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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can’t use fabric softener on many sports jerseys… letters and numbers will flake off.

Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cleveland traded Griffin to Toronto for pitching help because Jerry Dybzinski had a really good year in the minors and was the new top prospect.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At least you planned for it.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Same reason I started collecting this set.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jon Stancik and I slept on Waveland Avenue overnight to get bleacher seats for that game. (You couldn’t but bleacher seats in advance then - which changed for 1985.) One of many great memories from that season.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

54 pitches. Best arm in their bullpen but that was heavy lifting.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These people aren’t fraudsters - they are prudent and, fortunately, healthy.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Too many of us are familiar with Madden to wonder if Cage could pull this off (body suits, makeup). Frank Calliendo would be funny but in a legit biopic that won’t fly. In earlier generations, this would be a TV movie starring Ken Howard or Brian Dennehy. John Candy, though, would win an Oscar.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Football - one of the Matthews. Baseball - Joe Niekro. It might yet be Vlad Guerrero. Auto Racing - Bobby Unser.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Given I had no idea what I wanted to do at 20, I’d like to think he would be proud that I eventually got on track and did good things.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Use a local clipper app. It records what’s playing on your screen and saves it to something you can embed. You probably have it already on your laptop.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Always enjoyed an evening there. Cheers!

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We no longer pay for things. We only pay for access to things.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mike Johnson lies every day. Why interview him if you aren’t going to call him out for being a huge phony? Stop giving liars platforms.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I couldn’t let it hit my wife.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

BOS at KC, 97. Liner foul down 3B line. Everyone around me ducked; I reached over. Hit an empty seat behind us and bounced up in the middle of the group. The only one upright, I got the rebound. Has Gene Budig’s name (AL Pres). I interviewed him when he was Chancellor at the University of Kansas.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My only MLB foul ball was hit by Shane Mack.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My son is willing to pick up carryout meals I preorder and pay for.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That is just the oddest thing… His 1975 Topps card is… ouch.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’ve heard of two; my son made me watch one, who now appears in wireless network telephony ads from time to time.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Was that 42 hr season in 1970? I’m doing this off the top of my head and I’m pretty sure he had 37 in 1972, finishing third behind Bench and Nate Colbert… it was my first year really closely following the Cubs.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Rooting for a full recovery. Heal fast!

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I want to buy that memoir. If not, we should write it.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From Topeka, Kansas, where a ball field is named for him.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An Enzo Hernandez card was invariably used in the spokes of my bike because there was no way I’d use a Cub player’s baseball card…

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

How quickly we have gone from NAFTA to Canada won’t do business with the USA.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’m old enough to remember the first lunar landing - which might be my oldest memory. For some reason I also remember the Truman and Johnson funerals being televised.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some sales pitch… I’m in!

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As in “Heartbeat, it’s a Love Beat”??? (My kid brother had that album…)

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I feel that pain from time to time. (I should look into X and there goes two hours and another three paragraphs.)

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

None are better than Javier Baez.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Damn, I’m like the median subscriber?

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

25% growth in a year. Good investment, huh?

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I wonder if this also works after ablations. Might be a benefit for the arrhythmia folks….

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

As the father or a gamer, my kid is bright, a fast learner, & can manipulate applications in rapid speed while making quality decisions on the fly in real time. I’m not a fan of this administration, but there are plenty of gamers with usable skills that with training would be excellent at this.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In retrospect that seems like a really bad deal…

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Churches are businesses and participate in politics. Tax ‘em.

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Paul Proia @paulproia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026