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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 12h

Cleveland locked in on “win to go home” mode which is different from “win or go home.” If the Sox win they can’t stay home. This is all relevant somehow.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I can really only counter with a few sitcoms, which probably aren’t your bag. But generally yes, the few exceptions more than prove the rule. I like hearing people discuss shows made to air weekly being mass consumed in the stream era versus made for streaming episodic shows.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Any time something about him goes semi-viral there's a rash of posts framing his 1970s Libertyville childhood balanced against Wikipedia data from the current decade.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm still listening to “The Summer You Let Your Hair Grow Out" based on your mention. Will track this down as well.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah they have votes and everything. One of larger society’s more discussed electoral processes!

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cubs fan here. A. This was inevitable. B. Fantastic theater. Just a tremendous moment. Here’s hoping the billionaires finally recognize their potential to poison the wells from which this magic springs.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As a youth baseball dad I keep trying to tell the other parents our Illinois weather doesn’t allow enough games to see meaningful samples and using MLB as a comp isn’t always helpful.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I played a men’s league the year I turned 40. Passable defense, limited offense, had never used a wood bat… but one night I barreled one straight to the left fielder and I’ve been thinking about that contact for seven years.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good info! On the content side I think I'm pretty simple because i can usually just log in with Xfinity credentials to either specific provider apps or stream the channel off Xfinity itself (since backyard is still "home”). It's the “get video bigger than a laptop" where I'm totally clueless.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks! Trying to watch baseball by the fire without carrying a TV down a bunch of stairs. And have zero experience, except for the fire part. But the WiFi signal was good for the laptop last weekend.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Which one do you use? Also, is it any good before total actual darkness?

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t watch much football of any flavor, and when I did I was a Michigan fan, but as a Coe 2001 grad seeing Braeden Jackson take one 99 gets me in the best way.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Do you have a link to your gear? We moved last year and I’m finally enjoying outdoor baseball with a fire but just drug a laptop out here.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A few hundred miles and a few minutes apart, two Chicago pitchers cleanly fielded ground balls and tossed their teams into the playoffs.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Does yours have churros yet? They're coming back!

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Been thinking about this a lot with a college freshman and high school sophomore. Always important to have a means of income but certainly a lot more to life than paychecks.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think to be the type of columnist I idolized in the ‘90s would’ve required never leaving my first daily. And that paper (and its city) has diminished… plus no one gets to just write their one piece every day.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ve been lucky enough to still have paid writing opportunities. But “newspapers” as a viable career for me washed out within my first decade.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m not that much older than you, but I have some strikingly similar feelings about being in print journalism starting in June 2001.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As the father of four, I’d only say something out loud if I saw an arm poking out.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

(Coincidentally typed while at the church where I had preschool.)

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Preschools tend not to have big reunions.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Getting loser and also further away.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And the money is clearly going to good use…

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

At a lot of schools, especially private, no one comes close to paying sticker price. Like one school told us 98% of kids get *some* financial aid. They’ll just lop off a grand for going to admitted students weekend. It’s like air travel. Everyone going the same place for a different actual cost.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I maintain yahoo but never use it. Actually set it up back when an employer only had shared email accounts for us.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve not dug into the details, but as the parent of a college freshman it sounds like maybe this is a useful step toward ending the Kohl’s approach to pricing higher ed.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Have had a perfectly good Hotmail account since the last millennium. Why junk it now? I get a note from a real human like three times each month.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Realized today I know this isn’t a World Series team because they’ll never win enough road playoff games. Impossible.

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John Dooley @grayfedorasports.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hey! You like college football?! My buddy and I do a podcast focusing on the Big Ten and Notre Dame…and other stuffs. It’s fun! You should subscribe! open.spotify.com/episode/10Ln...

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Week 1 Big Ten and Notre Dame Preview

The Midwest College Football Cavalcade with John Dooley · Episode

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Even last night the vibe was out scoring the Brewers by 12 on the week and still losing three games.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

When some of us argue for the value of teaching the Bible as literature, this is what we mean: this reference is in no way evocative of the Good Samaritan from the parable.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Cheated and used my real camera. From Chicago’s northern suburbs.

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Craig Wieczorkiewicz @mwltraveler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Had fun watching Snowshoe Baseball in Lake Tomahawk tonight. It's actually softball, but played by local guys wearing snowshoes on a sawdust field. We try to catch a game anytime we're up here in-season. Good time at a unique event that's been played in this northern Wisc. town for 65 yrs. Many runs

The final score of a Snowshoe Baseball game: 23-19

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@ckamka.bsky.social Nice work! I knew you’d be on the Kelly Kelly gag.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This (and the Seattle-Milwaukee blowout) has me wanting to send @ewpod.bsky.social an email about teams’ records against former franchises that jilted the city.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

To be clear, I didn’t mean to imply it was a sound plan…

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Have you considered becoming a travel zine magnate?

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The regular app is glitchy too. It refuses to let me play audio feeds through my car, even though it works on the phone. They have never acknowledged the problem.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

He’s now in the coaching HOF. His grandkids have played at the same school for years.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's the white collar version of the sign, handwritten on a napkin and taped to the Mello Yello tap at the minimart down the block, that says "no personal coolers at the pop machine.”

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The obverse of this, which might exist exclusively in youth ball where no one plays against the same defense twice, is being so excited to watch a coach choose to challenge a fielder when they absolutely should not.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Like stop suggesting words I want to type in emails and tell me when Sox-Sox is bonkers.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We gotta get our on-screen programming guides to update when a game goes into extra innings. I know where to find the network if I know the game is still happening, but when I turn off one game I want Xfinity to be aware another is still happening.

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Is Pascagoula actually sleepy?

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Scott T. Holland @sth749.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Adult corollary is noting how many other people are in their cars refusing to actually run the errand until at least the end of a half inning.

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