026, congrats to jason adam

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know John Smoltz doesn't watch or make any effort to learn about the modern sport of baseball, but every so often "I know he hasn't had a lot of at-bats, but I think they give him the green light 3-0" about *Rowdy Tellez* still managed to get to me.

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One of the best comps for hitters in the 2026 postseason being 2024 Mitch Garver is over-the-top macabre even for October.

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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Welcome to the 2026 Lookies! Come on down for Lookout Landing's annual awards and cast your ballot for the good, the bad, and the Hoby Milner as we close the book on the 2026 Seattle Mariners. www.lookoutlanding.com/seattle-mari...

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Vote for the Fifth Annual Lookout Landing Awards

The only awards that matter

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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

john: haha they claimed Michael Toglia, he was TERRIBLE me: john: no but he was really bad me: john: no like, EPICALLY HISTORICALLY bad me: ok write that john: ... I have talked myself into Michael Toglia www.lookoutlanding.com/seattle-mari...

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Mariners claim 1B/OF Michael Toglia off waivers in first offseason addition

A Gig Harbor homecoming kicks off the winter.

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

John Smoltz *praising* Mookie Betts for NOT challenging strike three, that should have been ball four (followed by a Shohei single) and I'm begging this network to hire literally any of the hundreds of more qualified color commentators out there.

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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

some real sticker shock on the orange chicken fries. An astonishing $39.99 for not that large a portion Guess it depends how much you value the hard plastic souvenir glove-shaped bowl it comes in

Orange chicken fries in a souvenir glove bowl at dodger stadium

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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 01/10/2026

Halloween is coming. You don’t have to go to a “trunk-or-treat” event in Seattle! You can close your neighborhood street to through-traffic – for free! Trick-or-Streets permits are free and easy to get. Join here: seattle.gov/transportation/trick-or-streets

The ancient two-panel Drake meme. On the top, he's looking away in disgust and holding his hand up. The text next to it says "Truck-or-treat". On the bottom, he looks pleased and is pointing toward text that says "Close your street".

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mayatmiller.bsky.social @mayatmiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Help us report by sharing this and visiting projects.propublica.org/sports-betti...

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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

LHP Ray Kerr starting a winner-take-all playoff game tonight means two 2021 Tacoma Rainiers (along w/Taylor Trammell) will have started playoff games in 2026. Matt Festa awaits in the ALDS. Just two of their 2021 teammates started games for Seattle: Cal Raleigh & Logan Gilbert, plus Andrés Muñoz.

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Eugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Baseball has had increasing attendance every year of the current CBA except the one immediately following the last lockout. Instead of maintaining that momentum, the owners plan to lock the players out again. Too much money is coming in, franchise values are growing too fast. Stop the success!

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MLB attendance up for 4th straight year, boosted by Rays

Major League Baseball attendance rose for the fourth straight year to 71.75 million, reaching its highest total since 2017, with a boost from the

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Wraith LaFrentz 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is an instant classic quote graphic

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"Le Chonk" @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 30/09/2026

Patrick is a stone cold freak for dropping writing this good into the intro of what is a useful, but fairly formulaic Game 2 preview format: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

There’s an element to sports that sportswriters never weary of trying to capture, hacking through the kudzu of metrics and quotations to get at. It’s the paradox of a sense of overwhelming immortality, mixed with a sense of how fleeting that omnipotence is. Athletes hypnotize themselves into attaining it, fans slurp at it like a shallow oasis in the desert, writers build entire novels constructing a world to provide it. The Boston Red Sox lost a pair of games to the Washington Nationals by 15 runs around the end of June, and then seized that invincibility and held it for more than five full weeks, enjoying a run almost unparalleled in the history of baseball. It was like snorting cocaine while on a runner’s high after finding out you’d aced a college final and fallen in love, all at the same time.

Unfortunately, that time happened to be July, and by the end of September it was a happy memory. Baseball took that perfect month and chewed away at it with its sharp little teeth, as it always does, pulling at hamstrings and snapping bones. And on Tuesday, the capricious and hateful gods of baseball took it and provided it to one Ben Rice, handed him the thunderbolts to strike the heroes down. For one day it was the Yankees who were invincible, led by the league’s best pitcher and a hitter whose resting face might best be described as vague concern, even as their captain stood with his elbows on the dugout railing. The New York Yankees are now, today and only today, the greatest team in baseball. But maybe not tomorrow. The gods need fresh meat.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tolle vs. Schlittler has an extremely fun, early Josh Allen/Lamar Jackson vs. one another/Patrick Mahomes vibe.

