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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru

@shanthisc.bsky.social
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MLB research | doing the numbers, watching on in horror baseball is for everyone she / her

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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If I had a nickel for every time this month a bad baseball team lashed out at its own fans instead of doing what every other team historically has done, which is going “they’re not wrong” and leaving it there, I’d only have ten cents but it’s weird that it’s happened twice
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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James Smyth @jamessmyth621.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Tigers are about to be 2.5 games out of a playoff spot and have the 3rd-best run differential in the American League at +50 (Yankees +86, Red Sox +56, and considering Detroit’s up 8-2 in the 8th in Sacramento they could be 2nd by the end of the night) They still gave up
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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Here's superstars giving great quotes to @Paul_CasellaMLB Anyone telling you that velo isn't really up is either lying to you or to themselves. www.mlb.com/news/mlb-pit...
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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Maybe Mis felt embarrassed for all the people engaging in Ohtani Cy Young discourse in June and is trying to make their takes a little less bad.
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
THIS IS WHY WE STORE PRE-WRITES IN DOCS, NPR
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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Players with same name started at same position and same spot in batting order in a game, since 1900: 6/29/26 LAD ATH Max Muncy 6/2 & 6/4/2000 TOR FLA Alex Gonzalez 5/11/99 NYM COL Bobby Jones 4 instances, 3 with Mark Kotsay there!! h/t @shanthisc.bsky.social + @EliasSports
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
... wait
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
well that's a good note to start an eight-hour shift on, i'm sure I will be very productive and on it today
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I know this isn’t really the point, but are we really equating a young woman needing to be someone’s daughter to be considered legitimate with other cases of nepotism?
nytimes.com
Once seen as harmless, cases of potential nepotism in baseball now stand out
Teams used to routinely sign or draft players with personal connections to the organization. The gutting of the minors has changed that.
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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A 7-inning no-hitter against a last-place team in an indie league counts less than when you no-hit a made-up team in an OOTP sim game
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I’m sorry, what is happening
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Here’s my theory for why this didn’t happen: if you use generative AI to make an entire movie and try to release it, you will be sued into the ground for copyright infringement or similar before you can even finish editing it
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
really feels like some kind of harbinger here
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Yeah geez weird impossible to know I guess
Headline from The Guardian: Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
as @paigeleckie.bsky.social and I incidentally noticed last night the Rockies and White Sox are also the only teams whose starters are averaging fewer than four innings per start which, I feel, raises some questions about how we’re going to get through 140 more games
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Matthew 5:9 — “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” 26:52 — “Put your sword back in its place… for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” Romans 12:19–21 — “Do not take revenge… ‘If your enemy is hungry, feed him
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/04/2026
mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Baseball season is in full swing, NBA is heating up, march madness just ended and the NFL draft is next week and they all somehow still found space to do an article on the front fold about how dare anyone in the public question a reporter using AI to do her job for her , guess why
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Fun fact I live in a studio apartment in Manhattan and $1,643 would cover less than half of a month’s rent
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This is a movement whose entire existence rests on the argument that the (voluminous) evidence of gender-affirming care's efficacy doesn't count because its methodology is weak. Yet their own side accepts the most embarrassingly janky studies you've ever seen.
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
... so the in-game gender reveal fully is a thing now, we're just doing this as a rule. Cool.
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I cannot think of a weirder time to be on the “I’m a Major League Baseball player who almost joined the military in a former life and totally did not” train and yet more than one guy is doing it. It could not be less flattering and it’s unflattering in about 12 different directions at once.
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
look what did she expect, saying Palestinian children are as precious and worthy of our protection as all other children
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
YES
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/04/2026
Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
JD Vance is going to welcome his fourth child soon and at least one of the elder three is going to have a tantrum about mom and dad favoring the new baby and giving them *all* the attention, as is very normal. He will scoff at their feelings, completely missing the irony.
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
your reminder that you need to PAY ATTENTION whenever any politician goes to India because that is yet another country where a lot of people in power including the prime minister see at least one prominent minority group as their household pest
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
ICE loves hurting and killing women.
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
one of the many things I find very dispiriting about the present moment is that everyone agrees that someone should do something but the "something" almost always feels wholly inadequate (retired presidents write op-ed) or wildly implausible (general strike)
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026
I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
How American officials, be they Republican, Democrat or neither, respond to this moment -- one in which the man who controls our nuclear arsenal has promised what could amount to genocide -- will define so much. May enough rise to the moment with the gravity it demands.
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
feels like a scam that we all have to pay our taxes this week and we don’t get to object to what they’re going to be using that money for
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Absolutely egregious paraphrase
Douthat: So it's ironic? Or is it Marxist revolutionary rhetoric?
And I just want to bring this to a fine point. There's the great case of Luigi Mangione, who is charged with murdering the C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare in broad daylight in New York City. And you're going to tell me that you've always said that murder is wrong, and that Luigi Mangione should not have committed murder, but you've talked a lot about Luigi.
Piker: Of course. I think it's one of the most consequential instances of adventurism, which I always will say is wrong, because I think it invokes social instability, which I think is bad, in general, to exist underl
But what I try to always do, especially with the Luigi Mangione case, is to talk about the concept, for example, of social murder: the notion of our systems that already exist, like the privatization of
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Sam Dykstra @samdykstramilb.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Today was Jesús’ day. From @benweinrib.bsky.social:
mlb.com
MLB's No. 3 prospect Jesús Made has career day ... on Easter
We don't want to make too much of this, but Jesús Made delivered one of his best performances in pro ball to date on Easter Sunday. MLB Pipeline's No. 3 overall prospect tied a career high with four h...
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Michael Clair @michaelclair.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Nolan McLean’s sweeper should be in the next NYTimes investigations of UFOs
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
what. what was the first opinion, orioles
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
can you guys believe that most of the mortgage payments you make are going to the bank??? (oh, now come on, you know what he means, you know he means the interest on your loan well exceeds the amount you borrowed. nah, finance guy, you gotta say it. say the word principal, Mark, go on!!)
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
i'd like to be happy for Daniel Susac getting his first 3 hits in one game. unfortunately I'm really stuck on the way his family keeps shaking toddlers in ways they obviously don't like
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
now that I think about it, we probably could have asked a few more questions about what the D-backs had done to resolve the bullpen situation
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
we are LITERALLY one day in, I’m crying
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Jon Hegglund @jonhegglund.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
men showing genuine affection for each other, celebrating something they did together, as a collective. let this be a model for masculinity, not the fake hardo military bullshit
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Morris “Day and The Time” Katz @vodkasnowflake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week
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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I don’t care that they’re boring - not every player has to exhibit personality on the field and for some players it would come across as inauthentic- but stuff like refusing to shake hands and virtue signaling about the damn U.S. military has got to go.
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Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @shanthisc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I wonder who FOX wants to win the WBC, guys
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