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Part-time father, writer, husband, cat-herder. Full-time breather, eater.

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"What if a playoff game ends on an ABS challenge?!?" well, the world won't end and the call would be a correct one
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The excellent folks at SABR have just released a new publication, free in e-book, entitled How We Played the Game: Baseball at Manzanar, 1942-1945 (also the subject of my podcast's season 2!). It's edited by Ross Speiller & James Forr, & y'all should definitely check it out! 🗃️ +
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Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945 – Society for American Baseball Research
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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ethan Salas is about to become the youngest player ever to play catcher in a postseason MLB game and I swear it's true.
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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today SABR launched an incredible new book and companion website on Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945. It’s the story of 120,000 Japanese Americans who were removed from their homes after Pearl Harbor and forced to live at remote incarceration camps: sabr.org/baseball-at-...
Cover image for SABR’s “Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945,” edited by Russ Speiller and James Forr.
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robneyer @robneyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kevin Stocker is a great listen, the ideal analyst.
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William Turton @williamturton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In 2024 the former CEO of a defense contractor made a stunning confession to two FBI agents. He alleged that was the ringleader of a massive pay-to-play operation, bribing senators with campaign contributions in exchange for govt contracts. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Me: "No serial killer will ever lure me into their murder van. I'm way too smart for that." Serial Killer:
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
People don't realize what sports TV was like back in the day. It was usually two men looking at a piece of paper on a desk, chuckling, as the chyron teased the biggest story in sports. This went on for 29 minutes and 55 seconds. Then they'd look up and say "White Sox," and the next show would start.
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robneyer @robneyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Max @2xaught7.ing · 18/09/2026
This week's The Write Fielder by @dgoold.bsky.social is stacked with a whole bunch of historical items, many of which will be displayed in the St. Louis History Museum. www.stltoday.com/sports/article_405…
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The Write Fielder: Derrick Goold goes behind the scenes of St. Louis' baseball history
Welcome to The Write Fielder – a weekly newsletter on baseball and the St. Louis Cardinals from the Post-Dispatch. Every Friday, lead baseball writer Derrick Goold delivers behind the seams
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
imagine a divorce so bad it turns you into mickey rourke
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The 70-79 Tigers have a better run differential than the 90-59 #1 seed Tampa Bay Rays.
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robneyer @robneyer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Used to be two of these in Wheeler. Now just this one, up the hill from the highway. Hell, might even be the only one left in all of Oregon…
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Baseball By Design @baseballbydesign.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why are the Hillsboro Hops called the Hillsboro Hops?
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robneyer @robneyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wrote up a little story I found in an obscure book I finally read after 40-odd years: robneyer.substack.com/p/tracer-two-leftys-hoist-a-few
Eddie Mathews, Donald Davidson, and Henry Aaron
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Great article on 'brain rot' on social media, and how the youths don't actually want to be stuck in this loop. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/o...
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Opinion | The Truth About Brain Rot: It’s a Cry for Help (Gift Article)
Maybe consuming meaningless content is the only way to be free online.
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robneyer @robneyer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well, I was out and about this morning so went ahead and visited Portland Coffee Shop #250 (Riot!) this morning. Not a selfie sort but here's the place (and it's great, jazz real loud just the way we like it):
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THE GREAT NORTH on Instagram: "☕ Big news from The Great North! We’re thrilled to announce that Corey — one of our incredible former team members — has officially taken over our Burnside location! F...
234 likes, 33 comments - thegreatnorthcoffee on June 11, 2026: "☕ Big news from The Great North! We’re thrilled to announce that Corey — one of our incredible former team members — has officially tak...
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robneyer @robneyer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Visited my 249th Portland coffee shop this morning. Can't decide if I should be choosy about 250 or just let it happen...
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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
One of the most unfortunate game-tying home runs you will ever see a team allow
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robneyer @robneyer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This series is essential history, which course we are doomed to repeat.
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The History Podcast
History Podcast · Series · Invisible Hands - The American Century. David Dimbleby introduces the story of how America became a superpower through the invisible hands who made it happen.
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robneyer @robneyer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dave Flemming's great. But his suggestion that Tony Vitello has been treated unfairly by the umpires is ... well, it's possible, but Occam's Razor would probably suggest otherwise.
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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Exactly like we all expected this game to end.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
That CNN "Dolly Parton remained neutral in the culture wars" thing is the most hilariously wrong framing of a person's stances since people were talking about Muhammed Ali being "above politics" or whatever when he died. It's pathological.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It seems that people have been throwing balls at the stadium
A sign at the Long Beach Coast game rading Do Not Throw Balls At The Stadium.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wrote about the proposed Paramount-WBD merger and why it is bad across the board.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
@steinkobbe

There were some incredible posts at the height of the NFT bubble

@TaschaLabs

If you make a NFT of a real diamond, and the diamond itself gets destroyed in a fire tomorrow, you still have the same asset.

Because the token still exists and is in limited supply just as before. Nothing has changed.

