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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Snake oil salesman and not a very good one.

Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

From Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown to Dizzy Dean, everybody loves baseball names. We welcome Gordon from Athlete Archives to share our favorite baseball names and some of the stories behind them. And in a bonus plot twist: one of them is a fake, a fraud, a bamboozle. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Celebrating the "Baseball Name"

Gordon from the Athlete Archives joins us to name names--but there's a twist.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I mean, I'm GONNA watch any new live Bright Eyes... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFe9...

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Bright Eyes: Live From KCRW HQ

YouTube video by KCRW

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Bald-faced, blatant corruption, all the time. "Trump Cashed In One Day After Handing Tech Firm Major Deal" archive.ph/IGUEZ

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Online baseball fans act like eliminating all friction from umpiring would make the game better, lacking the realization that the friction is the whole point.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The YouTube algorithm giveth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WIR... Shout out to the cool people out there adding amazing stuff to YouTube all the time.

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Willie Nelson - Teatro VHS featuring Daniel Lanois & Emmylou Harris, Directed by Wim Wenders

YouTube video by John Ruhl

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The shock when a lame reboot idea turns into a lame reboot.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Astros have been fun to watch this year! Hunter Brown on the DL is terrifying, and I wish Framber was still in orange and blue.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

NYTimes homepage is like: deranged nut spews unhinged war threats and, hey, have you thought about a few nights in Tucson?

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

If I’m the proprietor of Dino’s bar and Grill, I’m not so sure I’m all that happy that the boys are back in town

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Imagine if all of these resources and human capital were invested in decarbonization?

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Running this country about in line with someone who would run a country from a golf course.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

What's the positive spin on starting a war with Iran?

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The ABS challenge system is just the latest baseball innovation tested in Spring Training. On Clear the Field, we look back to spring training in 1971. One of the new ideas is still with us today. The other is where it belongs, on the scrap heap of history. open.spotify.com/episode/4xzY...

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Spotify – Web Player

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Imagine a world in which the American president makes a billion dollars off of cryptocurrency during his administration and nobody does a thing about it.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Hemingway’s cursive script in the first draft of The Sun Also Rises is quite inspiring. Legible but loose. Emotive but functional. Lots of white space for editing.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Struggling with that voice in my head saying: there's nobody better than Bob Seger

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Yes, I am old, but I still think that "tennis player whining at their coach in the middle of a match" is like the worst look of all time.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The difference, from an MLB fan's point of view, between something like Mike Trout's or Bryce Harper's long-term deal is so vast when compared with the short, opt-out deals of today. Shades of the NCAA environment and its constant NIL jumpers. www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/01/the-...

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The Opener: Tucker, Roster Moves, Fan Events

Today's baseball news is highlighted by the fallout of the Kyle Tucker signing and a handful of upcoming roster moves. Read more at MLBTR.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Normalization of the US president "joking" about not holding elections says quite a bit about where we are as a society.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Most of us want to know how to tie cool knots but absolutely don't want to do what it would take to learn them.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Rewatched Forrest Gump with the kid. I was choking up as the feather floated toward the bus stop in the intro.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The American president was best friends for a long time with a notorious depraved pederast who kept none of it secret. If you can defend that, boy howdy.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Need everyone to stop making new movies, writing new books, or recording new albums until I get caught up. Thanks,

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/12/2025

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE

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Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The stories that my friend Paul finds in the annals of baseball history, seriously. In this edition, we discuss a coach who literally brings a WHISTLE with him to the third base coaching box. www.project-318.com/p/whistling-...

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Whistling Past the World Series

Hughie Jennings brought a whistle, so some other guy brought a car horn. From there, things got silly.

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Tom Ley @toley.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Subscribe to Defector.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This 1984 feature on Echo and the Bunnymen and their performance art-slash-show plays super fresh and weird even today. Jools Holland as I have not seen him (only seen him on the variety show, which is great). www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj49...

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ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN-A CRYSTAL DAY-THE TUBE-PART 1

YouTube video by sunsetz777

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

If you like baseball history, you'll like our podcast, Clear the Field. The latest episode traces the path of a paranoid Whitey Herzog as corked bat mania encroaches. www.project-318.com/p/cork-hunt-87

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Cork Hunt '87

Listen now | Accusations and home runs fly as certain Mets' hitters look too good to be true.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

New Khruangbin album!

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Joyce Carol Oates out there trying to pull me back in to Twitter.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

DJing is funny cause if things aren't going well, you can just...play any one of a selection of the greatest songs of all time.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Causing scary and disruptive and dehumanizing neighborhood stand-offs to catch those with felony warrants. Their felony? Entering the country three times. Not the dangerous criminals that ICE would have you believe they are. In fact, they were going to work at 5 a.m. www.chron.com/news/houston...

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ICE operation leads to tense Houston neighborhood standoff

The hours-long confrontation caused hours of chaos in Pasadena.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The Trump era means we are forced to endure ever more insane moments like this.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"In the absence of governance, or just in its place, the state has taken up a grim and shameful kind of content creation." mm hmmm

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I've never had much problem with the whole pretend kings and queens thing but today it has a kind of ghastly pallor.

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Another day of worrying about someone you care for who lives near a shooting incident. #America

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Thanks for this reminder that when Trump had COVID, he signed a blank piece of paper in order to pretend that he was still working. #propaganda

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Ted @takenote.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The long-term negative impact of the DOGE fiasco will haunt us for many, many years. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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