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let's go Mets baby, love da Mets

New York Mets President of Baseball Operations David Stearns' recent "uncapped downside scenario" quote, captured in Dragon Ball font

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Ryan Blake @swingsandtakes.com · 29/09/2026

The 2026 Mariners were supposed to be good, they were bad, and Dan Wilson was their feckless manager. But the roster he was saddled with proved disturbingly thin. My season obit, for @lookoutlanding.bsky.social

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The Beautiful and Dan’d

Goodnight, and good luck

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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a narrative pushed by one overly indexed Seattle sports radio personality who was at 0/82 home games as a media member but showed up today and shouted three questions over other beat reporters in a half hour long media session

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another big swath of changes will be coming to the Mariners coaching staff, as Seattle announces several more coaches won't return, including Manny Acta and Perry Hill. www.lookoutlanding.com/seattle-mari...

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Mariners announce sweeping coaching staff changes following departure of Dan Wilson

Big changes are here for Seattle.

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jen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 25/09/2026

some really good info in this story

MLB’s owners are virtually certain to lock out the players in early December, when the sport’s current labor deal expires. No one knows whether a shutdown will shorten the sport’s 162-game regular season, but if it does, 60 games — roughly the end of May, by the current MLB schedule — will bring perhaps the most crucial leverage point.

If at least 60 games are wiped out in 2027, most of the league’s national broadcast contracts would extend another year, through 2029, people briefed on MLB’s rights agreements who were not authorized to speak publicly told The Athletic.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All four have socialist/labour mayors.

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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, etc.

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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the 2026 Mariners have officially been eliminated from postseason contention

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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Alert the NY media because Mariners fans are Max Freed now www.lookoutlanding.com/seattle-mari...

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Seattle Mariners eliminated from 2026 playoff contention

The math has ceased, the sails have fallen.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

if you don't know your own address it's because you specifically don't have to know it. people that detached from reality shouldn't be in a position to drive social policy for those of us living in reality

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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Look the Mariners season has been excruciating but if you’re not hanging out on LL you’re just missing out Art by user lockonstratos and lock screen by andrewgolfsalot

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Ryan Blake @swingsandtakes.com · 24/09/2026

The Mariners playoff odds are roughly (1/2)^12 == 0.02% — they need 12 consecutive outcomes to go their way to force a three-way tie and win the AL West. If they’re alive by this time tomorrow, it’ll be (1/2)^9 == 0.19%. Saturday (1/2)^6 == 1.56% Sunday (1/2)^3 == 12.5%

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Ryan Blake @swingsandtakes.com · 24/09/2026

The Mariners began the day with 0.0% playoff odds. They ended the day with 0.0% playoff odds. And yet, they absolutely refuse to let this miserable season die. For @lookoutlanding.bsky.social

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Mariners Live, Beat Astros 6-5 in Extras

The Worldwide Leader in never letting this season go

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Ben Krimmel @benkrimmel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sean Manaea is wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt after pitching six solid innings to beat the Texas Rangers, the MLB's only team without a Pride night. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps not.

Image of Sean Manaea wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt.

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Ryan Blake @swingsandtakes.com · 22/09/2026

Between Cal and Julio, the Mariners lost 22 FRV between 2025 and 2026.

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Following their weekend in Colorado, the 2026 Seattle Mariners officially are the worst defensive team in Statcast era history (2016->) by Outs Above Average. They sit at -56, outpacing the ghastly 2025 Angels. Fielding Run Value has them 6th-worst, likely to overtake 5th in the final week.

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Pinstripe Alley @pinstripealley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Aaron Boone also just admitted finally that Judge is unlikely to play in a Wild Card Series, which: yup it’s a calf strain, took ya long enough

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 18/09/2026

“Effective government is a progressive value.” Damn right! Mayor Wilson nails it.

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cal Raleigh is about to back his big dumper into the most unethical hooper >100 wRC+ I’ve ever seen.

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations to Mariners great Endy Chávez.

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Andrew Phares @ajphares.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s been all downhill from here

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

two years ago, i was allowed to use the women's room at the airport no problem. now, the texas state government can fine the airport thousands of dollars if i use the women's bathroom.

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Ryan Blake @swingsandtakes.com · 14/09/2026

Has being a good guy become a distraction for Julio?

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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Kade Anderson's big-league career isn't off to the start he maybe imagined, but he's fortunate to have a fellow SEC pitcher as a teammate who knows a little something about that: www.lookoutlanding.com/seattle-mari...

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On Kade Anderson and faking it until you make it

Kade Anderson hasn’t yet been able to replicate his Double-A brilliance at the big-league level, but there’s plenty of journey left

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Business Leaders: "Crime is up and we demand a police crackdown!" Data:

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Scherzer’s answer here is interesting given his long-time role in MLBPA. I find SP prominence to significantly enhance my enjoyment of baseball, so it’s good to see it emphasized.

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John Trupin @johntrupin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Vintage Jacob deGrom + demoralized, listless Seattle Mariners + chillier day in T-Mobile Park is the correct recipe for... well, four more innings to go.

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