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I think about this when people assume you can never live a normal life publicly as an athlete. Like when Jose Altuve retires he is going to roam the earth as a free, rarely recognized tiny man.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 7h

Apropos of nothing, back in July, I was in an elevator with Jose Altuve. This man, who has played in more postseason games than 18 major league franchises, was wearing a “Tuve all day” baseball cap and was two inches shorter than me. It’s honestly wild to wrap your brain around.

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Astros’ icon will pass entire Mets franchise on wild postseason list

The beloved Houston figure will make postseason history in his next game against the Chicago White Sox.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 8h

area girl had in-person meetings and has become best frenemies with the ESPN app radio extension and frantically opens bluesky to garbage-time review @fergoe.blacksky.app posts.

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Playboy @playboy.com · 8h

Seven men have been accused of raping a woman at Cornell University in 2024. South Park writer Toby Morton speaks to Playboy about why he made the viral "Cornell 7" website where he's publishing “names, photographs, documents, messages, and other information related to the case."

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Meet The "South Park" Writer Behind the Viral "Cornell 7" Website

Cornell University has been the subject of innumerable headlines this week, as an anonymous woman’s lawsuit against the university over her alleged 2024 rape prompted New York prosecutors to reopen th...

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

Eric Schmitt IowAtlantagate reminds me of my quaintest reporting idea from pre-election 2016. I wanted to interview WH advance and engagement staff about sports championship ceremonies with the first woman president and how they were thinking about conducting those in Our Misogynistic Economy.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

still thinking about what a b*tch PCA was at that last checked swing call that didn't go his way, with his team down 8-0 in the 8th. a deeply unlikable dork.

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Roey Hadar @roey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ok hang on I literally was able to corroborate this tonight! I was at that game, sitting in the exact opposite corner. Based on who else is in those shots and the color of the pants, I think I have him here. Seems like he bounced around a couple of seats in that row with (presumably) his group.

Caitlin Clark taking a 3 in the Iowa/Maryland game. Google Photos shows timestamp of Feb. 3, 2024, 8:10pm. A man who looks to be wearing the same clothing as the version of Jack Smith the NYT spotted is circled in green

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 30/09/2026

everything is very dumb and very funny

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 30/09/2026

This crew really wants me to care more about Yankees-Red Sox than I am currently capable of. Like I lived through the early 2000s it was enough for me

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026

Also I pay so much for gym and for cable and I cannot watch this baseball game

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026

my gym doesn’t have nbc sports net so I’ve been listening to the game on espn radio and I remember so much random sports stuff from 2020 but I had fully blacked out “cardboard cutout people in the stands”

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026

Oh don’t worry I had m&ms handy

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026

(game one bullpen game is so funny to me)

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026

I wish we had a Benetti-Stoney reunion for this GAME ONE BULLPEN GAME but I guess that would just be greedy

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026

we are very far away from our 27th birthdays

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026

I spent my Kareem-Barkley-Big Hurt run in quarantine, who knows what my life would have become with that stretch in an alt universe

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026

Braves hive: now that we’re here, I have a judgment Q. Where applicable, in our house, we try to choose an athlete to set the tone for a birthday. The Mr. is turning 46 and “Kimbrel Year” feels like a game of roulette, like either lights out year or catastrophic year. I can’t do this right?

“Happy Sir Charles Birthday Meredith” written on a cake

“Happy Hank Aaron Year Josh!” written on a cake

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The Gang Tries for a Three-Inning Save"

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026

IT IS NOT OVER YET ZACH THIS IS AN ATLANTA SPORTS TEAM

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026

It’s midday playoff baseball instead of “descent into fascism” or “soul-crushing work zoom” stress-eating popcorn I couldn’t even text my husband my hands were covered in popcorn

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026

SORRY IT WAS JUST AUSTIN RILEY GUYS

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 29/09/2026