What NFT is doing to the concept of asset, few understand.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
> @daveweigel.bsky.social
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robneyer @robneyer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Crater Lake, you mean. But, yes.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw explains the balk violation
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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
friendly reminder, @bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social and I are studying the 2026 baseball! some of the first arrived today. we’d like to know what’s happening, but we need your help! If you want more info, DM me, email bwdconnect@proton.me and of course: keep up with the ongoing series at [eyeblack]
extra oily baseballthere’s a big hole in MLB’s yellow ball defense
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robneyer @robneyer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
All these Matthew Rhys interviews and nobody asks him about working with Peter Falk in the last Columbo episode. SMDH.
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, winner of this year's Nebula Award for Best Novel, takes the Marias Massacre and retells it within a vampire story, making for a profound and extremely gory work of historical fiction. My review: meadowparty.com/blog/2026/08...
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Took someone to their first game last night. They didn't realize there was a catcher until the sixth. Kept asking why runners don't steal on every pitch. Thought the umpire was returning the ball after each pitch. Realized if I want a bigger audience I need to explain stuff like that in every post
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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 11/08/2026
Good morning. I’m in a forest in coastal Oregon, so a weird experience: We’re running a piece I wrote back in April, and then completely forgot, about a dude you’ve never heard of. Reading it this morning, I can say: not bad!
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The Unassuming Legend of Steve Holm | Baseball Prospectus
If legends can be anonymous, anyway.
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John Thorn @johnthorn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
@Retrosheet "is pleased to announce its first semi-annual release of 2026 ... box scores for the 1897 NL, play-by-play for the 1908 and 1909 AL/NL, and the 1933 and 1934 Negro League seasons. Thanks to Joe Callahan, Rob Wood, and others for their assistance." retrosheet.org/summer2026re...
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Summer 2026 Release
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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Excerpt: THE TEXAS RANGERS AND ME by T.R. Sullivan Sullivan, who covered the Texas Rangers for thirty-two years—the longest beat in club history—recalls the team’s lively cast of characters and the incredible highs and lows that have shaped the franchise.
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Excerpt: The Texas Rangers and Me
T.R. Sullivan is a retired beat writer who covered the Texas Rangers from 1989 to 2020. He was inducted into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005. His new book The Texas Rangers and Me: A Baseball Writer's Thirty-Two Years in Arlington (Nebraska, 2026) was published in July. Since the team was established in 1971, the Texas Rangers have built a rich history and identity that makes them unique among MLB teams.
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Emma Baccellieri @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Today is my last day at Sports Illustrated. My choice, after 8+ years and a ton of change and so many stories that meant the world to me. (With one more still on the way.) I'll have more on what's next soon but for now — what a gig! Can't believe how lucky I was to have it.
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fenraven @fenraven.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #FabulousWaders. Only a few years ago, the wood stork was endangered. Today it is thriving! This prehistoric-looking bird is indeed fabulous. ALT has processing details. #birds #ECK #photography #wildlifephotography #WoodStork #SouthFlorida #Luminar
The whites in this photo were partially blown but brought back by processing magic in Luminar. Dragging it into HDR merge (as a single pic) brought back amazing detail in the feathers. 
Sony a6400, Sigma 150-600mm lens, f/8, 1/2000s, ISO-1000, 283mm.
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I was just about to publish an article titled "The Best Place for an 0-2 Slider Is Down the Middle" and then this happens. Just my luck.
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robneyer @robneyer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Saw THE INVITE last night. It's a fine work of art. Sharply written and directed, top-notch performances from all four characters (there are only four). But Edward Norton's monologue, which he reportedly wrote himself, will be studied in acting classes well after he and I are both gone.
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Sam Miller @sammillerbb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Dave Flemming saying Seth Lugo "puts pressure on everybody with this [ABS] system because so many of his pitches are right around the edge of the zone," and it's true -- an hour ago I looked up which pitcher had gotten batters to lose the most challenges and it's Seth Lugo!
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SABR Baseball Cards @sabrbbcards.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
BIG NEWS! We have a podcast now, thanks to Mike Eisenbath and Tyler Giles! Episode 1 guests are Mark Armour and Jason Schwartz, covering the origin and evolution of the Cards committee, among other topics. YouTube link here and Spotify link in the comments. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBPU...
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SABR Baseball Cards: The Podcast - Episode 1 - Mark Armour // Jason Schwartz
YouTube video by SABRbaseballcards
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Freezing Cold Takes @oldtakesexposed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What some call "unused land" is often the last safe haven for countless living creatures. Wetlands are not empty spaces waiting to be developed. They are nurseries for birds, natural water filters, flood defenses, and wildlife habitats that cannot be replaced once lost.
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Kansas City Royals @royals.com · 21/07/2026
Ope, just gonna squeeze by ya.
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robneyer @robneyer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I’m generally a pretty charitable sort, but as someone who lives in a neighborhood with zombie houses, I find “lax enforcement” a woeful understatement. The word “negligent” is better fitting. At best.
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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🚨Something new and fun over at the Statcast factory, Baseball Savant: The Statcast player comparison tool baseballsavant.mlb.com/comparison-t... You can look at a player's progression over years, like Jordan Walker's huge breakout: baseballsavant.mlb.com/comparison-t...
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Tyler Maun @tylermaun.com · 17/07/2026
Hey, you there. You might find this interesting. Over on a different evil app, I put together a video about how, by bizarre coincidence, I ended up in possession of a super rare old Denver sports uniform. www.instagram.com/reel/Da1DgAC...
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Tyler Maun on Instagram: "One of the rarest uniforms in Denver sports history somehow ended up on my back. Here’s the story. #baseballhistory #denverbears"
83 likes, 15 comments - tylermaunpxp on July 15, 2026: "One of the rarest uniforms in Denver sports history somehow ended up on my back. Here’s the story. #baseballhistory #denverbears".
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