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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

how do you handle options? i.e. for the mariners, are you assuming they accept munoz/decline robles

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

josh ekness is mason miller now apparently

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

broadcast showed him grimacing after a check swing

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

so they don't use hawkeye for the speed readings?

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

nothing in the middle of the plate

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

insane level from kirb tonight you love to see it

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

delivery looks a little like hagen smith just saying

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

looking a little like early career cal raleigh so far

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

possible he's pushed an already-extreme approach too far

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i do think there should be a distinction between "the mariners broadcast" and "whatever comes out of jay buhners mouth when he happens to drop by the booth"

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

zero top 100 prospects traded at the 2024 deadline, this year we're up to ~seven top 100 prospects traded with an hour to go

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

lol PCA asking "remember saucedo?" when tayler saucedo pitched in the majors as recently as ... this year

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

0-2 count vs 2-2 count pushes the advantage slightly to clemens

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

this must be the biggest count-adjusted WPA swing ever

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

so two rider seats? aren't the motions conflicting? i'm very confused

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

do you have a sense of when they might get to items 55 - 57?

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

proud of my neighbors in the commie corridor

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

thought about dropping riley for karros this weekend. dark times

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

maybe a dumb q but do they use an MLB ball for futures game?

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

remembering some contract predictions

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

sorry to disappoint but sadly i am not that michael rosen

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

On behalf of the BlueSky Robert Caro Stans Caucus, a note on Watson: Alito's dissent characterizes LBJ's 1948 "Box 13 scandal" as involving "late arriving votes" which flipped the election. No. No! It's about votes which were never cast in the first place. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

13This fact pattern is not very far-removed from reality. An acclaimed
biography of former President Lyndon Johnson detailed how the Senate
campaign that propelled his political career was marred by late-arriving
votes that changed the outcome of the race. See generally R. Caro, The
Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent (1990). In 1948, Johnson
eked out a razor-thin victory over his primary opponent in a runoff, all
but guaranteeing that he would win the general election in Texas. Johnson’s victory was made possible through the election-flipping addition of
202 votes to the tally several days after polls had closed. Two hundred
of those late-arriving votes were cast for Johnson, who won the race by
just 87 votes. In the decades since, weighty evidence has come to light
casting serious doubt on those votes’ legitimacy. Id., at xxxi, 316–317,
328–329, 375–402. Although a complete account of what occurred in that
election has been lost to history, the incident illustrates the real risks
that today’s decision entails.

Another county controlled by Parr was Jim Wells, where a reform party formed by returning Second World War veterans had forced him to exercise discretion on Election Day. The only precinct in that county that had been run as the Duke liked precincts run was Precinct 13, where the election judge was Luis (Indio) Salas, a burly deputy sheriff fiercely loyal to the Duke. The Precinct 13 vote reported by Salas on Election Night, 765 to 60 in Johnson’s favor, had provided the bulk of Johnson’s 1,788-to-769 lead in Jim Wells. Now, on Friday morning, the Democratic Executive Committee of Jim Wells County was meeting to make its final certification of the returns and report them to the state committee. In the county courthouse, one of the committee members, E. M. Brownlee, was unfolding the “tally sheets” and reading off the totals. The totals for the first twelve precincts were the same as those which had been reported on Election Night. Then Brownlee unfolded the tally sheet for Precinct 13. This total was not the same. The figure for Johnson, which had been reported as 765 on Election Night, was now 965—because since Election Night, according to testimony given later, someone had added a loop to the “7” to change it into a “9.” Johnson had two hundred more votes.

But the point is not nearly so significant as Johnson’s partisans have made it appear. Although there is still a dispute over whether Johnson asked in person for the final, decisive two hundred votes to be added to his total, there can no longer, thanks to the confirmation, in Salas’ manuscript and interviews, of the sworn testimony of others, be any reasonable doubt that two hundred votes were added to that total—six days after the election. Cliff DuBose had testified that Salas originally gave the total as seven hundred and sixty-five, and Price had also testified that the total given was seven hundred and sixty-five. The only doubt about that fact had been cast by Salas’ denial when he testified. And now Salas was admitting that he had lied: “I told Cliff 765.”

The two hundred votes that “changed history” are, in fact, once one retreats from the headlines, significant only because of their decisive timing. Thanks to Salas, there is no longer any doubt that in his Box 13 alone far more than two hundred votes were stolen for Lyndon Johnson. A reform poll watcher, Jimmy Holmgreen, had previously said so: “I saw dozens of votes that were for Stevenson counted for Johnson.” Ike Poole had previously said so. And now Salas was saying so: “If they were not for Johnson, I make them for Johnson.”

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

love this insane quote popping up in an otherwise straightforward news story www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

where could i find these stats?

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 23/06/2026

David shares his thoughts on the state of FanGraphs, what we've accomplished in the last year with the support of our Members, and the challenges ahead, both for us specifically and digital media more generally. I think the site is very special, and I hope you'll consider becoming a Member.

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

even w this caveat i don't really understand the value of antagonizing the players with an obviously dead-in-the-water proposal

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

no one's allowed to write about this until i'm back from vacation

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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The sweeper has gotten the lion's share of attention in explaining Emerson Hancock's breakout season, but don't sleep on his new cutter, a pitch he has even more confidence in: www.lookoutlanding.com/seattle-mari...

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Emerson Hancock is sweeping and cutting his way to unpredictability

Emerson Hancock has been a steady force on the mound for the Mariners by making himself unpredictable to hitters.

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t a l @talevy.soccer · 01/06/2026

Ahead of election day tomorrow*, I built an analysis of Los Angeles' political demography based on past voting patterns and projected neighborhood-by-neighborhood across the five main mayoral candidates three-las.talevy.soccer *(of course, results won't be clear until several days after)

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The Three Los Angeleses — the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral race in three cities

A map of the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral primary through its political geographies: Conservative LA, Liberal LA, and Left LA.

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

very fun/thorough luis arraez defensive analysis from @foolishbb.bsky.social, especially appreciated the effort he took to incorporate clips from 2024/2025

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Why is Luis Arraez good at defense now?

YouTube video by Foolish Bailey

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

new S(ubstack)-Bahn post: in the 1980s, Medellin was the "murder capital of the world" under the terror of Pablo Escobar. the city at the same time sought to build a metro system. what got them to start this ambitious project, and how did they finish? www.substack-bahn.net/p/how-medell...

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How Medellín built a metro amid bloodshed

The death and rebirth of Medellín Metro in the age of Pablo Escobar

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Michael Rosen @michaelrosen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

i saw him filming this when i was parking

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